CURRENT NOTES

Press, Volume LXXV, Issue 22656, 10 March 1939, Page 2

CURRENT NOTES

The Hon. Mr Justice Johnston and Mrs Johnston, who are at present in Christchurch, will leave on Tuesday for the West Coast. Mrs E. J. Cordner (Rossall street) and Mrs H. Turner Jennings (Papanui road) will leave to-morrow for Timaru to visit Mrs Cordner s mother, Mrs Thomas. Mrs W. J. White (Hastings) will arrive in Christchurch to-morrow to visit her sisters, the Misses Enright, Bealey avenue. Mr and Mrs L. A. Ablett (Hawera), who are paying a short visit to Christchurch, will leave for the north to-morrow night. Mrs Russell Laidlaw (Oaro) and Miss Reay Trolove (Marlborough) are the guests of Mrs Rossmore Cracroft Wilson at Leithfleld Beach. Mrs Bryan Trolove (Marlborough) is the guest of Mrs H. S. Vestey, Cashmere Hills. Mr and Mrs J. Hanson and Mr and Mrs P. G. Clements (Upper Riccarton) are spending a fortnight’s holiday at Hanmer Springs. Mrs M. Basher and her daughter, Miss Winifred Hern (Prebbleton) are visiting Mrs Basher’s sister, Mrs Charles Hutchings, Lower Hutt, Wellington. Mrs G. Macarthur Brown, with her small daughter, Jillianne, arrived in Christchurch from Auckland yesterday morning to join her husband, who is manager of the State Theatre. Mr and Mrs Brown have taken a flat in Naseby street, Merivale. Mr and Mrs P. D. Mason (Merivale) have left for a holiday visit to the West Coast and later will visit the Southern Lakes. Mr N. V. Edwards, New Zealand lawn tennis singles champion, and Mrs Edwards left Wellington yesterday by the Rangitiki for England. Sir John Flett, who, with Lady Flett, arrived in Christchurch from the north yesterday, retired in 1935 from the position of Director of the Geological Survey of Great Britain and of the Museum of Practical Geology. He and his wife, formerly Miss Mary Meason, were born in the Orkney Islands. They have two sons and two daughters. Sir John is a golfer and a keen angler. Mrs James Macalister (Ayenal, Invercargill), who has been visiting her daughter, Dr. Gladys Bremner, Mansfield avenue, has returned home. Mrs W. C. Leversedge (Fendalton) is visiting her daughter, Mrs G. M. Broughton. Miss Peggy Pullon (Merivale) has returned from a visit to Miss Margot McLean, Dunedin. Mrs R. S. Aitken, wife of Dr. Aitken, a former Otago Rhodes scholar and now professor of medicine at Aberdeen University, has been visiting Dunedin as the guest of Mrs F. Foote, Driver’s road. She arrived in Christchurch yesterday. Miss Billie Harter, Director of Nursing Education in California, is the guest of Mrs D. A. J. Rutherford, Dunedin. In appreciation of her work as president of the Auckland branch of the women’s organisation of the New Zealand National Party, Dr. Hilda Northcroft was this week presented with an edition of Kipling’s works and a nest of three mahogany tables on behalf of the women’s branches and all members of the organisation. It was 100 years yesterday since the Rev. J. H. Bumby and his sister. Miss Mary Bumby, landed in Hokianga, where Mr Bumby took over the supervision of the Wesleyan mission. Fifteen months later, on June 24, 1840, he was drowned in the Firth of Thames. His sister married, and two of her grandchildren are Miss E. R. Overton, of Hereford street west, and Mr C. F. Overton, of Winton, Southland. English papers report the death, in her eighty-second year, of Mrs William Maude (Nora Maude), who was from 1908 to 1928 central secretary of the Mothers’ Union, after being for eight years secretary for the London diocese. A writer in “The Times” states: “If the inception of the Mothers’ Union was due to Mrs Summer, it was certainly Mrs Maude who did more to build up and expand its work than anyone else. It was largely her influence for 28 years which consolidated the Mothers’ Union as a united family, bound together by mutual principles and a common aim, that of preserving the Christian standard in the home life of the nation.” Mrs Emerson welcomed a large number of members at a meeting of the West of England Ladies’ Guild. Two new members were admitted to the guild. A novel competition was arranged. Members will obtain from the secretary hyacinth bulbs to be grown in fibre or water and at a later date to be judged for the best bloom. Mrs Booth gave a talk on bulb culture and was thanked by the president for her help. Afternoon tea was served by Mesdames Dean, Emerson, and Maxwell. “KNITTING MADE EASY.” FREE, a new 36-page book every knitter will enjoy. Published by Batons and Baldwins, it is crammed with knitting advice by real experts, full instructions lor five simple designs and 28 photographs of latest “P. and B.” Knitwear Fashions. Free and postfree, Write now to Batons and Baldwins. Box 1441R, Wellington. —2 RARE MEDAL AWARD TO WOMAN Miss Louise A. Boyd, explorer and geographer, was given the American Geographical Society’s Cullum Geographical Medal for 1938 at a meeting gt the Fellows of the Society at the American Museum of Natural History. The award, which was made in recognition of Miss Boyd’s achievement in Arctic geographical research, was presented by Roland L. Redmond, president of the society. Miss Boyd is the second woman to receive an award in the 86 years of the society’s existence, the Cullum medal having gone in other years to Peary, Nansen, Scott, the Duke of Abruzzi, Shackleton, Prince Albert of Monaco, and Bertram Thomas.

SCOTTISH WOMAN EXPLORER “ADMIRAL” OF UNITED STATES COASTGUARD trj»o3i OTJH own CORRESPONDEKT.) LONDON, February 16. Miss Isobel Wylie Hutchison, of Carlowrie, the Scottish explorer, has penetrated further into the Arctic Circle than any other white woman, At an Overseas League luncheon in Edinburgh she spoke of her visit to Esthonia, and on her adventures in the Aleutian Islands, where she collected botanical specimens for the British Museum. She said that many ties existed between Great Britain and Esthonia. Tallinn, Esthonia’s capital, had been compared with Edinburgh on account of its situation, and in the St. Giles’ of Tallinn was hurried Admiral Samuel Greig? “the Father of the Russian Navy,” who was the son of a shipowner at Inverkeithing, and one of whose descendants was Sir Robert Greig. Miss Hutchison told how, in 1936, in spite of her sex, she was made an “admiral” in the United States coastguard. She was given permission by Washington to travel to the Aleutian Islands in a United States ship. The cruise lasted three weeks, and during that time she was successful in getting several hundred new specimens for the British Museum, and several Asiatic ones. As she was stepping ashore, after her journey back, the captain put a i parcel into her hand and told her that she must not open it until she was on land, though, being a woman, she disobeyed him at once. She found in it an admiral’s flag, but, instead of the usual devices, it had four little flowers, one in each corner, while in the centre were two crossed hairpins. Miss Hutchison exhibited the flag at tno lunch.

LUNCHEON PARTY MRS T. A. MACGIBBON’S GUESTS Mrs T. A. Mac Gibbon (Papanui road), chairwoman of the executive of the Christchurch Young Women’s Christian Association, was hostess yesterday at a very enjoyable luncheon party given in a private reception room at Ballantynes in honour of Miss Ruth Woodsmall, World Secretary of the Young Women’s Christian Association, and Miss E. Law, national general secretary, both of whom left for the north last night. Miss Woodsmall gave a short address on the League of Nations and showed several interesting photographs. Mrs MacGibbon’s guests were Misses Woodsmall and Law, Mrs W. McKay, Mrs F. M. Warren, Mrs B. H. Gilmour, Mrs W. H. E. Flint, Mrs W. Payne, Mrs F. O. Bennett, Miss Walker, Miss J. Musker, Miss P. Kindle (general secretary), Miss E. Bowden (acting-gen-eral secretary). Miss E. Gill, matron of the Young Women’s Christian Association hostel. NURSES’ CHRISTIAN UNION OFFICERS ELECTED Members of the Scattered Group of the Nurses’ Christian Union held their annual meeting in the Plunket rooms. Speakers for the evening were six delegates to the conference held recently in Wellington. Officers for the year were elected and Mrs F. W. Moore (New Brighton) was appointed president. It was announced that Dr. Pleasuance Carr, of the Zenana Bible and Medical Mission, India, will speak to the nurses at a special meeting to be held this month. The president paid a tribute to the generosity of the Plunket Society for the use of the rooms and to the Plunket nurses for their help. Supper was served, the committee acting as hostesses. FOOTBALL' CLUB’S DANCE AT PREBBLETON Many town and country visitors attended a dance held in the Prebbleton Public Hall, under the auspices of the Rugby Football Club. Music for dancing was supplied by Kinsman’s Orchestra, and extras by Mr G. Rutherford. Mr J. Smith was master of ceremonies. Prizes for competitions were won by Mr and Mrs W. Kolkman, Mrs J. McClintock, and Mr W. Hampton. Those present included Mesdames H. Hoff, G. Rutherford, J. Smith, A. Gallagher, J. O’Neill, Wilson, J. Dick, W. Hands, C. Hands, V. Bade, J. Giles, W. Downey, R. Rickerby W. Kolkman, J. McClintock, J. Gallagher, L. Gallagher, A. Tomson, J. Hartnell, Misses Peggy O’Neill, Nancy Gallagher, Louie Baker, Leah Drayton, Renee Gallagher, Jeanne Morel, Nancy James Streeter, Florence Warren, Betty Barr, Margaret Barr, Rhong Tod, Kathleen Tod, Vonnie Smith, Bessie Hands, Mavis Smith. Pearl Guilford, D. Davis, Lorna Gallagher. Joyce Hoff, Jean Tomson, and Ngaire Tomson-