Up to the present time, 45 Hongkong women and girls have enlisted in the Nursing Detachment of the Hongkong Volunteer Forces. Only seven more are needed to bring the number up to the total strength required to make the four sections into which the Detachment is being split, one can say that the members: are out for glory only, or want smooth fevered brows tothe exclusion of all else, They meet regularly at Volunteer Headquarters, and the at~ tendance is remarkably good. Officers of the St John Ambulance Detach ment are giving the lectures and demonstrations by which the feminine Volunteers are receiving their training.
Latest recruits among the nurses are Mesdames G.D.E. Barber, C. C.
Boswell, A. R. Briggs, F. M, Deacon, D. E. Hole, B. Hourihan, H. Owen-Hughes, A. H. Potts, C. de S. Robert—son, M. G.'Trail, Misses M. S, Bauder, D.E.E. Brooks, T, M. S. Deacon, Hopkins, R. Judah, A. Owen-Hughes, G.K. Saunders, L. Seriee, A, E. Steele, Mary Witham and I. L.' Woolley.
Mrs. D. B. Butler, according to Volunteer Orders issued last week, has been appointed Acting Quartermaster of the Detachment. The Commandant is Mrs. K. Durran, wife of Dr. Durran, Scouts' Church Parade Not only Scouts, but Brownies and Cubs, too, have their church parade an annual custom now, but one whic the Rev. J. R. Higgs, of St. Andrew Church," Kowloon, would' like to make a quarterly or even half-yearly. Institution. Last Sunday a large number of Scouts, with a sprinkling of younger members, heard a special ]sermon preached for them by the Rev These are halcyon days for the gardener as a Shanghai autumn of the best variety is holding stoay. There seems to be time to do everything, one bright day follows another and digging, trenching and manuring proceed without fuss or hurry. If' beds were thoroughly dug down last year or the year before, a top dressing of decayed cow manure will provide suffclent nourishment for the next siz months. This should be spread evenly over the surface to a depth of an inch or so and forked in. Snow and frost, when they come, will conclude the good work, by driving the fertilizer deep into the ground.
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