CURRENT NOTES

Press, Volume LXXV, Issue 22661, 16 March 1939, Page 2

CURRENT NOTES

Mrs W. H. Meddings (Montreal street north) left yesterday to visit Mrs F. R. H. Gardiner, Purau. Mr and Mrs Frank Wedd will leave by the Maunganui for a trip to Australia. Mrs Knowles and Mrs Paterson (Dunedin) are guests at the White Hart Hotel for the bowling tournament. Mr and Mrs A. Longmore (Wellington) are spending a fortnight’s holiday partly in Christchurch and partly in Invercargill. Miss Jean McClure (Geraldine) is staying with her aunt, Miss Oram, Shirley. Mrs Huse, an executive member of the Hutt Valley Federation of Women’s Institutes, will leave this vtfe?k for London, where in June she will attend the conference of the Associated Countrywomen of the World. Mr and Mrs Thomas Evans (Ham road, Fendalton) will leave by the Doric Star for England on March 28. Mrs G. H. Ridgen (Greendale) and Mrs Stark (Darfield) are staying at the Cafe. New Brighton. Miss Grace E. Wilson, after staying for several months at Wainui House, Nelson, has. returned to Christchurch with her sister. Miss Dorothy Wilson. She intends leaving early in April for a long visit to Britain and Europe. Miss Lydia Gould (Fendalton) is visiting Miss Philippa Broad, Feilding, for the polo tournament. At the annual meeting of the Royal Christchurch Musical Society Mrs E. D. Johnston and Mr W. H. Rose were made life members in recognition of their interest and support of the society for a number of years. Mr Rose joined the society in 1880. The chairman of the Royal Christchurch Musical Society (Mr T. Andrews), When congratulating and thanking Mrs N. W. Robbins for her work as organising secretary, also mentioned that she had been personally responsible for raising the sum of £54. Lady Buckleton, patron of the Wellington branch of the Victoria League, was entertained on Monday at a morning tea party given by the league. She and her daughter will leave soon for England. Miss Mary Hamilton, who was New York's first policewoman, has opened a school, where she is training hospital nurses, secretaries, and bank clerks how to take and read finger prints. Mr and Mrs Malcolm Guild (“Trevenna,” Temuka) have left for Sydney on their wsy to England,-where, they will spend a holiday.- • Miss Muriel Ford (Auckland), who has been visiting her sister, Mifs L. E. Finch, Timaru, left on her return north, yesterday. Mrs A. Pay kel, who has been on a visit to her parents, Mr and Mrs Thomas Simon. Timaru, has returned to Sydney. Miss Marion Hay (Timaru) has returned from a visit to the Franz Josef glacier. Mrs Macdonald and Miss Joyce Macdonald (Timaru) left, yesterday for a visit to South Africa. Mr J. Venning and Miss C. D. Venning (Timaru) left yesterday for a visit to England and Europe. Before leaving Mr Venning was presented by the employees of Evans and. Company, Ltd., with a leather suitcase. At a meeting of the North Canterbury Post and Teiegraph Women’s Association held last night a tribute was paid to the life and work of Mrs A. I. Fraer, and a motion of sympathy with her relatives was passed, members standing. At the monthly meeting of the Sumner branch of the Women s Christian Temperance Union. Ml W. W. Munro gave an interesting talk oh “Mission Work on the C° n lS o * al ™ Some of its Problems. Miss A, E. Henderson presided, and Miss Gates and Mrs Matheson were hostesses. Mr and Mrs W. Hardie and Miss M. Hardie (Mansfield avenue) will leave on April 1 for Wellington to connect with the Awatea for Sydney. They will spend eight days in Sydney visiting the Royal Show and races before joining the Strathnaver for England and Europe; They will return to New Zealand by the Orion about the end of the year. Mr and Mrs Wilfred Minson have arrived in Christchurch to visit Mr. Minson’s mother,. Mrs W. L. Minson, Winchester street. Mr Minson left New Zealand 10 years ago and has revisited Christchurch once since he first left. After spending SI time in Christchurch Mr and Mrs Minson will leave for Melbourne to visit Mrs Mmsons parents, Mr and Mrs W. a’Beckett, Berwick, Victoria. At Their Majesties’ Court, held at Buckingham Palace last Thursday night, Lady Game, wife of Sir Philip Game, who was Governor of New South Wales from 1930 to 1935, presented her only daughter, Miss Rosemary Game, who wore a picture frock of pearl coloured taffeta, and carried tulips to match, tied with gold. Sir Philip and Lady Game visited Christchurch a few years ago and stayed with; Lady Game’s aunt, Lady Wigrara, Park terrace, Sir Alfred and Lady Webb-John-son arrived last week in Melbourne, where Sir Alfred, who is surgeon to Queen Mary and a member of the Council of the Royal College of Surgeons in England, will this week attend the conference of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons. He will deliver addresses at the Melbourne and Canberra Universities. Miss Evelyn Gardiner, who visited Christchurch a few years ago with the Gilbert and Sullivan Opera Company, and who, at the end of the opera season in Christchurch, left for New: York, is now principal contralto of the Savoy Company m London. She is said to be in fine voice and doing well. Miss Winifred Lawson, the soprano who was with the company on the New Zealand tour, has lately been singing in the open-air theatre in Regent’sPark. Mr Ivan Menzies and the Australian, Mr Richard Watson, are both in London.