Made 35,000 Roses.

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20040, 12 September 1939, Page 13

Made 35,000 Roses.

To celebrate the' completion of a winter’s labour, 21 women who have manufactured 35,000 roses for Rose Day, early in November, were entertained by Mrs. Caroline Bramley at a party in the rooms of the Wellington Returned Soldiers’ Association this week. The work has been maintained for 17 years, and five of the women present have been doing their hare since its beginning. N.Z. Girl in Defence Work Miss Jeanne Norton, who has beer, absent from New Zealand for the past si* years, and who is on her way to visit her home town, Wellington, arrived at Auckland recently. She will leave later for Australia, where she will do defence work. In Australia, wl ere she was living fbr some time, she took up flying and gained her A license in 20 days. On the way home to London she broke her neck through an accident in the swimming pool on the ship, but after treatment from specialists all over the world she recovered. This did not deter her from doing two years’ ground engineering work in aviation in London. Miss Norton could be described as a “live wire.” She has many interests

which keep her busy, and even on her way back to New Zealand she lectured at many women’s clubs in California. Dinner Party for Their Majesties The rustic setting of Holland House, with its many acres of gardens and woodland, inspired Lady Ilchester with the table scheme for her recent dinner party in honour of he King and Queen. Their Majesties stayed on to dance at the ball for Miss Rosalind Cubitt, for which Holland House, was loaned to the Hon. Mrs. Roland Cubitt. Rare old Dresden china patterned with pastoral scenes and pink roses from the famous rose walk in the Holland House gardens were used as dinner table decorations. Three tables were arranged in the library on the first floor. The centre-piece for he principal table was a finely branched old candelabra of Dresden china. This had no candles. Four candelabras of the same china arranged round it held lighted candles. The Queen, who often decides .on candlelight for Palace dinner parties, was charmed with the effect. Useful to Know. A little glycerine added to the rinsing water will help to keep flannels soft. Ordinary salt and flour in equal parts and a little cold water makes an adhesive paste. * * Although dust-marks on valued old books can be removed with a soft eraser or crumbly stale bread, the marks left by dampness need to be sponged with water and alum. Be'ween the moist pages insert sheets of clean, new blotting-paper during the drying.