CURRENT NOTES

Press, Volume LXXXVIII, Issue 26671, 4 March 1952, Page 2

CURRENT NOTES

Mr J. T. Watts (Minister of Industries and Commerce) and Mrs Watts will arrive in Christchurch from Wellington on Friday morning and will leave later the same day on the first stage of their journey 'to Karachi. Mr and Mrs W. E. Olds, Mr and Mrs Claude Cooper, and Mr and Mrs F. Palmer will leave on Tuesday for Greymouth, where Messrs Olds, Cooper and Palmer will attend the annual conference of the New Zealand Justices of the Peace Association. Mr and Mrs’D. M. Sandman (South Brighton) will leave to-day to join the Aorangi for Canada. They will pay a visit to their son-in-law and daughter, Mr and Mrs N. W. Nichols, of Calgary.

Miss M. Needs, matron at Sunnyside Mental Hospital, will attend the matrons’ conference to be held in Hamilton early next month, in conjunction with the annual conference of the New Zealand Registered Nurses’ Association. f

Mr and Mrs Robert Alford (Cambridge) are visiting their son-in-law and daughter, Mr and Mrs Noel Archibald, St. Andrews' Hill.

Miss Annette Johnson, of Mount Torlesse, Springfield, who has been competing m tne Olympic winter games at Oslo, writes interestingly of some of her experiences among competitors of many nations. A Norwegian film unit, she says, came to an evening gathering and made “recordings ana films of us all and a haka by four New Zealand men made a great impression. The German representatives sang yodelling songs and danced, and the Bulgarians, who like .the Polish team are Communists, sang choruses.” There was so little snow mat three bus loads of soldiers arrived to work on the men’s downhill course, blasting and spraying it. At the official opening of the games, when each team stood in front of its country’s flag, the New Zealanders had a splendid view of the Royal Princess, who shook hands with eacji member of the Norwegian team, which stood next to the New Zealanders. In the sfalom Miss Johnson was number 47, the last runner to start, and she came thirty-ninth in the race. Viscountess Cromer, who with her hysband is visiting New Zealand and is at present the guest of the Gov-ernor-General, Lord Freyberg, and Lady Freyberg at Government House. Auckland, is the second daughter of the fourth Earl of Minto. Before her marriage in 1908 she was Lady Ruby Elliot, and she is the author of several books, including “Unfettered Ways” and “Such Were These Years,” and is also a Dame Grand Cross of St. John of Jerusalem. Lord and Lady Cromer have one son and two daughters. Their elder daughter is the wife of Mr J. D. Hills. M.C., M.A.. headmaster of Bradfield College, Berkshire. Their son. Viscount Errington, who is a godson of King George V, is managing director of Messrs Baring Brothers and Company, Ltd., London. His wife is the second daughter of Viscount Rothermere, Mrs Coates, widow of Mr Gordon Coates, a former Prime Minister of New Zealand, returned to Auckland on Saturday in a Pan American ClipSer after spending 21 months in the 'nited States. Mrs Coates has been living with her daughters, Mrs L. Bloomfield and Mrs J. Thornton, of Washington, D.C., and Mrs B. McCullock, or San Diego, California. Mrs Coates was met on Saturday by another daughter, Mrs Arthur Pryde, with whom she will go to Whangarei.— (P.A.)

Two appeals for help were made to the Friends of the Hospital at their annual meeting last evening. Mr V. C. Lawn (chairman of the North Canterbury Hospital Board) and Miss L. Ennis (matron of the Burwood Hospital), after congratulating members no their impressive record of work and thanking them for their continued kindly help to hospital patients, asked if it would be possible to extend the work of the New Brighton group of the Friends. Miss Ennis said that this group supplied 10 or 12 helpers, who arrived at the Burwood Hospital each day at 9 9,m. and gave fine practical assistance in the wards, in the serverv, and in the kitchen, as well as spreading a good influence among patients and staff by their spirit of service, their kindliness and their quiet unassuming manner. If an additional group of similar workers could attend at the hospital later each day it would be a great boon to her and the staff, she said. Mrs H. Wales, who is in charge of the Red Cross Society’s Good Neighbours’ scheme, also expressed warm appreciation of the work done by the Friends of the Hospital and asked if any of the members could help with the good neighbours’ scheme. This would entail visiting the homes of aged and infirm persons, perhaps tidying their rooms, doing messages, or cook-' ing a meal for them. At an afternoorf social held recently at the Pensioners’ Club, the guest artists were Mrs J. Scrimshaw and Sarty. The items given were solos by Irs Scrimshaw, Mrs N. Gordon, and Mrs Wilson, monologues by Mrs C. Hunter, sketches by Mrs C. Buxton and Mrs C. Plesse. Mrs P. Goulding was pianist. Last year, Jacques Fath, the Parisian designer, whose word is considered law, decreed that the chignon was the most fashionable hairdo, but this time the matter was taken out of his hands. Six of his favourite mannequins set out to prove that the master’s word is not always law. They staged a minor revolt just before the showing of the spring collection, and had their hair cut to show that short hair and Fath’s fashions go together. The result: nobody knows what Fath said to his short-haired beauties, but they proved their point. His chignon idea is dead. Final clearance of all Straws and Felts from 9s lid. GEORGETTE MILLINERY, 122 Cashel street, Ballantynes’ Buildings, also Ashburton. —Advt. BARNETTS, the Chemists in the Square, are convenient to all trams and buses, and give prompt attention to your prescription requirements. Full range of English and Continental Toiletries—CALL AT BARNETTS. Advt.