CURRENT NOTES

Press, Volume LXXXIV, Issue 25679, 16 December 1948, Page 2

CURRENT NOTES

Countess De Rege. wife of the new Consul for Italy, arrived in Wellington with her husband this week. Born in Genoa and educated at the College of the Sacred Headt there, she has warm brunette colouring, dark hair dark eyes. Interviewed in Wellington, she said that under a vigorously pursued programme Italian children were again benefiting from the summer colonies which are set up specially for them in seaside and mountain settings. Countess De Rege. who has helped to organise one of these colonies, was able to give a first-hand picture of them. From her description the children’s colonies appeared to compare with New Zealand health camps, though in Italy the largest ones take as many as 5000 children at a time. ■Mr and Mrs W. T. Woods (Fitzgerald avenue), who have been visiting Britain during the last nine months, lelt early in December on the return journey in the Empire Star. They exE“ t ., to e . in Christchurch about-the middle of January.

. Miss Phyllis M. Gale was associate judge, with Mr R. Cuthbertson, of national dancing at the world’s pipe band championship gathering at Scotstoun. Glasgow. Miss Gale and Mr Cuthbertson judged. the world’s championship fling. Miss Gale writes that the march past of 76 pipe bands, with the sun shining on the different tartans, was a memorable sight. About 60 women attended a tennis Party given by Mrs S. M. Nicol at Wilding Park recently in honour of Miss J. Grammar, who is to be married shortly. Mrs Nicol, who will leave to make her home in Wellington early in the New Year, also said goodbye to her tennis friends.

Miss Thelma Christian, a pretty, dark-eyed Pitcairn Islander and a great-great-great-granddaughter of the boatswain of H.M.S. Bounty, Fletcher Christian, arrived aboard the Wairangi at Auckland yesterday on her way home after nursing and college work in Sydney with a fellow islander. Miss Irma Warren. Neither had been away frojn Pitcairn Island before, and they were dumbfounded by the hurly-burly of Sydney. They volunteered together, as the result of a rc 9.^ s t ky High Commissioner of Fijr for girls to secure nursing experiefiefe." Thete were no doctors on Pitcaim;;- they said yesterday, and it was important that somebody should know something of caring for the sick. There; was no dentist on the island either,, but - one man extracted teeth on rOQtiest. The girls. are awaiting a ship for Pitcairn.—(P.A.)

The Newcomers’ Club held its final function for the year in the Toe H rooms recently. Nine new members were The Rev. Stuart Francis led the carol singing which concluded the evening’s entertainment. Next year the club will meet in the Scottish Society’s hall in Cashel street, and the committee will make a special effort to "'give a grand welcome to the immigrants for Canterbury who will arrive by the Atlantis in January. The club has appealed for the loan or gift of a radiogram.

Members of- the Shirley Ladies’ Bowling Club were hostesses at an enjoyable Christmas party and a mixed tournament held this week. The guests were welcomed by the president (Mrs E. Horsfall), who was presented With a china basket bv members in appreciation of her work for the club. Mrs Shaw made the presentation. Mr G. Dabourn. president of the men's chib, thanked the hostesses and referred tn the happy relations between clubs. Mrs Price gave a musical, item, and Mrs D. McIntosh was. pianist.Undergraduates'", and others who think that- the Otago School of Home Science is essentially a feminine preserve are • facing a second attack on their defences, with the appointment of a Paris couturier as lecturer in clothinand dress design. Hp is Mr Rene Thevemot. of Paris, bat beyond that the only -thing known in Dunedin about him. is that., he is “young and able/’ ‘ Mf .Thevemot, who has been engaged for 1949 only, will join Mr J. E. P. Murohy. lecturer in design at the school. They will be the only men to have, invaded the teaching sta<F of , this wholly women’s college.— (P.A.)

Coming to New Zealand to study massage at the University of Otago, a 20-year-old Swedish girl. Miss Barbro Loefvenifiaik, arrived in Auckland on Tuesday in the motor-ship Parrakoola from Oslo. For her entrv into Auckland she clattered up the steps from the passengers’ launch wearing wooden dors. Although this is not her first trip away from Sweden —just before her departure she scent six months in England—shs said it felt str-nee to be “on the other side of the world.” *

Members of the Sumner Presbyterian Church gathered after the evening service on Sunday to bid farewell to Miss Marianne Marshall, who has been a keen worker for the church and Sunday school for the last seven years, and who will shortly be married. The Very Rev. J. Lawson Robinson. for members, presented Miss Marshall wilh a gift, and Mr R. Hall, for the combined Presbyterian and Methodist choir, also made a oresentation. Other sneakers were Mr S. C. Sherrard and Mrs Newstead. An exclusive selection of beautifully tailored worsted suits for matrons arrived this week at Anthony Andersen, Ltd., the centre for exclusive wear for women, at 81 Cashel street (near Turnbull and Jones). They are really outstanding, in nigger brown, dark blue and grey. Sizes are from W. to X.O.S. Advt.

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