CURRENT NOTES
;MrS Maitland Rich has returned from a visit to Mrs Geoffrey Rich, Cave, South Canterbury.
Mrs M. H. Godby (Fendalton), president of the New Zealand Ladies’ Golf Union, will be a visitor to Dunedin for the annual meeting of the union and for the Dominion golf championship meeting, which will open at BalmaceWan links on October 22. She will be the guest of Mrs John Cook. Mrs D. C. Macfarlane (Mount Paul, Waiau) will be a visitor to Dunedin for the Dominion golf championship tournament this month, Mrs Polhill (Geraldine) is visiting her sister, Mrs J. A. Brown, Loburn. Miss F. Zeisler (Timaru) arrived in Christchurch yesterday to pay a short visit to Mrs Charles Beadel, Merivale lane. Miss Maberley Beadel and Miss Zeisler will be the guests of Miss Peggy HunterWeston, Dunedin, for the Dominion ! golf championship meeting this month. Mr and Mrs J. F. Cracroft Wilson (Cashmere), who are visiting England, will leave on Monday on their return journey to New Zealand. Miss M. A. Trent (Rossall street), ; who has been visiting Wellington, will return to . Christchurch this morning. Mrs Guy Beadel (St. Albans street) is spending a holiday at Hanmer Springs. Mrs Eric Million (Fendalton) will leave for the north on Tuesday to visit Mrs O. Beetham, Wairarapa, and other friends in the North Island. Miss Ruth Wynn-Williams (Garden road) will leave to-day to visit Mrs T. Latham, Wanganui. Miss G. J. Batchelor has returned to Christchurch from England, where she spent more than a year as a teacher on exchange from the Christchurch Girls’ High School. Miss Esme Sweetman, who is soon to leave Wairoa to live in Christchurch, was the recipient of a presentation from the_ choir, the Al company, and the parishioners of St. Peter’s Church, Wairoa. Mrs S. C. P. Nicholls (St. Andrew's square), who is visiting her son-in-law and daughter, Mr and Mrs Wayne Redpath, Wellington, will return home at the week-end. Miss Evelyn Major, daughter of Mr and Mrs Thomas Major, Mataura, has resigned her position on the staff of the Oamaru Hospital for ah appointment in the New Plymouth Hospital. Miss Major has left to take up her new duties. Miss Lilian Familton arrived in Christchurch by air from Wellington yesterday and left by train later in the day for her home in Oamaru. Lady Parkhill (Mosrnan, Sydney), wife of Sir Archdale Parkhill, Minister for Defence in Australia, arrived at Auckland this week. While her husband is engaged at the Chambers of Commerce Conference in Wellington, Lady Parkhill is making a five days’ tour of the North Island. Visitors to Christchurch for the wedding next Wednesday of Mr W. Price and Miss Beth Green will include Mr and Mrs Grahame King, Winton, who will arrive on Sunday, and who will stay with Mrs King’s mother, Mrs C. W. Price, Hagley street, Lower Riccarton, Mrs H. Franklin, Wellington, who will be the guest of Mrs C. L. Green, Watford street, and Mrs H. Mayer and the Misses Marion and Joyce Mayer, also of Wellington. An enjoyable card party was held at Somerfield in aid of the women’s branch of the Labour party, Mrs Macgibbon was hostess. Prizes were won by Mesdames Parlane, Phillips, and Macfarlane, and a competition was won by Mrs R. Roberts. Among those present were Mesdames Millar, Jacobs, Chappie, Trevella, Wilson, Robinson, Clark, Rose, Roberts, Phillips, Parlane, French, Myers, Beauchamp, Skilton, McCaw, Hobbs, Macfarlane, and Macgibbon, and Miss A. Robinson.
A correspondent of “The Press” asks if any reader could - give the pattern of bed socks, laced in front. Mr C. M. Weavers, of Hawke’s Bay, recently visited his sister in Christchurch, Mrs R. Grenfell, who has been very i 1 for three months. Soon,, after returning home Mr Weavers met with a serious accident. 1 WOMEN IN THEIR “FORTIES” Women in their “forties” undoubtedly benefit from taking Thyrodone, the concentrated oyster extract. Thyrodone feeds the starved glands with mineral foods essential to the human body, builds up the blood, restores shattered nerves to health, overcomes the disabilities attendant on so many women at that age. Ask for Free Booklet from the following or other Chemists: R. R. Parnham, Ltd., E. Cameron Smith, Ltd., McArthur’s, Ltd., Cook and Ross, Ltd., G. Bonnington, Ltd., Stanley L. Hall, D. S. Dodds, Ltd. Mc 7112 VAN-GREY ENDS GREYNESS! You can take 20 years off your age —look fre§h and attractive—by regrowing the, full natural colour and lustre of your hair with Van-Grey. Just brush it on—simple as that and the colour grows right back .. guaranteed. Obtainable Barnetts. Chemists. Cathedral square. —1 KNITWEAR FASHIONS. . The latest editions of “Knitwear Fashions” by Patons and Baldwins are now available free on application. These are catalogues of the latest design for spring and summer knitwear from which you can choose the styles you desire to obtain instruction booklets for. Write to-day to Patons and Baldwins, Box 1441R, Wellington.
Engagement rings—wedding rings, large selection all types. Write or call for size card. Use our lay-by systejn for rings or Xmas Gifts. D. C. Shier arid Co., Watchmakers, Jewellers, and Opticians, 207 High street. ' Sff^O DOCTOR'S ORDERS. Medical men know the wonderful value of fish, its recuperative vitariiins make it an ideal food for weak digestions and all invalids. Get fresh sup* plies daily 1 from Knowles, 134 Armagh street, or 'Phone 31-782, for delivery. \Hll
As a break-up function for the season Mrs A. E. Golding, Rangicra, entertained her senior dancing pupils at a dance at ‘which about 150 guests were present. Dance items weie given by June Archer and Lucie-Annette Golding. A lucky spot waltz was won by Miss B. Archer and Mr R. Harlow, a lucky spot quick-step by Miss B. Morrish and Mr D. Smith, and a Monte Carlo waltz by Miss J. Jeffreys and Mr J. Murfitt.” Mi s J. Miles won a lucky snowball medley. Mr R. McKenzie was master of ce-emonies. Music was played by Miss N. Bailey, Messrs J. C. Hancox and W, G. Nairn, and an extra by Miss M. Hendy. At a congregational social held in the Oxford Terrace Baptist School Hall appreciation was expressed of the services of Mr and Mrs W. Flett, who are relinquishing their duties as caretakers of the church. The Rev. L. A. North, in making a presentation to Mr and Mrs, Flett, spoke of the courteous and efficient service rendered by them for many years to the church, and of the special indebtedness of the women’s organisations to them for their cheerful co-operation. Mrs M. H. Godby, Miss Valmai Fleming, Mrs Alister McKillop, Misses Janet Stevenson, Helen Buchanan, Edna White-Parsons, Mrs W. Toomey, Miss Ena Fleetwood, Mrs E. J. Humphrey, and Miss Eileen Nutt, memb.rs of the Christchurch Ladies’ Golf Club, will visit Timaru at the end of next week to play in the Orbell Cup golf match.
Members of the committee of the Sunbeam committee, with Mrs Cyril Stringer in charge, are arranging the cake and produce stall in connexion with Daffodil Day, which is' the annual appeal made on behalf of the Free Kindergartens in Christchurch. For the first time in New Zealand a woman has been elected chairwoman of a technical college board. She is Miss B. E. Carnachan, who was appointed chairwoman of the board of managers of the Seddon Memorial Technical College, Auckland. “Thank you very much,’’ said Miss Carnachan after her election. “I am specially grateful to the men members of the board, because I realise that there was a barrier for them to break down.”—Press Association.
■Viscountess Elibank, wife of the Rt, Hon. Viscount Elibank, president of the Congress of the Federated Chambers of Commerce, who is at present in Wellington, is well known in England for her work in connexion with the St. John Ambulance Brigade and many other public and welfare organisations. She was recently created a Dame of Justice and of Grace of the Order of St. John of Jerusalem. She is also a justice of the peace in Peebleshire and is vice-president of the Royal Empire Society in London. AN AMAZING RECIPE FOR COLDS AND ’FLU. By the investment of half-a-crown a really economical and effective cough mixture is obtained. Get a bottle of HEENZO (Hean’s Essence) to-day and mix at home according to directions. The result is eight or more ordinary sized bottles of excellent cough mixture —this represents a saving , of 10/-. Safe, prompt, and most efficacious. 2/6 at all Chemists and Stores. —4
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