TRAVEL CLUB

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

TRAVEL CLUB

MANY VISITORS WELCOMED

“In Canada, music centres round the churches: almost without exception, every leading musician is a church organist.” said Mr Stanley Oliver, of Wellington, conductor of the Schola Cantorum, speaking at a reception given by the Travel Club on Saturday moriiing in honour of choir. French Canadians, he said, were very musical and in Montreal, where 70 per cent, of the .population spoke French, there were two excellent symphony orchestras, each of which gave a concert every Sunday afternoon. In Toronto, which was almost entirely British, there were many splendid musical organisations, one, the Mendelssohn Choir, founded by a German Canadian, being one of the finest choirs in the world. In Toronto lived Sir Ernest MacMillan, the first British musician to be knighted for music outside the British Empire. The prairie provinces. Mr Oliver thought, led musically. There, farmers would travel 40 and 50 miles to attend a week’s music festival held In a wooden building, built by themselves. , . The Scola Cantorum, conducted by Mr Oliver, sang two choruses at the reception, at which Mrs M. H. Godby and Mrs H. T. J. Thacker were hostvisitors who were honoured guests at the gathering were Mrs K. Hodgins and Miss Adza Hodgms (New-Castle-on-Tyne), Miss Grace Wilkinson (London). Mrs T. F. Johnston (India), Mrs J. Herkimer and Miss Estelle Herkimer (New York), Mrs Raines. Mrs Mitchell, and Miss Rodd (Dunedin). Mrs Malcolm (Wellington), Miss K. Knott (Auckland), and Mrs L. P. Ball (Blenheim).

HOSPITAL LADY VISITORS ,

ASSOCIATION

MEETING . OF COMMITTEE

Mrs E. G. Hogg presided at a meeting of the committee of the Hospital Lady Visitors’ Association held at the Christchurch Public Hospital. Others present were Mesdames £>. H. Stewart, R. Beals, P. Wynn-Wllliams, J. E. Fleming, C. J. Ward, Misses G. Wildowson, E. Cardale, and L) Bowen. It was reported that 19 patients had been granted one week, and 10 patients had been granted two weeks at the convalescent home, and garments had been given to needy patients. Miss Lance stated that 11 patients were engaged in occupational work, and Mrs Stewart reported that the garden at the nurses’ rest cottage at Sumner had been attended to during the month. , , . Gifts of boks and jam had been received for the cottage. Mrs Cox reported that there had been generous donations of books and magazines to the library in addition to table golf and children’s books. Donors had included Mrs Parrish, Miss Marian Laugesen, Mrs ThOmas (Bealey avenue), Glentunnel Women’s Institute, Mrs Scott. Mrs Waymouth, Mr Adams, Mrs G H Anderson, Brian Hubbard, and Mrs J. G. Collins.