CURRENT NOTES

Press, Volume LXXXII, Issue 24797, 11 February 1946, Page 2

CURRENT NOTES

His Excellency the GovernorGeneral, Sir Cyril Newall, officially opened new club rooms for the Auckland branch of the Royal Empire Society and after the formal opening the society held a reception in honour of their Excellencies. The guests were received by Professor and Mrs Worley and by the ; chairman of the society, Mr H. H. Corbin, and Mrs Corbin. Lady Newall wore a gown of cameo pink chiffon panelled in fine, black lace, which also formed the elbow-length sleeves. Her jewels were a double: string of pearls and diamond drop ear-rings.

M. Antoine de la Tribouille, former delegate of the Fighting French in New Zealand, Madame de la Tribouille and their two-year-old daughter, left Wellington on Saturday for France, where they will spend a holiday before M. de la Tribouile takes up a position in London as head of the Information Division of the French Colonial Office.

Mr Neville Phillips, who was recently appointed to the staff of Canterbury University College, and Mrs Phillips, left England for New Zealand by the Akaroa, and are expected in Christchurch early in March. Both Mr and Mrs Phillips are graduates of Canterbury College, and Mr Phillips was formerly on the staff of “The Press.”

Miss Edith Hart, daughter of Mrs C. L. Hart (Rugby street) has been appointed to the staff of the special school at Richmond, Nelson, and will take up her duties there to-day.

Miss Elizabeth Day, who last year was games captain at the Waikato Diocesan School, has left for Sydney to take up a scholarship granted by the Australian College of Physical Education. She is the only New Zealand girl to hold a similar scholarship this year. At a meeting of the Christchurch branch of the National Council of Women, held last week, Miss M. G. Havelaar, Dominion president of the council, was congratulated on being awarded the M.B.E.

A bursary which will enable him to study ballet in London has been granted by the Rehabilitation Department to Mr Harold Robinson, of Dunedin. Mr Robinson, who is aged 25 years, will enter the ballet school at Sadler’s Wells, the home of English ballet, under the direction of Ninette de Valois. He intends to make a further study of the Royal Academy of Dancing technique, as well as mime, make-up, choreography, decor, and the teaching of dancing. On the completion of his studies he intends to return to New Zealand. For the last few years he has been with entertainment units of the services in the Pacific and in Egypt. The c*eath has occurred at Bournemouth of Miss Italia Conti, the wellknown actress and head of a famous training school for the stage. Among the famous stars who passed through her hands as children are Noel Coward, Gertrude Laurence. Brian Aherne, Anton Dolin, Freddie Bartholomew, and Margaret Lockwood. Miss Conti was 73 years of age.—London, February 9.

The objects of the South Island Tuberculosis Association (Northern Group) and the work being carried out by members of the committee were explained last week to the Christchurch branch of the National Council of Women by the president of the association, Dr. W. Gordon Rich. The task of rehabilitating former patients of the Cashmere and other sanatoria in work for which they were suited, and which would not overtax their strength, Dr. Rich’ said, was one in which the co-operation of employers and of the public was urgently needed. He also dealt with the problems created by the shortage of labour at the Cashmere sanatorium. Mr Imeson, a former prisoner of war, described some of his experiences in a prisoners’ camp in Germany, and spoke of. the spread of. tuberculosis in Europe because of malnutrition. Miss M. Wigley thanked the speakers for their informative addresses.

The wives of delegates to the annual conference of the New Zealand Gas Institute at Greymouth were given ample opportunity to see all the scenic attractions and points of interest near Greymouth. Their trips included visits to Punakaiki, Mitchell’s. Rotomanu, and Lake Brunner, an inspection of the Arahura and Ngahere dredges, a run through the old Marsden road, and an inspection of the Wallsend mine. Several of the women descended the mine and toolf part in the firing of shots in coal faces. The visitors expressed thanks for the entertainment provided by the Mayoress (Mrs F. A. Kitchingham) and other Greymouth women, who had done a great deal to make their visit so enjoyable. Dissatisfaction with the holding of Children’s Book Week in November was expressed by Auckland and Hamilton delegates at a session of the New Zealand Library Association's conference in Auckland. It was considered that some other time not so close to the end of the school year was desirable. A resolution asking the council of the association to consider changing the date to some time early in the second term of the school year wai adopted.

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