CURRENT NOTES

Press, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22359, 24 March 1938, Page 2

CURRENT NOTES

Sir Arthur and Lady Grant (Aberdeen), who arrived in New Zealand a few weeks ago and have been visiting the West Coast glaciers, will be the guests of Mrs George Helmore, “Millbrook,” Fendalton, for the week-end,.and later will visit Mr Angus Douglas, North Canterbury. Lady Richards (Suva), wife of the Governor of Fiji, and her two children have been spending a few weeks in New Zealand visiting Wairakei, the Chateau, and Wanganui. They will leave Auckland this week on their return journey to Fiji. Mrs T. Renwick (“Dumfree,” Seddon) and Miss Hiley (England), who have been for a motor tour of the North Island, returned to Marlborough yesterday. Mrs A. I. Fraer (St. Andrew’s square), a member of the Prisons’ Board, has returned to Christchurch after a tour of the North Island. Mrs T. H. Lowry (Okawa, Hawke’s Bay), president of the Hastings Community Club, Mrs W. Mackenzie (Havelock North), vicepresident. and Mrs Lovell-Smith (secretary) will visit Christchurch for the biennial conference of the Federation of Women’s Clubs in New Zealand, which will open next Wednesday. Mrs Lowry will be the guest of Lady Wigram, Park terrace.

Mr and Mrs Harold Elworthy (Timaru>, Mr and Mrs Bruce Murray (Braemar, South Canterbury), Mr and Mrs Charles Parker, and Mr T. Parker (Mackenzie Country) will arrive in Christchurch to-mor-row for the South Island championship polo tournament, which will open at Hagley Park on Saturday.

Mr N. S. Falla, managing director of the Union Steam Ship Company, and Mrs Falla, who have been visiting Auckland, returned to Wellington on Tuesday. They will leave for England early in May. Mr and Mrs Colin Douglas (Waimate) left this week by the Aorangi for a trip to Britain. Mrs Arthur Grigg (Surrey Hills) will arrive in Christchurch to-day to visit her mother, Mrs J. Cracroft Wilson, Fendalton. Mr and Mrs Fred Savill, who have been spending several months in New Zealand, left by the Aorangi this week on their return journey to England. Mrs Charles Morice (Wellington), who lias been visiting the Franz Josef glacier, returned to Wellington yesterday morning. Mrs M. H. Chatfield (Wellington), who has been visiting Mrs Gillingham, Fairlie, is now the guest of Mrs A. C. Bretherton, Fendalton., She will leave for the north on Saturday night; The Misses Randell (Victoria), who during a three months’ tour of New Zealand spent many weeks in Christchurch, left Auckland yesterday by the Awatea on their return Journey to Australia.

Mr and Mrs W. H. Gaisford (Dannevirke) will leave this month for a trip to Australia. Mr and Mrs Gaisford have many friends in Cantei'bury. Miss Marjorie Curlett (Hastings), who pays frequent visits to Christchurch, will leave next month for a visit to England. Miss E. Buckley (Leinster road), who has been visiting Auckland and Whangarei, will arrive to-morrow in Wellington, where she will visit friends before returning south. Mr and Mrs Andrew Robinson (Amuri) will be visitors to Christchurch for the polo tournament, which will begin in Christchurch on Saturday. Mrs Williams (Hawke’s Bay) and her daughter, Mrs Richard Tripe (Wellington), will leave early next month for a trip to Britain. Mrs Owen Blackler (“Hazelburn,” South Canterbury), is paying a short visit to Christchurch.

Mrs A. McDrury (“Willowbridge,” Halswell) has returned home after spending a few.weeks’ holiday with Mrs D. Dwan, Clandeboye. Mrs John Stevenson (Fendalton), who has been- spending several months in Australia, intends to return to Christchurch at the end of May. Mrs R. R. Taylor (Barrington street) has returned from a visit to Hamilton and Tauranga. Mrs R. C. Fowler (Ceylon) is visiting her mother, Mr;. M. Lewin, Merivale. She will leave on her return journey at the end of April. Many friends in Christchurch will be interested to hear of the marriage, celebrated in Perth on Saturday, of Mr Kenneth J. Stevenson, only son of the late Dr. John Stevenson and of Mrs Stevenson, and Miss Valmai Wood, daughter of Mr Fred Wood, and niece of Mr Cecil Wood, of Christchurch. Mrs Stevenson, the bridegroom’s mother, went to Perth from New South Wales to attend the wedding. Mr and Mrs C. J. Ronaldson (Papanui road) have left for a tour of the North Island, where they will visit Morrinsville, Auckland, and the Chateau.

Mrs C. Preston (Blighs road) left by the Maunganui this week on a health recruiting trip to Australia. . At the Sunlight League garden party, to be held at “Fownhope,” 58 St. Martins road, on Saturday, Mr Ernie Clark will drop Sunlight League literature from his aeroplane. There will be special autographed leaflets inviting children to join the newly-formed Children’s Sunlight League, and others announcing interesting competitions. A first-class tennis match and demonstrations of swimming and life-saving will be among the attractions, and the Woolston Band will be in attendance.

TRAVEL CLUB

EGYPT AND THE HOLY LAND

A FASCINATING JOURNEY

Miss Jessie Hill, formerly of Westport, who has been for a 16-monlhs’ trip abroad, was the principal speaker at the Travel Club’s fortnightly reception held at Ballantynes yesterday morning.

“When in my childhood I gazed at pictures in the Bible, I little thought it would, at any time in my life, be my privilege as it has recently been, to have supper on Christmas Eve on the Field of Boaz by the Plains of Judea, and to be one of a -party that sang carols on Christmas Day in the Church of the Nativity." Miss Hill described a trip she had made from Egypt through the Holy Land. When she suggested making the trip, she said, she had met with opposition both in England and in Egypt, where travel in Palestine was considered unsafe because of the troubled slate of the country. She had, however, made the trip in safety, had everywhere found good accommodation, and had been served with good meals and had enjoyed it thoroughly. For much of the bitterness between Jews and Arabs, Miss Hill said, Mussolini was blamed, and it was also believed in Palestine that Russia was casting covetous eyes on the Holy Land. The miles of golden sands, the mounds of oranges waiting to be packed for export, tire beauty of the flowers, the good modern roads in 'contrast witWthe old world camel caravans and heavily-laden donkeys, sometimes yoked with oxen, all were objects of interest to Miss Hill. She visited Capurnum, and spent an interesting time at Damascus, where she watched the making of carpets, brocades, and beautiful wood-work inlaid with mother-of-pearl and ivovy, brass, copper, and silver ware, and was distressed to find children of seven years old working 10 hours a day in the making of carpets. Continuing her journey through the Valley of Robbers, Miss Hill made a dolour to Baalbek, the oldest city in the world, where Abraham lived and where now are to be found famous ruins of temples. Only five groves of the cedars of Lebanon, she learnt, arc now standing, and past them she journeyed to Beirut, really a Western city with wide streets, modern buildings, and large parks. She then visited Tyre, Tel Aviv, and the busy port of Heifa, in each of which she found much to interest her. Before the address, songs were sung by Miss Vera Martin, for whom Mrs J. H. Cocks played the accompaniments. Mr J. G. D. Ward presided at the gathering and Mesdames J. D. Fairhurst and Cecil Vood were hostesses. Mrs Fairhurst welcomed the guests and Mrs Wood thanked Miss Hill, Miss Marlin, and Mrs Cocks for the pleasure they had given. The guests of nonour were Sir Stenson Cooke (London), Mrs Stuart Montcath (Wellington), Mr and Mrs Stuart Montealh (Oxford. England). Mr Bljackwood (Australia), Mrs Sidney Lear and Miss Waters (Perth), Mr and Mrs T. R. Ellis (Wanganui), Mrs Frank Stronach and Mrs J. O'Connor (Auckland). Mrs Maxwell. Miss S. A. Cowles, Mrs M. H. Chadfield, and Miss Turtun (Wellington). Mrs A. Fletcher, Mrs A. Young, and Mrs Alfred England (Auckland), Dr. and Mrs G. H. Robertson (Wanganui), Mr Len Fullerton (Port Chalmers), Mr and Mrs and Miss Jensen (Napier), Miss Muriel Webb and Mrs A. Bringans (Invercargill), and Mr S. T. Watt (Blenheim).

GREYMOUTH MUSICIAN’S SUCCESS

Further success has been achieved by Miss Cecilia Keating, of Greymouth, the well-known musician. She has just been awarded a year’s extension of her exhibition at the Royal College of Music, London, until July, 1939. Miss Keating was examined by Dr. Dyson and Dr. Marchant, directors of the Royal Academy of Music and the Royal College of Music, and was awarded a cash exhibition of £27. This makes the fourth award of a similar nature gained by her. She has also been advised that she is one of three musicians recommended by the college to take part in the New Zealand Centenary concerts in 1940, Denis Dowling, the Dunedin singer, and Edith Astral, the Gisborne pianist, being the only others so honoured. Radio Athlone engaged Miss Keating in April, and she will also appear as solo vocalist with the college second orchestra at a concert soon. Miss Keating will take the extension at the college, and she hopes to spend several months at Vienna before returning to the Dominion,

NOW CHOCOLATE TENNIS CAKE!

Ernest Adams. Ltd. Tennis Mixture has made a wonderful hit. Now at the Colombo Street Shop (near Queen Anne corner) you can buy Chocolate Tennis Cake. This delicious light fruited mixture containing Valencia Almonds, now has a new Chocolate Icing decorated with wdlnut halves. Chocolate Tennis is truly a super Cake, something you can’t miss.