CURRENT NOTES

Press, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22504, 12 September 1938, Page 2

CURRENT NOTES

Mr and Mrs Edgar Stead ( liana, Riccarton) returned on Saturday from a camping holiday spent in the Motueka and Takaka districts. Mrs D. P. Dickinson and her daughters (Helmore’s road), who are spending a holiday at Tekapo, will return to Christchurch to-day. Mr and Mrs Wrey Nolan (Gisborne) are staying with Mr H. „S. Lawrence, Garden road. Mr and Mrs R. Fountain Barber, who have been living in Wanganui, are spending a holiday with Mr Barber’s mother, Mrs Fountain Barber, Bury street, Sumner. Misses Jill and Rona Woodward (Hagley avenue) will leave on Thursday night for Wellington to connect with the Maunganui for a holiday trip to Sydney. At the annual meeting of the Christchurch branch of the Catholic Women’s League, held yesterday, Mrs E. R. Goulter, of Fairlie, was elected an honorary life member of the league.

: Mr and Mrs John Farrell (Auckland) arrived in Christchurch from the north yesterday.

Mrs H. G. Cotterill (Merivale lane) and Mrs Tyndall Harman (Fendalton), who have been visiting Wellington, returned to Christchurch yesterday.

Mrs E. Jenkins, Mrs T. Neill, and Mr C. Neill (Westport) are spending a few days in Christchurch before visiting Ashburton for the Taylor-Tregurtha wedding, Mrs Herbert Richardson (Wroxton terrace) and her sister. Miss Sally Wynn-Williams (St. Albans street), left yesterday for Dunedin and Southland.

Mrs W. M. Tyers (Durham street north), who has been visiting her sister. Miss Brabant, Remuera, Auckland, has returned to Christchurch.

Mr and Mrs W. L. Cunningham (Dipton), who have been visiting Christchurch, have returned home. Miss Faith Herdman (Papanui) is visiting her sister, Mrs H. G. Sutton, Invercargill.

Miss June Midgley, whq has been spending the' holidays in Christqhurch, has returned to Timaru. i Mrs J. Morton Troup, of Kelburn, Wellington, died unexpectedly on Saturday. She is survived by her husband, and four daughters —Mrs K. Kennedy, wife of Mr Justice Kennedy, of Dunedin, Mrs Kelly Smith (Whakatane), Mrs McKechnie (Dunedin), and Miss Nora Troup. l On Wednesday, Plunket pay., a cooked food and produce stall in Victoria square will be in charge of Mesdames E. Boulton (convener), A. Bunz, A. Rose, A. J. Benzie, A. Baxter, the Shirley-Richmond and Marshland sub-branches of the Plunket Society,

“French Canada is a country of large families; families of 13-or 14 ■children are common,” said Mr Stanley Oliver, at a meeting of the Travel Club on Saturday. Mr Oliver is an Englishman who lived for * many years in Canada and is now resident in Wellington, “The conductor of the Grenadier Guards’ Symphony Orchestra, one of the two major orchestras in Montreal, is one of a family of 27. He conducts instrumental quartets and quintets—orchestras in themselves —played by his own brothers. And splendidly they play, too,” added Mr Oliver,

That New Zealanders suffer from an inferior complex in musical matters, is the opinion of Mr Stanley Oliver, of Wellington, who visited Christchurch at the week-end. They think, because of their isolation, that their work is inferior to that performed in other countries. “This, he said, “is not so. In New Zealand, we can, and we often do choral music equivalent to the best heard anywhere.”. Miss A. I. L. King, M.A. (London), a writer of children’s plays and a child psychologist, arrived in Auckland on Friday by the Tamaroa from Southampton. Of mixed European and West Indian descent, Miss King has had a distinguished scholastic career, specialising in modern languages and literature. Children acting plays written and produced by Miss King have gained first place at both the Birmingham and the Cleethorpe festivals.

Mrs Creek, wife of Dr. Creek, who is investigating oil possibilities in New Zealand, has had an eventful life. She is a Russian, born in Caucasia, and was at the university in Vladivostok, when the Revolution took place. She escaped by way of Shanghai to Vienna, but her mother who was in Caucasia, was unable to get away, with the result that she spent five years in prison and 20 years in exile in Siberia. She is now in Manchukuo with one of her daughters, and Mrs Creek hopes that later she will visit her in Wellington. Mrs Creek met her husband in Vienna, and later went to Sydney, New South Wales, where they were married, he having come from New Guinea, where he had been exploring oil possibilities. They then went to America, where they have been for some years.