CURRENT NOTES

Press, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23220, 6 January 1941, Page 2

CURRENT NOTES

Captain R. J. Npal, C.8.E.,_ R.N.R., marine superintendent for the Shaw Savill and Albion Company, Ltd., Lortdoh, and Mrs Noal are vlsitiftg CHriStchurct), and ate the guests df and Mrs J: H. aaskell. Hackthorrte road, Cashmere. Mrs J. G; Clarkson (Carew) is visiting her sister, Mrs E. M. Wartferi, Fendalton. Her daughter, Mrs Victor Mulligan. with Her Childi*6H„ Is sending a holiday at LClthfield Beach. : Mr and Mrs GCotge Fisher (Aikrtian’s road), who have been visiting Mr arid Mrs Tracey Fisher (“Silverstream,” Greenpark) have returned home.' ; Mr and Mrs W. R. McCreath (Wellington) will be visitors to . Christchurch for the Dominion championship crodUet tournament which Will open dn January 17. Mrs Watkins (Hastings) will be a Visitor to Christchurch for the Dominion championship croquet tournament beginning next week. She Will be' the guest of Mrs Arthur Ross, Garden road. Mr and Mrs W. F. Sturman .(Invercargill), who have been visiting Mr and Mrs Robert Stout, Timaru, have returned home. Mrs P. H. Bell, wife of Brigadier P. H. Bell, Auckland, formerly of Christchurch, and her two daughters, Mrs John Page (Hong Kong) and Mrs lain Murray, will shortly take up residence in Remuera. Mrs J. Palmer *(Riccarton) and Mrs A. S. Clark, have left for Nelson to play in the South Island croquet championship tournament commencing to-day. Mrs W. E. Caldow (Wellington) will also take part in the tournament. Dr. and Mrs J. Melville (Palmerston North) have been spending the holidays with Mrs Melville’s father, Mr C. Ogilvie and Mrs Ogilvie (Cashmere Hills), Mrs Ogilvie and Mrs Melville have now left to spend a week’s holiday at Leithfield beach. For all your catering, weddings, birthday parties, in fact, all functions that require the 100 per cent, catering as supplied by Ethne Tosswill, the one expert in town who can and will quote you for any function, large or small Ethne Tosswill can be consulted at 123 A Cashel street, upstairs. Satisfaction and Service is my motto. 'Phone 33-478. “TE WAIMATE,” A VIVID DEPICTION OF EARLY N.Z. STATION- LIFE. Nobody can be other than intensely interested by E. C. Studholme’s "Te Waimate” ... a vivid pen picture of early station life in New Zealand . . . . an entertaining record or life- ;hat has passed in the Dominion. Profusely illustrated. Order your copy from Simpson and Williams, Ltd., High st. —1

Miss Josephine Brice (Gloucester street west) has returned hohie after visiting Kaikoura. Mrs R. D. Gambrill (Palmerston North), Mrs fiUchifcr (Duhedin), and Miss Margaret ClaUghtoh (LoWer Hutt) Will stay with Mrs T..M. Ford (Riccarton) during the croquet todrrtattlent, Which will begin on January 17. Mrs G. McLeod (Gore), Mrs R. Teller (Invercargill), and Mr F. C. Bryan (Lower Hutt) Will be amongst prominent players who Will take part in the croquet tournament Which will open in Christchurch at the end of next Week.

The death of Mrs Agnes Lydia Williams, widow of the late Mr T. S. Williams. aged 85, removes probably the Oldest surviving settler on the East Coast, where she had lived from 181)4, When her husband assumed the managership of Tuparoa Run, Gisborne. Born in the Bay of Islands, Mrs Williams was a descendant of the second generation from two outstanding ligures in the early colonisation of the Dominion. Her father was Mr John Williams, fifth son of Archdeacon Henry Williams, and her mother was the only daughter of Mr James Busby. Thus she was the granddaughter of the two men who had most to do with the signing of the Treaty of Waitnngi. Mr Algar Williams and Dean Warren (Christchurch) are relatives of Mrs Williams.

A day service for powder compacts and cigarette cases, which are left m the morning and provided with fitted felt covers by the evening, is only one of the bright ideas thought out by members of the “Nic Nacs,” of Melbourne, who make all sorts of novelties and give the profits to patriotic funds. The “Nic Nacs” are 10 women, all experienced needleworkers, who meet each Thursday from 11 a.m. till 5 p.m. to make articles which are novelties in the truest sense, as each has some little individual touch to endear it to the buyer. The idea originated with Mrs G. Kaye, of Toorak, who says it has brought wonderful results Orders have poured in and donations have been made to many patriotic funds. Articles range in price from £2 10s to 6d, but most are priced under 10s. The best seller is the old-fashioned sewing chatelaine, which is hung on a string of beads round the worker's nock, and is fitted with scissors, thimble, and needlecase. Three hundred of them have been sold. Another weliliked line is the flower tidy, made ol oilcloth, with a pocket for scissors and .dishcloth, so that flowers can be arranged in the house without undue trouble. Signs of the times are the little cases made of felt, to hold petrol ration tickets.

Most of us need a health tonic that contains a liver stimulant, kidney cleanser, lavative, blood purifier, and acid corrective. R.U.R. is that remedy. Take R.U.R. and Right you are! —3