CURRENT NOTES

Press, Volume LXXXIV, Issue 25391, 14 January 1948, Page 2

CURRENT NOTES

Contributions totalling £132 have been made in the last three weeks by members of the Methodist, Presbyterian, and Baptist Churches, the Salvation Army Corps, and the Church of Christ at Ashburton towards an appeal to raise funds to sunply food to children in Germany. Although the appeal closed yesterday, it is expected that further small sums will be received. Sister Mavis Patterson, who has been deaconess in the Ashburton Presbyterian Church for the last five years, has been appointed to a similar position at St. Andrew’s Church, Hamilton. She expects to take up her new appointment some time in February. Miss Margaret I. Mote, who is shortly to be married, was entertained by members of the Belfast Presbyterian Church after the evening service on Sunday. Mr S. G. Farquhar spoke of Miss Mote’s valuable service for the church, and as Bible class leader. He asked her to accept a gift with the good wishes of the congregation. The Rev. J. Tennent, who presided, and Mr L. Melrose also spoke. Mrs W. Mackay (Weston road) has returned to Christchurch after visiting her sister, Mrs N. McD. Weir, Wellington.

A great grandson of Captain William Hobson, New Zealand’s first Governor, has been elected an honorary life member of the Canterbury branch of the Pioneers’ and Descendants’ Club. He is Mr Thomas H. Hobson. of Sunderland, England, and a letter thanking the club for the honour has recently been received by the secretary of the branch (Mr D. B. White) from Mr Hobson. Mr Hobson was one of the “Old Contemptibles” of the First World War. He served in India with the 17th (Duke of Cambridge’s Own) Lancers. Captain Hobson, who landed at the Bay of Islands in 1840 azid whose grave is in Auckland, was also a native of Sunderland. The lady editor of “The Press” gratefully acknowledges receipt of magazines for patients in hospitals from Miss O. Tipping and tylrs F. Homersham, Bealey street, and from Mrs Colin McIntosh, Hakataramea.

A two-day “happy marriage school,” sponsored by the local authorities, attracted 200 young couples to Warrington Grammar School, London. Clergymen, psychologists, and married couples were the lecturers who gave free advice to the couples. Films gave a false idea of marriage, one of the lecturers who is a youth worker said. They set Mary Jones dreaming of the day when Robert Taylor would come along to bring her a palace, a car, and rich clothes, but they left out that side of marriage which produced trials and difficulties. To say “thank you” to Australians and New Zealanders for the gifts they have sent to the people of Britain, Miss Bella Hearndon. leader of St. Marylebone Housewives’ Club and a member of the Women’s Voluntary Service, left London during the w-eek-end. She formerly edited the “Countrywoman,” the journal of the Association of Countrywomen of the World. One of the most distinguished of New Zealand surgeons in Britain, Sir Harold Gillies, who is also a member of the Royal Institute bf Oil Painters, will hold an exhibition of his paintings at Charing Cross this week. He will exhibit 130 oils, chiefly scenes painted while on fishing holidays in England, Ireland, Norway, and Iceland. 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.