CURRENT NOTES

Press, Volume LXXII, Issue 21939, 13 November 1936, Page 2

CURRENT NOTES

Mrs R. M. Innes (Orari) is visiting her mother, Mrs George Gould, “Avonbank,” Fendalton.

Colonel and Mrs J. Findlay (Ashburton) are the guests of Mr and Mrs D. Sinclair Murchison, Rossall street, for the show.

Mrs Ward (Ashburton) is the guest of her brother and sister-in-law, Dr. and Mrs J. P. McQuilkm, Rossall street.

Mr and Mrs David Jones, Dunsandel, are the guests of Mr and Mrs I. Woolf, Sumner.

Mrs R. Francis gitenhouse (Auckland) is visiting Christchurch. Miss V. Milliken (Akaroa) is the guest of her sister, Mrs C. J. MeFadden, Bligh’s road, Papanui. Mrs Frank Smith (“Waratah,” Albury) and her daughters, Helen and Barbara, and Mrs R. Elliott (Chetwynd), motored to Christchurch yesterday, and will return on Saturday.

Miss Ursula Calson (Cashmere Hills) left yesterday for a trip to Melbourne.

Lady Roche and Sir Standish O’Grady Roche arrived in Christchurch yesterday.

Miss Katrine Loughnan (Fairhe), who is the guest of Miss Betty Haling, Cashmere, will leave tomorrow to visit h6r sister, Mrs Fat Jennings, Waiau.

Mrs Algar Williams (Featherston), who is visiting her sister, Miss Phyllis Boyle, St. EJmo Courts, will leave for the north on Tuesday. Mrs H. G. Livingstone (Riccarton) will leave on Monday night for Wellington to attend the Girl Guide conference which will open on Tuesday and continue until Saturday. She will be the guest of her sister-in-law, Mrs A. Kimbeli, Lower Hutt. Miss Bromley £ocks, Mrs H. Wales, Miss D, Anderson, and Miss Mary Morten will leave on Monday to attend the Girl Guide conference in Wellington next week. The captain and officers of H.M.S. Wellington entertained a few friends at a 5 o’clock party on board the ship yesterday. Mrs Jowett (Wellington), president of the Wellington branch of the Plunket Society, who is visiting Christchurch, will leave for the north to-morrow.

Miss Gladys Acton-Adams (Kaikoura), who is visiting Christchurch, will leave for home on Sunday. The London correspondent of “The Press” writes that Miss E. G. Clark (Wellington) has arrived in London to take up an exchange secretarial position with a firm of solicitors there, one of whose secretaries will take up Miss Clark’s position with a Wellington firm.

The marriage took place recently at St. Ethelburga’s, Bishopsgate, England, of John Seddon Hamer, formerly' 1 of (Wellington, son of the* late Mr T.ift. Hamer, and of Mrs Hamer, Hampstead, England, to Janet Odette Macdonald Palrtier, daughter, of Mr James Macdonald, of Michigan, U.S.A. • Titania’s ball, in aid of crippled children, will be held in. the Winter Garden to-night. Music will be played by the Bailey-Marston orchestra. Their Excellencies, Lord and Lady Galway, have kindly consented to attend the ball, and other honoured guests will be Lord and Lady Hartington, who will arrive in Christchurch this morning, and Captain I. Glennie, of H.M.S. Achilles.

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