CURRENT NOTES

Press, Volume LXXXVII, Issue 26514, 31 August 1951, Page 2

CURRENT NOTES

Dr. J. B. Conant, president of Harvard University, and Mrs Conant left Auckland yesterday by air on their return journey to America. \ Nurse Elizabeth M. M. Scott, who was awarded the Florence Nightingale gold meds! at the nurses’ graduation ceremony in the Nurses’ Home last evening, is the daughter of Mr and Mrs James Scott, of Glasgow. Nurse Scott came to New Zealand about four years ago.

Miss Kathleen Reardon, a 24-year-old university student, of Mount Eden, won the Lewis Eady vocal scholarship for women at the Auckland competitions festival. Miss Daphne Ellwood (Levin) was second and Misses Tui Uru (Christchurch) and Gwenneth Mclntosh were equal third. There were more than 30 entrants.

Mrs M. M. Dunningham, tutor-organ-iser in adult education and vicepresident of the Dunedin Film Society, will leave next week for London, where she will take a course in the history of art at the Courtauld Institute, a department of the University of London. She will also study design appreciation at the Central School of Design, London. Before returning to New Zealand she hopes to spend some time in Paris and Italy. Miss Melva McAleer, of .Christchurch, who is at present a student at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London, recently .appeared in one of the smaller parts of the television play, “Brother John,” writes the London correspondent of “The Press.” Another New Zealand student at the academy appearing with her was Miss Alice Kemp, of Wellington.

A limited number of orders for Christmas Cakes, to be packed and posted overseas, will be accepted, during the coming week, at “Ethne’s,” in Hereford Court, and the Ethne Tosswill Cake Shop, 123 Cashel street. —-Advt.