Guide Activities

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20076, 24 October 1939, Page 12

Guide Activities

The Dominion headquarters of the Girl Guides’ Association announces that the New Zealand Guide centennial camp to be held at Tauherenikau from January 1G to 27 will not be cancelled. The numbers have been considerably reduced and the numerous overseas visitors expected, of course, will be unable to come.

The Guide exhibit at the Centennial Exhibition also will be carried on, possibly not on the broad lines originally intended. The chief commissioner, Miss Ruth Herrick, in a letter to the guiders and commissioners, has appealed to them to continue with their usual guide activities.

The association lias offered its services to the Government and to the Red Cross Society. It is not yet known how these services can be utilised. Jolly Cocktail Party On Saturday evening, Miss Jeanette Blair and Mr. J. Beckett, whose marriage takes place next month, were the chief guests at a jolly cocktail party given by Miss -Joy Perry at her home at Wainui Beach. The sitting-room was artistically decorated with brillianlly-hued Iceland poppies and roses, the gay setting offering a pleasant contrast to the wintry conditions out-of-doors. Refreshments and delicious savouries were served from a flower-decked table.

Mrs. Perry welcomed her daughter’s guests wearing an elegant frock of black wool georgette accented with floating draperies of midnight blue. The hostess looked extremely smart in a tailored frock of black ring velvet.

Miss Blair’s becoming frock of navy blue cloque was relieved with touches of white at the square cut neckline and further enhanced with an enormous bunch of violets at the waist. Among the guests were Mr. and Mrs. J. Gardner (Here), (Mr. and Mrs. G. R. Black (Muriwai), Mr. and Mrs. R. R. Bruce (Ormond), Mr. and Mrs. E. W. Symes (Hawke’s Bay); Misses M. Blair, M. Smith, B. Kemp, A. Thomas, L. Miles, P. Murphy, S. Barton, N. Broadhurst, E. Hegarty, S. Muir, J. Seymour, J. Armstrong (Wairoa), M. Hamilton, B. Murray (Taumarunui). D. Jameson (Morere), E. Reeves (Tolaga Bay), J. Williams, D. Rutledge (Matawai), J. Scott (Puha), .J. McLernon, J. Strouts (Wanganui), N. Steele, and J. Newton (Tolaga Bay: Messrs. D. F. Muir, B. Kemp, J. Willock, D. Morice, G. Spiers, C. Monclcton, P. Mitford, T. Broadhurst, G. Gregory, M. R. Maude, E. S. Toogood, M. Howe, B. McKenzie, W. Gaddum, C. McLernon and J. Dowding. At the Cabaret

The jolly cabaret sponsored by the Poverty Bay Hunt Club and held in Le Grand Cafe on Saturday night provided a fitting finale to the Poverty Bay Turf Club’s • spring meeting.

The holiday spirit was abroad, and the programme went with a swing to music supplied by Mrs. W. Thomson’s orchestra.

A hot savoury supper was served from tables gay with shaded Iceland poppies,. : ,t - Among those present were Mr. and Mrs. H. H. Dods, Mr. and Mrs. W. L. Irwin, Mr. and Mrs. N. Loisel (Tolaga Bay). Mr. and Mrs. J. Tinker (Whatatutu), Mr. and Mrs. Hawkins (Tolaga Bay), Mr. and Mrs. R. Dods. Misses I. McKenzie M. Blair, E. Hegarty, I J . Barker, L. Harris, J. Bartram, N. Mitford, H. • Kinder, N. Broadhurst, S. Muir, P. Murphy, A. Slight, D. Hansen, M. Fraser. N. Skeet, F. Hood, G. Moore, V. Dodd, P. Reed, P. Dennis, R. Scott, I. MacDonald, M. Trafford, J. and J. Scott, J. Perry; D. Rutledge, M. Morris (Tolaga Bay). D. Jameson (Morere), J. Newton (Tolaga Bay), and J. Strouts (Wanganui). Messrs. B. Toogood, G. Gregory,. M. *R.. Maude, C. Trafford, R. Matthews, W. Bellerby, P. and T. Mitford, A. and T. Broadhurst, J. and R. Ogilvie, G. Spiers, C. Monckton, N. Bennett, D. Harris, M. and C. Fraser, Moore (3), B. Cullinane, F. Wauchop, W. Turner (Opotiki), W. Reed, G. Smith, W. and T. Bright, F. Thornton (Tolaga Bay), W. Fisher, T. Tullock, B. McKenzie, E. W. Symes (Hawke’s Bay), G. Cameron, R. Kuss, G. McPhail, B. Morris (Tolaga Bay), W. Scott, W. Gudgeon, and T. Williams.

¥/omen Whom World Leaders Married

With the exception of Herr Hitler and M. Daladier, most of the other leading figures in the present international drama are married, and an English paper gives brief impressions of the women behind the men whose names are to-day on the world’s tongue. Mr. Neville Chamberlain was 42 when he married Annie Vere Cole, of half-English, half-Irish descent. It was Mrs. Chamberlain who, when her husband was a “plain business man” in Birmingham, suggested that he might stand as a candidate for the City Council, and from that modest beginTiing he eventually entered Parliament. Mrs. Chamberlain is fond of music, playing the piano well. She is a keen photographer and has even gained an expert knowledge of fishing. In addition, she is an ideal hostess and a skilled cook.

Born a peasant, yet lifted by a freak of fate to high station, Donna Rachcle Mussolini is still a simple, homely soul who shuns the limelight and, outwardly at any rate, plays a very subordinate role in the Mussolini home. She never entertains, and when II Duce finds it necessary to give lavish banquets they are always held in hotels, and his wife is never there. Donna Mussolini lias no ambitions and although she is enormously proud of her husband she has never given the slightest hint, by word or action, of her approval or disapproval of his choice of career. Every Moment Filled

Five feet 11 inches tall, Mrs. Roosevelt, wife of the United States President, is an author whose writings appear in tlic American papers and are read by millions. Every moment of her day is filled. She received 300,000 letters the first year she was

at the White House and even now receives over 100.000. Like Mrs. Chamberlain, Mrs. Roosevelt has ■ a practical knowledge of running a home, and she too is an excellent cook. Peace is her greatest aim and she never ceases to preach it. General Goering married Emmy Sonnemann in 1935 when she left the theatre at the height of her fame to become the wife of a man who has played so important a European role in recent years. Since then she has taken her full share in the social business of official entertaining. Two more women married to famous men are the wife of Colonel Beck and Frau von Ribbentrop. Madame Jadwiga Beck comes cl- an old Polish family and shares a weakness in iter husband’s diplomatic armoury,, for. like him, she speaks excellent French and German, but her English is far from perfect.