CURRENT NOTES

Press, Volume LXXI, Issue 21465, 6 May 1935, Page 2

CURRENT NOTES

Mrs John Montgomery ( : 'Holm- j brook," Fendaiton) will go this week to visit Mrs George Hutton, "Bangor," Mount Somers, and later I will stay with Mrs D. W. Westenra, Dunsandei. Mrs A. Keith Hadfield (Shirley) and her sister, Miss Jessie Danee, who are spending a fortnight at Hanmer Springs, will return to Christchurch on Thursday. Miss 11. Hull, accompanied by members of tlie staff of the Christchurch Free Kindergartens, left on Saturday night for the North Island, to attend a refresher course at Auckland. It is expected that 36 kindergarteners will take the course, including 10 from Christchurch, 14 from Dunedin, and four from Invercargill. At the last meeting of the North Canterbury Hospital Board, Miss W. Pinkerton, matron of the Rangiora Hospital, tendered her resignation. In accepting it, the members thanked Miss Pinkerton for her services during her 6J years' office, and expressed their best wishes for her future welfare. Mr and Mrs Chamberlain, who have been visiting Kaikoura, have returned to New Brighton. Miss Ruth Wynn-WiHiams (Cashmere HUls) is the guest of Mrs Gilbert Grigg, "Haldon Pastures," Hororata. Miss Catherine Westenra ("Camla," Dunsandei) has returned from a visit to Mrs W. H. Orbell and Mrs C. L. Orbell, South Canterbury. Miss Whelch (Hawke's Bay) is visiting her sister, Mrs L. P. Barrett, "Gresford," Papanui. Mrs 11. T. J. Thacker and Miss Garforth (Bealcy avenue), who are visiting Hanmer Springs, will return to Christchurch to-day. Mrs Frank Leckie, who has been visiting her daughter and son-in-law, Mr and Mrs Rewi Murray, Marlborough, has returned to her home at Heretaunga. Sir Cecil Day, who for many years has been official secretary to Governors-General of New Zealand, and Lady Day, will leave this week for England. Lady Day was entertained at a large reception given at the Hotel St. George, Wellington, on Friday.

Among those present on Saturday night at the performance of "Sally," by the Christchurch Musical Comedy Company, were Mr Stan Lawson and Miss R. Powell, who were producer arid ballet mistress respectively at the Dunedin production of this musical comedy. They were accompanied by Miss I. Lawson and Mr D. Lawson. The visitors, who are the guests of Mrs A. Dickson, Bealey street, will return to Dunedin to-day. -.The engagement is announced of Kura Jean, second daughter of Mr and Mrs H. J. Bell, "Drunsara," Tinwald, to John Stewart, second son of Mr and Mrs A. H. Todd, Wills street, Ashburton. The May number of Weldon's Bazaar of Children r s Fashions, printed throughout in photogravure, is larger than previous issues of this journal and much improved in con-1 tents and make-up. It contains a | fine portrait, specially printed in full colour of their Majesties King. George and Queen Mary in coronation robes. Free patterns of everyday dress and school i'rocK. for a girl of seven years of age, a child's playtime dress, and a little girl's dress with frills, are given free with each copy. The IG-page fashion supplement will be found invaluable, and variety is introduced in the enlarged sections devoted to mothercraft and to com-mon-sense cookery. When the women's golf season opened at Wentworth, England, the players managed to solve the problem of looking gay and spring'-like, and at the same time keeping out the bitter March winds. Most of them wore sleeveless leather jackets over bright woollen sweaters, with bright-coloured socks to match. Miss Mervyn Barton, sister of Pam Barton, holder of the French championship, wore scarlet mittens and a sugar-stick striped scarf of scarlet and white, and some of the competitors who visited the States last year sported the American type of "wind-breaker" jumper in suede. The March number of "Good Housekeeping" is a particularly interesting and attractive journal, containing much wisely chosen fiction, a we'll balanced section devoted to cookery, housecraft, and fashions and 10 special articles by wellknown writers. There are five short stories, one by Shiela Kaye-Smith and one by Nigel Balchin, and an instalment of a serial story by Joanna Cannan. The special articles include one written by the Countess of Oxford and Asquith, her subject being "I wish I had been a man," one by St. John Ervine on "Gertrude Lawrence" and three unusual articles, all well written—"l want my daughters to marry," written by William F. McDermoU, "Shall I stay in my Generation?" and "Preparing to be an old Lady." The magazine is well got up and generously illustrated. FOR SAFE SLIMMING. NATURETTES are definitely ,saic md gentle Entirely herbal. Welling,on woman reduced lLlb in four weeks. STATUItETTES are s . wit a moneyjack guarantee. No fasting or evcr•ises. 17 days' treatment for 7s 6d. 3. Cameron Smith, Ltd., Chemists. Cathedral square. -*6

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Mrs David Jones, of Bryndwr, who will leave Christchurch tomorrow to make her home in Wellington. She was the fjuest of honour at an informal reception recently of the Canterbury Women's Club, of which she was a member of the committee and the convener of the iiower circle.

WOMEN'S CLUIJ On Saturday evening, members of the Canterbury Women's Club and their friends were entertained in tho club rooms with a programme arranged by the Flay Reading and Drama Circle of the club, under the direction of Miss Ellen Jones. Autumn leaves and flowers had been used in the artistic decoration. A reading. "Lady With a Lamp," was given by Mesdames J. W. Palk, J. I. Smail, M. MeLeod, Papps. Misses E. Grand, Caygill, Betty Smithson, Lockwood, and C. Menzies. The cast for a short play, entitled, "A World Without Men," was as follows: Millet, Mrs Papps; Mme. Pavel, Miss E. Bruce; Mrs Smith, Miss E. Blackham: Mrs Robinson, Mrs R. J. McLaren; Mrs Jones, Miss Ellen Jones; Mrs Brown, Mrs H. Wyatt, and Miss Whisper, Miss M. Whetter. A hearty vote of thanks was passed to the performers, at the conclusion of the entertainment. VISITORS TO HOLIDAY RESOKTSI Tim Cafe, Xf-w Brighton: Mrs John Void (St. Albans), Mrs Stevena \W>ld find Mru Wright ILcadton). It/vnnt eucMs nt Mountain TTouri\ Arthur's Pas*. include Mr and Mr? Donaldson, Mr find rVTrp ITnrdiriK, Cnok and Smith, Mr Lomnx fOliristcliurcli) 9 and Misses Dromfield (Auckland)«