COUNCIL OF WOMEN

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 130, 23 August 1927, Page 4

COUNCIL OF WOMEN

A VARIETY OF REMITS { Miss Carnachan presided over a good attendance of members at the monthly meeting of the Auckland branch of the National Council of Women held last evening, when a number of remits from various affiliations were discussed. In response to a letter from the council concerning the certifying of mental cases at the Police Court, a reply was received which said that the superintendent of the Mental Hospital attended every Tuesday afternoon at the Auckland Hospital, where a room was allocated to him in which he might interview patients. Miss Joan Begg, general secretary to the Y.W.C.A.. sent a letter outlining the Pan-Pacifie Women’s Conference to be held at Hon€#lulu next June. It was proposed that the women’s organisations in New Zealand should send delegates. Mrs. J. Cook has been appointed delegate from the Peace and Arbitration Society in place of Mrs. Hemus, resigned. A remit regarding the censorship of picture films was reaffirmed, and it was urged that a board should be appointed to censor undesirable films on general grounds. A remit was received from the Lyceum Club expressing regret at the action of the Museum Council in accepting an overseas tender rather than a local one for the supply of furniture for the War Memorial Museum, thereby necessitating the sending of a large sum of money to England, which otherwise might have been spent in Auckland. In view of the high standard of work available in Auckland it was reasonable to suppose the work could have been satisfactorily executed here. The Avondale South Women’s Club forwarded a remit viewing with the greatest concern the drastic economj in the outlay for education, and urged the council to resist by all means in its power any tendency to mortgage the future educational advancement of New Zealand. LATE MRS. M. E. HOLMES An old and respected resident of Otahuhu, Mrs. Mary Emma Holmes, died yesterday at the age of 82. She was the widow of the late Robert R. Holmes, who was a builder at Newmarket. Mrs. Holmes was born at Lafterton, Yorkshire, and arrived in Auckland in 1872. She is survived by live sons and two daughters, 18 grandchildren and five great-grandehildren. TO CROP—OR NOT TO CROP? E. L. Gifford, a London hairdressing expert, gives some valuable hints. “The general style of cutting the hair must always, to a very large extent, be controlled by fashion. I would, however, urge upon everyone who is desirous of obtaining the best from their hair the importance of shunning our style, no matter how fashionable, that is too severe, as one’s whole personality can be entirely altered by the indiscriminate cutting of the hair. “Anything in the nature of a regulation crop must be avoided altogether, and the experiment of having an Eton crop must on no account be tried without first consulting an artist with considerable practical experience in shingling. The Eton crop has become a popular mode, and was adopted by a good many during their holiday by the sea; but while it proved very convenient and comfortable for bathing and the beach, they have discovered that thev are lacking in the charm which they obtained by their fluffy hair with a fullness at the sides. “For certain types the Eton crop is excellent, but the head must be well balanced and the features rather sharp or pointed. The term crop is really a misnomer, it being generally understood - that cropping is close cutting. To cut the hair too short or crop it would spoil the effect of this style entirely. A certain fullness is necessary to allow the hair to be brushed back altogether and allow a few wispy tendrils to soften the edge and break the hard line at the ears.”