CURRENT NOTES

Press, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22339, 1 March 1938, Page 2

CURRENT NOTES

Mrs L J Keys and her two small children' (Durham street . north), who have been staying with Mrs L P Mills (“Scotston,’ St. Andrews), has returned home. Miss Barbara Lawrence (Fendalton) will leave to-day for a visit to Mrs E. C. Studholme, Waimate. Miss Peggy Acton-Adams (Tipapa) left last night on the first stage of a trip to England. Mrs W. Helmore (Timaru), who has been visiting her daughter in the North Island, is now the guest of Mrs George' Helmore, Fendalton. Mrs C. L. Nedwill (Cashmere Hills) will be a visitor to Waimate for the wedding of her niece, Miss Joan Harper, which will take place to-day. Miss D. Humphreys (Fendalton) has returned from a visit to Dunedih, where she was the guest of Mr£ C. Rattray. .Mrs J. K. Olney and her children (Ceylon), who have been staying with Mrs Raymond Parker (“Ranui,” Page’s road), left by the Maunganui from Bluff to join Mrs Olney’s husband, who is on leave in Western Australia, Mr and Mrs Jack Anderson (Dunedin), who have been spending a few days with Mrs John Anderson (Armagh street), will leave for the south to-day. The resignation of Miss Leila Hurle from the staff of the Christchurch Girls’ Hi. School was accepted with regret by the Canterbury University College Council at its meeting yesterday. The council recorded its appreciation of the excellent service Miss Hurle has given the school, and congratulated her on' her appointment as lady principal of the Timaru Girls’ High School. Miss Ngaire Huston has returned to the Dominion after spending several months in Australia. She is at present staying with her aunt, Mrs Page, Nelson. Mrs Pontifex (South Africa), who has been the guest of Lady Wigram (Park terrace), left last night on the first stage of her homeward journey. Mrs Wolstenholme (Sydney) is the guest of Mrs T. Y. Wardrop, Innes road. Dr. and Mrs T. Leslie Crooke (Cashmere) are staying at “Ilfracombe,” Akaroa. Dr. and Mrs W. E. Minty (Oxford) left during the week-end for Wellington en route to Sydney, where they intend spending a short holiday. Mrs G. E. F. Kingscote (Fendalton) and Miss A. Prins left yesterday for a visit to Lake Tekapo. Mrs J. H. Hall (Papanui road) left yesterday fpr a visit to Blenheim and Nelson. A motion of sympathy with the relatives of Mrs C. M. Sincock, whose death occurred recently, was passed at last night’s meeting of the New Brighton Borough Council. Mrs Sincock was the wife of a former councillor. Mrs Heathcote Gray (Fendalton) and Mrs J. G. L. Vernon (Webb street) will be visitors to Waimate for the Savill —Harper wedding today. Misses Gladys Acton-Adams (Clarence Reserve) and Sheila Atkinson (“Woodbank,” Hanmer Springs) left last night for a trip to England. Mr and Mrs F. J. Savill (Hanmer Springs) are the guests of Captain and Mrs G. Hennessy, “Garryowen,” Morven, for the Savill—Harper wedding. Misses R. and A. Papprill, who visited Timaru for the Papprill— Morrison wedding, havs returned* to their home in Christchurch. Mr and Mrs W. Neave, who were visitors to Timaru for the Papprill— Morrison wedding during the weekend, have returned to Christchurch. At a meeting-of the Women’s Auxiliary of the Canterbury Manufacturers’ Association, it was decided to keep the position of patroness vacant for 12 months, as a mark of respect to the memory of Mrs G. Hampton Rhodes, whose kindness and help had endeared her"’to members. Mesdames N/ A. Rattray, G. T. Hennessy, and J. W. Hayes were joint hostesses at a pleasant 5 o’clock party, held in the grounds of “Ngahere,” in honour of Miss Joan Harper, whose marriage will take place to-day. Regret at the loss of life caused recently by the flooding of the public works camp, near Wairoa was expressed at a meeting of the Women’s Auxiliary of the Canterbury Manufacturers’ Association. It was decided to send a letter of sympathy to the Prime Minister, to be conveyed to the Hon. P. Fraser, and to the relatives of those who had been drowned. A meeting of the secretaries of the’ Friends of St. George was held yesterday at the home of Mrs Howard James, Carlton Mill road. The president, Mrs Winchester, presided. It was decided that as St. George’s Day will fall this year on Saturday the annual meeting of the Friends of St. George will be held early in May. After the business of the meeting had been concluded those present were ’ the guests of Mrs James for afternoon tea.

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Mr and Mrs C. A. Crowe (Roger street), accompanied by Mr and Mrs A. S. Crowe, have left for a motor tour of the West Coast. : Miss Eileen Orchard (Papanui road) and Mrs E. Jowett ("Worcester street) have returned from six weeks’ holiday spent in Wellington and Auckland. Miss K. Jones, who has severed her connexion with Rannerdale Home, was presented with a suitcase and fountain pen by the matron, patients, and staff of the home. Mr G. Morgan made the presentation. Mr and Mrs Richard Lane (Ruapuna) left last evening for a tour of the North Island. Miss Ethel Batchelor (England) is visiting Mrs Harold Elworthy, Craigmore. Mrs B. A. Moore (Wellington), who has been visiting Mrs D. Murchison (Fairview), left during the week-end for Dunedin. Miss Barbara Hale (Cashmere Hills) will leave by the Awatea on March 7 for Sydney, where she will be the guest of Dr. and Mrs Adrian Rofe, Killara. Mrs J. M. Ritchie (Cheviot) is visiting her mother, Mrs W. H. Orbell, Timaru. Mrs J. Robinson (Hokitika), accompanied by her elder daughter. Miss Madelon Robinson, has returned from a visit to her father, Mr E. X. le Lievre,- Akaroa. For 37 years Mrs Bailey has sold newspapers at Shepherd’s Bush Underground station, London. She never had a day’s illness until a few days ago, and now on her sick-bed at the age of 67 she is talking of retiring. Mrs Bailey can remember the days when there were sheep at Shepherd’s Bush, now a busy suburb of London, and when horse buses toiled up the steep road to Netting Hill, to be met at the top by a boy with a fresh horse, which was harnessed in front.

A new governor has been appointed by the British Broadcasting Corporation. She is 63-year-old Miss Sara Margery Fry, and she succeeds Mrs Mary Hamilton, whose five-year term of office has expired. Miss Fry, who is a member of a famous Quaker family, was principal of Somerville College, Oxford, from 1926 to 1931. During the war she worked in France with the Quaker Mission for two and a half years, and in 1933-34’Visited China as a lecturer under the auspices of the Universities China Committee. When Mile. Farida Zulficar married King Farouk of Egypt she wore a wedding gown designed and made, like the rest of her trousseau, entirely in Egypt." Her trousseau, most of which had been chosen personally by the young King, was a magnificent one—it is estimated that the 45 dresses and coats alone cost more than £SOOO. She had four court gowns glittering with gold and gems. One lovely model in peachpink was embroidered with “waterdrop” pearls, and had a 24-foot lame train spangled with jewels and trimmed with blue velvet and white ermine. It had a brocade design of lotus leaves and a quarter moon in which was inscribed a verse from the Koran in gold lettering. The train alone is said to have cost £6OO. Another of these court gowns was of shell-pink hand-made lace, and a third was in pale blue lame encrusted with pearls, LATEST IN MILLINERY STYLES MODELS TO SUIT ALL TYPES The return of Mrs Lamb, millinery buyer for the D.1.C., Christchurch, from a buying trip to Auckland, has caused quite a ripple of excitement. Her glowing and enthusiastic account of the ultra-smart overseas visitors, many of whom arrived during her stay, set everyone in a fever of impatience to see the exotic, crazy, but flattering hats she reported them to be wearing . . . for Mrs Lamb was lucky enough to have first choice from a shipment of exclusive models that arrived on the same boat as some of the most distinguished visitors . . . millinery models still hot from the hands of overseas creators. Mrs .Lamb is . convinced that brims are on the up and up, but bought many stylish models that, though in line with the most soaring, will be worn with delight by the most conservative. " —1