CURRENT NOTES

Press, Volume LXXXV, Issue 25932, 12 October 1949, Page 2

CURRENT NOTES

Sir Robert Chance (Lord Lieutenant of the County of Cumberland), Lady Chance, and Miss Mary Chance arrived in Christchurch yesterday and are staying at the Clarendon Hotel.

Mrs Gordon Fulton (Fendalton road) will leave Christchurch soon to visit her daughters in Victoria. At a meeting of the committee of the Victoria League yesterday Mrs Fulton’s resignation from the committee was received with regret. Mr and Mrs A. K. Firth will lend their home. “Oakford,” Circuit street, for a bridge party to be held next week in aid of the funds of the Victoria League, and Mrs Firth will be hostess at the gathering. Final arrangements for the party were made at a meeting of the committee of the league yesterday. It was announced that a market would be held in Cathedral square early in November in aid of the league’s funds and that a Victoria League luncheon would be held in the following week. In a Dominion-wide short story competition for women writers, first prize, the Donovan Cup, has been won by Mrs S. P. Dalton, of Greymouth. The competition was conducted by the New Zealand Women Writers’ and Artists’ Association, and was judged by Miss Nelle Scanlon and a Wellington editor. Advice of her success was received by Mrs Dalton yesterday morning. Although not-written while she has been living at Greymouth, a number of short stories and poems by Mrs Dalton have been published both in New Zealand and in overseas magazines.

At competitions organised by the New Zealand' Amateur Ballroom Association. the New Zealand open amateur ballroom dancing championship was won by Mr and Mrs Roy des Jardines, of Wellington. Mr Raymond Romanos and Miss Julie Connor, of Wellington, were second, and Mr W. McGavock and Miss Shirley Maybury, of Christchurch, and Mr C. Siles-Reine and Miss Maisie Holt, of Auckland, were third, equal. Mr McGavock and Miss Maybury last week won a competition at Christchurch conducted by the Federal Association of Teachers of Dancing.— (P.A.)

Twin daughters have become engaged to twin sons in Auckland. The girls are Shirley and June Mellars, daughters of Mr and Mrs R. F. Mellars. of 19 Kiwi road, Devonport. and their fiances ware Frank and George Chapman. sons of Mr and Mrs A. G. Chapman. of 2 Karetu road, Green Lane. The engagement of June, the elder of the girls, to George, the younger of the men. was announced recently. The announcement of the other couple’s engagement was made a few days later. The brothers are 27 years of age and their fiancees, both of whom are typists, though not employed by the same firm, are 19. The girls are similar in appearance, and so are the men.

A decision to recommence the luncheon meetings was announced by the president (Mrs H. Wyatt) at a meeting of the Women’s Auxiliary of the Navy League yesterday afternoon. Arrangements for the annual garden party in December were made, and members of the sewing and spinning circles reported that they were engaged in making goods for the occasion. Reports on the three men patients in the Christchurch Hospital and the four men patients in the Cashmere Sanatorium were given by Mrs Schumacher and Mrs G. van Asch respectivelv. Special of the jam contained in the third food parcel received in Er.’.’.lan4 wrs made in a letter of thanks which was read at the meeting. Many of the - ,ts at the Pan Pacific conference u Honolulu were discussed in an address by Miss Mary McLean at. a meeting of the National Council of Women Associates Group last evening The president of the group (Mrs H. WornalD, who introduced the speaker, thanked her for her address. For the convenience of Customers, io aid them in the easy selection from our wide range of choice Delicacies, our shop has been completely reno- | vated and extended in the most modern manner Call and see the finest food in the widest variety arranged for your casv selection. OLGA MILES DELICATESSEN, 95 Cashel Street. ’Phone 38-709. 4 Advt. FUR COATS Repaired. Modernised. Lengthened, or Dyed, also made to order. A. S. Cantrell. “Furrier.” 205 High street (opp. Knight’s Butchery). Advt. Flowers Telegraphed to Friend Overseas and in N.Z. World-wide service Consult Miss Feaver. Advt ENGAGEMENT’ The engagement is announced of Olive Jessie, second daughter of Mr and Mrs E. G. Williamson. “Bell Field.” Kyeburn. Central Otago. to Leo Francis, youngest son of Mr and Mrs J. J. Palmer, 122 Rugby street. Christchurch.