CURRENT NOTES

Press, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22514, 23 September 1938, Page 2

CURRENT NOTES

Mrs M. I. Marshall (Gloucester street) will return on Tuesday from a visit to the Southern Lakes. Mrs H. E. B. Newton (Wanganui) won the championship at the Dannevirke women’s golf tournament last week-end. She beat Mrs D. V. Stewart (Manawatu) in the semifinal, and Miss I. Seifert (Manawatu) in the final. Dr. E. Douglas Pullon (Merivale), who has been visiting England, and Mrs Pullon and Miss Peggy Pullon, who went to Fiji to meet him on his homeward journey, returned to Christchurch yesterday. Mrs Frank Reid (Fendalton) left yesterday to pay a short visit to Mrs T. Davies. Marlborough. Mrs H. E. H. Robinson (Greymouth), who has been spending three weeks in Christchurch, will return home to-day. Mr and Mrs Bernhard Wilkes (Papanui) are spending a few days at the Lodge, Hanmer Springs. Sir William and Lady Hunt (Wellington), who have been visiting Mr and Mrs W. E. Hunt, Invercargill, returned north yesterday. Miss A. Julius (Cashmere Hills) is visiting her sister, Mrs P. A. Elworthy, Gordon’s Valley, South Canterbury. Mr and Mrs Kenneth Robinson (Fendalton) will leave to-day to pay a short visit to Mr and Mrs R. C. Abernethy, Invercargill. Mrs M. Earl (Heaton street) is visiting her mother, Mrs J. Meehan, Timaru. Mesdames S. P. Godfrey, Endell Wanklyn, W. G. Scannell. Misses K. Hoare, B. Freeman, P. Acland, S. Scott, Messrs C. Rattray, C. J. Ward, and L. le Cren are members of the committee arranging a dance to be held to-night at ChanceryCourt in aid of the Karitane Hospital Extension Fund. Mrs A. Morten presided at the last i meeting of the Sumner-Redcliffs 1 branch of the Plunket Society, 1 Nurse Harman reported the visits 1 for August as follows:—Redcliffs: To 1 the rooms, adults 56, babies 50. Visits I at Sumner, adults 37, babies 37. j The death has occurred in Wei- 3 lington, after a long illness, of Mrs 1 Kathleen Eve Nathan, wife of Mr 1 S. George Nathan, Wadestown. Mrs i Nathan was a daughter of the late 1 W H. Lever, a former inspector in , New Zealand for the Bank of New , South Wales. She is survived by j two sons, Mr Benson Nathan (Wai- ] rarapa) and Mr Michael Nathan ’ (Wellington), ahd*6ne daughter. Mrs * Murray Benjamin (Auckland). Heir sisters ’are Mesdapies Stronach Pdf* * erson.“ W. I. K. Jennings, and MoMtaf Doughty, alTof Wellington. ; * '■ j Miss Betty Lorimer, M.Sc., A.1.C., 1 London, daughter of Mr and .Mrs J. j Lorimer, of Christchurch,' has been 3 appointed "analytical chemist to the * Wellington City Council. Miss Lori- j mer was born in Dunedin and edu- 5 cated in Christchurch, gaining her • M.Sc. degree at Canterbury Univer- i sity College. For the last few years ] she has been assistant chemist in i the Kelvin Laboratories at Welling- 1 ton and Auckland. ‘ Of the 12 women members of Par- ] liament in England, Lady ■ Astor, ] American-born and British only by ; marriage, is the senior, having been ] elected to the House in 1919. Six ■ of the women members are unmarried, a few, including Lady Astor, ' are grandmothers, seven are Tories, i three are Labourites, one is a Lib- , eral, and one an Independent. ( Thelma Cazalet, who served as an . alderman on the London County ; Council before entering Parliament j in 1931. is, after Lady Astor, the i wealthiest of the women members. Miss M. Newcombe, J.P., who died at Wanganui on Tuesday, was a remarkable woman with a great record of public service. She was a member of the Wanganui Hospital Board, secretary of the Crippled Children, Society, and for many years a member of the Board of Governors of Wanganui Collegiate School, of which she was an early pupil. She also held' the Wanganui tennis' championship title some 1 years ago, had been secretary of the t Victoria League, . and of the Lady s Jellicoe Club (now the Wanganui 1 Women’s Club). She was a staunch < worker for the Returned Soldiers’ £ Association, and last year was pre- r sented with the gold badge of life membership of the Wanganui . branch. Her father died a few t weeks ago, and her only brother ] was killed at Gallipoli in 1915. i Nearly -all the vases used by ] florists in London are very tall, and , a slender line is the most popular. ] English-made pottery is at the ( moment more seen than glass, and the tones include chalk-white to * the creamy off-white, delicate greens 3 and blues. The. lower holders. 3 shaped like baskets, with handle at ■] dither side, are generally, for the « moment, of pure white, and so are muny of the quite flat ring troughs, so useful for small flowers and so comfortable for dinner table/ decorations as they do not obstruct conversation with the diner opposite, KNITTERS! JUMPERS FOR SPRING. ! Light, lacy, lovely—these spring and ■ summer styles in jumpers are de- ; lightfully smart and appealing. Eight , models illustrated with full knitting ■ instructions for short or long sleeves. ] Send 7d in stamps to-day for Speci- . alty Knitting Book No. 79 to Batons ' and Baldwins, Box 1441R, Wellington. TREATMENT OF THE FEET. ] MISS B. WILSON. 8.1.C.L., \ 699 Colombo St. (near Hereford St). . Falling Arches. Soft Corns, Enlarged j Joints, etc., etc. ’Phone 32-641. j W8229 x I 1 NO RISKS WITH EGGS. f Eggs cost money. Don’t take risks I when preserving them. Play safe— s use Ovpline Paste Preservative. .Has 1 been 35 years on the market with not 1 one recorded case of failure. Ovoline J keeps eggs for months as fresh as J new-laid. People preferring a liquid T preservative can now secure Liquid a Ovoline, which, being highly concen- 8 trated, is very effective and economi- g cal.