For WOMEN

Press, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 23536, 14 January 1942, Page 2

For WOMEN

Canon and Mrs Stephen Parr (College House) will leave to-day to visit Mr and Mrs W. A. Newton, Akaroa. Miss Harley (Dublin street), who spent the Christmas and New Year holidays as the guest of Mrs Sholto Douglas, Geraldine, has returned to Christchurch. Mrs Russell Laidlaw (Oaro) is visiting her mother, Mrs F. Goulburn Gibson. Victoria Mansions. Miss Rona Allen (Dunedin), who is visiting her sister. Miss D. Allen, Aikman’s road, will return home to-day. Mrs F. Kilian (Hereford street west) is visiting Mrs Adrian Kilian, Oaro. Miss Berry Joel, who has been staying with Mrs Mauric? Joel, Springfield road, has returned to her home in Dunedin. Mr and Mrs T. A. Leitch (Bealey avenue) tiave returned from a holiday spent at Timaru. Miss M. L. Harvey (St. Albans) and Miss A. Adams will leave to-day lo spend a fortnight’s holiday at Hilltop Mrs H. L. Cleave, wife of SurgeonCommander Cleave, has arrived in New Zealand from Singapore, and is staying at Dcvonport, Auckland. Mrs W H. Meddings (Montreal street north) will leave to-day to visit Mrs Alex Gardiner, Purau. Miss Patricia Milligan, daughter of Dr. R. R. D. Milligan, Sumner, has taken up a position in Grasslands Research, Palmerston North. She is a graduate of Canterbury University College. Miss Muriel Innes (Canterbury College) will leave this week to visit her mother in Auckland. Mrs Hunter Weston (Dunedin) arrived yesterday in Timaru and will visit her son and daughter-in-law. Mr and Mrs Gould Hunter-Weston, Tekapo. Miss Valerie Scott has arrived jn Christchurch from Timaru to begin training as a nurse In the Christchurch Hospital. Members of the Kaiapoi Women’s Institute, with the h e lp of small boys, recently canvassed the town in drays collecting waste metals. As the result of their effort four truck-loads of metal were collected. Mrs Maurice Barrington Smythe (Eastbourne), with her small daughter, has left Wellington to live in Christchurch with her parents, Mr and Mrs W. R. Bullen, Menvale. while her husband is in camp. Mrs Martin and Miss Lorna Martin (Auckland), formerly ot Christchurch, have arrived on a holiday visit. Mrs Martin is staying with her daughter. Mrs B. J. Ager, Belvedere Flats, and Miss Lorna Martin is the guest of her sister, Mrs R. J. Nixon, Burwood. Catering for Weddings and Parties! Everything provided (crockery, glass, etc.) Let Ethne Tosswill do your catering and be sure of something distinctive Cakes savouries and sand wiches Phone 33-478 for further details or see Miss Tosswill personally upstairs at 123 Cashel st (opp. Ballam tyues)

CURRENT NOTES

Mrs J. B. Ensor fßydal Downs, North Canterbury) is visiting her mother, Mrs F. N. Whitcombe, New Plymouth. Miss H. M. Adams, of Waikato Hospital, was top in the Dominion in the maternity nurses’ examination held recently. This honour has several times previously been gained by nurses of this hospital. Miss Aileen Knight, who is soon to be married, was the guest of honour yesterday afternoon at a very pleasant party, given in Death’s grey room by the president and members of the Thurston Club. Miss Knight, who is nurse inspector for the Health Department, will, after her marriage, make her home in Palmerston North. Members of the club, all of whom are nurses who received their training at the Christchurch Hospital during the time Miss Thurston was matron, presented, Miss Knight with a shoulder spray and a small gift and joined in wishing her happiness in her new home. Dame Marie Tempest, the famous actress, who is now 77 years old, is ill. Recently, when she was starring in “The First Mrs Fraser” in Sheffield, she had to be hurriedly taken to a hospital in London. The latest “fashionable intelligence” from Hollywood is that Cary Grant, the film i-tar, is to marry Barbara Hutton, the Woolworth heiress. Both have been married before. Mr Grant, who was born in Bristol, is the former husband of Virginia Cherrill. Miss Hutton has been in turn Princess Alexis Mdivani and Countess Haug-witz-Reventlow. Keen interest has been aroused in Gisborne in the possibilities of collecting ergot, a fungoid disease attacking grass seed-heads, and although plentiful supplies are not reported there appears to be more in the district than was expected earlier. Mr E. M. Ojala, agricultural instructor in Gisborne, is trying to locate suitable areas for collection, and arrangements have been made with the girl guides to organise a party this week to collect ergot, which is needed for medicinal purposes. The lady editor of “The Press” gratefully acknowledges receipt of two coats from Hastings street, Sydenham, for sufferers in the bombed areas of Britain. Old girls of a well-known girls’ school in the South Island are giving practical help where it is much needed. They are relieving the staff shortage, being felt by nearly all concerns at the moment, by acting as waitresses in a large city restaurant, and have proved themselves efficient. With laden trays they move swiftly among the tables and seem to have acquired already the admirable knack of remembering the diverse orders taken from several customers at one time. Wearing fresh, gaily-coloured cotton frocks, the girls go about their duties with a smile. No need now to have Freckles—rub a little Lemon Gllsco well into neck and face to preserve a clear complexion Lemon Gllsco. the all-lemon skin emollient, 1/6 from Woolworths, McKenzies. Cook and Ross, chemists, and elsewhere.