CURRENT NOTES

Press, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22306, 21 January 1938, Page 2

CURRENT NOTES

Mrs H. A. Knight (Fendalton) has returned from a visit to her daughter, Mrs Mister Deans, "Morven," Darficld.

Major and Mrs K. S. Hunter Blair (Elmwood) have left for a visit to Marlborough and Nelson. Dean P. B. Haggitt and Mrs Haggitt (Nelson), who have been visiting relatives in Christchurch and Dunedin, returned home yesterday. Mrs Guy Scott (Fendalton) has returned from a holiday spent at the Rakaia huts.

Miss Ruth HeiTick (Hawkc's Bay), Chief Commissioner of Girl Guides for New Zealand, will arrive in Christchurch on Sunday .morning, and will go to the guide camp at Annat.

Mrs T. Cowlishaw and Miss Joan Lee (Beverley street) have left for a tour of Marlborough and Nelson. Mrs Maurice Fell and Miss Ann Fell (Wanganui) are visiting Mrs Herbert Acton-Adams, Tipapa. Miss Fell will leave next month by the Akaroa for a trip to England. Mrs Alec. Ennis (Shirley) and her niece have returned from a holiday spent in Timaru. Miss Catherine Cronin (Mathesons road Lin wood) is the guest of Mrs B. L. Officer and Miss Margaret Officer, Invercargili. She will return with Mrs Officer to Dunedin. where she will stay with Mrs Ward until the end of the month. Mr, Mrs, and Miss Schmedes have returned to Avonside after a trip to Maruia and Hanmer Springs. Members of the staff of "The Press" gathered yesterday afternoon to say good-bye to Miss Mina Watson, who has resigned her position on the clerical staff to enter the Training College. Mr R. V. White spoke of Miss Watson's popularity, and presented her with a fountain pen, an eversharp pencil, and a volume of Browning's poems, with the good wishes of the staff.

Mrs Lewis Griffiths and Miss Barbara Griffiths (Peterborough street). Sir Charles Clifford (Stonyhurst, North Canterbury), and Mr Harold Vavasour (Ugbrooke, Marlborough) will be visitors to Invercargill for the wedding of Mr John Griffiths and Miss Mary Loughnan, which will take place on January 29. Miss Bromley Cocks (Ranfurly street) provincial commissioner for Canterbury of Girl Guides, Miss Mary Morten (Mount Pleasant), and Miss Jane Orford (Geraldine) will attend a conference of guide commissioners to be held in Auckland from February 18 to February 23.

Mr J. Vivian Wilson, a member of the secretariat of the League of Nations, Geneva, and Mrs Wilson will arrive in Christchurch from Wellington to-morrow morning. Thev will be accompanied by Mr Wilson's mother, Mrs J. 11. Wilson, Cashmere Hills, who has been spending some weeks with them in Wellington. Mrs W. O. Campbell, Mrs Henry Kitson, and Mr H. S. Lawrence (Fendallon) will leave by aeroplane on Tuesday for Gisborne to attend the wedding on Wednesday of Miss Pamela Price.

"A Reader" asks for recipes for preserving rhubarb in syrup and in water.

Dr. and Mrs H. Havelock Barnett and family (Hawke's Bay), who have been spending the holidays at Pounawea, Catlins, and later with Mr A. W. Barnett, South Canterbury, will return to their home in Napier to-morrow. Miss Wray Corsbie, who has been relieving Mr Ward, pathologist at the Timaru Hospital, for the last month, has returned to her home at Papanui. Miss Joan Corsbie, who has been visiting Mrs Paul Latham, Wanganui, has also returned. Mrs Newton Urry and her small son have returned to Wellington after spending a few weeks with Mrs F. C. Walker, St. Andrew's square.

Miss E. M. Oddie, formerly of the teaching staff of the Wellington Girls' College, and lately at Otago Girls' High School, arrived in Wellington by the Wanganella from Sydney on Wednesday after a year's absence in England.

Thirty guides are at present in camp at Annat on a site presented the South Island guides by Dr. and Miss Hazel Elmslie. The camp is in the charge of Miss Mona Bergen (red diploma), who is head of the guide training movement in New Zealand.

The committee of the Waitikiri Golf Club was entertained at the clubhouse by the Waitikiri Links Company. A friendly game of golf was played over the recently completed nine holes, which arc to be formally opened on February 5. A flannel dance was held later at the clubhouse. Those present were Mrs Geoffrey Hamilton, Misses Theresa Ward, Jane Stevenson, and Ena Fleetwood, Dr. W. H. . Simpson, Messrs A. R. Blank, D. F. Glanville, R. J. Hobbs, W. G. Morrison, H. P. Bridge, and H. Ballantyne.

Mrs J. Darby, daughter of Sir Benjamin and Lady Fuller, with her two children, lan, aged three years, and Dierdre, aged 10 months, will leave Sydney to-day by the Awatea with Mr Darby for New Zealand. They will make their home at Westport.

Miss Hilda Hislop, sports secretary to the Dunedin Young Women's Christian Association for the last tw.. years, has received the appointment of secretary to the Wellington Young Women's Christian Association.

Mrs Humphrey Holderness (St. Albans), who has been staying with Miss Ailecn le Crcn, Fairlie, returned home yesterday. Professor Ann G. Strong, Dean of the Faculty of Home Science, University of Otago, will visit Christchurch early in February, and will be the guest of honour at an "at home" to be given by the Victoria League. Mrs Eva M. Seward left Christchurch for Wellington yesterday after a 10 months' tour of the South Island.

An appeal has been launched by the Rev. A. J. Seamer, who is at present touring England with the Waiata Maori Choir, for help in raising money to provide cottage system technical schools where Maori girls and young women may be trained under religious influences in domestic science, hygiene, and home nursing. He is seeking assistance from Methodist churches and congregations and from well-wish-ers, in obtaining £22,000 for the purpose.

Those attending the conference of the Nurses' Christian Union, now being held in Christchurch, include Miss Williams, of Havelock North, founder of the union; Miss Ruth Bridges, of the School of Nursing, Wellington, who has returned from a trip to England undertaken through the Florence Nightingale Fund; Mis.s Margaret North, C.M.S. Hospital, Hangchow, China; Miss Dorothy Robertson, also of China; Misses Wright and Livingston (India), Mesdames Tytho Brown, Gaby, Robieson, and J. B. I. Cook, Misses Julius and Sriis (Wellington), Miss Allan (Palmerston N<;rth), Miss Leaman (Auckland). Mrs Atkinson and Mrs Davidson (Hastings), Mesdames Thomson, Carl Rickman, and Misses Rush and Wallis (Oamaru), Mrs Wood (Dunedin), Miss Peterson (New Plymouth), Mrs Haggitt (Napier), Miss Belldick (Timaru), Miss Jones (Wanganui), Sister Rose (Invercargill), Misses Fawcett and Wilson (Christchurch), Mrs Laing, Mrs Moore, Mrs Norman Reid Wilson, Miss Julius, Miss Manning, and trainees from Invercargill, Oamaru, Timaru, Ashburton, Auckland, Waipukurau, Wellington, Napier, and New Plymouth.

SISTER N. GARNER

RETIRING

TWENTY-FIVE YEARS' SERVICE

Sister N. Garner, who will retire at the end of January from the nursing staff of the Christchurch Hospital after 25 years' service, was hostess at a pleasant bridge party at which a number of friends and former nurses were entertained in the New Nurses'

Home. Sister Garner has been nightsister for the last 14 years, and is held in the highest esteem by the staff at the Hospital. Those who enjoyed Sister Garner's hospitality were Mesdames Walker, D. Dodds, A. Derbidge, R. J. Ware, Sisters Christmas, Manson. Jones, Simpson (2), Oppenheim, Holderness, Laurenson, and Reid.

ENGAGEMENT NOTICES

The engagement is announced of Martin, eldest son of Mr and Mrs T. Holland, Auckland, to Thelma, only daughter of Mrs D. McCarthy. Christchurch, and of the late Mr W. Cartwright, Allandale, Fairlie.

Buckingham Palace has been a Royal residence for 100 years.