CURRENT NOTES

Press, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23301, 10 April 1941, Page 2

CURRENT NOTES

Miss Helen Johnstone (Erewhon. Mount Somers), who has been staying with Mrs Vesey Hamilton. Cashmere Hills, is now the guest of Mrs C. T. Hand Newton. Bealey avenue.

Mrs H. A. Young (Cashmere) has eturned from a vist to her daughter, Mrs Colin Austin, Staveley. Mrs J. Giesen (Lower Hutt), who has been visiting her sister, Mrs Jack Acland, Peel Forest, has returned home.

Mrs H. Wyatt (Knowles street) will leave to-day to spend a short holiday at Tekapo, Second-Lieutenant and Mrs George Hart and their small son are visiting Christchurch. They will leave on their return to Papakura on Saturday night.

Miss Gwen Fryer (Hastings) will arrive in Christchurch on Saturday morning, and will spend Easter with her aunt, Miss M. C. Fryer, Knowles street.

Debutantes at the Old Collegians’ ball will include Misses Jean Fraser (Mount Benger, North Canterbury), Pauline Gould (Fendalton), Josephine and Diana Gardiner (Amberley), Geraldine Hamilton (Cashmere Hills), Gloria Johnston • Fendaltop), Diana Lawrence (Fendalton), Lois Rutherford (Mendip Hills).

Misses Joyce and Eileen Jenkins arranged an evening party at the home of Mr and Mrs J. Howie, Chelsea street, in honour of Miss Leviah McKeown. who is soon to marry Mr Maurice Jenkins. The guests brought gifts for a green and cream kitchen and spent the evening dancing and playing games. Items were given by Mr M. Martin.

A 5 o’clock party was given in honour of Mr and Mrs S. G. Holland ly members of the Christchurch South Electorate Social Committee, in the ounge of the National Club rooms Mr Gordon Stewart, chairman of the Christchurch South Electorate Committee, welcomed the guests of honour, and Mr D. C. Kidd, M.P.. and Mr W. J. Broadfoot. M.P., also spoke. Two other honoured guests were Mr and Mrs H. Holland, the parents of Mr S. G. Holland, "'he crowded lounge was decorated with hydrangeas and dahlias.

The almost incredible lengths to which German propaganda goes was mentioned by Mr M. G. Turner, the speaker at the Travel Club reception held at Ballantynes yesterday morning. In Austria in 1937 he had, he said,, seen German propaganda in full swing’ Christmas candles, when lit, showed swastikas and Heil Hitlers on the wax not yet burnt; crackers showed l more swastikas; even confetti had swastikas stamped on one side. Mr Turner showed a charming little table, which, he said, he had acquired in a wine cellar in Vienna, where it was used to rest glasses on. Underneath it was ■tamped a black swastika. The lady editor of “The Press” gratefully acknowledges a donation of 4s for men on minesweepers from Miss V.. Bell Hill, a, donation of £1 for men at sea from two children in Fendalton, and another of 10s from an anonymous friend for the Crippled Boys’ Club.

Somewhere in the Middle East to day there are N.Z. soldiers who have not received a personal parcel from their relations and friends; before nov Ethne Tosswill has on behalf of her thoughtful clients mailed parcels which have reached just such soldiers Have you sent a parcel to the Middle East yet? We are now approaching the Easter season, the period for thought fulness, so visit Ethne Tosswill at the Hereford Court at her new Soldiers’ Parcel Depot, and select your offering — 6

Mrs Sewall presided at a well attended monthly meeting of the Spreydon sub-centre of the Red Cross Society. Miss M. G. Havelaar gave an interesting talk on the origin and growth nf the Red Cross Society. Work for the month was distributed and the usual ‘‘bring and buy” sale was well supported. “To my mind, Hitler’s real power is, to a very large extent, due to his unbelievable attraction, his hypnotic hold over women,” said Mr M. G. Turner, speaking at the Travel Club’s reception yesterday. “Often, in fact every time I have heard Hitler speak,” continued Mr Turner, who has spent almost all his life in Europe, “I have seen the same expression come over the faces of the women that were listening, a kind of trance, an expression of ecstasy.”

Miss Ina Owen, whose marriage to Mr Lawrence G. Petrie will take place at Easter, has been the guest of honour at several gift parties arranged by her friends. At the home of Mrs Hastings (Cashmere), Misses Herman and Marshall invited their friends to an evening party to which each guest brought a gift for the bride’s bathroom. Mrs Banks and Mrs Forrester were hostesses at a pantry party which they held at Mrs Forrester’s home in Opawa, and Misses Betty Leonard and June Petrie, who are .to be bridesmaids at the wedding, gave a variety gift party at the home of Mrs Petrie in Stanmore road, where the guests spent the evening playing games and competitions. At another party, arranged by Misses E. and R. Ward at their home in Spreydon, gifts for a blue kitchen were brought for the guest of honour. Mrs Taylor presided at the annual meeting ‘of the Kaikoura Rover Basketball Club. The election of officers resulted as follows:—President, Mrs Taylor: vice-presidents. Mesdames P. J. Boyd, McGlashan, Messrs J. Schroder J. Eaton, and A. E. Lee; club captain, Mrs W. Miller: secretary. Miss Gwenda Lawson. Mrs Taylor presented a shield to the local B grade team.

At the Travel Club’s reception, held at Ballantyne’s yesterday morning, Miss J. Trotter, president of the Canterbury branch of the Registered Nurses’ Association, asked for the support of the Travel Club for a bridge party to be held at Death’s early next month. Miss Trotter said the proceeds would be sent to the College of Nursing, London, to help nursing sisters in England. “The nurses in England need our sympathy, our prayers, our help,” said Miss Trotter. “They are working very long hours; many of them have lost all they, possessed.” Nurses in all parts of New Zealand, she said, had combined to send them some material help, which would be promptly distributed. R.U.R. is the balanced health remedy that gets at the root cause of disease and drives out acids and body pains Take R.U.R and Right You Are! 3d a week gives you perfect R.U.R. health. -7

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HOT WATER BAGS!! SHORTAGE LIKELY LATER, Stocks of heavy guaranteed-for-12-months hot water bags are still held in reasonable quantity by-E. Cameron Smith, Ltd.. Chemists, Cathedral square. But prompt buying, is most necessary. If- may not be possible to repeat stocks, and they’re selling fast now! 4s 8d (postal note orders ss. 4d). —«