CURRENT NOTES

Press, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23313, 26 April 1941, Page 2

CURRENT NOTES

Their Excellencies Sir Cyril and Lady Newall have agreed to become patrons of the New Zealand branches of the Victoria League. Miss K. Woodill (West Coast) has been visiting her mother, Mrs J Woodill. Akaroa.

Miss L. Keast (Monck’s Spur) has returned from a visit to her sister. Mrs F. Keegan. Akaroa.

Regre* at the death of Mrs C. M Johnston was expressed at a meeting of the committee of the Cathedral Grammar School Parents’ Association on Thursday evening. Mrs Johnston had previously served on the committee and was a foundation member of ‘he association.

Mrs J. Henley and her daughter. Kathleen. ‘’New Headford.” Sprineston. are visiting Mrs Bremner. Auckland, Mrs F. W. Hoddinott and Miss G Hoddinott (Dunedin) who have been in Wellington, are spending a few days in Christchurch before returning south.

Miss Fairy Boddington. who has been ' the guest of Mrs Rex Pearce Willowby. has returned to Christchurch

The Parliamentary ball, to be held in the Wellington Town Hall and con '■ert chamber to-night, in aid of patriotic funds, is the second only to be held in the history of Parliament in New Zealand.

Mrs S. J. Gordon and Miss E. Gresson. who have been spending three months at ■ Sumner, have returned to their home in Kinloch street. Mrs N. Cree (Akaroa) has returned from a visit to her sister. Mrs L. Kerr. Ashburton.

Miss Amy Spencer, who has been the guest of Mrs D. H, Jennings Carlton Mill road, has returned to the North Island.

Mrs Richard Wallwork (GracefielQ street) has returned from Oamaru where she was the guest of Madam? Winnie Fraser.

Mrs Waters, who has been staying with Mrs Edmund Parsons. Kaikoura. has returned to Waiau. Mrs Parsons is visiting her daughter. Mrs H. O Baker, Waiau.

Mrs George Maginness, Sockburn. has received cable advice from her daughter. Mrs Trevor Cooke, who has been driving an ambulance in London since the outbreak of war, that her home had been demolished by an an raid, but that that she and her husband were well.

Miss Edna White-Parsons (Lyttelton) will leave on Monday to play in the Ashburton golf tournament. She will be the guest of Mrs W. Guildford Todd.

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Mrs G. Phillips (Takamatua) returned recently from a visit to her son and daughter-in-law, Mr and Mrs L. G Phillips. Christchurch.

Major Robin Harper (Burnham) and Mrs Harper, who have been spending a few weeks in Gerald-ne hav» returned to Christchurch. Mrs G. E. Whelch (Akaroa) has returned from a visit to her daughter Mrs R. Newlands, Wellington. Mr and Mrs S. Le VaiHanf (Cheviot) are visiting Mrs Le VaillanfS parents, and Mrs C. C. Narbey. Akaroa. Miss N. O'Grady (“Hillgrove.' Springston) is spending a holiday at Hanmer Springs. At the annual meeting of the Victoria League held on Thursday it was decided to send congratulations to Sir R. Heaton Rhodes, a vice-president of the branch, on his eightieth birthday, and to wish him many more years of health, happiness, and usefulness. It was also decided to send greetings to Mrs J Neilson, formerly Miss Sheila Macdonald, who was recently married in England and who was the first secretary of the Young Contingent of the Canterbury branch. Mr and Mrs J. E. Armstrong (Akaroa) returned recently from a visit to Wellington. At the annual meeting of the Canterbury branch of the Victoria League, held on Thursday, it was decided to send to Lady Harlech, chairwoman of the league in London, a cablegram expressing the sympathy of the Canterbury branch in the death of Miss Gertrude Drayton, superintendent of the King George and Queen Elizabeth Victoria League Club, and members of her staff, and regret at the destruction of the club, which, the president. Mrs J. Mowbray Tripp explained, was an eight-storey building with accommodation for 400 men. The sympathy ol the meeting was also extended to the relatives of the late Mrs J. B. Beckett, who. for many years, had been a valued member of the Canterbury branch.

"We in New Zealand have wool and we have more leisure than our suffering kinsfolk in England, so we must buy needles and wool and knit our way to victory,” said Mrs J. Mowbray Tripp, president of the Canterbury branch of the Victoria League, at the annual meeting on Thursday. Mrs Tripp read letters from Lady Knox, whose husband was Governor of the Royal Hospital at Chelsea, from the late Miss G. Drayton, and others, thanking the branch for knitted goods which had been distributed amongst firemen, minesweepers, men of the merchant navy, and residents of the stricken areas. Tht writers earnestly pleaded for more woollen goods, especially pullovers, seaboot stockings, balaclavas, and scarves. An urgent appeal was also received for layettes and baby clothes of any kind for distribution in the stricken* districts. It was decided at the meeting that these appeals should be met as soon as possible.

As somebody said the other day: “It’s no use sending parcels to the boys on the other side of the world unless you send the best.” SJthne Tossjwill is recognised as one of the finest pastrycooks in New Zealand, and her parcels for the men overseas contain things they cannot buy for themselves -things that bring a touch of home Call and see her personally, tell hei what you would prefer to send, and leave the rest to her. 123 Cashel st. (opp Ballantynes). —0