CURRENT NOTES

Press, Volume LXXII, Issue 21729, 11 March 1936, Page 2

CURRENT NOTES

Her Excellency Lady guests, Mra and Miss White, of Engfahd, arid Captairi Heber Petcy, A.D.C., who passed through Christchurch yesterday on.their way to the Hermitage, Mount Cook, and Milford Sound, will later visit Miss Mill, Port Chalmers, and will return to 1 Wellington in time for ,the opening of Parliament. Mr and Mrs F. H. Pofirill (Opawa), who have been spending several months in: England, i left London on February 15 in the Ofsova on their return journey, to New Zealand and are expected in Chrlstchurch in a few weeks., I Mrs T. E. Whelch (Lake Station, ! Waipukurau) is visiting her daughter, Mrs N. Laurenson, Christchurch. Mrs Walter Norwood (Karori, Wellington) • will arrive in Christchurch to-day to visit her mother, Mrs J. A. Redpath, jun., GlandoVey road, Fendalton. Miss Joan Gardiner (Napier) is visiting her:sister, Mrs G. Newlands (Taylorville), before her departure for London. She will sail by the Rangitata on April 9. At a meeting of.; the Ladies' Guild and Missionary Union of the Styx Presbyterian Church a motion of sympathy was passed with relatives of the late Mrs Thompson. Members brought a number of gifts for Mr and Mrs Milne to take back to the New Hebrides. Mrs E. T. Reece (Fendalton) will leave for the north early next week to' visit her sisters in Wellington and Lower Hutt. Miss Montgomery Moore (Wanganui) has returned to Christchurch from a visit to Mrs Marmaduke Beljbell, Pahau Pastures, North Canterbury. Mrs Alister McKillop (Sunnyside) is paying a short visit to Wellington. Mrs Arthur Stuart Bower (Durham street north) and Miss Jean Newton (Ashburton) have returned from a visit to Mrs Russell Laidlaw, Oaro. f - Mrs F. Seldon (Ashburton) will leave to-night for a visit of three weeks to Wellington. Mrs A. Welsford and Miss Freda Halford have left for a visit to Sydney. Before they left they were entertained at a very enjoyable party given at Ballantynes. Those present were Mesdames Welsford, Greasley, Morse, Howe, Smith, Hore, Lagan, Turton, Smith, Whittle, Parker, Misses Halford, Mullins (2), Lagan. Miss Sheila Brodie (Wellington), who has; been visiting Mrs G. Leslie Rutherford at' her-house at Sumner, has- returned to Wellington. Miss Elisabeth Alpers (Fendalton) Will' leave New Zealand by the Rotbrua in May for London, whefe she. will' enter a secretarial training college for a course of instruction. ; n. : Miss Kathleen Taylor (Wellingis visiting her aunt, Mrs P. I Delargey, Cashmere Hills. Mrs Rutherford (Cambridge terrace) and her daughter, Miss Bona [Rutherford, left on Monday night for a month's holiday in the North Island. Mrs E. Smith (Methven) is visiting Miss Vaughan, Springfield. Mrs R. Innes (Springfield), who has been visiting Hanmer Springs, has returned home. Mrs G. Lapthorne and Miss O Lanthorne (Springfield) have returned from a holiday spent at Rotorua and Wanganui. Mrs J. Quigley (Springfield) has returned from a holiday spent at Rangiora and Waikuku. Miss Jessie M. Rowan (Fairlie) left last week by the Makura for Sydney to join the Orion, which will leave to-day for England. Mrs Joseph Taylor,, of Fendalton, was a passenger by the inter-island steamer last evening on a visit to her sister, Mrs Hillier, Takapuna, with whom she will spend three or four weeks. The engagement is announced of Lilian Mai, youngest daughter of Mr and Mrs R. A. Batstone, Dyer's -Pass road, Cashmere Hills, to Ernest Walter Purchase, of Auckland. The engagement is announced of Alison May, only daughter of Mr and Mrs W. S, Pearce, Hobson street, Wellington, to Bryan Martell, elder son of Mr and Mrs E. M. Silk, College street, Wanganui. The engagement is announced of Jessie Coghill, younger daughter of Mr and Mrs D. Coghill Peacock, Kelburn, Wellington, to Robert Forsyth, only son of Mr and the late Mrs Peter Barr, Montpellier, Dunedin. Misses N. Enright, E. McCallum, Mavis Ritchie, Mollie Wilson, Jean Heath, Bessie Dini, Nancy Buchanan, Messrs G. S. Salter, Cyril Wheeler, Claude Davies, and R. H. Thomson are members of the cast for the next production by the Canterbury Repertory Society, which will take place early in April.

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Mr and Mrs Geoffrey Falck, who are the guests of Mr and Mrs Walter Mac Gibbon (St. Andrew's terrace), will return to Auckland this week-end. Miss Sheila Lynskey (Rossall street) has left for Auckland, where she will be the guest of her uncle and aunt, Mr and Mrs P. J. McClatchie. Later she will spend a holiday with her sister, Mrs Geoffrey Falck. To honour Miss Sheila Lynskey Miss Helen Haskins was hostess at a luncheon party held at Beath's tea rooms. Those present were Misses Sheila Lynskey, Helen Haskins, Nance Shand, June Stewart, Alison Beadel, and Pat. Wauchop. Mr and Mrs F. J. Rolleston (Timaru) are paying a visit to Christchurch. Miss Mai Willers has returned to Ashburton after attending the Dominion band contest at New Plymouth. She also travelled up the Wanganui river to Pipiriki. Mr and Mrs L. G. Pirie (Christchurch) are staying with Mrs F. Shannon (Ashburton). Miss Peggy Hall (Riccarton). who has been visiting friends in Marlborough, has returned home. Miss Nell McCullough (Papanui) will leave Wellington to-morrow by the Wanganella for Brisbane. The Nurse Maude District Nursing Association gratefully acknowledges gifts of jam sent by Avonside High School, eggs from Waikari Women's Institute, padded quilt from the Women's Division, of the Farmers' Union, Upper Riccarton, clothing from well-wisher. The departure, for England of Mrs C. Hastings .Bridge will mean the loss of a very generous and consistently hard-working friend ofTe Waipounamu School, states the annual report of the school council. Gratitude is recorded for the.excellent work which she had done^ The annual report of the council of Te Waipounamu Maori Girls' School states: "The-council wishes to place on record its very grateful appreciation of the exceptional Services to the school rendered by Mrs H. J. Marriher, who owing to the pressure of other very responsible, work in the diocese.will be undble to serve as a member of the council in the present year. It is difficult to describe adequately the zeal* wisdom, and thoroughly practical love for the school which Mrs Marriner has shown during many years." "Pound Day" will be observed, at Te Waipounamu Maori School, Ferry road, on Saturday, February 14, when friends and all interested in its welfare are invited to visit the school. Gifts of.any kind* will be Welcome. The annual meeting will be held on Saturday at 3 p.m., and the children Will give a programme of dances and choruses. Te Waipounamu is doing wonderful Work for the care and education of Maori children; it is most "efficiently and economically administered, it carried on under difficulties during the depression, and is deserving of generous support from all sections of the community on Found Uay.

The committee set up to make suitable recognition of the eharit* able work done by Mrs D, G. Sullivan during the five years she was Mayoress of Christehurch hopes to raise the sum of £l9O. £ll6 of which will,,be used to build a sun verandah at the Karitane Baby Hospital. Cashmere. The lists will remain open until that sum is raised and thß committee would be grateful if those, who intend to contribute would do so as soon as possible. -Money has been coming in freely and it is hoped that a substantial amount will be raised at the community singing session tomorrow- "Miss M. G. Havelaar gratefully acknowledges the gift of 2s 6d, sent anonymously by "an old lady, South Canterbury." Donations will be received by Miss Havelaar or-Mr J. W. Niven, city treasurer.

When the Duke and Duchess of Gloucester settle in their first home at the Royal Pavilion Aldershot, their domestic lives will be characterised by the utmost simplicity. Although the Pavilion, which was built by Queen Victoria about 80 years ago, is being adapted Slightly to their requirements, the Royal couple's new home will still lack much of the luxuriousness and many of the labour-saving devices which are featured irt many modern houses and fiats. The Duke and Duchess of Gloucester have elected to live in the Pavilion because it is close to the staff I college where the Duke will take up new duties in the coming term. The Pavilion lies about a mile from; Aldershot town, and its neighbouring buildings are nests of barracks with military names, its local noises the sound *of bugles. Sweden, like all the Scandinavian countries, is well in the vanguard of health measures. Its new hospital city, which is being built by the Government at a cost of £2,000,000 In lovely country near Stockholm* Is. surely unique. The complete city will comprise, besides the main hospital building, with its .-operating theatre, laboratories, and X-ray rooms, a children's hospital, psychiatric hospital, rheumatism clinic, and Special building for cancer cases, recreation grounds, swimming pools, a church, and concert halls, and homes for professors, students, and nurses. The completion of the city will take several years; the world has been ransacked for the latest designs and inventions. One of the most interesting is an entierly new type of window which admits air without draughts, dust, or noise, which is partly of British design.