CURRENT NOTES

Press, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22344, 7 March 1938, Page 2

CURRENT NOTES

Miss June Midgley left during the week-end for Timaru, where she has accepted a position on the stair of the Technical College. Mr and Mrs G. Plimsoll (Cashmere), accompanied by Mr Plunsoll’s sister, Mrs J. Godfrey (Bombay, India), returned during the week-end from a holiday visit to their cottage at Akaroa. Miss D. Baster, of the staff of the Normal School, will leave shortly for a holiday visit to Britain. The Mayor and Mayoress of Kaiapoi (the Rev. W. H. A Vickery and Mrs Vickery) are spending;a hohday with their daughter, Mrs Fothergill, Khandallah, Wellington. Mr and Mrs Andrew Sinclair (Bennetts, Oxford) have left for a camping tour of the West Coast. Mr and Mrs C. A. Fantham (Akaroa) have returned from a holiday in North Canterbury and Governor s Bay. Mrs S. D. Curry (Akaroa) returned home on Saturday from a holiday spent in Christchurch and at Governor’s Bay.

Mr and Mrs F. C. Newton (Aylmer’s Valley, Akaroa) have left for a visit to Christchurch and the south. Miss Janet Gumbrell is staying at “The Glen,” Akaroa.

Mrs M. Wilson has left New Zealand on her return journey to Queensland after visiting her brother, Mr F. W. Crockett, whom she had not seen for 50 years, and her sister-in-law at Little River. Miss Nan Cadman, who has been visiting Wellington, has returned to Christchurch,

Mrs John Batten, whose penname is “Martin Tree,” will return tu New Zealand by the Tamui today. She left the Dominion last November on a flying visit to England. Mrs Batten, who is a cousin of Sir Edward Jerningham, expects to leave New Zealand again, this time for America, in a month or two, when she will accompany her husband to Hollywood.

Miss Beatrice Partridge (Wellington) is visiting her sister, Mrs John O. Josling (St. Albans), and Mrs A. Roberts, Office road. Colonel and Mrs A. F. Wall and Miss Nora Wall (Epping, Essex), who are staying in Christchurch after a visit to the West. Coast glaciers, will leave by the steamer express to-morrow evening to tour the North Island. Colonel Wall is a retired Army officer, who has travelled _ extensively in recent years. He visited the Dominion two years ago.

Madame Winnie Fraser, formerly of Christchurch and Oamaru, spent three months last year in Vienna. She sang at ,a church service there on Christmas Day and broadcast on Christmas Eve. She spent January in Jugoslavia, and according to a letter just received in Christchurch intended to reach England this month. After visiting friends and relations there and in Scotland she will probably return to New Zealand towards the end of the year. Misses A. and E. Buckley (Leinster road) are spending a holiday in Auckland and Whangarei.

Mrs J. Billings (Dunedin) is visiting hex parents, Mr and Mrs C. H. W. White, Shrewsbury street. Miss K. O’Connor (Richmond Hill) who has been on a visit to Auckland, will return home on Wednesday,

Mrs H. Grierson (Geraldine) is the guest of Miss N. Buckley, Leinster road.

Mrs Noyes Lewis, of Johore, Malay States, is visiting her brother and sister-in-law, Mr and Mrs H. S. Robinson (Hastings), both of whom are well known in Christchurch, where they have many friends and relatives, Mrs Lewis s husband, Lieutenant-Colonel Lewis, is military adviser at Johore, lo miles from Singapore, and this is her first visit to New Zealand. Mrs Lewis travelled to the Dominion by one of the new Dutch boats. The crew were all Dutch, and the captain celebrated the birth of Princess Juliana’s baby by giving a champagne dinner. The Earl of Athlone and Princess Alice- left England in February on an adventurous visit to the Inner Desert of Arabia. The Princess will be the third white woman to visit Saudi Arabia and its capital Riad, a “forbidden city.” She regards it as a great compliment that she, as well as Lord Athlone, received an invitation from King Ibn Saud to see his country. The first white woman to go there was Mrs St. John Philby, wife of the explorer. The Royal guests—the first members of the Royal Family who have set foot there will be accommodated in palaces specially reserved for distinguished visitors. The Queen has lost no time on her return from Sandringham in dealing with the all-important question of her London season wardrobe. She has been examining designs for day and evening clothes and is already making decisions. Equally busy with -the same engrossing topic is Her Majesty’s niece. Miss Anne Bowes-Lyon, who will be an April bride. She and her mother visited Paris recently to view the new collections and buy part of the trousseau, but Miss Bowes-Lyon will follow the Royal example by having her wedding gown made in London. FREE “P & B” PICTURE BOOK. Just arrived! Presents 144 illustrations of the 1938 knitwear styles for men, women, and children. An invaluable guide when choosing instruction booklets. Gives various examples of unusual stitches. Write for your copy of the P and B Picture Book to, Patons and Baldwins, Ltd., Box 1441R, Wellington. — 1

Excitement in Paris dress-making circles ha* been aroused by the engagement of the Countess Apponyi to. King Zog of Albania. A clever woman designer has been court dressmaker to the Albanian Royal Family for a number of years, and from time to time she sends a staff to Tirana to fit the King’ B six sisters. An order for 40 evening dresses has just been completed by this house, beautiful trained models in lace, tulle, and lame. Many more beautiful gowns will be chosen now for the wedding festivities. During the recent Jubilee celebrations there was a ball for which this designer made a white evening dress for each of the young princesses. The design was the same in every case, but the materials were all different. Guests were chaimed by this novel idea. Arrangements have been made for Miss Frances Hotham to tour the Dominion and lecture on her remarkable colour films depicting “Life in China.” These were recently shown by her at the Travel Club in London in the presence of the Chinese Ambassador. She is due in New Zealand about the end of May.