CURRENT NOTES

Press, Volume LXXXV, Issue 25735, 22 February 1949, Page 2

CURRENT NOTES

Mr and Mrs Irving Sladen and Miss Margaret Sladen (St. Andrews Hill) will be passengers on the Dominion Monarch for England, leaving New Zealand on February 26. They expect to be away about nine months. Dr. and Mrs Francis P. Shepard (California), who are attending the Pacific Science Congress in Christchurch, will leave to-morrow for a trip to the West Coast, including a visit to the South Westland glaciers. They will then go to Dunedin, where Dr. Shepard, who is an oceanologist, intends making some investigations and Mrs Shepard hopes to learn much about the medical school in which she is interested because her elder son has just qualified in America as a doctor. On their return journey to California they will spend a week in Fiji and a week at Hawaii.

Mr and Mrs N. Mowbray and their two children have arrived in Christchurch, where Mr Mowbray will take up the position of senior lecturer in civil engineering at Canterbury University College. They travelled to New Zealand by the Dominion Monarch.

Dr. and Mrs E. A. Hodgson (Ottawa). who are in Christchurch for the Science Congress, will leave to-mor-row for Nelson where they will spend two days before flying to Auckland. From there they will travel by steamer to Canada. Dr. Hodgson, who is a seismologist, plans to visit Murchison to observe conditions brought about by the Murchison earthquake in 1929. About 90 guests, including delegates attending the Dominion conference of the Royal Australian College of Physicians, now being held in Auckland, and their wives, were entertained at a party given by the Dominion vicepresident, Dr. Cyril Tewsley, and Mrs Tewsley. The guest of honour was Professor G. W. Pickering, head of the department’ of medicine at St. T'.»ary’s Hospital Medical School. University of London, who is visjting the Dominion as the Sims Commonwealth Travelling Professor for 1949. He was accompanied by Mrs Pickering. Two Wellington girls, former pupils of Wellington Girls’ College, have been notified that they have gained fine arts bursaries. The bursaries, tenable for a three or four-year term at the Canterbury University College School of Art, are awarded annually on the results of the examination for diploma in fine arts preliminary. About 10 are awarded each year. Miss ViVian Robertson, Waiwhetu, one of the Wellington winners, will take up her bursary this year, but Miss Karin Wilson, Karori. a student at Wellington Teachers’ Training College, will not accept hers. Both gained averages of more than 68 per cent, in their examinations. Last year three pupils of Wellington Girls’ College gained bursaries.

The Rev. D. N. Mac Diarmid, formerly director of missions of the Presbyterian Church of New Zealand, and Mrs Mac Diarmid left Auckland by the Matua for Suva on Thursday night. Mr Mac Diarmid has been appointed to the charge of St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church, Suva. Miss Irene A. Tossell, the new general secretary of the Wellington Y.W.C.A.. who arrived from Britain by the Rakaia last Week, brings a wide background of international experience to her work. From 1923 to 1934 Miss Tossell worked in Madras for the Y.W.C.A. For the following eight years she was on the staff of the national association of Great Britain. where she travelled over the British Isles on the work of the religious and educational section. Miss Tossell’s next work was in Egypt, where she stayed for over five years. Here she found that there were no foreigners on the staff, but the Egyptian women did the work extremely capably, she said. Mr A. M. Stewart and Mrs Stewart (Perth, Western Australia), who are attending the Pacific Science Congress in Christchurch, will go to-morrow for a two-day visit to the Hermitage, Mount Cook, before leaving for Auckland, where they will join the Aorangi for Canada and the United -States. They will spend some time there before returning to Western Australia. Mrs M. J. Forde. Dominion president of the New Zealand National Council of Women, is at present in Christchurch on her way to Invercargill and Dunedin. She will return to Christchurch on March 6 and of! March 17 and 18 a meeting of the Domirfion executive will be held in Wellington. Miss Mary McLean, president of the Christchurch branch of the council, will attend the meeting. Miss M. Ray. representing the Junior Red Cross, Mrs G. A. Martin, a former member who has been absent from Christchurch for some time, and Mrs E. Morrison, matron of Glenelg children’s health camp, were welcomed last evening by the chairman (Mr George Burns), at a meeting of the Glenelg children’s health camp committee. rs W. Paterson (Malaya) will leave Christchurch tomorrow for Dunedin where they will spend a month before returning to their home near Ipoh, in Malaya They are spending sik months’ furlough in New Zealand, and Mr Paterson has been attending the Pacific Science Congress in Christchurch.

Lady Rutherford, who arrived in Christchurch from England some weeks ago, was an honoured guest yesterday when, with the wives of scientists attending the conference in Christchurch, she visited tne Sign of the Takahe and Victoria Park. About 30 women travelled by bus and car to Victoria Park and were interested in the plantation of native trees flourishing there. They were particularly enthusiastic in their praise of the unique beauty of the Sign of the Takahe building with its beautiful floor its windows, and its heraldic symbols. Tea was served at a long table at the Sign qf the Takahe The party was arranged by Mrs H. R. Hulme. wife of the rector of Canterbury University College. J-rs J. R. Haldane, of Nelson (Dominion president of the Women’s Division of Federated Farmers is making a tour of Otago branches of the division.

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