CURRENT NOTES

Press, Volume LXXXIV, Issue 25427, 25 February 1948, Page 2

CURRENT NOTES

Dr. Caroline Stenhouse (Cashmere Hills) will leave Auckland by the Empire Star early next month for England to visit her sister in London and to work in English hospitals. She will be absent from Christchurch for six or seven months.

Mr and Mrs J. A. Stevenson and Miss Margaret Stevenson (Snowden road, Fendalton) will leave Christchurch for Auckland to-morrow to join the Akaroa for London. They intend to be away for about seven months.

Captain J. H. Gaskell and Mrs Gaskell (Papanui road), who have lived in Christchurch for some years, will leave New Zealand next month by the Athenic for England, where they will make their fiome. They will leave Christchurch on Monday to join the Athenic in Auckland.

Miss Margaret Broadhead, daughter of Dr. and Mrs H. D. Broadhead (Cashmere Hills) will leave New Zealand for England next month to study library work.

Miss Margaret M. Kennedy, B.A. (Hons.) London, has been appointed assistant mistress at Te Wai Pounamu College, Ferry road.

Mrs Shelah Constance Williams, wife of Brigadier A. B. Williams, of Takapuna. Auckland, died in Auckland last Friday. Mrs Williams, who was a member of the well-known Holmes family of Canterbury, lived in Christchurch for some years while her husband was officer commanding the Southern Command. She is survived by her husband and three children — one daughter and two sons. The Te Wai Pounamu College Eveleyn Couzins Memorial Eursary for 1948 has been awarded to Waikura Briggs, Lyttelton. This is the third bursary to be awarded. The first holder, Miss Dawn Skipper, after serving for a year as a junior assistant at Maori schools in the North Island, is now at the Christchurch Teachers’ Training College, and the second holder. Miss Joyce Johnstone, has been appointed junior Assistant at Kaharoa Maori School, Waitetuna.

The first edition of 1000 copies of the book. “The Sparkling Waters of Whakatipua,” which was written by Mrs John Mackenzie, of “Walter Peak” Station as a gift from Queenstown to the Otago centenary, has already been sold out. Although it is only eight weeks since the book went into the shops, Mrs Mackenzie has received nearly 200 letters of congratulation.

Mrs Patricia Buddle, of Sumner (formerly of London), who served as a W.A.A.F. during the war, will leave Wellington in March for Australia where she will join the Moreton Bay for England. She will be accompanied by her son, Rodney. At the annual meeting of the Christchurch sub-centre of the Red Cross Society, held yesterday, the following officers were elected: —president, Mrs S. Parr; vice-presidents. Mrs D. Anderson, Mrs E. H. Hargreaves, Mrs W. Morgan, Mrs Algar Williams, Mrs Q-. T. Weston; treasurer. Mrs Weston; secretary, Miss E. J. Garton; committee, Mesdames M. E. Allen, E. J. Chapple, S. Dickson, B. E. H. Whitcombe. W. W. Garton. E. H. Rogers, Miss M. Enright, Mrs Duncan, and Mrs Saint-Merat.

A 19-year-old assisted immigrant, who arrived from Scotland only a fortnight ago. has had a happy reunion with her father with whom she had lost all touch for many years. She is Miss Isobel Kennedy, who .arrived in the Rangitata from Stirlingshire, Scotland. and is now working in the Wellington Hospital. Friends were able to locate her father, who manages a sheep station at Martinborough, and he came to Wellington and met his daughter.—(P. A.) Mrs Alma Schumacher presided at the first meeting for the year of the Christchurch Business and Professional Women’s Club last evening. Members were entertained with songs sung by Miss Barbara Horrell and Mrs Muriel Ross, with accompaniments by Miss F. N. Nicholls. Miss H. M. Pirie thanked the Rev. P. O. C. Edwards for an address on child immigration. :• Miss Patricia McKell, daughter of the Governor-General of Australia, Mr McKell, and Mrs McKell, is engaged to Mr Brian Lucas.* son of Mr and Mrs G. Lucas, North Sydney.