Notes for Women

Southland Times, Issue 24828, 21 August 1942, Page 3

Notes for Women

Colonel and Mrs D. T. Maxwell are the guests of Mrs J. McQueen, Dalrymple street. Misses Nita and Mary Baird, Ritchie street, are visiting Wellington.

Miss Dorothy Young. Tweed street, has left on a fortnight’s holiday to Waihoaka. Mrs J. M. Murray. Dunedin, who has been the guest of Mrs R. E. Eunson, Mary street, has returned home.

Mr and Mrs Isaac Jenkins, who visited Invercargill to celebrate their golden wedding, will return to Queenstown today. Mr and Mrs E. McPhail, of Christchurch, who lived in Invercargill about 20 years ago, are spending a few days at the Grand Hotel.

Mrs J. D. Gilmore was hostess at a morning tea in the Southland Women’s Club yesterday in honour of Mrs F. G. Soper. Dunedin. The guests included executive members and the committee of the Arts and Crafts Circle. On the eve of her marriage, Miss M. P. Healy was met by her fellow workers in the chief postmaster’s office at Invercargill yesterday afternoon. On their behalf the chief postmaster. Mr J. Lindsay, made a presentation to Miss Healy and wished her happiness and success for the future. At tile open night of the Arts and Crafts Circle of the Southland Women’s Club, Mrs F. G. Soper gave a much appreciated talk on the history of arts and crafts in England. A brief outline was given of the life of William Morris, an outstanding painter and designer, who had done a great deal to create an artistic atmosphere in many English homes. He also made a valuable co /’ tribution to art when he rebuilt many old homes without destroying their beauty. Mrs Soper illustrated her talk with a number of lantern slides showing William Morris m his own home. The speaker was Introduced and presented with a shoulder spray by Mrs J. N. Armour, acting chairman of the c ‘ rc ‘?' and thanked for her talk by Mrs J. D. Gilmore, president of the club. The War Purposes Committee of the Order of St. John and the New Zealand Red Cross Society has received information from England that gift clothing shipped during March has reached England, and the war organization of the British Red Cross Society and Order of St. John of Jerusalem has asked the committee if it would convey its thanks to the people who must have worked exceedingly hard to get the amount of clothing together. It also states that it may be sure that the clothing will be of utmost service, and the fact that it is so varied, part of itybeing for children, makes the gift the more valuable. The British Red Cross Society is also anxious for New Zealanders to know that by their donations they are helping take care"> of 11,000 little war orphans given new homes in residential nurseries. As this is only one small section of the work of the British organization, it states that New Zealand will readily understand how much it appreciates such real help and sympathy which comes so regularly from the Dominion.