CURRENT NOTES

Press, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22414, 30 May 1938, Page 2

CURRENT NOTES

Mrs Harold Barker (Fendalton) returned on Saturday from Wellington.

Miss Cora Wilding (“Fownhope,” St. Martins) left on Saturday to spend a holiday in Oxford, Miss Anne Ryan (Dunedin) is visiting her sister, Mrs D. McCormick, Eversleigh street. Miss Margaret Salmond (Wellington) is the guest of Mrs J. R. Page, Winchester street.

Sir R. Heaton Rhodes and Miss V. Hynes (“Otahuna,” Tai Tapu) returned on Saturday after paying a short visit to Wellington.

Miss Peggy Norton (Papanui), who has been visiting Rotorua and Taupo, returned home on Saturday.

Miss Beatrice - Partridge (Wellington) is visiting her sisters, Mrs Jocelyn, St. Albans, and Mrs Roberts, Office road. The annual meeting of the city group of the Canterbury Women’s Organisation of the National Party will be held in the Young Men’s Christian Association Hall, Cambridge terrace, on Wednesday evening. The Hon. W. Hayward, M.L.C., will address the meeting. Mr and Mrs Leonard Webb (Invercargill), who are the guests of Mr and Mrs Leicester Webb, Fendalton, will leave for the south to-morrow. ; Mr and Mrs G. G. Stead, who have been visiting Mrs W. G. Stead, Hastings, left last week by the Port Gisborne on their return to England. 1 Miss Ruth Williams (High street) will return to Christchurch to-mor-row after a trip to Sydney and Melbourne. Mrs C. F. Hartland, who will leave Waipukurau to-day to live in Christchurch, was the guest of honour at a gathering of members of the Waipukurau Ladies’ Golf Club and presented by the president with a pyrex dish set in silver. Mrs McCormick said that Mrs Hartland had, for many years, been an active member of the club, which owed her much gratitude. Mrs H. A. Beauchamp and her daughter, Miss Pamela Beauchamp (Wellington) are staying in London with Mr Cyril Ritchard, who is appearing in a West End revue. Two days after they had arrived in London, one of the artists in the revue became ill and Miss Beauchamp took her place at an hour’s notice. Miss Phyllis Brass, who will leave in June for a trip to Britain, was the guest of honour at a morning tea party given at Death’s on Saturday by Miss Molly Dailey. The guests were Mrs W. George Brass and her daughters, Mrs Alan Joyce and Miss Phyllis Brass, Mrs M. Dailey, Misses K. Gilchrist, Nancy Nicholson, Yvonne Levvey, Grace Fuller, Betty Waller, and Cushla Mitchell.

Not many persons realise that one of the largest organising jobs of its kind in England, that of editing the Encyclopaedia Britannica Year Book, is the task of a woman, Mrs M. D. Law. She has to decide on the distinguished contributors, and the variety of subjects on which they have to write, so that a complete survey of world events during the last year can be condensed into 800,000 words. Mrs Law is a distinguished Girton scholar. The London County Council has a new idea. It has founded a hostel for middle-aged women, the chief aim of which is to get these women away from the “institution rut.” The hostel in South London was opened last month by Dame Sybil Thorndike, and a few days later the first inmates were admitted. The women are given work, they like to do, and are encouraged to take an interest in the running of the house. They understand that they are there only to recuperate or to wait for employment. Anyone who came with a view to making the hostel her permanent home would be considered undesirable, and would be sent away as soon as possible. At present there are 30 inmates in the hostel.

At the Navy League Hall on Saturday evening members of the league were at home to a party of petty officers and men of the French war sloop, Rigault de Genouilly. The hall was effectively decorated with flowers and greenery, and the tricolour of France was suspended above the dancers. An energetic committee rapidly overcame the initial shyness due to language difficulties and when the dancing commenced all went merrily, and as the evening progressed there was a happy exchange of instruction in French and English. By the courtesy of the Navy League a large party from Cercle Francais was present, and contributed to the success of the party. Others present were members of the Canterbury Officers’ Club and the local Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve. Those who assisted in the entertainment were Lieuten-ant-Commander R. C. E. Harding and Mrs Harding, Major W. E. S. Furby and Mrs Furby, Mesdames H. Wyatt, R. J. McLaren, J. Hutchinson, Misses Creswell and Noreen Russell. The music was supplied by Mr Alex Campbell’s orchestra. A recent interesting appointment that may be regarded as a sign of the times is that of Miss Marjorie Dunsdon, M.A., to the position of educational psychologist to the Bristol Education Committee, this being the first full appointment of a woman psychologist by a local authority in England. Miss Dunsdon took honours in psychology, is a trained teacher, and has taught pupils of varying ages in various types of schools, has worked in a hospital and in an engineering factory, did social work under a local authority, and has won a Commonwealth Fellowship to study the workings of the London Child Guidance Clinic. For the last two years she has been on the staff of the Central Association for Mental Welfare. NEW BABY BOOK OF KNITWEAR. It’s gorgeous! Includes all sorts of woollies for baby for the first six months. Knitting instructions for 25 lovely garments from frocks and overall sets to booties, bonnets, and shawls. The finest baby book every produced Send lOd in stamps to-day for “The Stitchcraft Baby Book.” to Patons and Baldwins; Box 1441R, Wellington, —l,