WOMEN'S CORNER

Press, Volume LXVII, Issue 20176, 3 March 1931, Page 2

WOMEN'S CORNER

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Mr and Mrs George Aitk.en ("Thornton,". Fendalton) left last night for a visit to Masterton. Miss Aitken will stay at "Thornton" during their absence. Miss Montgomery Mfcore (Wangariui) is at present the guest of Mrs John? Montgomery. "Holmbrook," Fendalton. • Mr and Mrs Kresse and Miss Mildred Kresse ("Woodhaugh," MurrayAynsley HiH), who have been spending several months in Christchurch, are leaving about April 6th for Chicago. They expect to return to New Zealand early next year. Mr and Mrs W. Holt, formerly of Hong-Kong, have left China, via Japan and America, for England, where they will in future reside.' Mrs Holt, who was Miss Alison Jennings, daughter of Mrs and tho late Dr. .Jennings, has very many friends in Canterbury. Mrs J. F. Green (Beverley street) and Mrs Cyril Stringer (Cashmere Hills) are leaving Christchurch on Thursday for Wellington', where they will join the Maunganui for Sydney, and will continue their journey to England in the Oronsay. Mr and Mrs P. Dearden('!Tho Gates," Waiau), Commander Eric Ijthodes, and Mr Godfrey Westenra are amongst Canterbury visitors, to Masterton for the Deans-Williams wedding this week, - . , Mrs Ure-Sroith and, her two children, who have been visiting Mrs J • Macfarlane, Weka • street, are leaving on Thursday for Wellington to join the Maunganui on their return journey to their home in Sydney. Miss Ella Macgibbon (Durham street North), who has beeuti raiting Mrs Nairn. Macgibbon, and Miss Enid Lawson, Wellington, is returning to Christchurch at the end of this week. Miss Barbara Crawford (England) is the guest of Mrs lan Buchanan, "Meadowbank," Ellesmere. Miss Betty Hobbs (Papanuj road) returned on Saturday from, a _ two months' holiday spent in tile North Island and Blenheim. v . Nurse C. Wells, who ' has been spending a holiduy in Ashburton h&s resumed her duties at the Cjinstchurch Hospital. v. | Mr and Mrs J. E. Queree have left for Wellington to meet their son, Lieutenant R. C. Queree. ' Mrs Fred Kitchingham (Greymouth) is arriving in Christchurch on Friday to attend the Girl Guides? rally ph Saturday. She will be the guest of Mrs Edwin Hamilton, Papanui road. Mr( and Mrs D. B. Coulter' (vFerry toadV'have left on' a motor tour of the North Island, including the thermal lake district. Margery Dreaver (Dunedin) is at present staying with Mrs A. L. Gray, Biceariion. , . , Dime Cflar* Suit-stti. M* K«nn§rley |two or Hbree; eonpetW will be gf»»™ leach* of the dixes, and bourne will be : visited just - befor® Easter, the first, concert there being fixed for Saturday, March ,28th. Mr Joseph Hislop, the British tenor, whoMS ch ;%t e \ y , e t a h r a 8 ago, feft London fot Australia l>y'the Orford last month* He will open his Australian tour in the Sydney Town Hall on April Utb. and wiU.be as-, sisted bV Jsidor Goodman, pianist. ' The' marriage 'of Jean'Morrison, elder daughter of Mr and Mrs David McLaren, of/Wangariui, td Harcoutt George, onjyson of Mr *nd Mrs George Holcombe, of, Christchnreb, will shortly take plac« Paul!s Church, WangauuL Mr Harcourt Holcombe will leave for tbi north on March iOth. Attix thi ceremony, Mr Holcombe, who is a member of the "New Zealand' Institute of Uuryeyofs,' and afooof the Town Planning Institute of New' Zealand, „ will ttTOoeed Jto accompanied by his .en route,, to Suva,.. Fiji, where he will take up an appointment 0 n ( tlit Native Linds Commission staff of the Fiji. Government,' sydal'6 Wonderful cleansing ...QUALITIES. . i Sydal has wonderful cleansing quali- ' tie#, It thoroughly cleans the skin, and Mature does tho healing If youi hands are grimy and ,the pores choked with , impurities, you cannot espeei tliem'to be smooth jnd beautiful. Use » little Sydal' before vashing and- nbtc the effect on ypur hatyis. - •

'« x , . -/PARTY FENDALTON. Mrs E, Qt. Gebbie and her two daugh- , ters, 'Misses Ethcil utd Jift# Gebbiflj are .leaving Ohristchurch on Thursday for "Wellington, to'join ( the Maunganui • for Sydney, where "they will tranship to the Oronsay' for ,a' nine months''trip ' to England. ' Yesterday afternoon, at Jx&t home, "Medbury," IPendalton, Mrs E. 3. Chennells gave, a vqry pleasant party in honour of Mis? Ethpl Gebbie. The hostess wore a frock of ecrue French, lawn trimmed with self-coloured embroidery apd narrow insets of fine lac'e. ■ Mrs Gebbie 1 wore a deep sapphire bine [' ensemble and felt hat' to tone. Miss ' Ether Gebbie's pervenche blue crepe %, ,de ohine frock had a -jumper of cone; VentfojnalJy patterned material and t pleated skirt of plain crepe' de chine, t' and 'her wide maßtic straw hat' was banded with narrow/ ribbon. "Miss Jean (Jebbiis wore a red crepe de chine frock patterned in green, black, and beige, and a' bei&e hat. , Clock, golf was played on the lawn, the .winners "being Misses Kathie Macdonald, fcnd > Kathleen Hoare, land an j interesting, and ■ upusual „ competition was I'vfon by Miss, Gertrude Browne, ' ■ «ona<)lation, ,pri?e waa , ;to Misfl Joy .Tenjtent, j ' 'Tea was served' in the dining-room, higtVfliiyer vase of'mixed flowers. * The' guests included Mrs E.'Gj Gebbie and Mis4eß.Ettiel.and Jfcan Gobble, Miss ~ Geridie Maling,, Miss Prue Wynn-Wil- . liams, i , Miss gathleen' Jloare, Miss j- ,'liOia' Ollivier, 1 ' Mibo , Mildred Kresse; ' , Miss' Biljie Allen, Miss Joyce. JMacgibbon, „ Miss, Molly Templejnan, Jffiss Joy ' Tanned Mrt;Gny NJcoJJ, Miaa-Elizabeth Morris, Miss-May orae?oft'Wilson, Miss j; Clark,'-Miss Gertrude,Browne, Macijonald, ' MisS ; tAlispn