CURRENT NOTES

Press, Volume LXXXIV, Issue 25548, 16 July 1948, Page 2

CURRENT NOTES

Mrs J. Mowbray Tripp, president of the Victoria League, who for the last three and a half months has bean a patient in St. George’s Hospital after an accident, will return to her home in Park terrace to-morrow. Mrs David Livingstone, who has been in Samoa for some months, will return to Christchurch next week. Her husband, Dr. Livingstone, will remain in Samoa until September, and will then join his wife and make his home in Fendalton. Mr H. Pointer (the newly appointed traffic manager to the Christchurch Tramway Board), his wife and two children, have arrived in Christchurch from England and have taken up residence in Naseby street. Squadron Leader A. W. Southall, D. 5.0., D.F.C., the newly-appointed secretary of the United Kingdom Service Liaison Staff in Wellington, with his wife and three young children, arrived in Wellington from Melbourne this week by the Arawa. The executive committee of the Travel Club, at a meeting held yesterday, with the president (Sir Joseph Ward) presiding, decided that the club would sponsor a child under the “Save the Children” fund. The club will ask for the sponsorship of a boy in the British occupied part of Germany.

The Rev. R. L. Challis, accompanied by his wife and their two daughters, arrived in Wellington this week to take charge of work among Polynesians whq, have come to New Zealand. A Congregationalism .Mr Challis was doing missionary work in Rarotonga for 14 years before going to Britain in 1947 for leave and to give a course of lectures.

Miss Irirangi Pamela Coates, daughter of the late Mr J. G. Coates and Mrs Coates, of, Matakohe, was married at the New Zealand Legation, Washington, on Monday last to Mr Lincoln Palmer Bloomfield, son of the late’Professor Meyer Bloomfield and Mrs Bloomfield, of Boston and New York. The bride was given away by the New Zealand Minister, Sir Carl Berendsen, and was attended by her sister, Miss Josephine Coates. After the ceremony, which was attended only by the immediate family, a reception was held in the Legation garden.

Constable Nora Mary Parker, of the women’s division of the police force, married Constable Dougal Daniel Crawford at Auckland yesterday. The bride was .one of the first women police constables in New Zealand.— (P.A.)

At a meeting of the executive committee of the Tuberculosis Association, held last night, the president (Dr. W. Gordon Rich), who presided, welcomed Mrs E. Cameron Smith, a new member of the executive. Mr J. W. Hillary was elected a member of the committee.

An interesting travel talk, illustrated with films, was given by Mrs W. Glasgow at a meeting of the Home Economics Association, held yesterday, with the president (Mrs J. Lorimer) presiding. The films, some coloured, some in black and white, showed places in the South of England, in Wales, France, Holland, • and Switzerland, visited by Mr Glasgow when he was overseas with a contingent of boy scouts from the Dominion. It was reported that three food parcels had beep sent to the home of a boy who is sponsored by the association under the Save the Children Fund.

An address on compost was given by Mrs C. Crowley at a meetfhg of the garden circle of the women’s section of the Returned Services’ Association held in the Jellicoe Hall yesterday. Mrs C. G. Manhire presided and good business was done at the sales table, in charge of Miss B. Skipworth. Mrs C. E. St. John reported that she had received a good collection of books for the garden circle’s library. Competitions resulted as follows:—miniature: Mrs R. M. Fergie 1, Mrs N. Hooper 2. Mrs St. John 3, Mrs Maclachlan h c. Flowering shrub: Mrs J. Annand 1 and 3, Mrs G. Stoddart 2. Vegetables: Mrs Fergie h c. At a meeting of the Tuberculosis Association held last night a letter was received from a West Coast serviceman who had been a patient in the Cashmere Sanatorium for about 20 months and had been discharged some weeks ago. He thanked the association and its visitors for the many kindnesses he had received while he was at the sanatorium, and asked to become a member of the association, enclosing his subscription, and adding that he hoped to give more help at a later date. The president (Dr. W. Gordon Rich) and members expressed pleasure at the appreciative gesture of the serviceman.

It is advisable to place your order now at Ethne’s, Hereford Court, or the Ethne Tosswill Cake Shop, 123 Cashel street, for Fruit Cakes to be posted to your friends overseas in time for Christmas. Advt. Better breakfasts every time when vou serve Buchanans "HOLLY” Oatmeal—the perfect, new process, pre-cooked breakfast cereal that cooks in two minutes. All grocers sell "HOLLY” Brand Oatmeal- Advt.