CURRENT NOTES

Press, Volume LXXXVI, Issue 26032, 8 February 1950, Page 2

CURRENT NOTES

Mr and Mrs C. C. Holland (Glendovey road, Fendalton) will leave Christchurch by air on February 23 to attend the 1950 convention of the New Zealand Society of Accountants, to be held in Auckland from February 23 to February 28. Usually the convention is held every five years, but because of dislocation during the years of'the war, a deferred convention was held in 1946. Mr R. D. Brown (Mayor of Hastings) is president of the New Zealand Society, and Mr Holland is vicepresident.

Mr and Mrs Frank Graham (Innes road) will leave Auckland on March 25 by the Rangitoto for a visit to England.

Miss Anne Rhodes, who arrived in Christchurch from England a few months ago, will leave next week on her return journey to London by . the Rangitiki. Her mother, Mrs Arthur Rhodes and her two sisters, who accompanied her to New Zealand, will remain a few months longer in Canterbury before returning home. Mrs L. Donovan (Innes road), who has been spending several months in Sydney, will return to Christchurch on March 3.

Miss Doreen Udell, a well-known Christchurch singer, who left Wew Zealand five years ago under contract to J. C. Williamson Company, is revisiting Christchurch, and intends to return to Sydney early next month. Miss Udell’s first stage engagement was as understudy to Joy Beattie, who played the leading role in "The Desert Song.” Miss Udell spent a year with the J. C. Williamson firm, and then took an engagement to sing in a stage show at Prince Edward Theatre in Sydey. After playing the lead in “Rose Marie” at Tamworth, she joined a revue company, and has since toured Australia with different companies. She is planning to go to England next year.

Mr and Mrs R. A. Sutherland and Mr A. Harvey. Leinster road, and Mrs Q. Baxter, Manchester street, will leave New Zealand in March in the Dominion Monarch for a trip to Great Britain.

The Rev. Peter Tovey and Mrs Tovey sailed from Auckland for Syuney in the Monowai on Saturday. Mr and Mrs Tovey are on their way to the mission station at Karachi.

Miss Mavis Kerr, a leading figure in tennis and badminton circles in New Zealand, was married at St. John’s Church, Roslyn, Dunedin, on Monday, to Mr Dudley (Bill) Potts, of Christchurch. Mr and Mrs Potts will make their home in Merivale, Christchurch. Miss Margaret Dalziel, until recently principal of St. Hilda’s College, Dunedin, will leave next week by the Rangitiki for England. She and Miss Lenore Harty, of Dunedin, who will travel to London by the same ship, intend to further their studies at one of the English universities. Amongst Christchurch visitors to Auckland this month for the 1950 convention of the New Zealand Society of Accountants will be Mr D. E. Dalzell (president of the Christchurch branch of the society), Mr C. H. Perkins (a member of the Dominion council) and Mrs Perkins, who will leave Christchurch on February 17, Mr and Mrs R. G. Compton, who will leave on February 21, and Mr and Mrs J. H. Pickles, who* will leave on February 17. A luncheon party was held recently at the Hotel Waterloo by the Wellington branch of the Old Girls’ Association of St. Margaret’s College. Christchurch, jn honour of their former headmistress, Mrs S. G. Young. Those present were: Mesdames S. G. Young, J. Howard Wallace (president), Mark Bilby, J. S. Hardie, R. D. Richmond, R. Triggs, Misses Gwynneth Boulton, Peggy Henry, Alison Lusk, and Polydora Soteros.

Miss Mabel Rice, of Dunedin, has this week taken up the position of assistant editor of General Publications in the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research, x

Miss Australia, 1948, who is Miss Beryl James, is to marry a Scottish businessman whom she met in Scotland last year when she was touring Britain. Her fiance is Mr Raymond Cassels, aged 31. a Glasgow company director. Miss James is 25. /

Mrs Joy Parker, who with her husband, Dr. Gordon Parker, returned to New Zealand recently by the Rangitoto, has achieved the honour of beine admitted as an associate member of the Royal Miniature Society. She was a former student in general art a J Elam School. Auckland, but of recent years has devoted most of her time to studying and painting miniatures. In England, where she and her husband have spent the last three years, she studied, the art privately and saw most exhibitions in London galleries. Among them was some of the exquisite work of Hilliard, England’s first miniaturist, most of whose work was done on vellum. For a year before they went to England, Dr. and Mrs Parker lived in a mountain cabin in the Southern Alps, where Mrs Parker painted and Dr. Parker, when not studying, spent his time deer-stalking. Mrs Parker trained as a nurse in the Auckland hospital. Miss E. B. Lea, Dominion secretary of the Pan-Pacific Women’s Association, will visit Christchurch soon, and on March 1, at the National Club rooms, she will address women’s organisations of Christchurch and the adjacent districts. Her subject will be the Pan-Pacific conference which will be held in New Zealand in January, 1952.

Miss Hilda Booth, of the British Young Women’s Christian Association, arrived in Christchurch yesterday to take up the position of activities secretary with the Christchurch association. For the last two years Miss Booth has 2, een , J n Germany, principally in Frankfurt, in the American zone.

To bid good-bye to the Rev. J. B. Dawson, who has been transferred to Greendale, and Mrs Dawson, an enjoyable gathering was held in the Rowe Memorial Hall by members of the Richmond, Shirley, and Marshland Methodist churches. The superintendent of the Christchurch East circuit (the Rev. Roy Jamieson), who presided, paid tribute to Mr Dawson’s work during his four years of ministry in the district. Other speakers were the Rev. W. S. Brettell, Mesdames O. Cummach, M. Good, H, R. Marks, Messrs O. Taylor, J. H. Yarr, H. W. Beaumont, and G. H. Rogerson. Books were presented to the guests of honour. An interesting address on the history of Deans Bush, where members of the Papanui Garden Club held their February meeting recently, was given by Mr Leonard Armstrong, who also conducted members through the reserve. Mrs A. C. McKillop presided. A talk on the layering of .carnations was given by Dr. T. Fletcher Telford, who judged the carnation competition for the McKillop silver vase. Mrs M. McConnell was the winner.

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