STAFF DANCE

Press, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22491, 27 August 1938, Page 2

STAFF DANCE

TAI TAPU DAIRY COMPANY,

LIMITED

The staff of the Tai Tapu Co-opera-tive Dairy Company, Ltd., held its first dance —a very successful gathering—in the Mayfair Lounge. The guests of honour were Mr and Mrs C. P. Agar and Mr and Mrs G. H. Christie. Mrs Agar wore a black frock brightened with multi-coloured flowers, and a bolero to match. Mrs Christie's frock of navy windswept satin was made with short, puffed sleeves, and gathered bodice. Mrs Agar and Mrs Christie were presented with posies from the committee, the members of which were Misses Edna Innes, honorary secretary, Rita Pearce, Gwen Gee, Messrs H. Branthwaite, V. Marshall, and A. Adams.

Miss Innes wore a tailored frock of fuchsia taffeta with touches of gold; Miss Pearce's frock was of pink embossed taffeta, and was trimmed with silver lame; and Miss Gee wore an apple blossom pink lace frock, with a spray of blue cornflowers on the shoulder. Music was played by Jack Maybury's Mayfair Lounge Orchestra.

Amongst those present were Mesdames H. Branthwaite. W. G. Macartney (Tai Tapu), A. Southey, D. Lavender, James T. Andrews, K. S. Hill, T. Ovington, W. W. Mundy. J. D. Warren (Rangiora). E. H. Reed, C. Brown, George W. Waddington, R. H. Brown, S. J. Bultltude, R. E. Bagot, V. Borgfeldt, C. Borgfeldt, G. H. Curtis, J. H. Shaw, W. Jamieson (Leithfleld), M. Ealam, A. G. Fussell (Sefton), A. M. Ayres. G. Wills, H. Quill, J. Moore, B. Harrington, M. Clark, A. Johnson (Nelson), Misses A. Mulcock, Joyce Hatch, Edith Woodward, Kathleen Burns. N. Crofts, Marjorie Lochhead. JuneWhyte, Edna Wright, June Kiddey, Kathleen Muff. Margaret Muff, Shona Fraser, Marian Fisher, Mollie Hebden, Edith Parsons, Mavis Muschamp, Elise Crosby, Maisie Port, Jean Ross, Doris Ash. Florence Haines, Helen Forgie, Doreen Cullen, Mavis Collins, Thelma Stacey, Muriel Lawson, Beatrice Hall, Dorothy King, Nola Martin, Marie Sim, Doris Friar. Brenda Perrin (Kaikoura), B. McLeod, Joyce Lawson, Zelma MacMullan, Brenda Shaw. Beth Gill, Ruby Sharp, Dorreen Shaw, Inez Gibson, Jean Grimwood, Kathleen Enrlght, Ailsa Jamieson, Audrey Murphy, Josephine Murphy, Daphne Castle, June Ferguson. Margaret Moyle, Frieda Deibert (Wellington).

OBITUARY

MRS C. M. BURDON

[THE PRESS Special Service.]

GERALDINE, August 26. The death occurred this morning of Mrs C. M. Burdon, of "Parkhurst," Woodbury, Geraldine. Mrs Burdon arrived in New Zealand from Surrey, England, in 1902, and since then has lived at Woodbury. She was always interested in social welfare, and was unsparing in any effort to better the lot of the poor and the sick. A member of the vestry of St. Mary's Church, Geraldine, Mrs Burdon was always a keen worker in the parish. She was a member of the Howard Penal Reform League, and played an active part on the Geraldine District Nurse Committee. Since the formation of a branch of the Women's Division of the Farmers' Union at Geraldine, Mrs Burdon took a leading part in the activities of the branch, and was president for some time. „ , , „ Before coming to New Zealand, Mrs Burdon spent her early married life in West Virginia. United States, and she had travelled widely in Europe. Her husbtind died in 1920. Mrs Burdon leaves" a family of three, Mr C. C. Burdon, Captain R. M. Burdon (Geraldine), and Mr G. L. Burdon (Pembroke).

£561 RAISED

SISTER PATTRICK MEMORIAL

FUND

The honorary treasurer of the Annie Pattrick Memorial Fund (Mr Ernest W. Hunt) reports that so far £561 3s 4d has been received. It is expected that the appeal will be closed soon and the committee will then make a decision about the disposal of the money collected. It will be devoted to the commemoration, in some section of Plunket or Karitane work, of the services of Miss Pattrick, formerly Director of Plunket Nursing, who was prominently connected with the Plunket system for-many years.

ENGAGEMENT NOTICE

The engagement is announced of James Rutherford, elder son of Mr and Mrs J. H. Williams, of Heaton street, Christchurch, to Joan Marie, second daughter of Major H. and Mrs Richardson, of Blenheim.

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MUSICAL PROGRAMME

DIXONIAN CLUB

At the Canterbury Women's Club last night, an excellent programme of rare music was given by members of the Dixonian Club, under the direction of Mr John Thompson. Excerpts were sung from two. operas, which, it is thought, have never been presented in New Zealand. They were "Perfect Fool," by Gustav Hoist, and "Shamus O'Brien," by Sir Charles Stanford. Mr Thompson briefly outlined the story of each opera, and the presentation was most interesting and enjoyable. The performers were Misses Nellie Bilcliff, Hilda Hutt, Mrs Wilfred Owen, Mrs Nelson Kerr, Messrs John Thompson, Ernest Rogers, Robert Lake, and Alfred Bilcliff. ■ , , , Mrs J. W. Palk, leader of the club's music circle, introduced the artists, and, after the programme, Mrs R. J. McLaren, president of the «lub, thanked them for the pleasant entertainment « they had provided. She specially welcomed Mr Allan Young and two New Zealand singers who are revisiting Christchurch after an absence of some years—Madame Zelanda, formerly of Dunedin, and Miss Grace Wilkinson, who left Christchurch 10 years ago for London, but toured the Dominion two years ago. Madame Zelanda, in acknowledging the welcome, gave some interesting sidelights on student life in Italy, where she entered a conservatorium of music in 1925.