CURRENT NOTES

Press, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22182, 27 August 1937, Page 2

CURRENT NOTES

Mrs W. G. Hewson (Wellington), who has been in Dunedin for the wedding of her brother, Mr Jack Bristed, spent yesterday in Christchurch, and left for the north last night.

Miss Lydia Brindle, of Motueka, is the guest of Mrs and Miss A. Jackson, Earl street, Opawa. Miss F. Wilson, formerly matron of the Limes Hospital, Christchurch, who was a delegate from the New Zealand Registered Nurses' Association to the international conference recently held in London, is now travelling in Europe with Madame Winnie Fraser.

Mrs J. J. Staples and Miss Staples (Riccarton) are spending a holiday at The Lodge, Hanmer Springs.

Mrs Norman McCrostie (Avonside) and her children are spending a holiday with Mrs F. S. Rutherford, "The Point," Kaikoura. Mr and Mrs Jack Bristed (Wellington), who were married in Dunedin on Tuesday, will leave next week for a trip to Australia. Mrs D. MacMillan and family (Fendalton) and Miss Greta Wright (Timaru) are spending the holidays at the Marine Hotel, Sumner.

Miss Betty Armstrong (Papanui road) has returned from a month's holiday spent in Dunedin.

Mr and Mrs Mills (Dunedin) have returned south, after spending a week in Christchurch, where they were guests at Lancaster House. Miss Rona Tarling (Greymouth) and her uncle, Mr C. H. Holland (Sherwood Downs), left last night for Wellington, en route for the South Sea Islands. Mrs R. W. Coupland (Moorhouse avenue) and her daughter are the guests of Mrs H. S. Betty, Invercargill. Writing to a friend in Wellington, Mrs Knox Gilmer, who is at present in England, says that she will be returning to New Zealand at the end of the year, and has definitely decided to be a candidate for Wellington North at the general election. Lady Ferguson (Dunedin), according to latest air mail advice from England, is visiting Lincoln to stay with Lord and Lady Liverpool, and is then going for a holiday to Scotland.

Mrs Percy Elworthy (Gordon's Valley, South Canterbury) is visiting her father, Archbishop Julius, Cashmere Hills.

Mr and Mrs Harold Lightband (West Avon Flats) left last night for Rotorua, where Mr Lightband will play in the golf tournament. They will then tour the North Island, and will return to Christchurch in a fortnight. Mrs Sinclair Murchison (Rossall street) will leave to-night for Wellington and Auckland.

Miss E. Bull (Christ's College) will leave on Monday night for a short visit to friends in "Wellington. Mr and Mrs H. Cederman (Oxford) have returned from a short holiday spent at Akaroa. Miss Ethel Jolly, who will leave Christchurch shortly, was the guest of Miss Merle Croft at a morning tea party held at Ballantynes. Those invited were Miss Ethel Jolly, Mesdames Maurice Grimmer, R. J. G. Collins, Leslie Templeton, Raymond Bourgeois, D. Wyatt, Misses Ethel Graham, Gladys Black, Josephine O'Connell, and Merle Croft. Mrs Kenneth Gordon, a delegate from New Zealand to the Pan-Paci-fic Conference, who has just returned to Auckland, was greatly impressed with the efficiency, intelligence, culture, and thoroughness of Canadian women. In Vancouver, Mrs Gordon said, women, and men also, found it hard to belieye that there were no women police in New Zealand. From every aspect the institution of women police in Canada was regarded as an unqualified success. » A debate was held on Wednesday between teams from the Young Women's Christian Association debating group and the New Brighton Workers' Educational Association's public speaking class. The subject was: "That the entry of women into sport and industry is detrimental to th-! national welfare." The contest was held in the lounge of the Young Women's Christian Association, parents, supporters, and representatives of other debating clubs being present. Mrs H. R. Macdonald, Mrs J. R. C. Robertson, and Mr M. Cook (Workers' Educational Association) took the affirmative; Miss Catherine Dymond, Miss Thelma Keats, and Miss Dorothy Rounthwaite took the negative. Mr Williams (Returned Soldiers' Association) was the judge. The Y.W.C.A. team gained highest marks. Miss Elsie Rounthwaite was chairwoman. Miss Fay Compton, one of London's most popular actresses, will sail from England to-morrow for a tour of Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa. She will include in her list of plays "Victoria Regina," the brilliant historical episodes of the life of Queen Victoria, by Lawence Housman.

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Six thousand women marched to •Hyde Park, London, recently to take part in the demonstration of spinsters who want pensions at the age of 55. The National Spinsters' Pensions Association is growing daily in size, for a year ago its membership numbered 33,000, and already this has been more than doubled, while similar associations in Scotland have something like 20,000 members. At a meeting of the World Fellowship Circle of the Young Women's Christian Association, held in the club lounge yesterday, Miss Walker gave an address on "The Crisis and International Affairs." She dealt with papers of the Federation of the Student Christian Movement on the Church in Germany and the Students' Association in Japan and China. She also spoke of the conference held at Oxford and Edinburgh which has been attended by Bishop West-Watson, the Rev. L. A. North, and the Rev. A. C WatSOP