CURRENT NOTES

Press, Volume LXXXVII, Issue 26328, 24 January 1951, Page 2

CURRENT NOTES

Mrs Ernest Cooke (Aikman’s road), who has been visiting England, has returned to Christchurch.

Miss Natalie Brake, daughter of Mr and Mrs K. Brake, Sumner, has left Montevideo by the Hornby Grange for New Zealand, and is due in Wellington at the end of January. Miss Brake, who has been on leave from the nursing staff of the Christchurch Public Hospital, has been travelling in Britain, Europe, and South America.

The Rev. James Richards, of Rangiora. wiio has retired from the ministry of the Methodist Church after 40 years’ service in various parts of New Zealand, was. with Mrs Richards and their daughter, Miss M. Richards, the guest of honour at a social in the Rangiora Methodist Sunday School Hall. On behalf of the Rangiora. Southbrook and Loburn congregations. Mr H. A. Bennett, the circuit steward, made a presentation to Mr Richards. Presentations were also made to Mrs Richards on behalf of the women’s organisations of the church, and to Miss Richards from the choir and Sunday School. A programme of musical and elocutionary items was given during the evening.

Visiting New Zealand on a copy hunt is a Dutch woman photographer, Mrs Hester Carsten, and by the time she has finished her mission she will have a six months record in pictures and articles of her travels in New Zealand. Already well-known in her country as a regular contributor to newspapers and magazines. Mrs Carsten is making Dutch inmigrants in New Zealand her first news interest.

A tall, good-looking 18-year-old ash blonde began studying recently at Lady Margaret Hall, one of Oxford’s colleges for women. Her fellow undergraduates address her simply as Astrid. She is Princess Astrid Maud Ingeborg, younger daughter of Crown Prince Olav of Norway. Princess Astrid’s studies will include a two years’ course of economic and political history. So far, her education has been conventional but democratic. First she went to a little school at Skaugum, near her parents’ home, with other little girls whose parents lived in the district. Then she went to the Nissins Pike School, well-known Cs’o school for girls. Astrid is Norway's second Royal link with Oxford. Twenty-five years ago her father was a Balliol undergraduate.

More than 50 Home Science graduates from throughout the Dominion are going to Dunedin for a refresher course, lasting a week, which has been arranged by the Otago University Home Science Alumnae Association. The course will open with an informal welcome to-night. Names of the 12 most intelligent women selected in a United States “Book of Knowledge” poll have been published in New York. They are:— Mrs Eleanor Roosevelt; Marian Anderson, negro concert singer; Helen Hayes, actress: Marguerite Higgins, war correspondent; Helen Keller, sociologist; Sister Elizabeth Kenny, physiotherapist; Anne McCormick correspondent* Margaret Mead, author; Mrs Pandit, Indian Ambassador to the United States; Florence Sabin, physicist’ Senator Margaret Smith: Dorothy Thompson, columnist. All the women chosen are living in the United States, and only two —Sister Kenny, of Australia, and Mrs Pandit, of 'lndia—are not American-born

In Sydney an Anzac Festival Committee has arranged a programme of competitions, for which prizes will be given. Already /he winner of the Anzac Day song competition has been deeded, and a prize of £5 5s is offered for a musical solo setting for this song of three verses, each of four lines. Prizes are also offered for a one-act play embodying the spirit of Anzac a noem reflecting the significance of the coming of Captain Cook, and a design .or the cover of a programme for a festival to be held in Sydney the night before Anzac Day. Mrs Dora Wilcox Moore (formerb' of Christchurch, and now of Sydney), who is staying with Mrs L. T. K. Allison, Fendalton is a member of the festival executive committee. of which the chairman (Mr J Wilson Hoggi is also a New Zealander. Mrs Moore, who came to Christchurch for the centennial celebrations, is a granddaughter of Mr Henry Washbourn. a Canterbury pioneer. Among the passengers or/ the Cunard luxury liner Caronia, which is due 1< call at Wellington on February 9 on r cruise round the world, are Mrs Wil liam H. Dupont, a member of th family of the Dunont Chemical Indus tries; Lady Eunice Oakes, widow o the American-born Canadian gold mining baronet. Sir Harry Oakes, wtv was murdered in his Bahamas man-ior in July, 1943. Colonel Robert H. Mon»I‘omery. millionaire amateur horticu'turist. and Mrs Montgomery. On the 33.0C0 miles trip, the tourists will enjoy 32 shore trips. The Maharaia of Jaipur, India, has offered to lend 14 of his elephants to carry passengers on a trip round historic local ruins. The Indian Minister of Antiquities has agreed to open the Taj Mahal, at Agra, during the most beautiful hours o r moonrise and sunrise when it is usually closed.

Fifteen colours for smooth leather and nine for suede leathers for women’s shoes for the autumn of 1951 have been chosen by the joint colour committee of the Tanners’ Council of America, the National Shoe Association, and the National Shoe Retailers' Association. The slnooth leather group consists of a new dark brown, a new medium brown, a cordovan shade and a claret tone for town wear; a new light navy qognac brown, turftan. admiral blue parkway green and cherry red for town and country wear; green, pepper and basque red for town and casual wear; a new orange-tan, golden wheat and ginger spice for casual and country wear. Under the classification of suede leathers for town wear are the new dark brown mentioned above, a new light mocha shade, admiral blue, maple and parkway green.

A conference of the Federation of Societies of Registered Music Teachers of New Zealand will open in Dunedin to-day, and will end on Friday afternoon. About 70 teachers are expected to attend.

NEW SEASON’S JAMS AND PICKLES. Our shelves are once again stocked with our new season Jams and Pickles—Tomato Relish, Is 9d—Rich Raspberry Jam, 3s—Blackcurrant Jeliv 3s 6d (recommended by health authorities as an ideal and nutritious filling for sandwiches in children’s lunches) Our latest delicacy . . . MALLO-NUT FUDGE CAKE at 3s 6d has proved an immediate favourite with our many customers. Try some yourself . . ‘ from OLGA MILES DELICATESSEN. The Specialty Caterers, 95 Cashel street. ’Phone 38-709. —Advt.