There was a good attendance of ladies. Canon Mutter, of Christchurch, was present, and he addressed the meeting on the need that existed for social work in connection with the Church of England, both here and in other parts of New Zealand.
Correspondence relating to this work had reached the sisters connected with the Order of St. Anne, in America, and a number of these sisters had offered to come out to New Zealand to undertake the work of the Church relating to the care of girls who had strayed from the path of rectitude.
Four of these good sisters had already arrived in Christchurch, and a property had been purchased by the Diocesan Property trustees at Styx, and which in addition to the buildings, comprised some 89 acres of good land.
Here it was proposed to establish the rescue home of the Church of England for the whole of the South Island, and where it was hoped that girls who through lack of proper control or through unhealthy surroundings had got into trouble.
Musicians awarded gold medals
The Dunedin honorary secretary of the Associated Board of the Royal Music Academy and Royal College of Music, London, has been advised that two gold medals have been awarded for the local centre in the advanced grade examinations which were held in November last to the undermentioned candidates: Miss Jane Matthew Mathieson, advanced grade singing. Miss Roberta Simpson, advanced grade piano.
The allocation of two gold medals is somewhat remarkable, but as each of these young ladies secured an equal number of marks the board decided that they should each receive a gold medal.
Miss Mathieson, who is the eldest daughter of Sub-inspector Mathieson, was trained at the Roman Catholic Convent in Wellington. At the age of 14 she was awarded her L.A.B. diploma as a violinist. In 1917 she was a gold medallist for intermediate and advanced singing.
She took her singing diploma in 1918, and last year she tied with Miss Roberta Simpson for the gold medal awarded by the Royal Academy and Royal College of Music.
Miss Mathieson is now studying for a Bachelor of Singing examination. Miss Simpson, who has had much success at the piano, is a student at the St. Dominic’s Priory, Dunedin.
Sick soldiers to be demobilised
Wellington: At the present moment the dominion is in the extraordinary position of having an Expeditionary Force of sick men. In other words, the N.Z.E.F. is composed mainly of officers and men who are either in hospital or receiving hospital treatment under the military regime.
The military regime continues in existence long after the necessity for it has ceased to exist. At the end of the present month, however, the N.Z.E.F., like the great war which produced it, will have passed into history.
The whole of the returned soldiers receiving hospital treatment under the Defence Department are to be demobilised. The medical treatment of both officers and men will be carried on precisely as it is now.
— ODT, 5.3.1920.
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