CURRENT NOTES

Press, Volume LXXXVI, Issue 26221, 19 September 1950, Page 2

CURRENT NOTES

Mr and Mrs J. K. Milner (Ashgrove terrace) will leave Christchurch soon to make their home near London. Mr Milner intends to fly to England, via Australia and the United States, in November, and Mrs Milner and family will follow early next year. Mr Milner will rejoin a firm of woolbrokers with whom he worked before the war. He will fill the post of assistant manager of the firm’s London office. Mr and Mrs George Milne (Heretaunga) will be visitors to Christchurch for the New Zealand golf championship meeting next month. They will be the guests of Mr and Mrs O. A. Y. Johnston, Brown’s road. Mrs A. Keith Hadfield and Mrs A. F. Johnson will leave to-morrow for Wellington to attend a meeting of the executive of the Free Kindergarten Union. Dr. Elizabeth Batham has returned to Dunedin to become lecturer in marine biology at the University of Otago. Her headquarters will be at the marine biology station at Portobello. Dr. Batham has been studying in England for five years. A mannequin parade and concert programme provided entertainment for an attendance of about 160 at the Canterbury Woman’s Club last evening. The latest fashions in women’s garments were displayed in beautiful models worn by some members of the club and by members of the Christchurch Operatic Society. The parade was compered by Mrs Phyllis Anderson and Mrs J. H. Cocks was in charge of the musical programme and also played appropriate music during the display. Songs were sung by Misses Nola Taylor, Anne Andersen, Dorothy Barnes, and elocutionary items were contributed by Miss Anna Pond. Mrs Cocks played the accompaniments. The proceeds of the gathering will be given to the club’s centennial decorations fund.

Philatelic magazines that have recently reached Christchurch from overseas, even from as far afield as Czechoslovakia, Austria, and Russia, contain reproductions of this year’s New Zealand health stamps, showing Princess Elizabeth and Prinre Charles. Almost without exception, ’the magazines predict that the stamps will have record sales in most countries. Among the most enthusiastic admirers of the stamps are the American philatelists. The annual women’s day services were held at the Linwood Methodist Church on Sunday. The morning service was taken by Mrs W. L. Divers, and Miss K. Dennis took the evening service. Solos were sung by Mrs Cara Cogswell and Miss Janette Buxton. Duets were sung by Mesdames N. Hoddinott and H. Smith, and hymn studies were given by the women's choir. The organist and choir leader was Mrs S. Hodgson.

The cultivation of dahlias was discussed by Mr S. G. Prebble. who was the guest speaker at a meeting of the Home Economics Association garden circle recently. Mrs G. J. H. Garton presided. Tickets for the Royal Horticultural Society’s spring flower show were distributed. Plans were made to meet in Hagley Park the following day to plant trees given by members of the circle, the committee, and other members of the association, as a centennial memorial. A tea-cloth, given by Mrs Garton for competition, was won by Mrs Sewell. Other • competitions, judged by Mr Prebble, resulted as follows: hyacinths. Mrs L. Rollings 1. Mrs H. M. Wilson 2: narcissi. Mrs Wilson I. Mrs C. V. Ferris 2, Miss Conway 3; shrubs, Mrs Wilson 1, Mrs Rollings 2. North Island visitors to Christchurch for the golden jubilee conference of the National Council of Women, beginning on September 28, will be Miss K. McKenzie (president). Miss E. Hadfield. Miss A. M. Anderson (Napier branch of the National Council of Women), Mrs A. E. Wiggins (president), and Miss E. M. Harper (New Plymouth branch), Mrs M. LovellSmith (president), Mrs E. G. Nichol and Mrs A. L. Upchurch (Hastings), Mrs L. Brant. Mrs L. Horton, Mrs M. Broderick, Mrs E. Newland, and Miss I. M. Jamieson (Hamilton). t

Members of the North Christchurch Garden Club were the guests of Mesdames W. Beanland, N. Gale, A. McClure, Gray, and H. Cooper when they held tneir September meeting at the Farmers’ tearooms, Cashel street. Mrs H. E. Radley presided, and Mr J. Glazebrook, Lincoln College, spoke on “Summer Planting.” Monthly competition winners were as follows: class A: Mrs Quartermain 1. Mrs Flavel 2. Mrs L. Thomson and Miss Reeves 3; class B, Mrs McClure 1; cut bloom, Mrs Brightling 1, Mrs Banks 2, Mrs Hunt 3; vegetables, Mrs Le Roi 1, Mrs L. Thomson 2, Mrs Paltridge 3.

Miss Mary Graham, of Wellington, official lecturer in New Zealand for the Theosophical Society, left recently for India to attend the seventy-fifth anniversary convention of the society, to be held at Adyar, Madras, in December. The general secretary of the society in New Zealand, Miss E. Hunt, of Auckland, accompanied by Miss Bastian, of Auckland, and Mrs Harold W. White, of Wellington, will leave this month to attend the same convention.

The death occurred in Wellington recently of Mrs Marion Frances Gilby, who had been for the last 35 years actively engaged as a teacher of shorthand. She was the only daughter of the late T, G. Strange, of Christchurch. Born in Masterton, she went with her parents to Christchurch, where she lived until 1918. Since that time she had lived in Wellington, with the exception of a period of 10 years from 1921 to 1931 spent in Hastings. All her life Mrs Gilby was an ardent church worker and taught in Sunday schools at Christchurch, Hastings, and Wellington. Steps toward the formation of a marriage guidance council are being taken in Wellington. Representatives of organisations have appointed an interim .committee to call a public meeting, at which it is expected a council will be established.