CURRENT NOTES

Press, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22424, 10 June 1938, Page 2

CURRENT NOTES

The Hon. Mr Justice Northcroft and Mrs Northcroft returned yesterday from the West Coast. They are staying at the United Service Hotel.

The Rev. L; F. Gunn and Mrs Gunn, (Riccarton), who have been staying in Queen Charlotte Sound, have returned to Christchurch. Mrs Lewis Coster, Who has been paying- a round of, visits in Marlborough and Canterbury, has returned to “Anakiwa,” Queen Charlotte Sound.

The second evening’s play of the individual champiohship played at Crockford’s Club t-esulted as follows:—A division: Miss V. Sapsford 1, Mrs G. B. Morgan 2, Mrs R. H. Hennah 3. B division: Mrs E. A. Summers 1, Mrs C.-Stringer and Mrs G. Johnston 2 equal. ■ Mrs W. H. Helmore, who has been visiting friends in Christchurch, left last night, for Wairoa, Hawke’s Bay, where she will stay .with her daughter.

Mrs Owen Cox (Victoria), who has been spending a few months in New Zealand, has left on her return journey to Australia. Mrs Cox is a sister of Mrs J. A. Poulton, Gloucester street West;

Mrs Philip Keddell Merivale) left last night for a, visit to Gisborne. Mrs Kenneth Ballantyne (Coldstream Lodge, Fendalton) returned yesterday from a trip to Sydney. Mrs George Murray (Tekapo) has left for a visit to Sydney. Miss Joan Lee (Beverley street) will leave next week for Hanmer Springs, where she will spend a few weeks before going to Tauranga, where she will stay for a few months.

Mrs G. Aitchison (Hiligrove) and Mrs F. G. Holmes (Spfeydon) have left for a motor tour of the North Island.

Miss Kathleen Hoare (Kilmore street West), who has been visiting Mrs Ross Murray, “Woqdbank,” Clarence Bridge, will return home on Monday. Mrs Murray will accompany, her and will be her guest for a week. Mrs D. B. Copland (Melbourne) arrived at Wellington by the Wanganella this week, and will visit her sister, Mrs W. Thomas, Timaru. Mr and Mrs Cyril Ennis will arrive from Wellington this week, to make their home in Christchurch, where Mr Ennis will take up the position of manager of the local Branch of the Australian Mutual Provident Society. Mrs Ennis has been entertained at farewell parties in Wellington during -the'last few weeks.

Mrs W. S. Foster (Dryden’s Bay, Marlborough) is staying with Mrs Graham, Rangiora. Mr and Mrs W. .G. Hosken and Miss Evelyn Hosken, who were staying at their house in Otipua road, Timaru, returned yesterday to Simon’s Hill. Their guest, Miss Rodd (Melbourne), is staying at- ' “Te Kianga.” Miss Patricia Wigley (Dunstan Downs), who was the guest of Mi's Percy Burbury (Waiau), is now staying with Mrs A, Wigley, “Opuha Lodge,” Timaru, Mrs Frank Smith (Waratah) has left for Australia to spend the winter months there. ' Miss Joan Neill (Brisbane) is visiting her grandmother; Mrs- F. Harper, Wai-iti road, Timaru. -

Mrs W. M. Shand returned to Christchurch by the steamer express from the north yesterday morning.

Mr and Mrs Denzil Ward, who were married in Christchurch last Week, will leave to-night for-Wel-lington, where they will make their home.

Mrs N. Johnson CWaihola), who has been staying with Mrs A. O. Larcombe (Colombo- street), returned home yesterday. Miss- Joan Warwick, managerumpire of the, English women’s hockey team, which is touring New Zealand at present, will be the guest of Mrs A. C. McKillop, Sunnyside, during the team’s visijt to Christchurch. The team will arrive in the city from the West Coast on Friday, June 17.

At Heathfield School, near London, Princess Danush Zogu,agister of King Zog of Albania, is a prefect of. the Upper Fifth, a gifted linguist, and a keen follower of the outdoor recreation there. She looks a typical lish schoolgirl in the tailored uniform, her hair plainly, drpsged with a centre, parting., r Her.speech and manner,: tpo, .are becoming more JSnglish each term.. ■ ' - - - ■ '• -

An interesting and informative address on “Careers for-Girls” was given by Miss Christobel Robinson at a meeting of the Catholic Women’s League held'yesterday afternoon in the league’s club rooms, High street. Miss Robinson explained the work of Vocational Guidance officers, and advised parents to give their daughters a secondary education. The work for which the girls were best suited could be more easily ascertained by the co-operation of parents and teachers. Christchurch had been the first city in New Zealand to form a Vocational Guidance committee, and the work had been carried on for the last 11 years, said Miss Robinson.

At the fortnightly social held by the Ladies’ Guild of the West of England Society, a gavel was presanted to Mrs Rowberry for' use at the meetings. Mrs Hammett (a vice-president) welcomed the guests in the absence of the president, and Mrs Easterbrook conducted the meeting. Competitions were won by Mesdames Johns, Kilday, and Bryant, and Mrs Kent gave two amusing monologues. The hostesses were Mesdames Hammett, Deans, and Howell.

News has been received from London that Miss Beryl Service, who trained at the school of Massage at the University of Otago, and is at present on the massage staff of St. Thomas’s Hospital, London, has been appointed to a position at the Victoria Orthopaedic Hospital for Children at Tite street, Chelsea, and will begin her duties there next Monday. Miss Service went to London in 1936 to study at the Margaret Morris School, and after completing her course there went to St. Thomas’s Hospital, where she recently qualified as a member of the Chartered Society of Massage and Medical Gymnastics.

A woman artist who has never had a painting lesson in her life is holding her first solo exhibition for six years in London. She is Madame Clara Klinghoffer, recognised the world over as one of the most outstanding women painters of the present day. Epstein and Sickert, among other famous men, are interested in her work, which is unique in its variety of technique. Petite and red-haired, Madame speaks with a lisp and a slight foreign accent due to her long stay in Holland—she is married to a Dutchman.