For WOMEN

Press, Volume LXXV, Issue 22768, 21 July 1939, Page 2

For WOMEN

CURRENT NOTES

Lady Wigram (Park terrace), who has been paying a short visit to Wellington, returned home yesterday. Mrs Robert Semple will arrive from Wellington this morning and accompany her husband, the Minister for Public Works, to Mataura, in which district she was born.

Mrs A. R. Galbraith (Sumner), with her husband, will leave nex.t Friday for Auckland, on the first stage of her journey to South Africa.

Miss Marjorie Kirker (Auckland) will arrive in Christchurch to-mor-row to stay with her sister, Mrs Maurice Thomson. They will leave for Lake Tekapo early in the week. Miss Betty Murdoch (Mayfield) will leave to-morrow to spend a holiday at Mount Cook. Mrs J. W. Niven (St. Albans) will leave next week for Auckland to meet Mr and Mrs J. H. Hall and their family, who have been in England for the last three years.

Mr and Mrs J. E. Watson (Mandeville, Southland) are visitors to Timaru for the South Canterbury Hunt Club’s meeting this week. Miss Moira Cameron (Christchurch) is staying with her parents, Mr and Mrs Kenneth Cameron, Dunedin.

At the annual meeting of the Christchurch Business and Professional Women’s Club held at Hay s Lounge, the president (Miss Paula Gross) made a presentation to Miss V. Baxter, retiring secretary, in appreciation of her valued services to the club.

Miss Joan Buckingham, who has been spending a few days at Waimate, returned to Christchurch last evening.

Mrs Stewart is visiting her son and daughter-in-law, Colonel and Mrs K. L. Stewart, Garden road, Fendalton.

Mrs I. W. Weston (Lincoln) left last night for the North Island to visit her mother.

Mrs Flaus (St. Andrew’s square) and Mrs Keening will leave by aeroplane to-day for a visit to Wanganui.

Mr and Mrs Terence Gresson (Fendalton) will leave to-day for Timaru, where they will be the guests of Mrs E. G. Kerr, “Ardgour,” for the Hunt Club gaieties.

Miss Doris Buchanan, senior tutor sister at the Waikato Public Hospital, Hamilton, has been appointed matron of the Southland Hospital, in succession to Miss J. Ross, who is retiring. There were 11 applications. Miss Constance Meikle (Fendalton) will be a visitor to South Canterbury for the Hunt Club festivities this week-end.

Miss Alison Clark (Bealey avenue) will return to-day from Tekapo. Miss Patricia McEvedy and Miss M. Daly will leave Auckland by the Mariposa next week for a trip to the United States.

Mrs R. Ellison (London), who arrived by the Mataroa on a visit to New Zealand, is the guest of her son and daughter-in-law, Mr and Mrs Eric Ellison, Puriri street, Riccarton.

Mr and Mrs W. T. S. Johnstone will leave on Thursday to join the Awatea for Australia.

Mrs Bauer (Auckland) has offered to lend a unique collection of Javanese handiwork for exhibition at the conference of the Pan-Pacific Women’s Association to be held in Wellington next January. This collection includes Javanese model houses, dancing men and women, native bands, puppet shows, wood carving, silver work, batik work, native boats, some striking paintings, and a lovely piece of carving in silk wood, reputed to be of great age.

Trinity College, Dublin, which decided as far back as 1904 to grant degrees to women, is to have its first woman professor. It is understood that Miss Constantia Maxwell, the noted author and lecturer, is to be promoted to the Chair of History in Dublin University, in succession to Professor Alison Phillips, who is due to retire. Miss Maxwell has been lecturer in Modern History at Trinity College since 1909. The college was founded in 1591. Mr Murray A. Falconer, F.R.C.S. (Eng.), who is attached to Queen’s Square Hospital, London, and who will return to Oxford in October to continue research work under the Nuffield Trust, was married in London last month to Miss Valda Helen Turley, who had arrived from New Zealand a fortnight earlier. Mr Falconer is specialising in brain surgery.

Mrs Clarke has been elected Lord Mayor of Dublin, in succession to Mr Alfred Byrne. Mrs Clarke is the first woman to occupy this high position; she is the widow of. Thomas Clarke, the first signatory of the proclamation of the Irish Republic in 1916, who was executed after the Easter rising in that year. She will receive a salary of £2500 a year.

Have you a special friend overseas celebrating a birthday? Ethne Tosswill will solve the . “present problem by sending a suitably teed cake expressing your greetings. It will be securely packed and would be certain to be appreciated by your friend. Ethne Tosswill has two cake shops, one in Hereford Court, the other at 123 Cashel street. —6