CURRENT NOTES

Press, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22465, 28 July 1938, Page 2

CURRENT NOTES

Mrs R. Cox, who has been spending a holiday in Rotorua, will return to Christchurch for race week, and will stay with her sister, Mrs P. Walsh, Worcester street. Mr and Mrs J. Prendergast (St. Albans), who have been spending a holiday in North Auckland, will return to Christchurch this morning. Miss Ratahi Parker and Mr Cyril Parker (Holbrook station) will be the guests of their aunt, Mrs Cuthbert Meares (Fendalton), for Grand National week.. Mrs L. Cooper (Ashburton) is visiting her sister, Mrs C. J. Campbell, Stratford. Mrs M. Comerford and Miss Vivienne Comerford (Sumner) and Mrs Cyril Stringer and family (Murray place) will leave towards the end of the. week for a short visit to Tekapo. The second evening’s play of a three-night Howell match at Crockford’s Club resulted as follows: North and South: Mrs M. M. Bayne and Mr E. F. Stead, Mrs G. B. Morgan and Miss Bromley Cocks (equal) 1, Mrs A. Cook and Mr A. Hunnibeli 3. East and West; Mrs A. S. Geddes and Mrs M. E. Pipe 1, Mrs M. Clark and Miss S. Fraser 2, Mrs F. Banks and Miss I. Hughes 3. A London society girl recently found herself suddenly rich by the discovery that she was the owner of platypus furs valued at £1,000,000. She possessed 42 platypus skins, but Mr J. B. Fowler, of Fivedock, Sydney. has a platypus rug made of 54 skins, and its rarity is such that he does not attempt to place any figure upon it. There are probably not a dozen of these rugs in the world. The animals from which the rug was made were caught by an old settler in the Cooma district about 60 years ago. and the rug was bought about seven years ago from the grandson of the settler. IODINE SOCKS PREVENT WINTER ILLS Wearing Samson lodine Socks guards you against colds, ’flu, catarrh, rheumatism, and other winter ills, and they are only Is 9d a pair from E. Cameron Smith. Ltd.. Chemists, Cathedral square. The lodine in the socks is absorbed by the skin and so immunises you. Get a pair for every pair of shoes you buy.