PERSONAL

Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 94, 15 January 1935, Page 5

PERSONAL

Miss Olive Barron, Blythswood Flats, is visiting Timaru. Miss Shirley Hopkins is staying with Miss Janet Miles at Paraparaumu. Mrs. T. Goodwin is a Christchurch visitor to Wellington. Miss Helen Inglis, Wellington, is visiting her sister, Mrs. William Chrystall, Christchurch. Mr. and Mrs. H. E. M. Fildes, Upland Road, are spending a fortnight in the South Island. Miss Adelaide Hooke, Wellington, who has been spending the holidays in Christchurch, has returned home. Miss Dinah Sloman will return from a short holiday in the South Island tomorrow morning. Mrs. George Davidson, l'inakori Road, is staying for the holidays at Waikanae. Mrs. Mackenzie, Sydney, is visiting Wellington, and is staying at the Midland Hotel. The Rev. H. E. K. Fry and Mrs. Fry, Lower Hutt, are spending the holidays at Plimmerton. Dr. and Mrs. G. Phillips, who have been visiting Auckland, have returned to Feilding. Dr. and Mrs. David Whyte, Upland Road, have returned from a motor trip in the Hawke’s Bay district. Mr. and Mrs. 11. 11. Mawley, of Masterton, are leaving for a trip to England early in March. Mrs. F. M. Shaw, who has been staying with Mrs. D. W. Anderson Hankey Street, has returned to Auckland. Mr. and Mrs. Norman Izett, Miramar, have returned from a motor tour to Auckland. Mrs. A. Cornelius, John Street, is visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. J. Corry, Blenheim. Miss Mary Browne, Lower Hutt, will leave by the Wanganella on Thursday to take up an exchange position in New South Wales. Miss Alison Pearce, Hobson Street, who has been staying at Kawau, Auckland, is now the guest of Miss Winnie Barns-Graham at Gisborne. Lady Hosklng, Wadestown, who has been visiting Mrs. C. R. Hosking, North Canterbury, has returned to Wellington. • Miss F. E. Kershaw, acting headmistress of the Wellington' Girls’ College, is the guest of Mrs. Glaisfer, Mount Albert, Auckland. Mrs. A. Joblin, who has been on a motor tour of the North Island, accompanied by Mr. and Mrs. Joblin, Island Bay, has returned to her home in Christchurch. Mr. and Mrs. A. C. Keel, Christchurch, passed through Wellington during the week-end on their way to Auckland, where they will spend a few weeks. Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Oliver, wellknown in the musical world of Wellington, are spending their holidays in Mfihina Bay, where they are having a thoroughly enjoyable rest. Mr. and‘'Mrs. Rothschild, The Terrace, who have been visiting Auckland, where they were the guests of their daughter, Mrs. F. H. Pope, have returned to Wellington. . Misses Evelyn and Olive Lawn and. Kathleen Turner, of Christchurch, who set out from Wellington on an extended cycling tour through the North Island, have arrived in Auckland, and are at present staying with Mr. and Mrs. J. Lawn, of Otahuhu. They will leave to-day on their homeward journey, via New Plymouth. The following North Island delegates went South on last night’s steamer express for the W.D.F.U. executive meeting to be held in Christchurch this week:—Mrs. J. Pow (Dominion treasurer), Mrs. J. C. Wickham (Wanganui), Mrs. L. A. Hebberd (Utiku), Mrs. H. Maclean (Fordell), Miss O. Marshall (Cambridge). Mrs. W. Stevens (Marton), MissC. E. Connor (Dominion secretary). Miss E. H. Dannatt, who will be remembered by old girls of St. Hilda’s as a mistress at the school, and w-ho has been headmistress of St. Mary’s School, Perth, for the last 12 years, is at present visiting the Dominion recuperating after a severe illness. She was in Dunedin last week, and is now the guest of Mrs. Alan McDouall, of Oamarn. Later she will go north and will leave Auckland at the end of the month for Australia. WOOL RESEARCH Treatment for Shrinkage There have been reports published that the Wool Industries Research Association has discovered a process for treating wool which will prevent shrinking, One influential London daily newspaper had, a leading article on the subject, and one Sunday journal gave the news a heading stretching across the top of a page. There is seldom smoke without Are. It appears there has been a leakage of news owing to what may be termed courteously a. misunderstanding. The Research Association has always had this matter under consideration. Research work at Torridon has gradually made scientists more and more familiar with the chemical and physical structure of wool, and lately experiments with regard to unshrinkability have been entirely successful. The association, however, is not yet in a position to reveal its process to its members. There is, of course, a great gap between experiments. on a small scale and success in the Held of manufacture and commerce. It is probable that the research workers are making sure that what they have accomplished in the laboratory will be equally effective in. the factories. It is stated that the process will be revealed to the trade in due course, but no particular date can be mentioned. SAFELY EQUIPPED. They were packing for their holiday trip and space was precious. Jack: “That case looks like a chemist’s shop. Do we need all those bottles?”. Jim: “Well, we must have the oil for sunburn, the iodine for bumps and bruises, the citronella for bites, and the Baxter’s Lung preserver for colds and chills.” • Bj- no means least important is that handy bottle of “Baxter’s.” Three sizes, 1/6, 2/6 and 4/6 anywhere.— Advt.