NEW PRINCIPAL

Press, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22317, 3 February 1938, Page 2

NEW PRINCIPAL

THE TIMARU GIRLS’ HIGH SCHOOL CHRISTCHURCH TEACHER APPOINTED (THE PRESS Special Service.] TIMARU, February 2. Miss Leila Hurle, M.A., senior assistant mistress at the Christchurch Girls’ High School, was appointed lady principal of the Timaru Girls’ High School at a meeting of the school board of governox-s yesterday afternoon. She will take up her new duties at the beginning of the second term. Miss Hurle, whose home is at New Plymouth, received her primary and secondary education in that town, where she won a junior and a senior national scholarship. She also won a Taranaki scholarship and Lord Meath's Empire Challenge Essay Cup. She took English, Latin, French, mathematics, and education at the Univcx-sity of Otago, where, in her third year, she won the James Clark Latin prize, and in her final year was the lady vice-president of the Students’ Association. She graduated M.A. in 1923 with first-class honours in Latin and French. Miss Hurle was resident mistress at the hostel of the New Plymouth and Christchurch Girls’ High Schools, being senior resident mistress at “Acland.” She recently returned from an extensive tour of Europe, OBITUARY MRS ELIZABETH PATRICK After a long illness, Mrs Elizabeth Patrick, wife of Mr William Patrick, Gapes Valley, died in a private hospital in Timaru. Mrs Patrick had lived at Gapes Valley for the last 52 years. She was well known for her kind and charitable nature, and everyone who came to her home received a kindly welcome. At the time of the Great War she worked hard for the soldiers and the Red Cross Society. She leaves her husband, two sons (Messrs E. and P. Patrick), and five grandchildren. The burial took place at the Geraldine . cemetery, the services at the home in Gapes Valley and at the graveside beipg conducted by the Rev. W. E, Moore. The pall-bearers were Messrs E. and P. Patrick (sons) a/xd Messrs G. and C. Cartwright (nephews).

POST-WEDDING DANCE MISS LYNDSEY THOMSON’S GUESTS To celebrate the marriage of her sister, Helen, to Mr T. H. Rutherford yesterday. Miss Lyndsey Thomson entertained a number of young friends at a dance held at her home in Montreal street last evening. The reception rooms were ’ brfjht with largg bowls of flame-coloured gladioli and blue delphiniums, and in the marquee on the lawn the decorations were hydrangeas and mixed pastel-shaded flowers. The Bailey-Mars ton orchestra supplied the dance music.Amongst those present were Dr. and Mrs Claude Newton, Mr and Mrs L. W. Matson. Dr. and Mrs H. Turner-Jen-nings, Dr. and Mrs H. E. W. Roberton, Mr and Mrs J. D. Cai’l, Misses Una McCracken. Joan Murchison, Cara McRae Nance Blunden. Margaret McLean. Nora aridi Judith Firth. Betty Trewin. Phillipa Acland, Janet Stevenson, Helen and Nancy Buchanan, Joan and Anne Hay, Kathleen Newton, Anne Morrow, Barbara Greenwood, Kathleen Rutherford, Jean Miller (Sydney), Patricia Foster. Relda Duncan, Joan Preston, Quita Cordner, Joan Anderson, Theresa Ward, Margaret Sims; Ann Cooper. Sheila Atkinson, Margaret Williams, Janet Williams, Peggy Acton-Adams. Patricia Powric, Katharine Hay, Joy Rawnslay, Molly Runnerstrum, Nell Morten, Messrs B. G. Donovan, D. Atkinson, B. Rutherford, Ferris Browne, Christopher BetheU, Hugh Hedley, J. Ensor, W. Mcßae, Ernie Clark, Owen Johnston, C. J. Ward, K. Ensor, Ross Elder, M. Wilson, Rawson Davison, Hawdon Davison, Rex and John Morrow, Malcolm Davis, Walter Ollivier, C. M. Ollivier, P. R. Godby, I. M. Godb" R. Murchison, Peter Alpers, Peter Preston, Bruce Ward, J. and H. McCracken, Lewis Black, George Greenwood. J. Williams. Peter Markham, T. McKellar, Warner Westehra, Charles Rattray, D. Powrie. J. Actun-Adams_, Graham Riley, R. Maudsley, Chhries Morkane, John Philips, T. Morten, W. Day, F. and G. Vernon, D. Buchanan, John O’Neill, Norman Loisel, and Denis Andci'son. CROCKFORD’S CLUB Thq first Mitchell contract bridge match of the year, played at Crockford’s Club resulted as follows: North and south: Mr and Mrs W. A. Gudgeon 1, Mrs A. Cook and Mr A. Hunnibell 2, Mrs M. E. Pipe and Mrs A. S. Geddes 3; east and west: Mrs Moray Smith and Mrs H. C. D. van Asch I,’ Mrs C. M. Hill and Mr D. T. McCormick 2. Mrs Noel Laver and Mr E. F. Stead 3.