CURRENT NOTES

Press, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 25244, 24 July 1947, Page 2

CURRENT NOTES

Mrs J. Mowbray Tripp (Park terxace), who attended the Red Cross conference in Auckland and a conference called by the Dominion Settlement and Population Association in Wellington, will return to Christchurch this morning. Miss C. E. Robinson, chief woman vocational guidance officer (Christchurch) left last night on a short business visit to Wellington. Miss Dorothy Morris (Lyttelton), honorary secretary of the Christchurch Save the Children Fund, who attended the conference called by the Dominion Settlement and Population Association in Wellington, will return home tomorrow. Miss Joy Beattie, a member of the J. C. Williamson Opera Company, was entertained in Oamaru by the local branch of the Waitaki High School Old Girls’ Association. She gave an address on her theatrical experiences in Australia and New Zealand. News of the safe arrival in Denmark of cases of clothing sent by the Danish Sewing Circle in Auckland has been accompanied by graphic letters from leaders of distributing organisations, recipients of clothes, and from Danish “Lottes.” A “Lotte” is a woman, who, during the occupation years, was officially attached to the Air Defence and secretly attached to the Resistance Movement. The clothes were distributed throughout Denmark under the direction of Crown Princess Ingrid, who is president of the committee responsible for the distribution of clothing from abroad. New Zealand’s proportion of persons who never married —about 10 per cent, of the population—was too high, said Mrs Marie Griffen, chairman of the Family Guidance Centre, in an address in Auckland. This was not because they did not want to marry but because they knew so few of the opposite sex that their choice of a partner was limited. Often they worked entirely with members of their own sex. and were in mixed company only in the unnatural atmosphere of the dance ball or the picture house. Outdoor sports • clubs and community centres were partly the solution to the lack of mixed company, she said. Comforts for the inmates of the Jubilee Home were handed in by members at the monthly meeting of the Linwood Townswomen’s Guild. Mrs A. Rippin presided. A musical and elocutionary programme was presented by Mesdames Arnold, Ledsham, and Handly. The accompanist was Mrs Christianson. The first woman to be elected as a lay member of an Auckland diocesan synod was welcomed by the president, Bishop Simkin, in his address at the opening of the first session of the thirty-second synod on Tuesday. She was Miss L. A. Stevens, of Waiheke, who represented the Islands parochial district. Last evening, the Lincoln Agricultural College Ski Club held, for the first time, a combined winter sports and climbing clubs’ dance in the Winter Garden. More than 150 guests were present. Members of the Canterbury College Ski Club, the Christchurch Ski Club, the Winter Sports, Alpine, and Canterbury Mountaineering Clubs and many members of other winter sports bodies were present. The dance was organised by the social committee and the ski club committee of Lincoln College. An unusual and successful feature of the evening was the wearing by most of the guests of skiing or climbing clothes. Some of the dresses represented Swiss or Tyrolean costumes. A demonstration of rose-pruning was given by Mrs David Crozier at the monthly meeting of the Halswell Garden Club at which Mrs R. J. Ware presided. Competitions resulted as follows:—jug of flowers, Mrs Denton 1, Mrs Slack 2, Mrs White 3; primrose, Mrs Slack 1, Mrs White 2, Mrs Ware 3; flower and bulb naming, Mrs White and Mrs Symes equal 1. If you want to be one of Style leaders this Spring, go now to Ellsworth Salon, the exclusive model millinery salon in the State Theatre Buildings, Colombo street. Mrs Pope will display the answer to what is the new season’s freshest fashions in chic, refined range of model millinery, Advt. A small but very select consignment of the famous Harris Tweed materials has just been received at Anthony Andersen, Ltd., the centre for fashionable women’s wear at 81 Cashel street. These wonderful wearing tweeds will be available for making up into tailored suits; and if you are seeking an exclusive suit, quite leasonably priced, it would be advisable to call without delay. Anthony Andersen, Ltd., are in the premises formerly occupied by Mr Eugene Spitz, near the Bridge of Remembrance. Advt.