CURRENT NOTES

Press, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22370, 6 April 1938, Page 2

CURRENT NOTES

His Excellency the Governor-Gen-eral, Viscount Galway, will lay the foundation stone of the new administrative block at the Karitane Hospital, Cashmere, oh Wednesday, April 20, at 2.30 p.m. Mr and Mrs T. S. Dacre (Linwood avenue) are passengers to Sydney by the Awatea, which left Wellington yesterday. Mrs E. Alex. Duncan (Dunedin) is the guest of her mother, Mrs John Duncan, Park terrace. Mr and Mrs C. L. Hains (London), who have been visiting Mrs Hains’s sister, Mrs J. Jobberns, Cashmere, have left for Auckland to connect with the Monterey on their* return to England, via America. Mrs A. D. Crawford (Wellington) is visiting Mrs Burdon, Woodbury. Miss Patricia McCarthy and Miss Clare Smith, members of the Invercargill Ladies’ Golf Club, are playing in the Otago provincial golf tournament in Dunedin this week.

Miss Ann Cooper (Leinster road), who has been visiting her cousin, Mrs F. Grotrian, ■ Ashhurst, is now the guest of her aunt, Mrs Walter Hislop, for about 1,0 days. Miss Knight, Red Cross diploma guider, who was brought to New Zealand by the Girl Guides’ headquarters, has been giving courses of instruction in the North Island, beginning in Hawke’s Bay. She will arrive in Christchurch next month and will give a course of training to local guides. Miss Doris E. G. Craig (Oamaru), who is spending a year in London, intends to study dramatic art, probably at the Royal Academy. Miss E. M. Harvey (St. Albans), who left for England a year ago, made several long tours on the Continent last year, and spent spine months in the south of England. She was in London last month waiting for friends from New Zealand to join her. She expects to tour England and Ireland with them, and will later visit Germany and southern Italy. She intends to leave for New Zealand, via Panama, in October. Miss Alma McCallum (Timaru) will arrive in Christchurch on Tuesday and will be the guest of Mrs James Hight, Rugby street, for a week, after which she will visit Hanmer Springs. Miss Vivyan Dawson (New Plymouth) will arrive in Christchurch on Friday to be bridesmaid at Miss Ena Fleetwood’s wedding, v/hich will take place on Easter Tuesday. Sister S. L. Clark (Clifton Hill, Sumner) is spending a holiday in the North Island, where she will be visiting her sister, Mrs T. Cook, Tauranga. Mr A. E. Jull and Miss Doris Jull (Waipawa) will be visitors to Christchurch for the wedding of Mr Frank Jull and Miss Ena Fleetwood on Easter Tuesday. Mrs M. Wallace (Wanganui), who has been staying with Mrs Townsend (Mount i Pleasant), left for home last night.' ♦

Misses Betty Cotterill and Jean Webster, who left Christchurch 14 months ago for England, have booked their return passages to New Zealand in October,

Miss Ngaio Marsh (Cashmere Hills), who arrived in Wellington from England on Monday, is expected in Christchurch on Saturday.

Miss Lilian Familton (Meadowbank, Oamaru) is visiting Christchurch during the annual art exhibition. She is a guest at the United Service Hotel.

Miss Phyllis Jull (Wellington), who will visit Christchurch for the Jull-Fleetwood wedding in Easter Week, will be the gliest of Mrs R. M. Paulsen, Fendaltori. j Friends of Herr Karl Joosten, a former German Consul in New Zealand, will be interested to know that he has established a thriving export business in Leipzig. His daughter, Fraulein Kateliese Joosten, who was born in the Dominion, has been educated in Leipzig, London, and Hungary. She works in her fathers office and gives lessons in classical dancing.

The Victoria League will hold a ball at the Savoy Hotel, London, on May 17. The Marchioness of Hartington is chairwoman of the ball committee; Princess Alice, Countess of Athlone, president of the league, will receive the guests, and Mr W. j. Jordan, High Commissioner for New Zealand, and Mr? Jordan are among the patrons. It is hoped to obtain by the ball sufficient funds to enable the league to continue to meet the demands ’ made . upon its London centre by the organisation of hospitality for visitors from overseas, and by the educational work of the league.

The marriage took place at St, James’ Church, Piccadilly, last month., of Miss Olivia Lee, of Melbourne, Australia, to Mr Reginald Driscoll Oliver, formerly purser of the Shaw, Savill, and Albion liner Mataroa, and now of the same company’s Arawa. The bride was a winner of the Melba Scholarship for singing. She combines a fine soprano voice with a flair for impersonation, and has been appearing with success on the English stage. Owing to Mr Oliver’s transfer from the Mataroa to the Arawa, his stay in England was considerably reduced, and the wedding took place earlier than had been anticipated. After the marriage, Mr and Mrs Oliver flew to Paris for a short honeymoon, and returned in time for the bridegroom to leave for New Zealand with his ship on March 17. Three weeks ago there wasn’t an exclusive modern Frock Salon carrying stocks from all the most advanced European houses'. Still things happen overnight, and to-day there is. You should make a point of visiting CONTINENTAL MODELS, 107 Cashel street (first floor). ■ * FREE TO KNITTERS The new “P and B” Picture Book! Illustrates 144 styles for 1938 in men s, women’s, and children’s knitwear. Invaluable when choosing instruction booklets for your new seasons knitting. Helpful hints on finishing and washing. Various examples of unusual stitches. Write to : day for your copy to, Patons and Baldwins, Box 1441R, Wellington. — 2

Mr and Mrs D. G. Ashley and Master Kevin Ashley left Waimate yesterday for Wellington to join the Rangitata for Europe. Mrs C. F. Murray (Wharanui, Marlborough) will leave Wellington to-day by the Rangitata for England. Mr and Mrs A. C. Keell (St. Asaph street) and Miss Betty Hannam (Cashmere) are also passengers b-' the Rangitata. Miss Eleanor Rose, who trained as a nurse in the Christchurch hospital, and who, for the last 18 months, has been on the staff of the Napier Hospital, will leave before Easter to take up a position at "The Brown Owl,” Invercargill. Sir Robert Turing, who left London on March 12 by the Empire Star for New Zealand, is the holder of a baronetcy that was created 300 years ago. He is 43 years of age, and succeeded his father, the ninth baronet, in 1928. He served in the European War, was wounded, and was awarded the 1914-15 star and two medals.

Miss Marjorie Alexander, the talented Christchurch pianist, who has been studying in London, is an active member of the recentlyformed British Music Movement, a society whose aim is to encourage young British musicians, both in composition and in performance.

, The matron of the Cashmere sanatorium gratefully acknowledges the following gifts for patients:—Magazines, Mrs Cracroft Wilson/ Mrs Leslie Talbot, Mrs F. Black, Maisie V. Chapman, Mr N. V. Black, “Clifton,” per Mrs H. S. Mitchell, New Brighton, from Mrs Schollar, Mrs Branch, Mrs Thomson, Miss M. Larcombe; periodicals,‘Women’s Christian Temperance Union, per Miss Jewell; hand-knitted sox, Mrs Stansfield (Dunedin); flowers, St. Augustine’s Church. Miss Jean Batten returned to London in the middle of March from Scandinavia, where she delivered a number of lectures under the auspices of the British Council, for whom Sir Robert Vansittart, officer in charge of British propaganda abroad, arranged the tour. All Miss Batten’s expenses were paid, but she did not benefit financially from her lectures. She was presented by Prince Gustaf Adolf, with the gold medal of the Royal Swedish Aero Club, and by Prince Axel with the gold medal of the Royal Danish Aero Club. Guardians of the new Lord Plunket, who is 14 years old, and his two brothers' have been appointed. They are the Marquess of Londonderry and the Hon. , Denis Kiwa Plunket, the 28-year-old youngest brother of the late Lord Plunket, who was 38. '

A new deal for married Frenchwomen began last month, when a law came into force removing from the Code Civile the words: “A woman owes obedience to her husband.” This phrase, part of the code, drawn up under Napoleon, was read at all weddings, and a married Frenchwoman could not, without her husband’s consent, control her own property, have a separate banking account, buy or sell shares, rent a house, or go abroad. Now this ridiculous restriction is done away with. But French women still cannot vote.

Mr Leonard Corner has resigned his position as branch manager of the Calder Mackay Company, Ltd., to assume the general managership of Messrs Drages, Ltd., who will open soon in Christchurch. Mr and Mrs Corner were entertained ,at a picture party and supper given by the management and staff of the Calder Mackay Company, when Mr Corner received an engraved travelling outfit as a gift from the staff. Mr W. G. V. Feunie, general manager of the Calder Mackay Company, Ltd., and Mr W. J. V. Hamilton, the company’s secretary, eulogised Mr Corner’s nine years’ service with the company. Mrs Corner was presented with a posy by Miss Kathleen Bartram.