Talk on Indonesia for Red Cross (Canberra Times, 30 September 1958)

The Canberra Times (1958-09-30) - What People Are Doing Busy Month For Women Bowlers Source: Trove, National Library of Australia - https://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article103122375 Date retrieved: 2026-10-17 OCR text (uncorrected) follows. 30 Sep 1958 - WHAT PEOPLE ARE DOING Canberra Times (ACT: 1926 - 1995), Tuesday 30 September 1958, page 5 WHAT PEOPLE ARE DOING BUSY MONTH FOR WOMEN BOWLERSMembers of the Canberra Women's Bowling Club plan a busy time next month. On October 7, they will meet in the Manuka Hock-ey Pavilion at a social af-ternoon and do business at the "trade table," a stall which operates on the "bring and buy" scheme. A cake stall, organised by Mesdames K. Appa and M. Neal, will be held at Civic Centre on October 10 and on October 20 a film night will be held at the home of Mrs. E. Chandler, For-rest, when coloured films will be shown by Mrs. J. Bland. Mrs. T. Mackie is handling bookings.KOOMARRI HOUSE SOON TO OPENKoomarri House for han-dicapped children is near-ing completion and the ex-pected date of the official opening is November 15. The Handicapped Children's Association is making final plans for a fete to be held in the Albert Hall on November 1. Art union tickets for a £70 Singersewing machine and a Speedwell bicycle are being sold to aid fete funds. A meeting of the association last week heard an address by Mr. W. Langshaw on"Child Welfare."TALK ON INDONESIA FOR RED CROSSMrs. H. G. Wattimena, the wife of the first secre-tary at the Indonesian Em-bassy, will be guest speak-er, at a meeting of the Reid branch of the Red CrossSociety to-morrow after-noon. Mrs. Wattimena will talk on Indonesian women and the activities of the Indonesian Red Cross. The meeting will be held in the Reid Methodist Youth Centre.YOUNG CONTINGENT TO REPORT BACKTwo Canberra delegates from the Victoria League Young Contingent attended the recent triennial confer-ence of the Victoria League in Adelaide. They were the president, Miss Margaret Easton, and the secretary,Miss Elaine Nance, who will present a report to the executive at a meeting next week. On Sunday, the Young Contingent enter-tained 16 members of the Thursday Club to a drive around Canberra and after-noon tea.QUESTION NIGHT FOR BIRD ENTHUSIASTSThe monthly meeting of the National Capital Avi-cuitural Society, to be held at the Manuka Hockey Pavilion on Thursday night, will take the formof a "Question Night.'' The object of the night is to assist the less experienced members who are having problems associated with the present breeding sea-son of cage-birds. The meeting should be especial-ly interesting for juniormembers of the society.CHILD SPECIALIST TOSPEAK TO NURSESChild specialist, Dr. Hel-en Wiles, will be the guest speaker at the Nurses'Club meeting, to be held at the home of the president, Mrs. A. P. Dalgarno, to-morrow night.PHILHARMONIC SHOW SOON TO OPENRehearsals are well underway for the Philharmonic Society's production of the "Count of Luxembourg" which is due to open at the Albert Hall on October 16.Leading roles will be taken by Mr. Goetthard Beau-mart and by Mr. Frank Darius, who, as the Grand Duke, will be seen in the role he played in Europe 12 years ago. The ballet in this popular musical comedy is by pupils of the Joanna Bowers School. Theshow will play for three night—October 16 to 18. BUSINESSMEN TOHEAR MR. OVERALLThe National Develop-ment Commissioner, Mr. J W. Overall, will be guest speaker at the annual din-ner of the Canberra Cham-ber of Commerce next Tuesday night. The dinner will be held at the Hotel Ainslie-Rex. Mr. Overall will speak on Canberra's future development. In previous years, the cham-ber has heard addresses from the Minister for the Interior, Mr. Fairhall, and Senator John McCallum.PARADE TO ASSIST SCHOOL APPEALA fashion parade of spring and summer fash-ion, will be held at Ri Lees Chinese Restaurant, Civic Centre, next week to aid the First Year Committee, of the St. Edmund's Col-lege October Appeal. Cloth-es, mainly cottons, will be modelled by staff members of 2CA and supplied by Rockmans. The parade will take place on theafternoon of October 8 and be compered by Yetty Lan-dau. The committee will also hold a cake stall at Manuka on Friday to raise funds towards the appeal, which benefits the building fund.MRS. LOVINK TO OPEN LILAC TIME FESTIVALThe Goulburn Lilac Time Spring Festival will be opened by the wife of the Ambassador to the Nether-lands, Mme. A. H. J. Lov-ink, at Goulburn Town Hall next Friday at 3.15 p.m. Many Canberra peoplevisit Goulburn for thisbeautiful festival display of Spring flowers each year. Features of Lilac Time in Goulburn this year include a display of Japanese floral arrangements, a competit-ive section of modern floral art, an orchid display, a model farm and an exhibi-tion of bride dolls. The display has been arranged by the Goulburn Horticul-tural Society, the GardenClub and the Avicultural Society.PAKISTAN TO RECEIVEDRESSED DOLLSThe High Commissioner for Pakistan, Lieutenant- General Mahammed Yous-suf, will accept six dressed dolls representing facets of Australian life on behalf of his Government at a cere-mony to-morrow. The dolls which have been submitted by each State branch will be presented by the Coun-try Women's Association of Australia. The handing-over ceremony will take place at the Hotel Civic, and Mrs. L. Davies, of Gunning, Southern Table-lands Group president, will make the presentation. The States and the dolls are: N.S.W., a lifesaver; Tas-mania, a junior farmer; Victoria, a golfer; Western Australia, a springtime girl; South Australia, a grape picker; Queensland, a flying doctor with his aeroplane. £200 RAISED AT BARGAIN FETEMore than £200 was raised at a Bargain Fete conducted by the St. Phil-ip's Sunday School Parents and Friends' Association on Saturday. The fete was opened by Mrs. W. Jones, the daughter-in-law of the High Commissioner forNew Zealand. All stalls which were set up outside, were almost completely sold out by the end of the afternoon. Funds raised will benefit the church Sun-day School.Y.W.C.A. DELEGATES FOR MELBOURNEThree delegates from the Canberra Y.W.C.A. boardwill attend the nationalboard meeting in the new Melbourne Y. headquarters next week. They are the president, Miss H. Cameron, the secretary, Miss A. Campbell, and Miss J. Binns, a board member. On October 6, Lady Slim will travel to Melbourne to open the new building. The last library lecture in the current series being held at the Canberra Y.W.C.A. will be on October 7, at 2.45 p.m., when a talk on "Australian Literature" will be given by Dr. R. F.Brissenden.CANBERRA TO HAVE YOUTH WEEKA committee convened by Mr. K. Arscott, has been set up to organise YouthWeek in Canberra next year. The week will be held some time in May to coincide with Common-wealth Youth Sunday. Ten-tative plans for celebra-tions include a youth show at the Albert Hall when items will be performed by different Canberra organi-sations, and a series of inter-club competitions. The committee was set up at a recent meeting of the As-sociated Youth Committee of the National Fitness Council.SPRING DOG SHOW I. NOVEMBERThe Canberra Kennel As-sociation will hold its an-nual Spring Show on No-vember 9 at the Manuka hockey ground. For the first time this year, the sweepstake events will in-clude a dog and a litter. During the show, it is ex-pected that the A.C.T. Companion Dog Club will give a demonstration of obedience training. Officebearers recently elected by the association are: Presi-dent, Mr. L. Cook; vice-presidents, Mrs. P. Baxter Mr. L. Davenport; secre-tary, Mr. W. Hoffman; assistant secretary-treasurerMr. Mr. I. Widdowson; commit-tee members, Mrs. W Platt, Mr I. Rowley andMr. N. Sherd.TOOWOOMBA OLD BOYS MEETThe inaugural dinner and meeting of the Canberra branch of the Toowoomba Grammar School Old Boys' Association recently took place at Motel CanberraOrganised by Dr. Gordon Grant, of Brisbane, the function was attended by 12 old boys accompanied by their wives and friendsOfficers elected were:President, Mr. Roy Alex-ander; vice-presidents, Mr Eric Holloway and Major Alex. Preece; secretary/ Treasurer, Dr. Norman Fisher; and roll secretary, Dr. John McIntyre. The women present were elect ed associate members. Old boys of the school who have not yet been contact-ed are asked to get in touch with Dr. Don McIn-tyre at C.S.I.R.O.GIRL GUIDES' FETE AT THE LODGEThe annual Girl Guides fete held in the grounds of the Prime Minister's Lodge on Saturday was attended by Mr. Menzies and Dame Pattie. During the after-noon the visiting Estonian Choir sang an Estonian wedding song and the Eng-lish song "Drink to Me Only with Thine Eyes." Pupils of Mrs. Betty Schmidt per-formed Highland dances and Brownies from both the north and south dis-tricts put on a series of Brownie dances. Two of the most popular attrac-tions at the fete were an exhibition of Chinese an tiques and curios and a dis-play of Siamese jewellery Both the R.M.C. and the Highland Pipe Bands performed. The fete conclud-ed with an auction of un-sold goods conducted by ings for the day were Mr. G. H. Fetherston. Tak-about £350 which will be used for the extensionGuide work in both dis-tricts. WOG AFTERNOON TO AID MISSION MONTHThe All Saints' Sunday School Parents and Friends' Association has organised a Wog afternoon to-morrow to aid the Mis-sion Month appeal. The money raised will form part of the contribution of the Parents and Friends' to the £300 the parish of All Saints' hopes to raise for the appeal. The wog afternoon will be held in the home of Mrs. B. Wilk-inson, Ebden Street, Ains-lie. TALK ON JAPAN FOR WOMEN GRADUATESMiss Nancy Burbidge, who recently represented the Canberra Pan-Pacific and South-East Asia Wom-ens' Association at the Tokyo conference, willspeak to the Canberra As-sociation of Women Gradu-ates at a meeting at Uni-; versity House to-morrow night. Miss Burbidge will speak on her visit to Japan. On October 18, a garden party will be heldfor association members at the home of Mrs. J. Gar-ran, of Mugga Way. Fundsraised from the admission charge will be used towards the Canberra association's contribution to the fund for the continuation of the South-East Asian Fellow-ship Scheme sponsored by the Australian Federationof University Women.CROWD ATTENDS SCHOOL FETEA large crowd of people attended both the after-noon and night sessions of the St. Peter Chanel's third annual school fete at Yar-ralumla on Saturday. The children's stall, at which children only were served, proved a centre of attrac-tion throughout the after-noon, rivalled only by the tractor train on which more than 700 rides were given. The doll competi-tion drew 80 entries, half of which were dolls dressed in overseas national cos-tumes. The judges were Mrs. W. Butler, the wife of the Charge d'Affaires for Ireland, and Mrs. F. Walters, of Deakin. Win-ners in the doll sections were Joan Good, Ann Hig-gins, Joan Evans, Chris-tina Kolber and Olga Muzyka. Ann Van- Duren's doll won the prize for the greatest number of votes with 921, Prizes in the child art exhibition, which attracted more than 100 entries were: Senior section—Angela Kin, Yar-ralumla Primary School, 1; Edwina Chronsowski, St Peter Chanel's, 2; jun-ior section—Paul Gilligan, St Christopher's, 1; Mary Clowry, St. Christopher's,CHRISTMAS PRESENTS FOR BOYS' HOMEThe Canberra Women's Voluntary Services has bought 40 books to add to the library of the Church of England Home for Boys at Tumbarumba. The books, which cost £25, will be sent with Christmas decorations, as Christmas presents to the boys in the home, including the eight orphaned Locke boys from Canberra. A gift will also be included for the Rev. and Mrs. W. J. Brain, who conduct the home. The next meeting of the W.V.S will be held at the home of Mrs. J. W. Ashton, at Reid, when Madame C. Bergen-strahle, wife of the Swed-ish Minister, will speak on Sweden. A recent meeting of the services elected Mrs B. J. Donoghue, secre-tary, and Mrs. T. Corrigan, assistant secretary.