WOMEN'S CORNER

Press, Volume LXIX, Issue 20788, 23 February 1933, Page 2

WOMEN'S CORNER

CURRENT NOTES. ! | The .Mayoress of ChrisLchurch (Mrs i D G. Sullivan), Mrs J. S. !Nevillo, and ( Vlrs J. W. Beanland intend leaving on , Monday by the ferry steamer for Wellington, and will go to Rotorua with their husbands, who aro delegates representing the Christchureh City_ Council at the conference of the Municipal Association of Xew Zealand, which is to <spen ut Kotorua on March 2. .Mrs Percy Elworthy, who came to Christchureh to attend the wedding of her niece yesterday, is returning south to-daj-. The Rev. Walter Davies_ and .Mrs Davies, formerly of Wellington, who have been spending a few days with -Dean Julius and Mrs Julius at the Deanery. Armagh street, are leaving to-day for Fairlie, where they will make their home. Miss Eunice Morrison (Mnvercarg-ill) is the guest of Mrs .J. McXair, Manchester street. Friends of Mis A. J. Lawrence, of the Club Hotel, Sydenham, will he sorry to learn that she is seriously ill. Mi S3 Cora Wilding ("Fownhope," St. Martins), who is spending a holiday at | Otira, will return to Christchureh on Saturday. i Dr. Beryl Lawrence has resigned from the resident medical staff of the Christchurch Public Hospital, her period of appointment with the North Canterbury Hospital Board having expired. The resignation look effect at the end of January. Dr. Mary .E. Irwin, who has been medical practitioner in the Cheviot hospital district, has resigned and will relinquish the ; practice at the end of March. The Rev. C. Cross and Mrs Cross (Waihau Downs), who came to Christchurch for the Harman —Wilson ivedding vesterday, will return to the south on Saturday. Mr and Mrs H. S. Batchelor. formerly of Christchureh, who have been living for a few years at Wostport, have returned to Christchureh, and have taken a flat in Gloucester street. j Miss V. White-Parsons, of Launccs- I toil, Tasmania, is arriving to-day in Lyttelton, where she will be the guest of Mrs A. White-Parsons. Miss Barbara Brown, who,has been chief elerk in the stores department at the Christchureh Public Hospital, has resigned after six. years of service. Mrs E. J. Riches, ,of Geneva, Switzerland, is visiting her father, Mr J. R. Montgomery, Garden road, Fendalton. Mrs J. C. Wright, the wife of the MosS Rev. J. C. Wright, Archbishop of Sydney, and Primate of Australia, has arrived in Christchureh with theArchbishop from Htanmer Springs, and will stay at Bishopscourfc. Mrs E. G. SlcCullough /Bealey avenue) has returned from a,, visit to Auckland. !.-j/'Jdri'/Clinton'''Bingham' (Cash el street west) has returned from a visit to Hanmer Springs. * The engagement is announced of Ellen Dinah, daughter of Mm W.'P. Sloman, Tinakori road, Wellington, to Paul Henry Metcalfe, son of Dr. and Mrs. J. W. Williams, Grisborne. The engagement is * announced of Dorothy Margaret, daughter of the late Mr T. *E. Upton, 'arid of Mrs Upton, "Moreton Saye,H Aihbnrton, and John, younger sera ■fii''Mr/:Cf.,. WV . Zsi€t and Mrajlsitt, ■."Loi Mothe," Fairiie. ItS Tsras reported r at ! the meeting of the {Korth- Canterbury Hospital Board yesterday that Miss J. Crawford, who has been one of the board's inspectors for 5, number "of years, had resigned her position. > : Mi's D. E. Hansen, Mrs A. H. Forbes, and Mrs R. H. Livingstone, who will bo in charge of tlie. sweets stall in« connexion with the' Bed Cross appeal to-morrow, have' received offers of many gifts'toward the stall. Such eon'.triblotions may be left to-day at -the United Service Hotel or may be taken to the stall to-morrow morning. ■STITCaCRAFT" lOd MONTHLY. ' Order this delightful new monthly magazine, full of smart designs for Embroidery, Knitting, and Crochet. New fa&hiona, new stitches. Free transfer each issue. If yon cannot obtain "Slitchcrafi' 1 from your newsagent or wool-shop, send lOd stamps to Patons and Baldwins, Ltd., Box 1441K, Wellington. —4 j There is no neod to suffer from corns. JUcArthurs extra strong corn euro gives immediate reliof, ana soon effects a complete cure. Is 6d at McArthurs, Ltd., Chemists, onv. Cash el and Colombo streets. —6 BRIDGE PARTY. Misses Gwen Smyth, Molly Brewer, Barbara Bloxam, Kathleen Harley, and Gwynneth Hobbs, members of the junior branch of the Navy League, organised a very successful bridge party and dance, in aid of'the league funds, which was held last night at the Navy League Hall. The hall was decorated with flags and bowls of hydrangeas, dahlias, geraniums, and roses.. Bridge was played until 10 p.m., and was followed by a dance, for which music was supplied by Mrs E. J. McEachen. Those present included-the organisers, and Mrs C. J. Treleaven, Mrs E. J. McEachen, Misses Joy Bawnsley, Dorothy Loughnan, Gretchen Sargent, Kathleen White, Lois Ollivier, Janet. Stevenson, Marguerite Baxter, Patricia Simpson, Barbara Bassett, Dorothy Wauehop, Dorothy Green, Margaret Webley, Bona Woodward, Sylvia Smith, Nancy Frater, Bornice Smith, Cushla Mitchell, Yvonne Baxter, Nance McCullough, Betty Webb, Molly Black, Nola Shand, Nona Hampton, Peggy Clowes, Dorothy Wilkins, Merle Corrick, Betty Treleaven, Mary Garland, Stella Edwards, Marjorie Studholme, Susie Pritchctt, Connie Burns, Shelagh Gumbleton, • Kathleen McXamara, Margaret Talbot, Natalie Hampton, Joy Perry, Constance Burdett, Judith Jameson, Frances Chapman, Pat Scott-Baker, Gwen Scott-Baker, Peggy Wlight, Betty Neave, Irene Morton. Helen Stevens, Joyce Harvey, Lesley James, Fiona Riley, and lima Berggren, Messrs Herbert Black, D. Hewlett, lan Taylor, L. Nesbit, P. Wilson, Alex Wilkinson, Carrick Bloxam, Luscombe Robinson, Can-oil Harley, Sydney Midgley, J. B. Jackson, Rupert Garland, Keith Pritchett, H. E. Iggo, D. L. Robison, R. McHroy, D. 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MOTHERS' UNION, j ; ANNUAL FESTIVAL. j CHURCH SERVICE. j The annual festival of the Mothers' J Union opened yesterday morning with a Communion service at the Cathedral. There were 440 communicants, and Bishop West-Watson preached on the Fellowship of Christ. The offertory amounted lo £l2 12s,.and most of this sum will be used for the benefit of needy mothers and unemployed women. Garden Party. In the afternoon a garden party was held at Bisliopscourt, which was attended by nearly 900 women, including representatives of 46 branches of the union. Bishop West-Wat son welcomed the visitors.' He congratulated the Mothers' Union on the way in which they were keeping together and maintaining a spirit of fellowship and courage in these difficult times. He hoped they would continue to be the rallying point of. those who were feeling "the height and the depth, the length and the breadth of this depression. - ' Particularly, he said, he wished to thank and "to congratulate Mrs A. Peverill, who had organised the whole festival, -Mrs J. C. Bradshaw, and Mrs Hendrie, the convener of the Tea Committee. who, with the assistance of the branch secretaries, later dispensed tea under the trees. Mrs West-Watson, diocesan president, read letters of apology and greeting from the Hinds, Timani, and Kumara branches, and specially welcomed representatives of the new branches, Temuka, Tcmpleton, and Bushside. A letter from her Excellency Lady Bledisloe, regretting her inability to accept the invitation to be present and offering good wishes, was received with applause. Mrs WestWatson announced that a Mothers' Day would be held at Kaiapoi 011 March 2. Church Army Sisters. Captain Squires, a representative of the Church Army, who has been working for some time in Hawke's Bay, spoke briefly of the activities of the Church Army Sisters, of whom there are now 500 working in various countries throughout the world. Prebendery Wilson C'arlilc. the founder of the Church. Army, had acknowledged the great assistance he had received from his wife and sister in the work of organisation. "We look to the women of the Mothers' Union and other similar bodies in- New Zealand." Captain Squires said, "to welcome the Sisters when they come witfi the Column, and particularly to pray that they may win many soldiers willing to fight the good light, and live up to the. army's motto: Conversion, consecration, and churchmanship." . . After tea all joined in the community singing, conducted by Miss Milliceut Jennings. Amongst the many present wore representatives of the following branches of the union:—Addington, Avonside, Brighton, Cathedral, Cashmere, Fendalton, Lyttelton, Lyttelton West,. Merivale, Opawa, Papa'nui, Phillipstown, Upper Riccarton, Lower Riccarton,' St. Luke's, St.* John's, St. Michael's. St. Matthew's, St. Chad's, Shirley, Spreydon, Styx. Sydenham, Sumner and Redeliffs, Woolston, Courtenay street, ,Amberley, Ashburton, Belfast, Bushside, Halkett, Horabyi Kaiapoi, Kirwee, Littlq River, Oxford, Prehbleton, Rakjaia, Rangiora, -Sefton, Southbridge, Tinwald, Temuka, Waikuku, Templeton, Darfield.

"BESSIE MACDONALD COT."

Xtiss Bessie Macdonald lias received the following letter from M'' A. b. S. Gibbs. organising secretary and trca surer of St. Saviour'a Orphanages:— "It gives ine great pleasure to inform you that a brass plate, inscribed 'The Bessie. Macdonald Got' lias been placed at the head of one uf our at the Girls' -Home, Shirley. This is in recognition of the money you hoAe Taised f»r us over a period ot yeais. amounting to some hundreds of pounds. I would like you, when convenient, to pay a visit to the home, and the Matron will be delighted to show you. over t ie building and also to point out the Bessie Maedonald Cot.''

small velvet floret's to mateli ilie band of blue flowers on her Juliet cap of silver lace. Mr Jack Bluett was best man. A reception was lielil at tv.o Winter Garden, where Mr and, Mrs Waldion entertained many friends. Mrs WaMvon wore a t'roek of black georgette, with cowl neckline, and akirt made witli inset godety. Her black straw hat was trimmed with a bow of ribbon at Jie back and she carried a bouquet of red flowers. The bridegroom's mother wore a blue georgette frock with vestee of cream georgette, and a blue straw bat. and carried a bouquet of scarlet flowers. the bride and bridegroom left for their honeymoon, the former was wearing a frock and capelet .of royal blue romaine, trimmed with blue and, silver buttons, and a small blue felt hatfinished with an eye-veil.