Talk on Indonesian Women for N.C.W. (Canberra Times, 7 Mei 1957)

The Canberra Times (1957-05-07) - What People Are Doing Talk On Indonesian Women For N.C.W Source: Trove, National Library of Australia - https://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article91587892 Date retrieved: 2026-10-17 OCR text (uncorrected) follows. 07 May 1957 - WHAT PEOPLE ARE DOING Canberra Times (ACT: 1926 - 1995), Tuesday 7 May 1957, page 5 WHAT PEOPLE ARE DOINGTALE ON INDONESIAN WOMEN FOR N.C.W.Mrs. B. A. Ubani, wife of the first secretary of the Embassy of Indonesia, will address a meeting of the Canberra Branch of the National Council of Wom-en on Thursday night. Mrs. Urbani will speak on "Wom-en in Indonesia." At this meeting further discussion will take place on prices of Canberra goods. The dele-gates will bring back com-ments and suggestions from their affiliated organi-sations.C.W.A. HEARS TALK ON ALICE SPRINGSMrs. R. C. M. Dale, a vice-president of the CanberraBranch of the Country Women's Association, was the speaker at the monthly social afternoon on Friday afternoon. Mrs. Dale spoke to members on "Alice Springs and surroundings," telling of her impressions of the centre of Australia gained when she lived there for four years. At the monthly meeting to be held on Friday, May 10, pre-liminary reports will be submitted by Mrs. K. Jack and Mrs. W. Cassidy, who were the branch's delegates to the State C.W.A. Confer-ence held in Sydney lastweek.£100 RAISED FOR GOODWIN HOMESMrs. M. Culley, of CoxStreet, Ainslie, has raised £100 for the Goodwin Hom-es by her collections from the Hotel Civic and the Hotel Ainslie-Rex. For the past three months Mrs. Cul-ley has spent an hour each Saturday morning at the Hotel Civic and two hours on Saturday night at the Ainslie-Rex. She praised the generous spirit of those who have contributed regularly to the Goodwin Homes in this way, and hopes to raise still more money for this project.BOOK FOR ST. MARK'S PRESENTED TO BISHOPMr. W. May, one of the leading laymen of St. Philip's Church, O'Connor, presented Bishop Burgmann with a book entitled "Altar Services" at the afternoon tea which followed the laying of the foundation stone of St. Philip's on Sunday afternoon. The book is for use in St. Mark's Library. When presenting it, Mr. May referred to the close link between the An-glican churches in Canberra and St, Mark's. The Bishop expressed appreciation of the gift. Afternoon tea was served by the women of St. Philip's.EDUCATION DELEGATESFOR SYDNEYTurner Infants' School Parents and Friends' Asso-ciation has appointed Mr. D. Lattin, Mrs. Helen Brown, Mrs. D. Gollan and Mrs, Gwen Dickins as its delegates to an education conference to be held in Sydney on June 1. The conference has been called by the N.S.W. Federation of Parents and Citizens' Associations, the N.S.W. Teachers' Federation and the N.S.W. Federation of Infants' and Nursery School Clubs. It is expected thatother Canberra associations interested in education will also be sending delegates.VISIT OF ILLAWARRA HISTORICAL SOCIETYMembers of the Illawarra Historical Society visited Canberra at the week-end. They were welcomed by the president of the Canberra Historical Society, Mr. A. T. Shakespeare, and the secretary, Mr. J. Whelan. They were given historical data on Canberra by the president and taken on a tour of the city. The Com-mittee of the Canberra His-torical Society arranged for the screening of slides illustrating the develop-ment and growth of Can-berra at the Canberra Uni-versity College on Satur-day night. On Sunday the visitors were taken on an inspection of the historical sites of Queanbeyan by Mr. T. E. Woodger, one of the old residents of the town. Among the places in spected were Irishtown and The Oaks. The party then travelled through Bungen-dore to Goulburn and back to Wollongong.WESLEY COLLEGIANS' BUFFET DINNERAn informal buffet dinner was held at the Hotel Can-berra on Thursday by Old Wesley Collegians (Mel-bourne) who now reside in Canberra. The dinner was held to celebrate the annu-al Founders' Day. It was the first celebration to be held in Canberra by the collegians. Twenty-five people were present, includ-ing the Minister for Labour and National Service, Mr. Holt, Mr. P. Joske and Mr F. Timson, Ms.P. It was decided to make this an an-nual event. Apologies were received from the Prime Minister, Mr. Menzies, andSir Alan Brown.V.C. TO COME TOCANBERRAThe Third Battalion As-sociation will hold its an-nual re-union in the Quean-beyan R.S.L. clubrooms on Saturday night, the eve of the presentation of Queen's and Regimental Colours to the battalion on Sunday, at Manuka Oval. About 100 former members of the battalion will come to Canberra to watch the parade. Among them willbe a Victoria Cross winner,Captain J. Hamilton, of Tempe, N.S.W. A former member of the battalion, he won the award in the at tack on Lone Pine, where the battalion lost 500 men. It was originally intended to hold the reunion on May 4, but it was postponed to allow former members to attend the presentation of Colours to their old regi-DANCE TO RAISEFUNDS FOR SCHOOLExtra equipment for the Yarralumla Infants' School will be purchased from the proceeds of a dance to be held in the Albert Hall on Thursday, May 9. The dance is being organised by the Infants School Mothers' Club which is working hard to supply ad-ditional amenities at the school.CATHOLIC YOUTH CLUB HOLD SOCIALMore than 100 young people, including nurses from the Canberra Com-munity Hospital, staff cad-ets from the R.M.C. Dun-troon and R.A.A.F. person-nel attended one of the most successful club socials arranged in recent years by the St. Christopher's Cath-olic Youth club. The so-cial, on Sunday night, or-ganised chiefly by Mr. D. Brophy, the president, Mr. E. Murray and Miss Pat Nicholson, secretary, was held in the specially heat-ed Manuka Tennis Pavilion. A spokesman for the club has announced that the so-cials are to be held each Sunday night.PRE SCHOOL TEACHER FAREWELLEDA farewell and presenta-tion for Miss Heather Bur-gess, the pre-school teacher, was held at the Throsby Crescent Pre-School Centre, Griffith, on Wednesday. Miss Burgess will leave Canberra at the end of this term to spend a year in New Zealand. A generalmeeting took place also, followed by films and sup-per. The next play centre function will be a jumble sale at the Causeway Hallon June.RECORD EVENING FOR GOETHE SOCIETYThe Canberra Branch of the Australian Goethe So-ciety held a programme of records in the senior com-mon room of the Can-berra University College on Friday. The programme, arranged by Dr. L. J. Park-er, consisted of excerpts from the writings of Thomas Mann, and Beet-hoven's violin concerto. The society plans to hold a film evening in the Ger-man reading room on Thursday, May 9.PRESBYTERIAN HEAD FOR CANBERRAThe Moderator-General of the Presbyterian Church, the Rev. F. W. Rolland, will visit Canberra at the week-end and preach at the St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church at the 11 a.m. ser-vice on Sunday. Mr. Roll-and served in the first war with the 14th Battalion, A.I.F., and was awarded the Military Cross. He has worked with the Australian Inland Mission, and was headmaster of the Geelong College from 1920 until 1946, when he retired. He will be accompanied on his Can-berra visit by Mrs. Roll-and.DEGREES CEREMONY ON FRIDAYThe ceremony of Conferr-ing of Degrees will take place at the Australian National University on Fri-day afternoon at 3.15, in the hall of University House. Ten doctorates of Philos-ophy will be conferred by the deputy chairman of the University Council, Dr. H. C. Coombs, as well as three honorary degrees. These are an honorary doctorate of science for Mr. H. R. Marston, head of the C.S.I.R.O. Division of Nutrition, and honorary doctorates of law for Sir Daryl Lindsay and Sir David Rivett.NEW PRODUCTION FORREPERTORYKaufman and Hart's fast-moving American farce, "The Man Who Came to Dinner," will open at Rep-ertory's Riverside theatre on Friday, May 17, for a season of five week-ends. A smash-hit on Broadway nearly twenty years ago, the play has since proved itself a perennial source of humour. "The Man Who Came to Dinner" shows the effect on lion-hunters of the outrageously ego-centric and flambuoyant personal-ity of the Broadway drama critic, the late Alexander Woollcott. Woollcott was so taken with it that heabandoned reviewing to play the lead. The Repert-ory production is by Anne Godfrey Smith, with lead-ing roles being played by Grant McIntyre and Pat Hutchison, two actors with professional experience.PLAY CENTRE TO HOLD JUMBLE SALEThe Macgillivray Street Play Centre Committee has redoubled its efforts to raise money for the new centre, now that tenders have been called for the building. A jumble sale will be held at the Cause-way Hall on Thursday, May 16. Anyone with clean old clothes or magazinessuitable for re-sale is in-vited to leave them at the Mothercraft Centre at Yar-ralumla, with Mrs. R. Byrnes, 59 Hopetoun Cir-cuit, Mrs. E. Tudor, 10 Strahan Row, or Mrs. F. Fisher, 15 Guilfoyle Street If it is inconvenient to de-liver the "jumble," the goods will be collected.PRE-SCHOOL OFFICER ENTERTAINEDOn Thursday night Mrs. K. H. Bailey, president of the Australian Pre-School Association, entertained Miss Gladys E. Pendredand members of the Can-berra Pre-School Society at her home, 56 National Cir-cuit, Forrest. Miss Pen-dred, who is the FederalOfficer for the AustralianPre-School Association, has recently returned from Manila, which she visited at the invitation of the Government of the Philipp-ines to advise on pre-school matters. Miss Pendred gave an informal talk on her ex-periences, and showed col-our transparencies taken during her three months' assignment as consultant under the Colombo Plan. COWRA ROTARIANS IN CANBERRAA party of Cowra Rotar-ians visited Canberra at the week-end and were en-tertained by members of the Rotary Club of Can-berra. The party, of about 20, consisting of Rotarians, their wives and families, were shown two films on Saturday night at the Hotel Canberra. These were "The World Nature Forgot," the story of the plastics indus-try, and the "Bourneville Story," which tells of a cocoa factory. On Sunday morning Rotarians took the visitors on a tour of inspection of Canberra and the party returned to Cowra on Sunday after-noon.