Notes for Women

Southland Times, Issue 24868, 7 October 1942, Page 6

Notes for Women

Mr and Mrs J. S. Corbet, Mataura, are visiting Dunedin. Mrs B. C. Basstian, Tweed street, has returned from a visit to her daughter, Mrs J. H. Sutton, Moa Flat. Mrs W. Tretheway, Gore, is visiting Wellington for the wedding of her daughter, Miss Alma Tretheway. Mrs F. Warner, Auckland, is visiting her sister, Mrs G. W. Woods, Elies road. Mrs E. T. Moller, Dunedin, has returned home after a visit to her son and daughter-in-law, Mr and Mrs Lester Moller, Duke street. The packing of the last quota of parcels for the year was started at the patriotic rooms in Don street on Monday. Members of the various patriotic committees and women from the country will assist with the work on different days. FIRST AID EXAMINATION The following candidates of the Southland Centre of the St. John Ambulance Association were successful in the recent W.W.S.A. first aid examination: Misses S. Stuck, M. Oughton, J. Piercy, M. Howie, N. Rose, K. Donaldson, P. Duggan, P. Double, M. Clarke, I. Irving, J. Ayling, L. Maddock, O. George, O. Hind, D. Graves, G. Gaw, J. Macalister, R. McKeever, O. Skeoch, E. Hunter, M. Corcoran, I. Mackintosh, M. Parker, M. Cameron, M. Robbie (medallion), Mesdames W. Asher, M. Meredith, D. Fredric, E. Graves, J. Chittock, E. Webb, N. Seal, M. Murray, V. Cameron, M. Mulligan, M. Frampton. All the girls who sat the examination passed, and the doctor who examined them commented on the high standard of their work. SOUTHLAND WOMEN’S CLUB The annual meeting of the Bridge Circle of the Southland Women’s Club was held on Monday night, Miss O. Rein presiding over a good attendance of members. The report and balancesheet were adopted and the election of office-bearers resulted: Chairman, Mrs J.’M. Gillanders; secretary, Mrs W. R. Mabson; committee, Mesdames J. G. Petrie, J. C. Kirkland, A. C. Ford, V. Walsh, J. H. Roderique and Miss K. Burn. Bridge was then played, the prize-winners being: Miss M. Ryan, Mrs J. C. Kirkland and Mrs W. S. Todd. After supper the prizes won during the year were presented. The successful season the circle had experienced was commented on by Mrs J. D. Gilmore, the president of the Southland Women’s Club, at the annual meeting of the Play-Reading Circle last night. Mrs Ritchie Crawford, the acting chairman of the circle, presided and after the annual report and balance-sheet were adopted the following office-bearers were elected: Chairman, Mrs A. M. Macdonald; committee, Mesdames Ritchie Crawford, G. J. Yule, R. N.' Todd, H. D. Prichard, O. Drees and A. Owen-Johnston. At the conclusion of the meeting the following two plays were read: “The Man who Ignored the War.” (Cast: Henry Allport, Mrs H. Royds; Tom Mallinson, Mrs J. G. Gasparich; Sergeant Mallinson, Miss W. McNaughton; Mrs Allport, Mrs O. Drees; Rachel Allport, Miss N. Prichard; Edie Mallinson, Mrs S. W. Jones; chorus, Mrs H. D. Prichard); “The Ugly Duckling.” (Cast: The King, Mrs O. Drees; the Queen, Miss W. McNaughton; Camilla, Miss N. Prichard; Chancellor, Mrs J. G. Gasparich; Dulcibella, Mrs S. W. Jones; Prince Simon, Miss Prichard; Carlo, Mrs Ritchie Crawford; chorus, Mrs Prichard.

The Parents’ Association of the S.G.H.S. will hold an afternoon in the U.F.S. Hall at 2.30 on Friday, October 9, when Miss W. McNaughton will speak on careers for girls. Admission I/-. —Advt. The Southland Women’s Club are holding a patriotic effort in the form of a bring-and-buy sale in the club rooms on Friday, October 9—1.30 p.m.—s p.m. Cake, produce and flower stalls. The patronage of hon. club members will be welcomed.—Advt. OBITUARY MRS JAMES HAMILTON The death occurred at Gore of Mrs Janet Wallace Hamilton, widow of the late Mr James Hamilton, "Riverside,” Winton, in her eighty-sixth year. Bom in Glasgow, Scotland, in 1857, she was the second eldest daughter of the late Mr and Mrs Francis Malcolm, and arrived with her parents at Bluff in the sailing ship Arima in September 1864. The remainder of the journey was made by a small boat to Invercargill, where the family lived for four years before settling on the “Springrove” farm at Winton. Mrs Hamilton was educated at the Invercargill and Winton schools, being the oldest surviving pupil of the Winton school at its recent jubilee. She was married in 1878 and lived for a time on a farm at Forest Hill before finally settling at "Riverside,” where she lived for 50 years before retiring to live in Gore. During the many years she was connected with farming she saw the greater part of Western Southland transformed from a wlldnerness to splendid farms. She is survived by threb daughters and three sons—Mrs W. ,M. Smith (Oreti), Mrs T. A. Hazlett (Otapiri) and Mrs J. R. McMurray (Gore), Messrs Thomas Hamilton (Riverside), James F. Hamilton (Winton) and William R. Hamilton (Heddon Bush). There are also 26 grandchildren and five great-grandchildren.