CURRENT NOTES

Press, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 25273, 27 August 1947, Page 2

CURRENT NOTES

Mrs J. Begg (Dominion president of the Plunket Society), Miss S. Lusk (nursing adviser), and Miss K. P. Rapps (Dominion secretary) will arrive in Christchurch from Wellington this morning, and will attend the provincial conference of the society to be held to-day. They will leave to-mor-row morning for the West Coast. News has been received in Christchurch of the success achieved in London by Miss Phyllis Mander, a wellknown local singer, who left New Zealand 19 months ago to continue her studies in England. Miss Mander has been accepted by the 8.8. C., and has been approved by the British Arts Council. She has been given concert engagements by them, and, having fulfilled these satisfactorily, has been given several more engagements, and is kept very busy. Major D. Earle, of Auckland, Dominion president of the Girls’ Life Brigade, arrived in Christchurch by plane on Saturday on the first stage of her official tour of the South Island, companies. Later in the day she attended meetings of the n.c.o.’s and officers of the Ist Christchurch Battalion, when the work in the Dominion was discussed. During her tour Major Earle will visit groups at Ashburton, Timaru, Oamaru, Dunedin, Gore, Tnvercargill, Blenheim, and Nelson.

A bequest of £3OO has been made to the Wilson Home for Crippled Children, Auckland, under the will of Mrs D. M. Impey, who died recently. Mrs Bertha Wilson (Remuera) who recently made a gift of £5OOO to the Wilson home, has expressed a wish that the nursing staff be included in the benefits provided for the patients under the special purposes of the deed of trust.

The Borovansky Ballet will open in Wellington on October 8, and will probably visit and Dunedin in November. It will then go to Auckland, possibly filling the Christ-mas-New Year dates there.

Mrs Mina Miller Edison, aged 82, widow of Thomas A. Edison, the famous inventor, and mother of Charles Edison, former Governor of New Jersey, died in New York on Sunday after a long illness. She became Edison’s second wife at the age of 21, when she was hailed by artists as one of America’s most beautiful women. The inventor, then 39, was in the midst of his work as the “wizard of Menlo Park.” The lady editor of “The Press’’ gratefully acknowledges receipt of magazines from Miss P. Norton for the Sanatorium.

Biblio-therapy (the service of aiding patients in recovery by the provision of suitable reading material) in hospitals and other institutions was discussed by Miss Jean Norrie, of the National Library Service, in an address to the Canterbury branch of the New Zealand Library Association in the Opawa Library last evening. There were more than 500 guests at the very successful annual ball held by the Canterbury Licensed Victuallers last night. As usual, the proceeds from the ball will be devoted to charity. Most of the money is used in providing an annual outing for elderly persons from Nazareth House, and the Jubilee Home. The guests of honour last evening included the Mayor (Mr E. H. Andrews) and the Mayoress (Mrs F. Hardy Cookson), the Town Clerk (Mr H. S. Feast) and Mrs Feast, Mr and Mrs J. N. Clarke, Mr and Mrs W. E. Simes, Mr and Mrs H. H. Wauchop, Mr and Mrs J. O. McGillivray, and Mr and Mrs E. W. Hasell. Members of the committee responsible for the organising of the ball were Messrs A. J. Empson (president), L. G. Marston, D. H. Hill, C. W. Stafford, H. L. S. Smith, J. C. Harding, J. Green, W. J. Maloney, H. L. Dyer, C. Leeming, R. H. Dickson, N. J. Wallace, A. J. Cade, L. V. Crothers, A. Mason, A. H. Stevenson, L. G. Ditfort, T. C. Watson, J. H. MacKenzie, G. L. Comer, T. G. Fox, J. M. MacKenzie, A. Barrett, and K. N. McGillivray (secretary).

Each year the Canterbury Association of the New Zealand Federation of University Women holds one afternoon meeting,- generally during tne school holidays, to give country members an opportunity of attending. This meeting was held at the association’s club rooms yesterday afternoon, and amongst those who were present were members from other. towns and from country districts. The speaker was Mrs Gupte, who gave an account of some of her experiences in India, where she lived for some years. Miss E. B. Baxter, who presided, thanked the speaker for her address, which was followed by lively discussion. A bring-and-buy sale was held to raise money for the sending of food parcels overseas. When planning a party, ’Phone, or call and see Olga Miles, Delicatessen, 95 Cashel st. ’Phone 38-709. Advt. Women particularly are invited to consult Klexema specialists about skin and scalp ailments such as seborrhoea, alopecia,'and baldness. ’Phone 34-566. Triangle Buildings. 281 High street. —Advt.