CURRENT NOTES

Press, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22167, 10 August 1937, Page 2

CURRENT NOTES

- Mrs C. M. Bruce and Miss Helen S Bruce have arrived in Christchurch from Dunedin, and will stay with Mrs Bruce’s sister, Mrs Charles Wood, Leinster road, until after Miss Bruce’s wedding on August 28. Mrs Leslie Blunt and her sister, Miss Phyllis Acton-Adams (Clarence Reserve), are the guests of their aunts, the Misses Neave, “Okeover,” Riccarton. Mr J. E. August, president of the Wellington Trotting Club, and Mrs August are visiting Christchurch for the races. Miss Shona Dampier-Crossley (Parnassus) will arrive in Christchurch to-day, and will be the guest of Mrs Sholto Douglas, Riccarton. Misses J. L. Buckland and M. E. Mackenzie are passengers booked for Timaru by the Trojan Star, which left Liverpool on July 17. Mrs Clifton Johnston (Highland Park, Wellington) is visiting Mrs C. E. Weston Wacher (Spreydon), and will leave on Thursday for Dunedin to visit her aunts, the Misses McKechnie. Mrs J. H. Sherlock (Papanui) has left for Dunedin, where she is the guest of Dr. Seideberg-Mackinnon, Maori Hill. On July 10, at Oxford, England, the wedding took place of Mr John A. E. Mulgan, of Wellington, to Miss Gabrielle Wanklyn, of 31 Sanford road, Headington, Oxford. The Misses T. and P. McKechnie (Stuart street, Dunedin), who have been visiting Mrs Clifton Johnston (Wellington), are spending a few days in Christchurch, and are staying with Mrs J, D. Davis (Deans avenue). They intend leaving for Dunedin on Thursday. Mr and Mrs John Barker (Four Peaks, Geraldine) are the guests of Mrs T. Teschemaker, Fendalton, for the races. Miss M. Jackson (The Hermitage, Mount Cook) is staying at Dr. E. Baker McLaglan's flat in Cashel street west during race week. Miss Jeanetta Johnstone, Mr and Mrs Jasper Herrick (Hawke’s Bay), Mr and Mrs H. B. L. Johnstone (Waimate), Mr and Mrs E. S. Johnstone (Otaio), and Mr Ronald Savill (North Canterbury) are members of Mr and Mrs H. B. S. Johnstone’s house party at their town house in Park terrace during race week. Miss Florence Nicholls, who left Christchurch with a party of members of the Youth Movement, has enjoyed her tour in England and Wales and on the Continent. She did not “hike” all the time with the main party, but with a friend she cycled from Stratford-on-Avon through the Derbyshire Dale’s and Chester to Bethseda, in North Wales. From this centre‘.a tour was made ' by coach. IVliss Nicholls is staying in London with relatives, with whom she is going to Scotland and Paris. Her homeward Journey may be made by the Tainui, leaving in August. The London theatres are at present a great attraction for her. At the monthly meeting of the New Zealand Society for the Protection of Women and Children (Canterbury branch) the president (the Rev. P. Revell) presided, and the following members of the committee were present: Mesdames J. Blackaby, J. Collins, M. Drake, M. Emmett, Major Wood, the Rev. L. F. Gunn, Mr C. R. N. Mackie, and the secretary, Miss Cardale. Mr J. Andrews was given a vote of thanks for his work-in the street appeal. The secretary reported 268 miscellaneous cases and 268 callers had been attended to during the month, and 148 visits had been paid. Miss E. A. Paton, who is visiting Britain, has been staying in Scotland with relations, and in July she was on the last part of the farmers’ tour. She visited while on that tour the home of Lord and Lady Bledisloe. Lord Bledisloe spent about four hours with the visitors. He said when they were leaving that there was nobody so welcome to his place as New Zealanders. Miss Paton was also’a guest at a garden party at Buckingham Palace on June 22, when about 10,000 guests were present, mostly overseas visitors. Before leaving for New Zealand Miss Paton will be a guest of Lord Hawke, who is a relative on her _ mother’s side. Women members , of the Canterbury Kennel Club held their bimonthly social in Ballantynes tea rooms. Mrs A.' M. Spence-Clark presided. After a short business meeting, an interesting address on “The Pomeranian Dbg” was given by Mrs C. L. Ridgen, who said that the Pomeranian originated from the sheep dog of North Germany. It was brought by the Samoyede migrants into North Germany, and from there found its way to France, Holland, and then to England, The original Pomeranian was a large dog used to a severe climate, but because of the different climatic conditions and breeding the size decreased. The parents’ committee of the Richmond Free Kindergarten held an enjoyable dance in the schoolroom, and guests danced to music supplied by Miss Allan. Prizes for statue and lucky number dances were won by Mrs Dunn and Mr C. Philpott, Mrs Karton and Mr Parker. Marjorie Curlett (Hastings) is taking measurements for English woven suits and frocks at 63 Cathedral square, near Tivoli Theatre (’phone 28-592). —1 KING OP ALL COUGH REMEDIES! Make short work of hard coughs, persistent colds and pulmonary affections with Kofgo—the King of cough cures. Kofgo is more than a soothing syrup. It is a real relief giver and a mixture that routs out germs. 1/6, 2/6 and 4/6 from the popular chemists, B. Cameron Smith, Ltd., Regent Theatre Buildings. —1 Premature wrinkles, smoothed out and an ageing skin made youthfully plastic again by using Madame Renee’s Bejuvenator, an entirely new liquid skin tonic. Get a trial bottle at Woolworth’s. —4 t

Mrs Tom Foster (Ladbrooks), who has been a patient at the Limes hospital, is making a good recovery from a recent operation. Mrs W. N. Jarvie and Miss M, Bruce were joint hostesses at a gift party held in honour of Miss U. Kissel, whose marriage will take place this month. Others present were Mesdames G. W. Gambles, N. Hamilton, Curtis, Misses M. Lendrum, A. Me Janet, I. Morrison, D. Dixon, M. Kissel, R. Olliver, R. Templeton, R. Duxbury, and L. Guild.