CURRENT NOTES

Press, Volume LXXV, Issue 22892, 13 December 1939, Page 2

CURRENT NOTES

Sir Hugh and Lady Acland (“Chippenham,” St. Albans) will 1 spend Christmas at Mount Peel. J Mrs J. Mowbray Tripp (“Silverton,” Geraldine), who is visiting 1 Christchurch, will return home on Saturday. ' . Dr. E. Baker McLaglen will spend ■ Christmas at Plimmerton, and later will visit her sister in North Auckland. Mrs A. Vere Winchester (Cashmere Hills) will shortly visit Mrs ! R. Fountain, Dunedin. Mr and Mrs H. Wyatt (Knowles street) will spend Christmas at Tekapo. Mrs J. C. Newton and Miss Kathleen Newton (Merivale lane) will spend the holidays at Waikouaiti. Mr and Mrs A. L. Cropp and Miss Elaine Cropp (Gloucester street) will spend the holidays at their seaside cottage in the Marlborough Sounds. Mrs H. M. S. Dawson (Brett’s road) and her mother, Mrs Hector Pierce, who has been staying with her, will leave to-morrow for Auckland. Mr and Mrs J. G. Rutherford and their son and daughter (Dunedin) will be visitors to Canterbury for Christmas. They will occupy' Mr and Mrs David Crozier’s seaside house at Kairaki beach. Miss L. P. Wakefield (St. Heliers, Auckland/, who will lay the foundation stone of the Women s Memorial • on Saturday; is staying with Dr. Hazel Allison, Fendalton road. She intends returning north on December 20. Mrs W. Rodgers (Salisbury street) has returned from a visit to Auckland, Napier, and Wellington. Miss Kathleen Hoare (Kilmore street west) will leave to-day for a short visit to Mrs Ross Murray, Clarence Bridge. Mrs Campbell Gebbie (Leinster road), who has been visiting friends in Wellington and Masterton, has returned home. Mrs J Hutcheson (Leinster road) and Miss M. Hastie returned to Christchurch at the week-end from an eight months’ trip tp the United Kingdom and the Continent. They were among- the last of the English visitors to leave Switzerland before war was declared. Miss Elizabeth Stephens (“Waipuna,” Irwell) and Miss Neroli Jarman (“Nesslea,” Darfield) are spending a holiday at Invercargill, where they will visit the Royal Show. Mrs Charles Behdel and Miss Maberley" Beadel (Merivale lane) have returned from a visit to friends in the south. Mr and Mrs J. H. Deans, whp are the guests of Mrs Berthon Williams, , Havelock North, will soon leave for Levin, where Mr Deans will undergo a course of training afc a member of the Air Force. Among those who will attend the conference of South Island V.A.D. s to be held in Christchurch to-mor-row will be Mrs Chisholm and Mrs riarvey (Blenheim), Mrs J. Mow- ; bray Tripp, Mrs Williams, and Miss Davies (Geraldine), M-1 Tweedie, Mrs Kerr, Mrs Scott, and Miss Zeis- . ler (Timaru), and representatives ! from Dunedin, Ashburton, and Wai- . mate. . The Jo'sephine (Regd.) Cake Shop, McArthur’s Buildings. 123 A Cashel. i street, informs the public that the principal. Miss Ethne Tosswill, will be in her shop, 123 A Cashel street, between the hours of 12 noon and 2 p.xn. to consult her clients regarding their requirements for the Christmas festivii ties. You, too, can come and place your order now. ’Phone 33-478. 1

Mrs A. M. Satterthwaite (Fendal;on) returned yesterday from Welington. At the second birthday party of ;he Business and Professional Women’s Club of the Young Women’s Christian Association held [ast evening, a presentation was made to Mrs L. G. Pocock as a token af appreciation of the help she has given the club since its inception. In the Memorial Hall at Darfield Dn Friday night the, Darfield Patriotic Committee is giving a send-orr to the Darfield district members of the Special Force. The final tennis championship matches were played at “Rangiruru,” Hewitt’s road, yesterday, when Dorothy Reese won the senior championship, beating Pauline Gould in the final. The doubles champion 1 hip was won by Pauline Gould and Pamela. Cuddon, who in the final beat Barbara Wreaks and Pamala Webb. The junior championship was won by Anne Reese, with Phillipa Glasgow as runner-up, and the junior doubles championship by Anne Reese and Phillipa Glasgow, who beat Faith Fryer and Brenda Marshall in the final. The lady editor of “The Press” gratefully acknowledges donations towards the Pioneer Women’s Memorial Fund from Mrs. H. G. Denham in memory of her mother, and both her grandmothers, all of whom journeyed from Lyttelton to Christchurch by way of the Bridle Path in 1850 and in 1858, and from Mrs R. J. Maxwell. Edinburgh street, Riccarton, Mrs G. Way, the vicarage, Opawa, Mrs George Hanris, Deans avenue, Mrs H. A. Knight (Garden road), and M.E.W. (Idris road), “in memory of our wonderful women pioneers.” Friends 'in Christchurch will be interested to heaf of the literary success of Mrs Michael Shatnin, formerly Miss Daphne Mclntyre, who was at one time a typist in The Press” office. At the age of 21 she went to Japan, taking with her letters of introduction from Mr P. Selig, at that time manager of the Press Company, to a newspaper proprietor in Tokyo. In 1917 she was married to Mr Shathin, a Russian, who is now general manager for Warner Brothers pictures in the Japanese empire. Mrs Shathin, who writes under the name of Daphne Greenwood, has written many short stories and newspaper articles, and her first novel, A Poweii That Sleeps.” was published two years, ago. With her only daughter, she is now in Honolulu, and is working on another novel. “The central executive appeals to both senior branch committees and to Young Contingent committees to consider how best they can supply the London office of the Victona League with the names of men and women from their own district who may be, coming to this country on war service,” wrote the London secretary of the 1 league to the Canterbury branch in a letter received this week. “Our great trouble at present is to find out who is here, and with which units they are serving, and I think there is no doubt that the possibilities of personal hospitality will largely depend on how far you can send 'lists of your people with information as to their units. Once we have such information we shall be able to get in . touch with each individual and find out whai sort of help would be acceptable or possible.” Acid troubles never attack the woman or man who safeguards health with R.U.R.—the health asset thousands could not live without R.U.R. ends 'constipation, stomach disorders, rheumatics, skin troubles etc. — £