CURRENT NOTES

Press, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22520, 30 September 1938, Page 2

CURRENT NOTES

Mrs J. W. Spence (Stratford) is visiting her sisters, the Misses Skoglund, St. Albans. . Mr and Mrs H. W. Bullivant (Kirkwood avenue, Riccarton), who for the last three months have been on a motoring tour of Australia, have taken a flat at Cremorne, Sydney. They have booked passage:: by the Awatea, leaving Sydney for Wellington on October 10, and hope to arrive home on October 15. Mrs C. H. Clibbom (Bristol street, St. Albans) is visiting Wellington, and is the guest of her sister, Mrs K. W. Conner (Oriental Bay), and of Mrs J. D. Buchanan, Hataitai. Mrs Thomas West (St. Albans) is a passenger on the Wanganella for Sydney, where she will join her son, Mr T. E. West, the Christchurch tenor, who is fulfilling engagements in Australia. Miss Celia Reese (Cashmere), who with her friends, Miss June Luckie and Miss Shona Williams, has been on a motoring tour in the north of England, Scotland and Wales, has returned to London, and is now a member of the staff at CromWell House, the Plunket Society's mothercraft headquarters in England. Mr and Mrs Leo Frankle (Johannesburg), who are visiting Mrs Frankle's parents, Mr and Mrs Van der Molen, will leave on October 11 on their return journey to South Africa. Miss C. B. Mills (Timaru), who has been the guest of Mrs G. H. Uttley, Invercargill, will return home to-day. Mrs C. Walker, of Onehunga, wife of the founder of the Caledonian Society, has been installed as the new chief of the Onehunga branch Of the society. She is the first woman in New Zealand to be so honoured. Mr R. J. S. Bean (Ceylon) arrived in Christchurch yesterday, accompanied by Mrs Bean, who went to Wellington to uieet him. They will spend some months in Canterbury and are at present at Sumner, where Mrs Bean has been living for several ■ weeks before her husband's arrival. Commander and Mrs George Dennistoun and Miss J. Dennistoun (Peel Forest), who have been visiting England, will return to Christchurch this morning. ,Mr and Mrs D. P. Garrick (Belfast) returned from the North Island by steamer express yesterday. Miss Edith French (Beckenham) has received advice from the Canterbury University College that she has been awarded the Alabaster Knowles Prize in Music for 1937. Mrs W. Coad was hostess at the "500'' party: held at the Canterbury Women's Club, the rooms being beautifully decorated for the occasion with japonica and other spring flowers. The hostess wore a floral satin frock patterned in red, blue and green tonings on a black and white background. Prize-win-ners were Mesdames Ronson and Kingsford and Miss McDonald. . Mrs Emerson presided over a good attendance of members at the West of England Ladies' Guild. Owing to the absence of the speaker through illness, a sccial programme was arranged. The hostesses were Mesdames ilammett, Widgery and Easterbrook. / At the monthly meeting of the Canterbury Manufacturers'. Association, Women's Auxiliary, the president, Mrs C. S. McCully, on behalf of the executive of >the auxiliary, presented Miss Frances L. Cooper (secretary) with a crystal flower bowl in appreciatipn of her work fori the auxiliary at the New Zealand Industries' Fair. Miss Cooper suitably responded, and said that the co-operation and kindness of members of the executive had made her work a pleasure. Prize-winners at the card party held by the Sunbeam Kindergarten Committer were Mrs H. J. Cole

(bridge) and Mrs G. McKee ("500"). Others present were Mesdames M Barrett, S. Austin, Tench, D. S. Gibson, E. M. Jones, Butcher, Hunt, Colenso, P. Jones, Lake, Forbes, Bruorton, Keen, Dick, Pointon, Misses Garner «md Gorrie. At a meeting of the Woolston branch of the Women's Christian Temperance Union, Mrs Ransay read a paper, written by Bishop Bennett, on "The Life of the Native Race." Mrs Lawson gave a report of the provincial convention of the union held this month at Linwood. The monthly meeting of . the Christchurch Central Townswomen's Guild was held this week. In the absence of the president (Mrs J. M. Fraser), Mrs E. M. Jones presided. Mrs Olds was pianist for community singing, and a game was won by Mrs Frost, and a competition by Mrs W. Bowers. Mrs E. M. Jones gave a demonstration on the making of a log cake from malt biscuits. Hostesses for the afternoon were Mesdames Macfarlane, Meyer, and Bonisch. Arrangements are being made for a children's fancy dress party to be held in the Caledonian Hall towards the end. of November, in aid of the appeal for funds for distressed children in China. A decision to hold the party was made by a committee consisting of representatives of social welfare organisations in the city, the Mayoress (Mrs R. M. J Macfarlane) presiding. Sub-com-mittees were set up to assist in the [ organisation of the party.

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i Among the many birthday gift bags received by the Young Women's Christian Association at its annual meeting last night was one from a sympathiser who is 81. years old, and who enclosed 81 pennies, one for each year of her life, as a gift to the association. Lord, and Lady Beatty intend to arrive in Auckland on January 9. Lord Beatty, who is chairman of the Navy League, hopes to visit one or two branches in New Zealand. He has not yet fully recovered from an accident in the hunting field early this year. Lord Beatty, who is 33 and who succeeded to the title in 1936, married Mrs Dorothy Sands, an American, last year. Before his fathers death, as Lord Borodale he was member of Parliament for Peckham for five years. He also held the position of Parliamentary private secretary to the Financial Secretary to the Admiralty. Members of the Wellington committee of the Plunket Society met at morning tea on Tuesday to say good-bye to Miss Mary Truby King, who left yesterday by the Wanganella for Australia. Miss King took the opportunity of officially handing t. Mrs Jowett. president of the Wellington branch of the society, the key of her late father's home at Mount Melrose. Sir Truby bequeathed the estate to the Wellington branch for the purpose of furthering the work which he founded for the benefit of mothers and babies. The forty-fifth Richmond Royal Horse Show, England, - d a record number of entries this year. Woman riders and exhibitors predominated. About six years ago a rule was made that only side saddles could be used in the women's classes; the number of entrants has increased by 15 per cent. Three of the judges were women this year.

The Mayoress, Mrs E. L. Smith, presided at a meeting, of the New Brighton sub-branch of the Plunket Society. Nurse Gibb reported that during August 119 adults and 119 babies had visited the rooms, 24 visits had been paid to homes, and there were seven new cases. Two mothers had been in Karitane iMothercraft Hospital.