CURRENT NOTES

Press, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22318, 4 February 1938, Page 2

CURRENT NOTES

Lady Guliett (Toorak, Melbourne) and Miss Helen Denniston (Fendalton), who flew to Dunedin yesterday, will return by aeroplane day.Mrs G. H. Bailey and Miss Audrey Bailey (Papanui road) will leave during the week-end for Bluff to join the Maunganui en route to Melbourne. Mr and Mrs M. Angus (May's road), accompanied by their daughter Mrs R. Bereford Poore, and her son, have returned from Akaroa, where they spent part of the schoolholidays. Dr. and Mrs L. M. King (Rangiora) will leave Port Chalmers on February 23 on a trip to England via Cape Horn. Mr and Mrs T. Edgar Wiltshire will leave* Auckland by the Monterey on Monday for a tour of the United States, Canada, Britain, and Europe. They will be accompanied to America by Mrs E. A. Wiltshire and by Mrs Bennison Osborne, who is returning to her home in Massachusetts. Miss Cora Leggoe (Ikamatua, West Coast) has arrived in Christchurch to be bridesmaid to her cousin, Miss Daphne Leggoe, whose marriage to Mr Edgar Langdon will take place on Tuesday. Miss Vera Papprill, who has been spending several weeks in Christchurch, has returned to Nelson. Lady Jellicoe has presented the late Lord Jellicoe's banner as Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath to the Provost and Chapter of Portsmouth Cathedral, to be hung in the navy aisle. Miss Cicely Turner, younger daughter of Mr and Mrs H. S. E. Turner, Papanui road, will leave by the Akaroa on February 26 for a trip to England, to visit her sister, Mrs J. McConnell Fisher, London. Mr and Mrs Griffith Edgar Jones (Topsfield, Waiau) will be the guests of Mr and Mrs F. Brittan, Avonside, for a few days. Mr and Mrs J. Guinness (Ealing) will be visitors to Christchurch for the Woodford House Old Girls dance, at which their daughter will be a debutante.

Mrs Andrew Todd (Merivale), who has been visiting her sister, Mrs A. B. Moffett, Invercargill, returned home yesterday.

Lady Herdman (Auckland), who has been paying country visits to English friends during the early part of the winter, left with her husband in January for Cannes and Monte Carlo, where she plans to stay until her return to London in April. Miss Joyce Herdman, who is with "The Times" Book Club in London at present, hopes to spend Easter with her parents in Pans, and is looking forward to a fortnight in Germany with friends during the summer holidays. Miss A. E. (Nancy) Laurenson, daughter of Mrs and the late Mr J. Laurenson, Karori, Wellington, will leave by the Mariposa on March 7 for Suva, where she will join the teaching staff of the Methodist Mission. Miss Laurenson, who is an old pupil of Wellington Girls' College, has for the last four and a half years been in charge of the preparatory department at Wanganui Girls* College. Miss Cruickshank, a former principal of the Wanganui Girls' College, will leave early this month for a visit to England. A party of 18 Irish girls are travelling to New Zealand by the Tainui to enter St. Mary's Convent, New street, Ponsonby, Auckland, as sisters. They are travelling with Mother Liguori and Mother Berchmons, of St. Mary's Convent, who have been on a visit to Ireland.

Passengers to New Zealand by the Tainui, which left Southampton on January 14, are seven New South Wales girl guides, who are on their way back to Australia after touring Belgium, Holland, France, Switzerland, England, Scotland, and Wales. Throughout their tour of Britain they travelled by motor caravan. They are in charge of Miss I. H. Meek. The matron of the Cashmere Sanatorium gratefully acknowledges the following donations'.—Parcel of books and clothing, Mrs Johnston; books, Lady Clifford; literature, Women's. Christian Temperance Union, per Miss Jewell; magazines, Mrs Graham; two croquet mallets, Mrs J. Baxter; hand-knitted socks, Mrs Stansfield (Dunedin). Fresh Air Home—Christmas donations, Miss Jull and Mrs L. J. Taylor; stamps, "Aunt Pat" of 3YA; magazines, Women's Christian Temperance Union, per Miss Jewell. A picture and supper party in honour of Miss Jessie Lindsay, whose marriage will take place next week, was given by several of Miss Lindsay's girl friends. The guest of honour received many useful gifts. Those present were Misses J. Lindsay, A. Ness, A. Gullick, T. Hannibal, H. King, L. Patterson, O. Clark, and M. Britt. Mrs Douglas Gann (Fendalton) and Mrs R. C. Horsley (Papanui) will leave to-day to spend a holiday at the Bruce Hotel, Akaroa. Misses Florence Akins, Olive Brookes, and Joyce Sargent have returned to Christchurch from a tour of the Southern Lakes and the Milford Sound track.

Mrs Neville Chamberlain, wife of the Prime Minister of England, shook hands 2000 times at the London Conservative Christmas party. So great was the demand for tickets that more than 400 persons had to be turned away. A queue was formed the whole length of the New Horticultural Hall, where the party was held, and Mrs Chamberlain, wearing a blue and rose shot brocade dress with a rose feather wrap, received each guest individually.

Miss Sonja Henie, blonde Norwegian film star and former world skating champion, has been created a Knight of the Order of St. Olav by King Haakon of Norway, in recognition of the honours she has won for her country: Fewer than 20 people a year are given this honour, and as Norway has abolished all titles and this is the country's only honour, it is very highly prized.