CURRENT NOTES

Press, Volume LXXII, Issue 21970, 19 December 1936, Page 2

CURRENT NOTES

Mr and Mrs John Montgomery and family ("Kilmead," Riccarton) will leave on Boxing Day to spend a. holiday at their farm, "Braelangwell," Ashburton. Mrs John Grigg (Fendalton) and her granddaughter," Miss Sheila Macdonald (England), will spend Christmas with Mr and Mrs Arthur Grigg, Surrey Hills. Mr and Mrs Frank Graham arid Miss Barbara Graham (Heaton street) will spend the Christmas holidays at Tauranga. Mrs Maitland Rich (Hereford street) will leave on December 26 to spend a holiday with her daughter, Mrs John Montgomery, at "Braelangwell," Ashburton. ] Dr. and Mrs H. G. Denham, who have just returned from Britain and America, have taken up residence at their home at Fendalton. Mr and Mrs F. W. Hobbs (Papanui road) will leave Wellington by the Awatea on Monday for Sydney, where they will spend two months with their married daughter before j leaving for England to visit their son, who is practising as an architect in London. Mr and Mrs Gilbert Grigg and family (Hororata) will spend Christmas with Mr and, Mrs J. H. Grigg, Longbeach. Mrs H. Kitson and family (Fendalton) will leave to-day to spend a few weeks at Castle Hill. Miss Margot Hall, daughter of Mr and Mrs J. Dry den Hall, Cashmere Hills, who has been visiting Britain, is returning to New Zealand by the Ormonde, due in the second week in ] January. Mrs C. L. Young and her son (Cashmere Hills) will leave to-day to spend a holiday at Pembroke. Mr and Mrs F. John Needham and Misses Patricia and Heathcote Needham (Merivale lane) will leave on Wednesday for Te Mahia, Picton Sounds. Mrs F. L. Webb will leave to-mor-row for Wellington to connect with the Awatea for Sydney, where she will arrive on December 24. Thence she will go by train to Melbourne for six weeks'holiday. : Mrs T. J. Thurnau (Wellington) is staying at the United Service Hotel. Mrs R. G.-C. Ffitch (Khandallah), who has been for a visit to Ceylon and India, will return to Wellington by the Awatea on Monday. Mrs Ffitch represented the New Zealand Young Women's Christian Association at the Eastern Regional Conference at Colombo, and at the conference of- jthe World's Committee of the Young Women's Christian Association at Kandy. Mrs A. L. Hart, of St. Paul's College, Sydney University, will arrive in Christchurch next week to spend a holiday with her sister in Manchester street north. . Mr and Mrsß. Pike (Colombo street) will leave on Monday for the Franz Josef and Fox Glaciers, where they will spend the Christmas holidays. Mrs Neate (Leinster road) and her son, Mr J. L. Neate, will leave for Sydney by the Awatea on Monday. Mrs E. J. Milburn arrived in Wellington from London by the Rangitane on Wednesday night. This is. her seventh summer visit to-New Zealand.. She is going to Taupo and will remain in New Zealand until March. Mrs H. J. Nash gave a farewell bridge party in honour of Mrs A. P. Kaye Thomson, who will leave next week for Wellington, en route to England. Those present were Mrs Kaye Thomson, Mrs L. Wills, Mrs A. Elley, Mrs L. McCaskill, Mrs H. Cook, Misses B. Hilliary, G. Bath, K. Anderson, M. Anderson, M. Nash, P. Buttermore. Mesdames Harvey Cook and Arnold Elley were the prize-winners. Miss Dorothy Aubrey has arrived from Oamaru for the LatimerFleming wedding, at which she will be chief bridesmaid on December 29.

UNITED SERVICE HOTEL. The management invites enquiries for a really English Christmas dinner, served amidst sociable and select surroundings. Special parties arranged. 'Phone 32-060 for reservations. Dinner. 6.30 p.m. Tariff 10/6, Wine inclusive. —6

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NOW. light purses need not make heavy hesrts. CHERRY SMITH. LTD. have many delightful and inexpensive presents awaiting your choosing. Shop early before the Christmas rush commences. Our Address is 119 CASHEL STREET (opp. Ballantynes). . —2

Miss Theresa Ward (Merivale lane) will leave on Monday for a trip to Sydney, Miss Janet Stevenson (Fendalton) will leave early next week for a visit to Sydney. Mesdames J. P. Palmer and C. C. Ironside were hostesses at a variety evening party given at Rangiora in honour of' Mrs D. A. Campbell, formerly Miss Marjorie Mcintosh, whose wedding took place yesterday. Items were given by Misses D. Ayers, M. Yates, and Scott. Those present were Mesdames R. Mcintosh, Colin Mcintosh, H. Mcintosh, A. W. Ironside, and Campbell, and Misses Marjorie Mcintosh, V. and M. Scott, V. Wheeler, Dorothy Ayers, Helen Mcintosh, Marion Strang, Esme Mcintosh, Win Hills, R. Mcintosh, Mona Trollope, Nancy Mcintosh, Nancy Ironside, K. and M. Mcintosh, M, Yates and Rita Edmonds. Mrs F. A. Nixon has left Christchurch to spend the Christmas holidays with her sisters, the Misses Bullen, "The Lakes," Kaikoura. Mrs Rule (Christchurch) is visiting her daughter, Mrs J. Mould, Little River. Mrs A. J. Read (Akarba) has returned from Christchurch, where she had been a patient in the Lewisham Hospital. Mr and Mrs - Fernbank (South Africa) are visiting Akaroa and are guests at the Hotel Metropole. Mr and Mrs C. Truscott (St. Albans) have returned from a visit to Mrs F. Keegan, Akaroa. . Miss Vivienne de Berry (Manchester street north) will leave on Monday to spend a holiday in Wellington and Rotorua. She will be accompanied to Rotorua by her aunt, Mrs J. W. Saridham (Wellington). The cup given by Mr W. F. Parkinson to the Muriel Waugh School of Dancing for the pupil gaining the most first prizes in national dancing throughout the year was won by Miss Haze] Neil with 27 first prizes. The runner-up cup, presented by Miss Muriel Waugh, was won by Misses Flora Fitt and Irene Rees with 11 first prizes.

FOURTH CONFERENCE

PAN PACIFIC WOMEN'S ASSOCIATION PRELIMINARY ARRANGEMENTS The latest Pacific mails bring news of much preparation for the next conference of the Pan-Pacific Women's Association, to be held in Vancouver, Canada from July 12 to 24, 1937. Mrs T. E. Taylor, New Zealand chairwoman of the Pan-Pacific Women's Association, has received information that already space has been provisionally reserved for delegates at the Vancouver Hotel at five dollars and six dollars a day. Also that Mrs Gauntlett, .' of Japan, International president of the Pan-Pacific Women's Association," has returned from a mission of goodwill from the women, of Japan to the women of China, and, in spite of the strained relations between the Governments of these two countries, it is confidently hoped that delegates.from both will meet at Vancouver, and at roundtables there, will discuss their problems with the other women of the Pacific area. The conference theme is to be "Practical ways and means of promoting peaca." To this end six topics and one special rcund table on the "Traffic in Women" form the study bases for the conference. The topics include "Youth movements for Peace," "The Traffic in Arms," "Formation of Public Opinion," "A socialised Health Programme." "The Adjustment of Education to meet changing Social Conditions." Mrs ReiChbeth, of Western 'Australia, is International chairwoman I for the question of the "Traffic in , Women in the Far East." Dame Rachel Crowdv. late of the League of Nations, and a member of the British Arms Commission will outline the topic. "The Traffic in Arms." for study groups. New Zealand Delegates Dr. Ada Paterson. of New Zealand, has been asked to act as chairwoman for "A Socialised Health Programme," and Mrs Marie Keesing. also of New Zealand, is in charge of a study on "Population Pressures." j Dr. Georgina Sweet, first Pacific vice--1 president, has been working in the interests of the conference at Geneva. She will visit Turkey, India, China, and Jaoan en her wa,y to Honolulu and Vancouver for the July conference. Dr. Mary Cady. executive secretary of the Young Women's Christian Association. Honolulu, is the conference programme director, and Dean Bollert, Dean of Women at the University of British Columbia, will be chairwoman of the conference. In New Zealand national chairwomen have been appointed for each topic and work in preparation for the delegates to the conference has been going on in som° cases for over 18 months. Miss L. of Dunedin. is New Zealand topic director.. Several delegates from New Zealand have already been mentioned.