CURRENT NOTES

Press, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23108, 26 August 1940, Page 2

CURRENT NOTES

Mrs Maitland Rich (Warwick House) will leave to-day to visit her son and daughter-in-law, Mr and Mrs Geoffrey Rich, Cave, Mrs Frank Jayrett (Heaton street) and Mrs L. B. Allan (Aikman’s road) will leave on Thursday night for Upper Hutt, where they will stay while Mr Jarrett and Mr Allan are in camp at Trcnlham. Mrs Desmond Unwin (Tiinaru) has taken a flat at Victoria Mansions, Victoria street, while her husband is in camp. Mr and Mrs Sherman Strachan (Westport), who have been visiting Christchurch, will return home to-day. i Mits Peggy Pullon iMcrivale), who | has been the guest of Miss Margaret Macdonald, Oran, loft on Saturday to stay with Miss, Doreen Raymond. Pleasant Point Mr and Mrs VV. J. Silvey are spending a holiday in Timaru. Mrs G. Winstone and Miss Hilda Winstone, Takapuna. Auckland, are visiting Christchurch. Mr and Mrs Robert Guthrie and their two children (Ceylon), who have been spending some months in Christchurch, were visitors to Napier at the end of last week. Mrs Kenneth Macmillan (Dunedin) is visiting her sister, Mrs Melville Dcarsley, Fendallon Miss Eileen Murphy (Palmerston North) has been spending a short holiday in Sumner. Miss D. J. Bull (Napier) and Miss E. A. Worsp (Whangarei), masseuses attached to the 3rd Echelon, were guests of honour ,at a parly given m Wellington by the New Zealand Trained Masseurs’ Association. Miss Eileen Reid, of the Now Zealand Presbyterian Mission in China, has arrived in New Zealand on a year’s furlough, and is staying with her sister, Mrs E. C. Wcbberley, Auckland. Miss Alice Cook, who has also been in China as a member of the New Zealand Presbyterian Mission, has arrived in the Dominion and will stay at her home in Invercargill. Miss Jean Manson (Dunedin) has been visiting Lagmhor, where she spent the week-end with her parents, Mr and Mrs W. Manson. Miss Harriet Elliott, the only woman member of the New National Defence Commission in Washington, is a middle-aged, capable, experienced, calm, deliberate professor of political science from North Carolina. She will keep a trained eye on the nation’s markets, and will help to keep the entire population healthy, well-fed, and well clothed. With the help of a small staff at Washington. Miss Elliott will prepare advisory reports for the President. so that production may be geared to the needs of the masses, with the laws of supply and demand operating smoothly. At the National Club on Saturday, members of the executive of the British Sailors’ Society entertained at a pleasant luncheon party 15 stewardesses and three lounge stewards of an overseas vessel at present in port. The guests were received by Mrs H. T. J Thacker, president of the Women’s Auxiliary of the society. Lady Acland, Mrs H. S. Vestey, and Miss M. Enright. After lunch, the party attended a screening of "The Stars Look Down.”, at the Mayfair Theatre. Every large treatment o*. R.U.R. carries a genuine money-back benefit guarantee for the treatment of Rheumatism. Neuritis, Sciatica. Lumbago and Gout. R.U.R. twice a week gives you the health you seek. —lO -

For an Otago queen carnival, which is to be launched on September 7 with the object of raising £IOO.OOO for the care of soldiers and their dependants. the executive has chosen three candidates for queen. They are Airini Grennell (Army), Jessie McLennan (Navy), and Mary Pratt (Air Force). Airini Grennell was born in the Chatham Islands, and toured New Zealand with the Waiata Maori Choir, and visited Australia and the British Isles in 1935. Jessie McLennan was born in Dunedin, and was one of the earliest members of the Repertory Society, and Mary Pratt, the well-known-con-tralto. though born in Scotland, has lived most of her life in Dunedin. Miss Mildred Riddelsdell, private secretary to Mr E. Bovin. British Minister for Labour, won twenty-ninth place against honours men of Oxford and Cambridge at the 1936 examination for administrators, considered the stiffest in the world. She was educated at St. Mary’s Hall, Brighton, and at Bedford College for Women. One of Mr Churchill’s five private secretaries is Miss E. M. Watson, C.V.0., C.8.E.. and Mr Attlee’s personal private secretary is Miss M. Gooch. It was Lord Baldwin who opened the way for women to the highest appointments in the State. John Julius Cooper, only son of Mr A. Duff Cooper, British Minister fur Information, recently arrived in New York in the American liner Washington, which was making its second voyage with child refugees from Britain. The boy’s mother was formerly Lady Diana Manners. For many years the pupils of the Wanganui Technical College have been building up an “emergency” fund. The school council, made up of prefects and councillors, has decided that the present is a time of emergency and has offered a loan of £IOO to the Government for the duration of the war and six months afterwards. From a list of applications "inches deep.” and after passing a medical examination and other tests, four young New South Wales masseuses wore chosen to go overseas with the 2nd Australian Imperial Force. Fifteen travelled from Australia with the 2nd Australian Imperial Force under the charge of a masseur, Mr Waldo Anderson. They will be attached to the Orthopaedic Department of the Australian Army Medical Corps. The girls’ uniforms comprise a navy serge coat and skirt with military buttons ana maroon shoulder-tabs, a navy shirt and collar, maroon tie with A.I.F. badge, tan shoes, and a navy “pork-pie” hat. Australians in England made a gift of £275 to the new nurses' home at the Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Hospital in London. The home was opened in 1938 by the Duchess of Kent. To-day the hospital has been transformed for war purposes, and the model nurses’ home has become an auxiliary hospital. The sitting-rooms, built and furnished from the £lst)U raised by Miss Irene Vanbrugh’s jubilee matinee, are being used as wards. The hospital, run by women for women, has relaxed its rule to meet war-time exigencies, and for the first time has admitted men to its precincts. The first patient was a Canadian soldier. Soldiers’ parcels can be obtained from Ethne Tosawill’s shop at 123 A Cashel street and Hereford Court. When you come to sec Ethne Tosswill about the parcel you can rest assured of obtaining the best available for every solder. Every parcels is personally packed by Ethne Tosswill. who, was a pioneer for soldiers' parcels. Hundreds of mothers can tell how the boys appreciate the home away from home cooking. ’Phone 33-478. See Ethne Tosswill personally. —1