TRAVEL CLUB

Press, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22335, 24 February 1938, Page 2

TRAVEL CLUB

MANY VISITORS ENTERTAINED TWO INTERESTING ADDRESSES A record number of visitors, including many who are in Christchurch for the Rotary conference, were entertained by the Canterbury (New Zealand) Travel Club at a morning reception held yesterday at Ballantynes. Mrs Gladstone Ward, who welcomed the guests, and Mrs H. T. Tosswill were hostesses, and Mr J. G. D. Ward presided. Songs were sung by Miss Alice Olliver, for whom Mrs J. H. Cocks was accompanist. The speakers were Mrs William Machin and Miss Norah Nutt, both of whom have recently returned to New Zealand from abroad. Mrs Machin gave a graphic description of a trip across Canada. She was greatly impressed with Vancouver, which, because of its manufactures and its splendid position for commerce, was rapidly becoming one of the great cities of North America. Briefly she described the beauty of Stanley Park, the grandeur of the Rocky Mountains, and the picturesque charm of Banff, and then passed on to Toronto with its university, attended by 7000 students, and its big hotel which, it claims, is the largest in' the British Empire. _ Mrs Machin was present at the opening of the Canadian National Exhibition, which covered 350 acres, and stretched for li miles along the shores of Lake Ontario. The pageant “Empire Onward,” in which were 15,000 performers, was a memorable spectacular triumph, said Mrs Machin, who concluded her travel talk by describing some outstanding points in Montreal and on the trip of the Thousand Islands. In South America “Buenos Aires follows New York in its skyscrapers and business methods, but sends to Paris for its fashions, its books, and its amusements,” said Miss Norah Nutt, in giving an interesting survey of a visit she had paid to South America. When King George V visited Buenos Aires about 50 years ago lie found it a straggling old cattle town, she said; when the Duke of Windsor visited it to open an exhibition a few years ago, it had become the third largest city in America, with a population of two and a quarter millions. of which 30.000 are British. Fourfifths of the products of the Argentine, Miss Nutt said, passed through the city, where old-fashioned squat buildings in narrow streets were being ruthlessly demolished to make way for wide streets —one, three-lined, was 120 feet wide—and big buildings. By train, through fruit, flax, and grain-growing districts. Miss Nutt went to Cordoba, in the cooler hill country. She was interested in the cultivation of sunflowers grown for their seeds, and noticed that a row of sunflowers was grown round each cornfield. This, she was told, was done to save the corn, for the birds would not eat corn while they could get sunflower seeds. She had the excitement of attending a rodeo, and at San Paulo, in Brazil, was greatly interested in a snake farm, where research was carried on, and snakes were bred for serum, used in combating disease. There, also, she saw an orchid farm at which 4000 varieties of orchid were cultivated. A never-to-be-forgotten sight. Miss Nutt said, was the Figure of Christ, the Redeemer. 100 feet high, guarding the harbour at Rio Janeiro. When it was illuminated at night, she said, it seemed to hang from the sky. Mrs R. T. Tosswill thanked Mrs Cocks, Miss Olliver, and the two speakers for the pleasure they had given, and Mrs F. G. Hall-Jones (Invercargill), on behalf of the wives of Rotarians, thanked the Travel Club for its hospitality. „ ~ _ ~ The guests were Mrs A. H. Todd (Ashburton), Mrs J. A. C. Allum, Mrs A. S. Bailey, Mrs W. Coltman, Mrs H. T. Thomas. Mrs J. Yock (Auckland), Mrs F. Mogridge (Blenheim), Mrs T. Corson (Gisborne), Mrs J. D. Gilmore, Mrs F. G. Hall-Jones, Mrs S. M. Macalister (Invercargill), Mrs S. L. P. Free (Masterton). Mrs E. A. Bone and Miss Bone, Mrs J. A. Harley Mrs C. Milner (Nelson). Mrs J. Hogg. Mrs W. F. Meek. Mrs J. D. McKechnie, Mrs J. Thomson, Mrs R. J. Watts (Dunedin), Mrs A. K. Fyson and Miss Fyson, Mrs L. Haberfield (Hawera), Mrs Wilson, Mrs J. H. Edmundson (Napier), Mrs O’Meara (Hastings), Mrs P. D.“ Laurie, Mrs F. Lewis, Mrs J. A. Norrie, Mrs F. G. M. Raymond, Mrs A. G. Tait (Timaru), Mrs E. Bull and Miss I. Bull, Mrs S. B. Harris, Mrs E. P. Hay, Mrs S. Holm, Mrs F. R. Jones, Mrs J. W, Penman, Mrs W. G. Rees-Jones and Miss Rees-Jones. Mrs R. Telford (Wellington), Mrs Blackgrove, Mrs R. K. Ireland, Misses Kirkness (2), Mrs E. C. Stubbs, Mrs A. Wilson (Oamaru), Mrs and Miss Cronin (Palmerston North), Mrs Lundley, Mrs P. Laurie, Mrs Thomas, Mrs Hardley. Miss Wills (England), Miss Webb (Durban). Mrs D. Chard (Queensland), Mrs Woolf, Miss Julie Worry (Sydney). Mrs Galvin and Miss K. Leaning (Auckland), Miss V. L. Bonner (Hamilton), Mrs G. S James and Mrs J. Pringle (Wellington), Mrs J. Miller (Oamaru), and Mrs Owen Joseph (Timaru).

UNUSUAL EXHIBITION An exhibition of more than passing interest will be held next week at Hay’s, Ltd. It will be a display of handwork done by patients at the Sunnyside Mental Hospital. For the last 15 months, Miss Edith Bowron has held weekly classes at the hospital—one on Wednesday afternoons for women and one on Friday afternoons for men. The classes are not large and the number and personnel vary to some extent, a circumstance inevitable in a hospital. But the scope and standard of the work are amazing. At the exhibition next week there will be shown cane baskets, pewter work, leather work, tapestry, and seagrass stools made by men patients, and needlework, knitted goods,, cane and raffia goods, pewter and barbola work done by women patients. The public is invited to visit the exhibition, which is the first of its kind to be held in Christchurch.

PRE-WEDDING PARTIES Mrs C. Godfrey, formerly Miss Vera Gasson, was entertained by a number of friends before her marriage. Mesdames H. Godfrey, J. O’Donohue, and Piggott were joint hostesses at an evening party to which they invited Mr and. Mrs C. Godfrey, Mr and Mrs H. Godfrey, Mr and Mrs W. Godfrey, Mr and Mrs S. Krahagen, Mr and Mrs Piggott, Mr and Mrs Barwell, Mr and Mrs Millar, Mr and Mrs Brown, Mesdames J. O’Donohue, Braig, Gordon, Mapplebeck, Joughen, Miss S. Gasson, Messrs K. Watt and J. Lane. A “bathroom” gift party was given by Mrs N. Conder and Mrs R. Vennings at Mrs Corider’s home in Cashmere road, and others who entertained Mrs Godfrey were Mrs Charles Angas, who held a morning tea party at Ballantyne’s; Misses Betty and Sue Gasson and Mrs Spencer Krahagen, who held a “kitchen” gift party at Mr and Mrs E. A. Gasson’s home: and Mrs W. A. Godfrey and Mrs C. Browne, who held a “kitchen” gift party at Mrs n^ltno.ir’o..hnmtt in Hills road.