CURRENT NOTES

Press, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22338, 28 February 1938, Page 2

CURRENT NOTES

Sir Cyril Ward, chairman and managing director of Kinsey and Co., Ltd., will proceed to England shortly on a business trip. He will be accompanied by Lady Ward and Miss Theresa Ward and they will travel by the Francouia leaving on April 24.

Miss Ivy Hemmingsen (St. Albans) left for Invercargill on Saturday morning. Mrs Robert Latter (Christchurch) is the guest of Mrs Bruce Stronach* Halswell.

Mr and Mrs F. G. Hall-Jones, who have been visiting Christchurch for the Rotary conference, returned to Invercargill yesterday. Miss E. Comyns Thomas (Hereford street) returned yesterday morning from a visit to the North Island. An enjoyable tennis party was held by the staff of Woolworths (New Zealand), Ltd., on the courts of St. Mary's Club, at St. Albans, on Saturday afternoon. Competition games were arranged and afternoon tea was served. It is hoped to make arrangements for further activities of this kind among the staff. Miss Molly Chapman (Knowles street) is visiting Mrs J. J. Page, Albury, South Canterbury. Miss Bennett (Sydney), who has been the guest of Mrs P. R. Woodhouse, "Bluecliffs," arrived in .Christchurch on Saturday and is staying at Warwick. House.

Miss J. Stewart (Manchester street), who played in the croquet tournament at Timaru last week, has returned home.

Miss Egidia Menzies (Wellington), who has been on a visit to Invercargill, left yesterday on her return north.

Miss D. E. Bray, secretary to the Wellington Racing Club, accompanied by her mother and sister, is on a visit to Rotorua.

Mr and Mrs J. R. Little ("Glenorche," North Canterbury) will be the guests of Mr and Mrs B. Trolove, "Parikawa t " for the Davies— Trolove wedding this week. Mr and Mrs A. C. L. Fooks (Oaro, Marlborough), who have.been visiting Dunedin for the engineers' conference, will return home on Monday. Miss Josling (Fitzgerald street, St. Albans) returned to Christchurch on Saturday morning after spending a month's holiday in Wellington. Mr and Mrs C. L. Dearsley returned on Saturday from the North Island.

Women members of the Canterbury Kennel Club were the guests of Mrs H. Spence-Clark at a,gardenparty held at her home, "Plas-y-Bryn," Clifton Hill. Tea was served on the tree-shaded lawns, and the gue3ts were delighted with the views of the ocean and estuary from the garden. The opportunity was taken to make a presentation of a volume of plays to Mrs SpenceClark as a mark of appreciation of her work as president of the women's social section of the Kennel Club.

At the monthly meeting ,pf the Waikari Women's Institute the president (Mrs W. Parsonage), on behalf of members, presented two crystal dishes to Mrs C. H. Bethell, formerly Miss Nance Blunden, and wished her much happiness in her married life.

Miss Edith Lyttleton (G. B. Lancaster), who has been .visiting friends in Australia and Tasmania for the last two years, has returned to New Zealand and is at present visiting her brother, Mr C. Lyttleton, in Auckland. She will return to Christchurch shortly and will be the guest of Mrs M, A.. Powrie, Cashmere Hills'. Miss Lyttleton's new book is already in the hands of the publishers. On Saturday evening, an enjoyabLe party was held at "Northam," the home of Mrs E. E. Vincent (Merivale) in honour of her niece, Miss Grace Shannon (Dunedin), who has been spending a holiday in Christchurch, and who returned by aeroplane to Dunedin ' yesterday. About 40. guests enjoyed dancing and games. Misses J. and G. Ardagh gave exhibition tap., dances. The guests included Misses Vivian Harrison, Valerie Thompson, Isabel Pearson, Jahet Leighton, Betty Nunnerley, Valerie Kroning, Margaret Hider, Nancy Stonyer, Joyce Cameron, Barbara Leversedge, Bunty Sheppard, Gwynneth Hall, Joyce Drayton, Margaret Scott, Josephine and Gertrude Ardagh, Kathleen Anderson, Shirley Stagg, Eunice Thompson, Nola Edgington, and Grace Shannon.

Returning to New Zealand by the Rangitane next month, Miss Ngaio Marsh, of Christchurch, who has won a prominent place among writers of detective fiction, will arrive with not only the laurels gained for her by her enthusiastically-reviewed new novel, "Artists in Crime," but also, she hopes, the draft of still another book, "Death Goes Dancing," which she has already begun in collaboration with Mrs Tahu Rhodes. The latter novel will deal with the London season and all the technicalities and ceremonial which surround the coming-out of a debutante. Mrs Rhodes, whose elder daughter recently came out, has been able to supply invaluable detail on the subject. "Artists in Crime" is the sixth of the well-known series which has shown steadily-increasing sales, and once again features that favourite of mystery fiction. Detective-Inspector Alleyn. Miss. Marsh is not certain how long she will spend in New Zealand, or when she will be able to return to London, which, she declares, is the most comfortable place in the world to work in. During her year's visit she has spent some.time in Germany and in the South of France.