For WOMAN

Press, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23477, 4 November 1941, Page 2

For WOMAN

Mr and Mrs Harold Lightband. (West Avon Flats) left yesterday for a visit to Blenheim and Nelson.

Mr and Mrs H. S. Orbell and Mr and Mrs E. Steele will be Oamaru visitors to Christchurch for the Clip Week race meeting opening on Saturday. Mrs D. Gee-Taylor (Lower Hutt), who has been the guest of Mrs J. R. McKenzie, Roydon Lodge, Riccarton, will leave for the north this evening. Misses A. D. Harman and V. Bond (Holmwood road), who have been spending a fishing holiday at Four Peaks, have returned s home. Mr and Mrs B. McCarthy, Mr and Mrs B. McCarthy, jun., and Mr and Mrs H. E. Robinson (all of Hawcra) will be visitors to Christchurch for Cup Week. Group Captain M. W. Buckley, M.8.E., R.N.Z.A.F., and Mrs Buckley, who recently returned to New Zealand from England, will arrive in Christchurch this morning. They will stay with Group, Captain BuckieV’s mother, Mrs Buckley, Aikman’s road. Miss Rona Favillc has been appointed secretary to the Assistant Controller of the Australian Voluntary Aid Detachment, and has gone overseas to take up her new pbst.. Mrs W. S. Bean (Beverley street) has returned from a holiday visit to the Franz Josef glacier and Greymouth. At a meeting of the Sanatorium Service Society, held last night at the home of Mrs H. A. Young, Cashmere, it was decided,' on the motion of the president, Mr P. H. Harris, to write to Sister K. Moloney, Of the Tuberculosis Dispensary, sympathising with her in her illness and ishing her a complete and speedy recovery. Mrs A. Hazleton (Cashmere) is spending a holiday at Queenstown and the Eglinton Valley. Miss Amy BOwker (Bealey avenue) is paying a visit to Dunedin. Mrs E. Moore (Wellington) is visiting Kaikoura, and .■ the guest of her Sister, Mrs S. P. L. Evans, Torquay street. Miss Nancy Howell (Armagh street) has returned from a visit to Timaru. Mrs C. F. Meyer has left Rangiora to live at Riccarton. Mrs R. H. Main (Nelson), who is visiting Kaikoura, was presented by Mr E. W. Harris, president of the Bowling Club, with the championship ribbon won by her husband in last season’s competitions. An inquirer asks if any reader of "The Press" can give her instructions for crocheting silk gloves size 6J. Mr and Mrs Maurice Gotlieb have returned to Wellington after spending a holiday in Christchurch. They also visited their daughter-in-law, Mrs Arnold Gotlieb.'While in Christchurch' Mrs M. Gotlieb, who is president of the Jewish branch of Happiness Club, Wellington, gave a donation from her branch to Mr P. J. Twomey for the Leper Fund,. Ethne Tosswlll advises that through the relaxation of the Postal Regulations she, can now meet the urgent demand for parcels for civilians In Britain. Send your friends a delicious Xmas Pudding or Cake made by Ethne Tosswlll. Fresh condition on arrival guaranteed. 123 A Cashel st. 'Phone 33-478 for details. —fi Millinery News—Ten Days’ Sale: Ladies. Mrs Freeman offers you 4s in the £ on all ■ Millinery Georgette, 122 Cashel gtreet and Ashburton. —6 ■ 111 ■ l"l T i na|i, I- * 11 1 ..1.,.

CURRENT NOTES

At a meeting of the committee of the Christchurch Woman’s Auxiliary of the British Sailors’ Society, held yesterday afternoon, Lady Acland, who presided in the absence of the president, Mrs H. T. J. Thacker, welcomed the Mayoress, Miss E. Couzins, to the meeting, and thanked her for her interest in the work of the society. While visiting his parents, when on leave from camp, Private Halsey Gallagher was the guest of honour at a large gathering, held in the Prebbleton Hall. He was presented with. a gift from the residents by the chairman, Mr J. Smith. Dancing was enjoyed during the evening to music played by Les. Kinsman’s Band. The women of St. Albans are invited to come to St. Albans School on Thursday, November 6, at 2.30 p.tn., when the emergency precautions cupboard, which has been equipped and Said for by them, will be, officially anded over by the Mayoress, Miss Couzins, to Mr C. D. W.L. Sheppard. St. Albans warden of the Emergency Precautions Scheme. . —6 The Christchurch Women’s Auxiliary of the British Sailors’ Society has, in recent months, sent to London three cases of woollen comforts for distribution among men of the Merchant Navy, and yesterday a letter was received by the local auxiliary from the secretary of the Ladies’ Guild in London gratefully acknowledging the receipt of the last consignment. Each consignment crntained about 300 knit-* ted garments and all have arrived safely at their; destination and were greatly appreciated. At the, meeting of the Christchurch Women’s Auxiliary, held yesterday, Mrs H. S. Vestey, who is ih charge of the knitting division, reported, that since March last year, £490 had been spent in wool and a total of 4724 articles had been, handed to the Seamen’s Institute in Lyttelton. Last month the following articles were handed over to the institute: 28 helmets, four pairs cuffs, 60 pairs mittens. 68 scarves, EjT fronts, 12. pairs sea-boot stockings, 13 pairs gloves, 29 pairs .socks, and 14 pullovers. ‘ The lady editor of “The Press” gratefully acknowledges receipt of £1 4s from the Monday Bridge Circle, three scarves and tins of food from a Rangiora friend, tins of toffee and food and a balaclava from an Oxford friend, for men on North Sea minesweepers; a parcel of books and other gifts from S. J. for the lepers at Makogai; a woman's black coat and scarf and a large parcel of children’s warm clothing from F.M. for the Lady Galway Guild; a jacket and skirt for refugees from an anonymous friend. The acting-matron of the Cashmere Sanatorium, Miss A. Watt, gratefully acknowledges receipt of magazines from Miss M. N. Cliapnfian. for patients in the. sanatorium, and for the Fresh Air Home ,a donation of 5s 8d from Mrs Dalglish, ice cream from Mr P. H. Harris, cakes and scones from Mrs Sincock, birthday cakes from Mrs Ryan and Mr E. A. Adams, ham from Miss Bradley, and soft drinks from “Uncle Fred.” If It’S made of rubber and will stand repairing., take it to the Para Rubber Company’s Expert Repair Depot, High street (opposite the High street Post Office). — ll “MY STOMACH TURNS ENDED." ‘Everyone should know about Mavex Stomach Compound,” said Mr Archie Hutchison,, mercer... Mavex “Double Strength" guaranteed' to hea) away ulcers, nerves. Ipdigestoin. gastritis, etc. All chemists sell Mavex I —a j'gr'g'i'".!!ji icJL 1 ," ;,i