CURRENT NOTES

Press, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 25257, 8 August 1947, Page 2

CURRENT NOTES

The Governor-General has received the following reply to the message he sent to the Queen on her birthday: “I was much touched by your kind birthday message, and I hope you will convey to the Government and people of New Zealand, its island territories, and Western Samoa my heartfelt thanks for their good wishes.—Elizabeth R.”—(P.A.)

Among passengers in the Port Hobart, which will leave England on August 15 for New Zealand, will be Mrs Shorrock, who is on her way to Christchurch to visit her brother and sister-in-law, Mr and Mrs M. H. Godby, Fendalton. Miss Marie Donaldson (Christchurch) and Miss Sally Grant (Auckland), who, associated with Mr D. D. O’Connor in secretarial positions, have just concluded a tour of Australia and New Zealand with the Boyd Neel Orchestra, will undertake similar duties with the Ballet Rambert, which is expected to open a three months’ season in Melbourne in October. Mrs Rambert intends to arrive in Australia ahead of the ballet to complete preliminary arrangements and will give lectures in ballet in Melbourne. It is not expected that the. ballet will visit New Zealand for at least a year. Miss Ann P. Wylie, elder daughter of Mr and Mrs D. S. Wylie, Palmerston North, will leave on the Waipawa this week for England, where she will study for her Ph.D. degree at the London University. Educated at Nga Tawa School, Marton, and later at Otago University, Miss Wylie gained her M.Sc. degree (first class) in botany in 1945 and a year later completed the Diploma of Honours in zoology. In February of last year she was awarded a post-graduate scholarship in science by the University of New Zealand, which entitles her to two years’ study at an overseas university. Miss Wylie has been on the staff of the Wheat Research Institute at Lincoln.

The marriage will take place quietly to-day in Devonport of Miss Joyce Juler and Mr Julian Hemingway, who wefe both members of the Boyd Neel Orchestra. All members of the orchestra. except the conductor, Mr Boyd Neel, who was to leave yesterday for Sydney, will be present at the ceremony. After their marriage Mr. Hemingway and his wife will joirr the National Symphony Orchestra, he as a double bass player and she as a second violinist. They will live in Wellington. Mr Norman Hartnell, dress designer to Her Majesty the Queen, has offered to create several garments for the winner of the Miss New Zealand quest when she makes her prize-winning trip to England. Miss New Zealand will be fully equipped with a spe-cially-designed wardrobe before she leaves this country. An invitation to his salon has been made to the quest winner by Mr Hartnell through Lady Duff, wife of the High Commissioner for the United Kingdom in New Zealand, who is at present in England, and Mr Hartnell has offered to design exclusively an evening gown and a tailored costume for Miss New Zealand. So far nearly 40 entries have been received for the Miss New Zealand quest. The claim that an insufficient number of women were engaged in the policy-making work of the United Nations was recently made by Judge Dorothy Kenyon who is the United States representative to the United Nations Commission on the status of women. The National Association of Women Lawyers has determined to try to impress upon the women of the United States the necessity of becoming expertly acquainted with the problems of building a peaceful world. To help bring this about, they have formed an international relations section of the association, and Judge Kenyon has been appointed its chairman. She said recently that about 35 aspects of world affairs and United Nations w‘ork had been assigned to special committees whose chairmen were prominent women lawyers from all sections of the United States. The United Nations would stand or fall on its constructive and creative work, and in this work women must share. “If ever there was an opportunity for women to participate in international life, and if ever there was need for them to participate, it’ is now,’’ she added. She made an appeal to women to learn everything posisble about international affairs, and to become experts in fields concerning the work of building peace, and urged that women should help to fill the halls of the United Nations, and the seats of the policy-makers. Plans have been completed for the campaign for Miss Gean Barnes, who was the second Christchurch entrant for the Miss New Zealand 1947 contest sponsored by the Royal Society of St. George to raise funds to send food parcels to Britain. Miss Barnes is sponsored by the Christchurch Tramways Union and the United Ancient Order of Druids. Several entertainments to raise money in support of her candidature have been arranged. Ladies!! Exclusive Maternity Frocks. Lovely range to choose from, plain and floral silks. Visit New Regent Salon, 22 New Regent street. Advt. Orders for full-fruited cakes, plain* or iced, are now being booked at •Ethne’s,” in Hereford Court, for postage to friends overseas. Prices include packing, sealing in tins, wrapping in linen, and postage. Advt. COOKS in two minutes—“ Holly” Oatmeal —the new process pre-cooked breakfast cereal. Ask your • grocer for “HOLLY” Oatmeal or Rolled Oats—you’ll enjoy the Delicious Nutty Flavour. Advt.