CURRENT NOTES

Press, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22517, 27 September 1938, Page 2

CURRENT NOTES

Mr J. S. Neville (Town Clerk) and Mrs Neville will leave next Tuesday for Wellington, where Mr Neville will be invested with the Order of the British Empire at a reception to be held at Government House on Wednesday of next week. Mrs Roderick Anderson (Totara road), who has been visiting England, "is returning to New Zealand by the Rahgitiki, due in Auckland on October 19. Mrs Anderson is expected in Christchurch on October 22. Mrs J. Glasgow (Nelson) is visiting her son and daughter-in-law, Mr and Mrs S. V. Glasgow (Strowan). Mr Glasgow, who accompanied her to Christchurch, has returned home. Mr and Mrs G. Law (Gisborne), who are visiting relatives in Canterbury, will leave for the north on Thursday. Mrs Law was formerly Miss Betty Holmes, of Rakaia and Christchurch.

Mr and Mrs Charles Taylor (Beverley street), who have been spending the winter in Australia, will return to Christchurch on Thursday. Miss Lulu Henderson (Invercargill) will arrive from the south next week and will stay with her cousins, Messrs J. G. D, Ward and C. J. Ward, Merivale lane, until the return of their parents, Sir Cyril and Lady Ward, from Britain. Many friends in Christchurch will be interested to hear that the luarriage of Miss Mina Ward, daughter of the late Mr and Mrs W. Ward, Manchester street north, and niece of the late Sir Joseph Ward, to Brigadier Michael Joseph Lenihan, will take place at Brompton Oratory, London, on October 4. The ceremony will be preceded by Nuptial Mass. Miss Ward, who is well known I in musical, golf and tennis circles in Christchurch, left New Zealand early this year for a trip abroad.

Mrs D. C. Macfarlane (Waiau), who has been paying a short visit to Timaru, has returned home. Mr and Mrs A. J. Murray (Woodland, Clarence Bridge), who have been visiting England and who stayed for some time in South Africa on their outward journey, will return to New Zealand early next month, to be present at the marriage of their daughter, Miss Betty Murray, which will take place shortly after their arrival. Mr and Mrs D. Clive Crozier (Heaton street), who are visiting Britain, will leave Southampton on October 13 by the Rangitata on their return journey to New Zealand. They spent August travelling in Devon and-Cornwall and this month they have been in Scotland, where they will attend the launching ceremony of the 4 Queen Elizabeth. Miss Betty Cotterill and Miss Jean Webster, who have been spending 48 months in England, intend leaving London on October 28 by the Strathnaver, and expect to arrive in Christchurch on December 12. The extraordinary interest being taken in "The Press" Needlecraft Service has been shown by the letters which arrive daily from all parts of New Zealand from North Auckland to Invercargill. Yesterday's mail brought a request for a pattern from Launceston, Tasmania, evidence that this feature has won favour even further afield. Dr. Olive Newell, of the L.M.S. Hospital, Jiajang, Bengal, arrived in Dunedin last week, and is the guest of Miss Margaret Begg for a few days. Mrs Richard Hudson (Dunedin) left London on Thursday last to join the Strathallan at Marseilles. After spending 10 days in Perth as the guest of her sister, Mrs John Barnett, she will come on to New Zealand by the Strathmore, arriving in Dunedin on November 18. Miss Jane Deans ("Sandown," Darfield) left last night for Hawke's Bay, where she will be the guest of her grandparents. Sir Andrew and Lady Russell, Tunanui, Hastings, for the wedding of her cousin, Miss Meg Williams, on Thursday. • Miss Ngaio Marsh, who produced "A Man's House'-' for the Dunedin Repertory Society for a season of four nights in Dunedin last week, will remain in Dunedin for a week, during which she will supervise rehearsals of "The Late Christopher Bean." She will then return to Christchurch, but will probably again visit Dunedin before the play is staged. Mrs W. J. Walker (Cashmere), who has been visiting her mother in Auckland, will return to Christchurch this morning.

Miss Marjorie Knight (England), who has been conducting several girl guide camps in .New Zealand, will arrive in Christchurch this morning, and will be the guest of Mrs J. F. Cracroft Wilson, Cashmere House, and later of Miss Olive Mcllraith, Merivale lane. She will probably return north on Saturday. Mr A. E. Flower, who was recently elected chairman of the Canterbury College Council, and who ■ is president of the Canterbury University College Graduates' Association, is to be the guest of honour at an At Home" tq.be given by the Graduates AssociatioVi in the Students' Union building early in October. Miss G. L. Jeffreys, assistant librarian at Canterbury University College, has been granted extension of leave for three months to enable her to avail herself of a Rockefeller Foundation Grant and to return to New Zealand via America and study libraries there.

Miss B. M. Harband, J.P., New Brighton, received many congratulations after the Sunday evening service, at Trinity Congregational Church, where the Orpheus Choir, under the directorship of Mr F. C. Penford, included in their sacred programme a hymn she had written upon the words, "And when they were awake, they beheld His glory." Miss Harband is better known as a writer of prose than of verse, but this special hymn attracted the notice of the English composer, Mr J. E. Pearson, A.R.C.M., of Sheffield, England, who wrote the musical score that the Orpheus Choir sang for the first time in Christchurch with sympathetic understanding that made both words and music acceptable to the large congregation celebrating its annual thanksgiving day. The Rev. Milburn Stewart, of Timaru, was the'preacher and Mr Len. Boot the orcanio*