ORCHESTRAL EVENING

Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 123, 26 May 1937, Page 16

ORCHESTRAL EVENING

The Symphony Orchestra last evening at the Town Hall had a most appreciative audience, and the "atmosphere" was very happy. Madame de Mauny, who took all the piano part was becomingly gowneJ in violet satin cloque, with silk puffed sleeves, and the square nsck ornamented with" diamante clasps. At the end of the performance she ,was "showered" with bouquets of beautiful flowers, tributes from many friends. Among those present were the following:—Mr. and Mrs. D. A. Ewen, Lady Shirtcliffe, Lady and Miss Buckleton, Mrs. W. Young, Mr. and Mrs. A. H. Miles, Mrs. A. H. Batt, Mrs. and Miss Corliss, Mr. and Mrs. Coleridge,' Mrs. R. G. Chatfield, Mrs. G. A. part, Miss Hankey, Mrs. O. Jacobsen, Mrs. Gower, Mr. W. Prouse, Miss Troup, Mrs. J. Bennie, Miss Elizabeth Greenwood, Mr.' E. Palliser, Mr. S. A. Hickey, Mrs. Hustler-Smith, Miss Tubbs (Nelson), Mrs. Elsdon Best, Miss M. Putnam, and Miss M. Anscombe. hospitals was most urgent—particularly in regard to accommodation for those slightly sick mentally ; and those who break down temporarily under financial or other strain. These cases, H was felt, should not be housed in hospitals for the insane. The president of the guild urged all women to unite in doing something about' the things that matter so terribly to women, mentioning particularly the abuse of alcohol, abortion, and mental hygiene. •

'of Mr. and Mrs. John Orbell, of Waikouaiti, Otaki. On April 16, 1890, she married Mr. Robert Heaton Rhodes, sheep farmer, Blue Cliffs, St. Andrews, South Canterbury, son of Mr. George Rhodes, the Levels. Mr. and Mrs. Rhodes lived on the station at Blue Cliffs until the death of Mr. Rhodes on August 11, 1918, after which Mrs. Rhodes moved to "Came," Scaly Street, Timaru, the station being carried on afterwards by her daughter and her husband, Dr. P. R. Woodhouse. The Bidwill family is one of the best known in the Wairarapa. Mr. C. R. Bidwill settled therein 1843, and became a leading pastoralist and also owner of racehorses. He made his home at Pihautea, which became known for the continuous and generous hospitality exercised there. When a girl of 14 Jessy Bidwill (later Mrs. Rhodes) was a passenger on a train which was blown over by the wind while travelling over the Rimutakas, biit she escaped injury, although some little time previously three passengers had been killed in a similar accident. Later, wind-breaks were erected where the accidents occurred and the carriages were specially weighted. In her early days Mrs. Rhodes was a noted horsewoman, and at a private steeplechase meeting at Pihautea in 1883. at which Messrs. W. H. Levin and J. O. Bidwill acted as judges and Mr. Fred Pearce as starter, the principal event, the Pihautea Steeplechase, in which there were six starters, was won by a short head by Mr. W. E. Bidwill's Beppo, with the owner up, from Jessy Bidwill's Tawera.. LOVE OF HORTICULTURE. Mrs. Rhodes was a keen gardener, and for many years was a member of the committee of the Timaru Horticultural Society, upon her retirement from which about two years ago she was made a life member. She was awarded the Royal Horticultural Society's Bronze Medal in 1934. Her love of horticulture also found expression in the beautiful garden surrounding her home at "Came," from which an exhibit of shrubs and flowers was regularly sent to the .Timaru Society's flower show. A patroness of the Timaru Agricultural and Pastoral Association, of which her husband was president for three years on different occasions, Mrs. Rhodes was keenly interested in the affairs of that body and was the donor of the Rhodes Rose Bowl, for the best type of hunter. She was also a member of the committee of the South Canterbury Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. Mrs. Rhodes was a .devout churchwoman, and was closely associated with St. Mary's Anglican Church, Timaru. the land on which the church stands having been given by the Rhodes family. Mrs. Rhodes's only child, ' Airini Elizabeth, married Dr. Philip Randal Woodhouse, formerly medical superintendent of the Wellington Hospital. Dr. Woodhouse served in the Great War from 1914 to 19J9. being promoted to Major and awarded the D.5.0., M.C., and bar. To turn out a jelly whole, slightly grease the mould before pouring in the liquid. If this has not been done, and the jelly sticks, plunge the mould into hot water, and you will have no more trouble. . '