CURRENT NOTES

Press, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22508, 16 September 1938, Page 2

CURRENT NOTES

Miss Lettice Loughnan has returned from a holiday spent in the North Island.

Mrs Humphrey Holderness, who has been visiting relatives in the Wairarapa, returned to Christchurch yesterday. Mrs J. H. E. Schroder (St. Elmo Courts), who has b(?en visiting Wellington, returned to Christchurch yesterday. Mr and Mrs A. C. Keell (St. Asaph street), who have been visiting England, left London by the Remuera on August 23 on their return journey to New Zealand. Mrs H. M. Hall, past president of the North Canterbury Women s Christian Temperance Union was the guest of Mrs C. R. N. Mackie, of “Lavington,” Rolleston street, during the recent Canterbury Convention.

Miss Mary Weld (Marlborough) and Miss Barbara Griffiths (Christchurch) will be the guests of Miss Kathleen McQuilkin, Ashburton, for the races.

Miss Lulu Foley (Hereford street) will leave Wellington to-day in the Maunganui for two months’ holiday to be spent in Sydney and Melbourne, While in Melbourne she will be the guest of her uncle. Professor M. J. O’Regan.

Miss Margot Hall, who has been spending some weeks in Wellington, is now the guest of Mrs George Aitken, Fendalton. Miss Norma Brown (Courtenay street) left last night to join the Maunganui at Wellington for a visit to Sydney. Mrs Gordon Stevens, Ethelton, North Canterbury, and Mrs Bernard Harrison, Waiau, will arrive m Christchurch to-morrow on their way to meet their father, who will arrive by the Maunganui from Sydney after a tour of Great Britain, the United States, and Canada. Miss Gladys Lorimer (soprano) and Miss Helen Irving (pianoforte), both of Christchurch, are to give a recital for the British Broadcasting Corporation.

Miss Peggie Gillooly (St. Albans) left yesterday for Greymouth to attend the wedding of Miss Pearl Dowell to Mr R. King, the All Black footballer.

Mr and Mrs R. G. C. McNab (Dunedin), who have been visiting Christchurch, returned home yesterday. Misses M. Samson and Phyllis Brown, who have been visiting Mrs E. Lomas at Wanganui, have been spending a few days in Wellington before returning to Christchurch. , Mrs Coleridge Farr (Cashmere Hills) is visiting Wellington. _ . •

• Miss If. Salmon (Worthing,, England) has worked for 40 years las a ,Shjbrthand-typiste. < , She is believed tcFbe the first woman irt England who took?- up this wtyrk as a career. For 36 years she has > been typing ip a small office in the seaport town. She said that in the beginning' her parents .were opposed to her earning her own living. General’ Eva Booth, of the Salvation Army, who is 72 years, old, still goes horse-riding every morning, wet or fine.

Miss Valmai Sundstruln (Christ-# church) is* spending a week .with her father, Mr. C. W. Sundstrum, of Maitland street.

• The Misses Yvonne and Denise Watson (Christchurch), who are visiting England, are the guests of Dr. and Mrs Douglas Allison; at Shepherd’s Hall, Highgate.

Miss J. Iris Martin (Wellington), daughter of the. Hon. W. Lee Martin, Minister for Agriculture, left England by the Aquitania last month for New York on her way back to New Zealand after 18 months spent in England. She will have a few days in New York and then travel across Canada, leaving Vancouver for Auckland on September 28. Lieutenant William G. Hornby. R.N. (E.), son-in-law of. Sir James Parr,* has been appointed to the aircraft carrier Furious. Mrs Hornby Was to go to London : before Sir James Parr left by the.Orqades on September 10, and was then to go to Edinburgh, the ship being stationed at the Scottish base, writer the London correspondent'of “The Press.”

i When Lady Jellicoe left England recently for France,, after Cowes, she did not: expect to go to Switzerland, but has done so to be with her daughter,. Lady Prudence Loudon who has been ill. Lady Prudence is, however, recovering, and when she is well enough to travel she will go to St. Laurence Hall, Isle of Wight, to complete her convalescence. Her husband and mother will travel with her.

Miss Mitchinson, who has been a member of the publicity'staff, at the High- Commissioner’s Office for the last nine years, left for-New Zealand by the Remuera, on August 22, to return to the service in the Dominion. A few days before her departure, Miss Mitchinson was entertained at a farewell party arranged by the staff of the High Commissioner’s Office. She was presented by the staff with three useful: gifts, a fitted air-travel bag, a folding umbrella of. the latest type, and a handbag. Miss Mitchinson* is well known throughout New Zealand. The Rev.-S. J. Cooper (Christchurch) during August took Sunday duty at St. Philip’s Church, ,Hulme, Manchester. From early September he, with Mrs Cooper and Miss, Cooper, will visit the English Lake District, and then go on to Yorkshire and Leicester. The latter part of October and early November will be spent in London and the South. Return passages have been booked by the Rangitane, due to leave on November 12. ,■

Mrs Emerson presided over a good attendance of members at the usual meeting of the West of England Ladies’ Guild. After the business session a debate was held, the subject being, “That Town Life is Preferable to Country Life.” Mesdames Jessett, Murphy, and Elliott, representing the Ladies’ Committee of the Returned Soldiers’ Debating Society, took the affirmative, and Mesdames -Rowberry, Fox and Emerson took the'negative, on behalf of the West of’England Ladies’ Guild. Mrs Gimblett was the . judge, the winners of the; debate being members of the West of England Ladies’ Guild, Mrs Rowberry being the best speaker. ■ 1 . ■

Passengers booked by the Oronsay from London to Lyttelton are Mr and Mrs J. Dunn; Miss M. Gilmour, Mr arid Mrs J. E. Jackson, Mr H. Macdonald, Mrs McHugh, and Mrs Rennie. Miss J. E. Denny (Dunedin) is returning to New Zealand by the same ship, which left London on August 27. Miss Kathleen Dobson (Christchurch) has' returned to London from her travels in France, Greece, Northern Italy, via the Dalmatian coast, Switzerland and Paris. She is now considering a trip to Holland before leaving by the Tainui in November. Miss Dobson has paid visits to relatives in Essex, St. Albans, and Devonshire, and stayed with friends in Warwickshire. With Mrs J. Slade, of Double Bay, Sydney, and her son, Miss Dobson toured Devonshire and Cornwall, North Wales, the English Lake District, and the Highlands of Scotland. At a London registry office, the marriage took place, by licence, of Ernest Steffan, the Viennese composer, ngjw living at Randolph Crescent, W., and Gertrude Last, otherwise Schubert, great-grand-niece of Franz Schubert, _ the composer. The ceremony - was in confirmation of one which had already taken place in Austria, ' .

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