CURRENT NOTES

Press, Volume LXXXVI, Issue 26244, 16 October 1950, Page 2

CURRENT NOTES

Mr and Mrs J. C. Fraser, accompanied by their two sons (Ootacamund, Southern India), will leave Colonfbo on Saturday by the Orcades on their way to New Zealand to visit Mrs Fraser's parents, Mr and Mrs H. J. Quarrell, Opawa. They are expected to arrive in Christchurch on November 15.

Miss Enid Roberts was guest speaker when women of the Cambrian Society held their annual evening meeting on Saturday. She described a journey through Europe by car to Hungary Other items included folk songs presented by the women's choir and solos by Miss K. Parry Edwards, Mrs J. Filer, and Mrs Myra Thomson. Some of the music had been selected from the Cambrian Society's earliest programmes of 1890. Lent by Mrs Gillon, a recording of a Welsh theme song featured in 8.8. C. programmes was' played.

Mrs A. E. G. Lyttle presided at the October meeting of the Canterbury Women's Club garden circle. Mr H. W. Gourlay, the guest speaker, gave an entertaining address on an unusual subject—making pleasant the medial tasks of the garden. Those successful in the competitions were as follows: large bowl of mixed flowers, A class, Mrs W. D. Burt 1; B class, Mrs R. I. Brake 1; small bowl, A class, Miss A. M. Blank 1. Mrs Bunt 2: B class, Mrs L. Thomson 1, Mrs Barlow 2. Mrs Brake 3; bowl of polyanthus, Mrs R. H. Taylor 1, Mrs Brake 2. Mrs Tyndall 3; one tulip, Miss T. Watson 1, Mrs L. P. Longuet 2; three 1 tulips, Mrs Lonauet 1: best bloom in garden, Mrs H. Edwards 1, Mrs Longuet 2, Mrs Taylor 3.

Playing soundly, the young Titirangi golfer, Miss M. Hughes, defeated Miss R. C. Hodges, 2 up in the Anal of the Auckland women's provincial golf championship at the Mtddlemore course. It was one of the most interesting finals in the history of the event, and, on the run of play. Miss Hughes deserved ' her win. Miss Hughes was a finalist in the New Zealand women's golf championship at Hastings last month, when she was beaten decisively by the holder of the title, Miss Zoe Hudson, of Christchurch.

A woman who died from inoperable cancer has left £70,000 to the New York hospital that treated her as a charity outpatient. She was Miss Margaret Williams Pierce, aged 83. Officials of the Memorial Centre for Cancer and Allied Diseases, which received the unexpected bequest, said Miss Pierce had been understood to have a small salary as her only means. Mrs Ernest Brown, who with her husband, a Baptist leader and former British Cabinet Minister, is on a mission of goodwill to New Zealand, Is now in Wellington. “I have quite a small flat right in Shaftesbury avenue, London, with the theatres at one end. I am also one of the few wqmen who have a daily help ’’ said Mrs Brown in an interview. “It is still very difficult to obtain any help in the home.” Mrs Brown said she had addressed gatherings in every part of England, not only to do with her church work, but also social service and temperance. Over a period of years she had also addressed meetings and helped to fight elections for her husband. Miss Beatrice O’Malley, Cyclax Consultant. will be available for free consultations at Ballantynes on Tuesday, October 24, to Friday, November 3. It would be advisable to book your appointment now, at Ballantynes Cyclax Counter. Advt.

National Council of Women regular luncheon lecture, M.E.D. lecture room. Wednesday, October 18, at 12.30 o’clock. Speaker. Professor J. B. Condliffe. university of California. Subject, "The Economic Development of Backward Industrial Areas.” Men and women invited. Admission 1/8. Advt. Buchanan’s "Holly Brand" Gralnus Oaten Cereal callulox wrapped to maintain mill freahness, pre-cooked for a hot, nourishing breaklast in 2 From grocers. Advt.

ENGAGEMENT The engagement is announced of Ailsa Judith, only daughter of Mr and Mrs H. M. Copland, Westmere, Dromore, to John William, only son of Mr and Mrs W. L. Milner, Chertsey.