CURRENT NOTES

Press, Volume LXXXVII, Issue 26511, 28 August 1951, Page 2

CURRENT NOTES

Miss A. Candy will retire as warden of Helen Connon Hall at the end of this year. This advice was received by the Canterbury University College Council yesterday.

Dr. Paul Wood and Mrs Wood have arrived in Auckland from England for a short visit to the Dominion. Mrs Wood, formerly Miss Betty Guthrie,' i$ a daughter of the late Dr. John Guthrie, of Christchurch. Miss Beatrice Lavery, a distinguished church woman from Northern Ireland and. secretary of the women’s branch of the World Presbyterian Alliance, is visiting Christchurch this week and will address a meeting of women. The death has occurred of Miss Flora Allan, a former principal of the Otago Girls' High School. She was 87. Miss Allan, a pupil of the school from 1876 to 1882, was its principal from 1911 to 1921.—(P.A.) Mrs E. P. Prince, wife of the newlyarrived Second Secretary at the American Embassy in Wellington, is a graduate of Bates College, New Hampshire, and before her marriage was secretary on different occasions for two members of Congress. Mr and Mrs Prince have three children—a girl who was born in Budapest and two small sons who were born in Montreal, where their father was recently stationed.

Mrs D. M. Sullivan presided at the August meeting of the Brooklands Mothers’ Club. A competition for a oair of knitted socks for a child was won by Mrs Green with Mrs Simmons second. The hostess was Mrs Lowe. French-born Mrs Mario Carosi, wife of Dr. Carosi, Italian Minister designate to New Zealand, arrived at Auckland yesterday with her husband in the Wanganella. Dr. and Mrs Carosi are accompanied by their children, Livio, aged 16, Alda, the only daughter, aged 15, and nine-year-old Roberto.

Spring models and ready-to-wears in straws and felts suitable for race wear now showing at the Georgette Millinery, Ballantynes’ Buildings, 122 Cashel Street, and Ashburton.