CURRENT NOTES.

Press, Volume LXIX, Issue 20907, 14 July 1933, Page 2

CURRENT NOTES.

Their Excellencies Lord and Ladv Bledisloe this week attended a large reception given by members of the Lyceum Club, Auckland, to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of the founding of the club. The president, Mrs W. H. Parkes, welcomed the Vice-Regal party. Mrs R. H. Bettington left Auckland on Tuesday by the Monowai for Sydney on her return from a visit to her parents, Mr and Mrs T. H. Lowry, of Hawke's Bay. Miss_ Kathleen Gunn, who has been in Hamilton, is spending a fortnight with her parents at Karori, Wellington, before joining the staff of the Christchurch Hospital.

Mrs A. J. Benzie will leave New Zealand by the Rangitiki on August 4 for England to visit her mother in Chester. She will alscj spend some time with her sister in Northampton, where she was born. She intends to return to the Dominion about November of next year. Miss Amy Kane (Wellington) will be a visitor to Christchurch for the Dominion conference of Women's Institutes, over which she will preside. The conference will open on Julv 26.

Mr and Mrs A. Leslie Maefar-

lane (Fendalton) are expected to return to Christchurch on Sunday. Mrs Macfarlane went to Auckland to meet her husband on his return from America.

Airs A lister MacKenzie (Clayton Station, Fairlie) will attend the Dominion conference of the Women's Institute, which will open in Christchurch on July 26.

Miss Violet White-Parsons (Launceston), who has been visiting Mr and Mrs A. White-Parsons, Lyttelton, and Captain and Mrs WhiteParsons, Napier, has left on her return journey to Tasmania. Mrs J. F. Studholme (Fendalton), who lias been visiting South Canterbury, will return to Christchurch this evening. Miss Isobel Calder (Halkett) is paying a visit to Methven.

Mrs L. PI. Hunt (Wellington) will arrive in Christchurch on Saturday morning to visit her brother and sister-in-law, Mr and Mrs Douglas McDonald, Rhodes street, Fendalton. Miss Marjorie Myers, who arrived in the Dominion from England some months ago, and who has been the guest of Mrs J. G. Coates, Wellington, will arrive in Christchurch on Saturday morning. Miss Nora McLean (Fendalton), who has been spending three months at Springfield, returned to Christchurch yesterday. Mr and Mrs Peter Hall (Fendalton) are paying a short visit to Mr and Mrs Bruce Murray, "Godley Peaks," Mackenzie Country. The meeting of the Home Economics Association will be held in the Municipal Electricity Department's demonstration room to-night, when Miss Powell, B.Sc.. will give a demonstration on wholemeal cookep' to the members of the association and friends.

Bouquets of fragrant spring flowers were presented to the women soloists and to the accompanist at the Christchurch Harmonic Society's concert held at the Radiant Hall last night. Mrs Ralph Sierakowsky, who sang the name part in the light opera "Maritana."

wore a deep sapphire blue panne velvet frock, plainly cut with Vshaped neckline, and spray of pale pink flower on one shoulder. Mrs F. Nelson Kerr, who sang the role of Lazarillo, wore a harebell blue crepe de chine frock with vok2 and overskirt of lace to match. Mrs Blanche Atkinson, who was Ihe accompanist, wore a peach-pink i.-'oire frock and richly brocadod lame wrap.

Mr Aldous Huxley, who, many critics consider, is destined to become the Bernard Shaw of this generation, was formerly on the staff of a woman's magazine, for which he wrote on decorations, on fashions, and even on beauty. He is now 37 years of age, and is on;

of the most versatile modern writers and thinkers, being a poet, novelist, dramatist, essayist, and critic. He considers that his work on the woman's magazine was a good training, for he says "that kind of work brings us into touch with sides of life that most of us know nothing about."

The matron of the Cashmere sanatoria acknowledges with thanks gifts from the following:—Mrs R. J. Scott, Fisher street, Beckenham, six pullovers for children at Fresh Air Home; Mrs R. L. Scott, Western terrace, Beckenham, girls' frocks for children at Fresh Air Home; Mrs J. C. Bradshaw, Cashmere Hills, footwear and clothing; Mrs Waterhouse and Mrs A. V. Winchester, both of Cashmere Hills, magazines; "Anonymous," papers. Messrs N. E. Tingey, O. A. Y. Johnston, A. F. Preston, W. S. G. Milne, H. Studholme, E. T. Beaven, with Messrs R. S. Smith and W. M. Rumbold as joint secretaries, are members of the committee responsible for organising the Harewood Golf Club's annual dance, which will be held in the Winter Garden to-night.

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Nothing cures chilblains as quickly as Loasby'.s "4C" Ointment. The effect is almost magical, and a large jar costs only 2s (post free). McArthurs, Chemists, cr. Colombo and Cashel streets. Christchurch. —2

Out of 311,847 marriages registered in England and Wales in a recent year, 22 bridegrooms and 779 brides were 16 years of age. In three cases both bride and bridegroom were 16 only.