CURRENT NOTES

Press, Volume LXXVI, Issue 22940, 9 February 1940, Page 2

CURRENT NOTES

Mrs G. D. Weir and her , two .small daughters have returned from a trip to England and are staying with Mrs Weir’s mother, Mrs Percy Helmore, Fendalton.

Miss Hilda Matheson (Melbourne) is visiting Miss Mary White, “Summer Hill,” Levels. Mrs R. H. Clark and family, who have been spending a holiday with Mrs Francis Clark (Shirley), returned to Blenheim yesterday. Mrs John McCosker and Miss Doreen McCosker have returned to Ashburton from Wellington, where they attended the Eucharistic Conference and the exhibition.

Miss Mavis McKay (Ashburton) left last evening for Blenheim, where she will take her training in the Wairau Hospital. 9 Mr and Mrs G. B. Pike, who have been visiting Akaroa, have returned to Tirnaru.

Mrs A. E. Kerr (Belmont, Cave), who has been visiting Tirnaru, has returned hc^rne. Mrs W. H. Clark (Bealey avenue) and her daughter, Mrs N. G. Nor-bert-Munns (Rossall street), left last night for a visit to Wellington. Miss M. Crawford, formerly district school nurse ■ at Tirnaru, left yesterday to take up a similar position at Ashburton.

Miss Violet Martin (Tirnaru) has returned from a visit to the North Island.

Visitors to Christchurch for the Todd-Briggs wedding on Monday will include Mrs J. Davies, Mrs L. Todd, Mrs Martin, Miss E. Todd (Dunedin), Mr and Mrs H. Todd, Miss Spain, Mr A. Smith, and Mr G. Todd (Wellington). They will be the guests of Mrs T. Madeley, Moorhouse avenue. It is most interesting to note the complaints which R.U.R. has successfully treated —rheumatics, constipation, neuritis, liver and kidney troubles, stomach disorders, indigestion, etc. —3

Mrs. S. T. Nevill (Christchurch) is visiting her sister, Mrs F. Newton, Timaru. 1

Mrs Herbert Elworthy (Craigmore) has taken Mrs W. Ritchie’s cottage at Moeraki and will be there for a fortnight with Mr and Mrs Harold Elworthy’s children.

Eight pounds a minute was the record of the Princess Royal recently when for three-quarters of an hour she was in charge of a stall for Painted Fabrics, an industry established outside Sheffield shortly after the last war, to give employment to badly maimed men. The Princess wore her khaki uniform and seemed to enjoy thoroughly the business of buying and selling.

The King has made it a custom to give pearls to his children as birthday gifts, so that they will each possess ' a well-matched string of graded pearls on coming of age. The pearls will not be strung for a number of years yet. The King chooses two pearls at a time. Queen Alexandra’s famous rope of pearls was collected in a similar manner. It started with a matchless central pearl, a birthday gift from King Edward VII, when they were Prince and Princess of Wales. Further birthday contributors of “pearls ot great price” on successive anniversaries included Queen Victoria, the late Tsar of Russia, the former Kaiser, the Shah of Persia, the Sultan of Turkey, the Emperor Franz Josef, the King of'ltaly, the King of Denmark (her father), and the King of the Hellenes (her brother). Two of the choicest of these gems, the sheen of which was unrivalled, were the gifts of the late Sir Ernest Cassel.

Calling all Mothers; Your boy about to go overseas would like the home away from home —cake made only by Ethne Tosswill. 123 A Cashel street. She too, is doing her share—you can do yours by taking advantage of Ethne Tosswill’s overseas hamper, specially packed in airtight tins; a wonderful assortment all N.Z. troops will enjoy under any clime. ’Phone 33-478. —1