CURRENT NOTES

Press, Volume LXXI, Issue 21391, 6 February 1935, Page 2

CURRENT NOTES

Mr H. Holland, M.P., and Mrs Holland (Gracefield avenue) will leave early next week for Wellington to attend the opening of Parliament ceremonies. Mrs Gordon Fulton and family (Okuku Pass), who have been visiting Mrs Fulton's mother in Victoria, returned' by the Monowai, which arrived in Wellington on Monday, and arrived in Christchurch yesterday. Mr J. W. Collins, trade commissioner for New Zealand in Canada, and Mrs Collins, who are at present visiting Christchurch, will leave on Saturday for the Hermitage, Mount Cook. Mrs Keith Stewart, formerly of Ceylon, who has been the guest of Mrs B. L. Blunden, "Carvossa," Waikari, has left for Dunedin, where she will make her home. Miss Rose Muir, lady superintendent of the Christchurch Hospital, who has been visiting Australia, returned to Christchurch yesterday. Mr and Mrs J. Mawson Stewart (Fendalton) will leave on February 16 for Auckland, where Mr Stewart will attend the annual conference of accountants. Miss Lean (Cambridge terrace) is spending a short holiday with her brother at Timaru. » Mrs W. Brice (Wellington), who is spending a short holiday in Christchurch, is staying with Mrs C. V. Glasson, Fendalton road. Mr and Mrs McKegg (Raratonga), who, after visiting Christchurch, have left for Oamaru, will return to Christchurch to-day and will stay at the Clarendon Hotel. Mrs Barkeley Smith (Wellington) is staying with Mrs W. Barker, California Flats. Mrs E. Greensmith (Wellington) is the guest of Mrs C. V. Glasson, Fendalton road. Misses Margaret and Joan Ormerod (Fendalton) are spending a holiday in Wellington. They will return at the end of this week. Mrs E. Brown (Dunedin) and Mrs A. O. Melville (Dunedin) are the guests of Mrs E. M. Cummings, Papanui. Miss V. Youngman (Bealey street) has returned from a holiday spent at Akaroa. Miss Betty Mcßae (Palmerston North), who has been visiting Mrs A. Leslie Macfarlane, Fendalton, has returned to the north. Miss Violet Martin (Seaview terrace, Timaru) is visiting Christchurch, and will leave later for Picton and the Marlborough Sounds. Mr and Mrs A. H. Scott and family ("Strathaven," Woodend road, Rangiora), who have been on a holiday in Sumner, have returned home. v • ■ , • Miss Mary Clifton-Mogg (Timaru), who has been visiting Australia, returned by the Monowai which arrived in Wellington on Monday. The Rev. A. W. Stuart and Mrs Stuart returned to Christchurch from Sydney yesterday. ' Mr and Mrs V. H. Line (Kipling street) have returned home from a holiday spent at Hanmer Springs and at Little River, where they were the guests of Mrs G. Jones. Miss Isabel Rutherford was Mrs Line's guest at Hanmer Springs. Mr and Mrs Warwick Gregory (Wadestown, Wellington), who are visiting Christchurch, will leave for the north to-night. At the end of February they will leave for Sydney, where they will spend several months. Mrs Kidson and Miss Elsa Kidson (Nelson) are the guests of Mrs G. A. Gilchrist, Ashburton. Mrs M. McCroy (Melbourne) is the guest of Mrs S: C. Dixon, Worester street. Mrs W. C. Prosser and family (Ayers street, Rangiora) have returned home from a holiday at Waikuku. Mrs F. Paul will arrive from Wellington this week and will be the guest of her sister, Mrs Robert Buxton, Sumner.

Mrs J F. Buchanan and Misses Helen and Nancy Buchanan, who have been spending several weeks at "Kinloch," Little River, returned yesterday to their home at Fendalton. Mr and Mrs A. Bain (Schoolhouse, Okain's Bay) have returned home after spending a holiday m Timaru. Miss Betty Shand (Fendalton) arrived back in Christchurch yesterday morning from Melbourne, after staying there during the Centenary celebrations. While in Melbourne Miss Shand studied beauty culture for four months. Miss E. M. Heine, formerly of the staff of the Dominion Museum, Wellington, arrived in Christchurch yesterday to take up a position in the department of biology at Canterbury College. Mrs G. Norton Francis (Innes road), who is staying at Clarence Reserve, will go to-morrow to stay with Mr and Mrs J. W. Trolove, "The Shades," Kekerangu. She will return home early next week. Mr and Mrs John E. Bates (Fendalton) will leave in March for a trip to England. Mrs Bates, accompanied by Miss Joan Bates, who is to spend a holiday in Australia, will leave earlier in March for Sydney, where Mr Bates will join Mrs Bates to connect with the Esperance Bay. Mrs H. C. D. van Asch (Bealey avenue), who has been spending three months in Melbourne and Adelaide, returned to Christchurch yesterday. Miss Ruth Herrick,. Chief Commissioner of the Girl Guides' Association of New Zealand, arrived in Auckland on Saturday from headquarters at Hawke's Bay. Lady Baden-Powell will be entertained at morning tea at the Lyceum Club, Auckland, at 10.30 on Saturday, February 9. Mr K. H. Wilson (Auckland), who returned to New Zealand by the Monowai on Monday, and Mrs Wilson, are visiting the South Island. Mrs Leonard Webb (Invercargill), ■who has been visiting Lady Hunt in Wellington, arrived in Christchurch yesterday, and will leave to-day for Timaru to stay with Miss Loo Cartwright. Miss Margaret Oram, Fairton, is visiting Mrs Wilfred McClure, Woodbury road, Geraldine. Mrs A/P. Strang and Miss Marion Strang (High street, Rangiora), who have been spending a holiday at Waikuku, returned home yesterday. Mr and Mrs R. J. Annand, of the Sudan Interior Mission, arrived in Christchurch yesterday. Mr and Mrs Annand, who have carried on mission work in Ethiopia for several years, were the first New Zealanders to be married in that country. Mrs Annand was formerly Miss Emmie Orme, of Christchurch. Miss M. A. Roy (Christchurch) and Miss C. E. Cherry (Auckland) have returned to Christchurch from a camping tour round the Southern Lakes. They travelled more than 1200 miles without a puncture or any mishap. Miss Roy returned to Taranaki on Monday and Miss Cherry is staying in Christchurch. Classes for the teaching of lipreading to the adult deafened have resumed at the rooms of the Education Board, Oxford terrace, and are held each Friday evening at 7.30 o'clock. These classes are proving of great help to deafened people, and all interested persons are invited to attend. Similar classes held in the three other principal centres are doing excellent work in this direction. AFTERNOON PARTY Dainty handkerchiefs and d'oyleys, pretty guest towels and prosiac but useful tea towels were amongst the many gifts of linen presented to Miss i Lesley Hay yesterday afternoon at a very pleasant party given in her honour by Miss Margaret Cooper. Miss Hay's marriage to Mr John McAlpine will take place next week, and to her new home at Craigieburn she will take with her the best wishes of a large number of friends in Christchurch. The drawiri'g-room at Miss Cooper's home on Cashmere Hills, where the party was held, was decorated with roses and hydrangeas. The guests were Miss Lesley Hay, Mrs Jack Lawrence, Misses Lois Ollivier, Helen and Lyndsey Thomson, Janet Stevenson, Ann Cooper, Jean i Ballantyne, Agatha and Pauline Upham, Philippa Acland, Nancy and Joan Gard'ner, Joyce Mac Gibbon, and Celia Reese.