FROM DAY TO DAY

Dominion, Volume 32, Issue 146, 16 March 1939, Page 4

FROM DAY TO DAY

News And Notes From Town And Country

A Gardener’s Holiday. A Lower Hutt member of the Women’s Division of the Farmers’ Union who will leave Auckland by the Monterey on .Monday, is Airs. William Smith, Waterloo Road. Mrs. Smith is a gardening enthusiast and will spend a 'gardener’s dream holiday in California.

She will travel to Vancouver in the Monterey, then taking a bus to San Francisco. For company this far she will have her brother, Mr. W. 11. Gaue, who will leave her at San Francisco for New York.

Airs. Smith will visit relations in San Francisco and also at Santa Cruz, where she expects to have her headquarters for two or three mouths. Much of her spare time will bo spent in meeting members of the Women’s Bureau, the American counterpart of the W.D.F.U., and of contacting garden clubs.

Airs. Smith expects to bring back many new ideas when she returns home. She will leave Los Angeles for New Zealand in August.

Mothers’ Helpers. Airs. G. W. Guthrie presided al a recent meeting of the Mothers’ Helpers. Leave of absence was granted to Airs. Al. G. Reid, who will leave for England shortly.

Because of the pressure of work, the committee has decided to increase the staff still further, and an advertisement to this effect appears elsewhere in this issue. Sherry At Five.

A delightful sherry party attended by a large number of friends was given by Airs. Bruce Rennie at Irer home, Lancaster Street, Karori, yesterday. The guests who were invited “for five o’clock” gathered to honour Lady Buckleton and Miss Jean Buckleton lief ore they leave for England next week.

Red candies matching lovely massed red flowers were on the table in the dining-room, where appetising and unusual savouries were set out buffet fusion. In the reception room and hall colourful hydrangeas and asters and apricot-shaded dahlias formed the decorative motif. Airs. Rennie received her guests wearing a lovely frock ot turquoise sheer witli opeu work finishings.

Halfpennies for Blind. “I have a hefty parcel here, and it’s full of halfpennies,” said Airs. Knox Gilmer, at the Blind Social Club’s afternoon tea yesterday. She lifted a large heavy brown paper parcel for nil to see. The money had been collected to assist the work for the blind of Wellington by Airs. J. J. Duncan, a member of the club, and her family. Alexandra Homo. All the 12 nurses who sat for their maternity examinations passed, five gaining honours, reported Miss Julius, matron of the Alexandra Hospital, at the monthly meeting of the Alexandra Home Committee. Reports were received of the month’s work, and donations were acknowledged from Airs. Bull, Airs. Lyell, jun., Toe 11, and other friends, gifts of fruit and of old linen being, as usual, most welcome. Picnic Outing. At the mothers’ and children’s picnic arranged by the Wellington After Care Association, a very happy day was spent recently at the home of Air. and Airs. D. Coutts, Paremata. The children played games, went to the beach and later enjoyed community singing in the drawing-room. The outing was arranged by the president, Mrs. E. J. Moore, and executive. Though the weather was not promising, two bus loads set off filled with picknickers. Tables laden with good things were set out in the garage, where the guests enjoyed lunch. Before leaving, cheers were given for Air. and Airs. Coutts for their kindness and hospitality. The executive expressed their gratitude to all who helped to make the outing .a success. For Swing Dancing. Wellington’s younger set was treated to ‘’something new” at the opening dance of the Swing Club, held at Alargaret O’Connor’s studio-last week. To the syncopated music of a swing orchestra, many young people executed the latest in American swing dances with varying degrees of success. j A savoury supper was provided by the committee, which comprised Misses Pamela Alexander, Beth MacCallum, Nola Duthie, Pat Masterson, Gwen Earnshaw and Joy Norrie; Messrs. Lindsay Anderson, Lindsay Constable, Bob Saunders, Lloyd Bardsley, Peter Renal and Pierre Morine. Personal. Airs. A. Sinclair Gray. Wellington, will leave by the Wanganella today for Sydney, where she will make her home.