CURRENT NOTES

Press, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 25380, 31 December 1947, Page 2

CURRENT NOTES

The Right Rev. E. S. Woods (Bishop of Lichfield) and Mrs Woods, who are visiting the Primate of New Zealand (Archbishop West-Watson) at Bishopscourt, will leave Christchurch on Friday 1 to stay with Mrs Alister Deans at Morven, Darfield. They will then go to Waiho, South Westland, and plan to be in Nelson on Sunday, January 11. After spending a few days in Wellington as the guests of Sir Patncx Duff and Lady Duff, they will go to Hawke’s Bay and will be in Napier on January 18. They expect to leave the Dominion from Napier on January 24. . Miss Joan Cradock, who has been taking an orthopaedic course in Britain, returned to New Zealand in the Rimutaka from London on Monday. She is to take up an appointment at the Christchurch Public Hospital. On the eve of her retirement to Christchurch after a long residence in the Lauriston district, Mrs H. J. Crothers was met by a large and representative gathering of friends at the home of her son and daughter-in-law, Mr and Mrs H. T. Crothers, and presented with a monetary gift. Dr. R. C. Murphy (curator of oceanic birds at the American Museum of Natural History, New York) and Mrs Murphy, who have been spending a fortnight in Christchurch, will leave to-morrow for Dunedin, where they will stay for some days before going to Queenstown and Mount Cook. Later they will visit the West Coast. Dr. L. J. Comrie, who arrived in Wellington on the Rimutaka from Eng- . land on Monday, is a cousin of Miss H. M. Comrie, of Governor’s Bay, who was awarded the 0.8. E. in the King’s Birthday honours this year, and of Mrs J. A. S. Kirkness, Riccarton. He and his wife, who is an Englishwoman, will visit Christchurch in February. After spending two years in Sydney, two years in Jvfanaos, on the Amazon river, and one year in Rio de Janeiro, Mrs F. Daggett, who arrived in Wellington by the Wahine on Monday, is acquainted with a "number of countries. Mrs Daggett is the wife of the former vice-consul for the United States in Sydney, who has been appointed second secretary and vice-consul-elect in the American Legation in Wellington. Mrs Daggett was born in Pasadena, California. She h?s two small boys, one aged two years, and the other nine months. She and her husband will make their home in Karori, Wellington. One of the British Consular Service’s specialists in Arab affairs, and at present Consul-General for Britain in Tetuan, Spanish Morocco, Mr C. G. Hope Gill, and his wife arrived in Wellington by the Rimutaka on Monday on accumulated leave. Mrs Hope Gill is a New Zealander whose home town used to be Rotorua. They propose spending two or three months in the country, the first part of the time iB the South Island, and then at Rotorua. Dr. W. B. Lusk, accompanied by his wife and son. returned to New Zeals:'nd by the Rimutaka. which arrived at Wellington from Britain on Monday. He will take up a position as a senior assistant pathologist at the Auckland Public Hospital.