CURRENT NOTES

Press, Volume LXXXIV, Issue 25649, 11 November 1948, Page 2

CURRENT NOTES

Mr Alan Johns (Fendalton), accompanied by his wife and two children, will return to New Zealand by the Rimutaka on November 20 after an absence of four years. Mr Johns graduated M.Sc. at Canterbury University College before going overseas on active service. Since the end of the war he has been, studying at Cambridge University. His mother and sister, Mrs A. C. Johns and Miss Lilian will go to Wellington to meet him and he and his family will visit his wife’s parents in Palmerston North before returning to Christchurch.

Miss Ruth Evans, infant mistress on the staff of the Kaikoura District High School, who has been selected to exchange with Miss Joan Birkenhead, of the Middlesex Education Authority. will leave in the Ruahine towards the end of this month to take up a position for one year at the Galliard Infants’ School. London. In a recent letter. Miss Birkenhead said she looked forward to her visit to New Zealand and to Christchurch, Where she has some relatives.

Miss L. Clouslon. who has been principal of St. Cuthbert’s College, Auckland, for the last 27 years, and who will retire soon, was entertained reby the Old Girls’ Association of the college and presented with a cheque, a dinner service, and—amid laughter—a cookery book for use in P er cottage in the Blue Mountains in New South Wales, where she will live after her retirement,

Mrs F. J. Simpson (Northamptonshire). Miss Nancy Simpson (deputy organising secretary in Londoh for Barnardo helpers’ league), and Miss X i R oche (Dominion secretary of the league), who are spending a week Christchurch, will leave to-morrow lor Timaru, where they will remain two days before going to Dunedin.

~,T h? , J l6 .*, proceeds of. “The Clothes bsld in September amounted to £174. This was announced at a meetJ n S of “The Clothes Shop” committee held yesterday, when Mrs Algar Williams presided. It was reported that Christmas cakes to the value of £25 had been sent to the National Institute for the Blind. London, for distribution among blind persons. The sum of £125 from “The Clothes Shop” fund, it was reported, had been spent in providing coal during the winter ' for needy blind persons in and around Si 1 ’ wSSHFJ&tJ 1 de . cided to hold the 1949 Clothes Shop” in September. The French Vice-Consul (Mr C. Lansou) and Mrs Caiisou paid their first visit to the. South Island in the week-end, which they spent at Akaroa They were accompanied by Commodore G. W. G. Simpson, chief of the naval staff.

Members of the Christchurch branch of the Nga Tawa Old Girls’ Association held their quarterly luncheon reunion at Ballantyne’s on Tuesday. Guests were welcomed by the president (Mrs K. F. Cochran), who announced that the next meeting would be held early in the New Year.

About 200 gqests attended the combined annual*-evening social of the Women’s Section of no Returned Services’ Association and the Garden Circle of the section, held last evening in the Jellicoe Hall. Mrs H. A. Bishop, president of the Women’s Section, received the guests, who were entertained with pianoforte solos by Mrs H. Peters, songs and duets by Mrs Phyihs Andersen and Miss Ann Anderson (pupils of Mrs J. H. Cocks), items by Mr C. Smith (ventriloquist) and Mr Williamson (magician), a recitauon by Mrs Co 11 ’ ■ pianoforte solos by Mr Estall, and songs by Miss Grace Torkington. A game was won by Mr S; Atkin son. Visitors from the Wellington, Papanui, New Brighton, and Kaiapoi Women’s Sections were among the. guests.

Thousands' of red and pink roses, arum lilies, marigolds, and delphiniums will go to the making of the Christchurch Free Kindergarten Association’s floral carpet which will be displayed in the King Edward Barracks soon. There will also be stalls of various goods in the barracks, and it is hoped that, in this way, a considerable sum of money will be raised' for the establishment in Christchurch of the first New Zealand Kindergarten Teachers’ Training College. great deal of work has gone into thePlanning of the carpet, which will be the .first of its kind to be shown in Christchurch. It will -be of a Persian design and will measure about 700 s SYu re eet ‘ the leaves and stems of the many thousands of flowers must be cut off. and the flowers must be graded according to shade. The deslAnu w . 11! be drawn out on the floor of the barracks and the flowers placed in position on it. The work will be cone on the evening before the display is opened and the carpet will be sprayed to keep it fresh. The carpet will have a wide border of green man -£ thousands of nasturtium leaves will be required for this. Five recent arrivals from England —Mrs Bowen (Loughborough), Mrs Towell (Wiltshire), Mrs Goldthorpe (Hereford). Miss Helen Woods (London) and Miss Abbott (Birmingham) were among guests of honour specially welcomed at a meeting of the Travel Club held at the D.I.C. yesterday. The president (Sir Joseph Ward) presided and songs were sung by Miss Ngaire Wilson for whom Mrs J. H. Cocks was accompanist. The speakers were Mrs F. J. Simpson, who until recently was county secretary for Northamptonshire of., the Women's Land Army, and Miss Nancy Simpson, who is deputy organising secretary in London for the Barnardo Helpers’ League. Mrs C. Shaw and Mrs J. H. Deniord were hostesses. Just arrived at Beath’s, Nylons, 14/6 P air - Advt. are looking, for a Summer Outfit that you can wear on all manner of occasions you should see the lovely Linen Suits and Frocks which arrived this week at Anthony Andersen, Ltd., the ■ centre for exclusive wear for women, at 81 Cashel st. (near Turnbull and Jones). These are available in S.S.W. to O.S. sizes, and m all shades. Advt. What an astounding difference the cut’ makes. These new Jantzen Women’s Shorts at Beath’s are cut to make you and everyone else feel you’re just wonderful. Yes, they’re cut to do just that. Collect yours today for the week-end. Beath’s. Advt. Models suitable for Race Wear now showing at Georgette Millinery. 122 Cashel st., and Ashburton. Advt.