CURRENT NOTES

Press, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 23764, 9 October 1942, Page 2

CURRENT NOTES

Mrs E. H. Northcroft (Montreal street) has returned from a visit to her daughter, Mrs H. W. Upton, Hamilton. Mrs John Barker (Four Peaks) is visiting her mother, Mrs T. Teschemaker, Fendalton. Mrs Frank Scott (Gloucester street west) has returned from a short visit to Mrs Herbert Acton-Adams, Tipapa, North Canterbury. Mrs Brian Boys (formerly of Havelock North) has taken up residence in Dyer’s Pass road, Cashmere Hills. Mrs Wesley Hayes ’(Waimate) has arrived from the North Island to spend some days in Christchurch. Mrs Maurice Macfarlane (Waikari) is visiting Mrs H. P. Hallows Wood (Fendalton). Mrs Herbert Hamilton, who arrived in New Zealand from Malaya some weeks ago, is staying with her mother, Mrs W. E. Whitcombe, Murray place. Mrs Edwyn Wilding (Conway Flat) is a visitor to Christchurch for Christ’s College sports, to-day. Miss Ruth Herrick, director of the W.R.N.S., has taken up residence for a few months in Dr. William Young’s house at Heretaunga. Dunedin visitors to Christchurch for the Christ’s College sports, to be held to-day and to-morrow, include Mesdames Ivo Carr, J. A. Jenkins, Geoffrey Barnett, H. L. Cook, R. W. S. Hotting, J. S. Monro, D. G. Radcliffe, and Miss Joan Barnett. Mrs Wakefield Holmes will celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of her stage appearance in Dunedin by playing a part in the play, “Ladies in Retirement,” which the Dunedin Repertory Society is presenting this week. Mrs R. M. Strang (Invercargill) arrived in Christchurch yesterday to meet her daughter-in-law. Mrs Marguerite Strang, who has arrived in New Zealand to stay with Mr and Mrs Strang. Mrs Marguerite Strang is the widow of Flight Lieutenant Harold Strang, who lost his life during air operations over the English Channel. Yesterday for the first time health stamps were sold by voluntary workers in the vestibule of a suburban post office in Christchurch, and the result was most encouraging. Mrs P. C. Browne, representing the Travel Club, arranged for the sale at the Linwood Post Office, where stamps to the value of £l7 10s were sold. At the monthly meeting of the Christchurch committee of the Sir Arthur Pearson Memorial Fund for the Blind held in the City Council Chambers yesterday afternoon, Mr H. Holland, who presided, reported that he had received a donation of £lO from the Mayor’s fund for the relief of distress amongst blind persons. At a meeting of the Christchurch committee of the Sir Arthur Pearson Memorial Fund for the Blind held yesterday afternoon a motion was passed expressing sympathy with Mrs Morton Anderson in the recent death of her mother. Mrs McOwen. Mrs Anderson was for many years a member of the committee.

An enjoyable evening was spent by members of the League for the Hard of Hearing, when Mr G. W. Southgate showed a series of films depicting the lives of such birds as the albatross, the penguin, the gannet, the shag, and the white heron. Each film was preceded by a short account of the habits of the bird and of the conditions under which the film was taken, and members were able to follow the speaker with ease by means of the group hearing aid. Mr Southgate was introduced by Miss K. Scott, and the president of the league (Mr John Montgomery) expressed the appreciation of the members for the interesting address. Miss E. Beckingsale, missionary emeritus of the New Zealand Baptist Missionary Society, will arrive in Christchurch from Dunedin this evening to attend the diamond jubilee assembly of the Baptist Union, which will begin next week. Miss Beckingsale went to India in 1895 as a missionary nurse, and for nearly 40 years worked untiringly in the interests of women and children in East Bengal. Amongst other activities, she founded a home for widows and children. While in Christchurch she will stay with Miss Gainsford (Barnett avenue), Dominion secretary of the Baptist Women’s Missionary Union. During the assembly meeting, the 150 th anniversary of the formation of the parent society in England will be celebrated and a pageant will be held, depicting the departure for India of the pioneer missionary, Dr. Carey. At a meeting of the Victoria League, held at Death’s yesterday afternoon, the president, Mrs J. Mowbray Tripp, said that Miss Nancy Northcroft. who, formerly was secretary of the League s Young Contingent, had won distinction for herself and the Dominion in being awarded one of four scholarships open to women university graduates of the Empire. At Mrs Tripp’s suggestion, it was decided to send congratulations to Miss Northcroft. It was also decided to send congratulations to Mrs J. Neilson, England, on the birth of a son. Mrs Neilson, formerly Miss Sheila Macdonald, was also, for a time, secretary of the Young Contingent. Visitors to Christchurch for the diamond jubilee assembly of the New Zealand Baptist Union, to be held next week, will include the Rev. ,F. A. Parry, president of the union, and Mrs Parry, of Gisborne, the Rev. P. F. Lanyon, general secretary, and Mrs Lanyon, of Wellington, Mrs H. E. Edridge (Wellington), retiring president of the Baptist Women’s Missionary Union, who will be the guest of Mrs E. Nettleton, Manchester street north, Mrs J. S. Binnie (Auckland), president elect of the Women’s Union, who will stay with the Misses Osborn, Andover street, and Miss Gladys Collins (Auckland), a missionary who has been working in India. At a meeting of the Victoria League yesterday, the president, Mrs J. M. Tripp, expressed the sympathy of members with Miss M. Skoglund, secretary of the league, whose sister, Mrs J. W. Spence, died yesterday. Mrs Spence was a member of one of the best known pioneering families on the West Coast, her father, the late Mr J. T. Skoglund, having arrived in Greymouth in 1865 and served as Mayor of the town from 1896 to 1898. After her marriage, Mrs Spence lived for some years in Stratford, but, when her husband died two years ago. she came to Christchurch and lived with her sisters, the Misses Skoglund, in St. Albans.