CURRENT NOTES

Press, Volume LXXXVIII, Issue 26856, 8 October 1952, Page 2

CURRENT NOTES

Mrs R. Masefield (Papanui road), who has been spending about five months in Indonesia, has returned to Christchurch, accompanied by her husband, who is on furlough from his position in Indonesia. Mr and Mrs Michael Gordon (Hawke’s Bay) and Mrs John Stevenson (Wellington) are among visitors to Christchurch for the Christ’s College sports this week.

Miss Adarine Ottaway, of Dunedin, who has spent the last 16 years in and out of hospital receiving treatment for a severe from of arthritis, has been advised that her name is on the list for a seat on the Coronation procession route in London next June. A pen friend with whom she corresponded and to whom she sent parcels during the war has offered her a ticket to Britain, and she has accepted. She is to stay with the pen friend’s family m Bristol first, aqd will later visit other pen friends. Miss Ottaway was a milliner before she became ill, and she will visit Luton to see the big millinery businesses there. She expects to leave New Zealand from Auckland on October 25.

Mrs Edna Wpoller, of Wellington, South Island examiner in grade examinations for the New Zealand Academy of Piping and National Dancing, who has been conducting examinations in Christchurch, will leave for Timaru today. After leaving Timaru Mrs Woolier will examine dancing students in Otago and Southland.

Miss Jean Stewart* Otago’s. Olympic swimiper. announced at the Kiwi Amateur Swimming Club’s welcome home social last night that in the coming year she would take up an appointment as an art and crafts student in the Auckland Province. She honed, however, to return to Dunedin before the championships in the following season.—(P.A.)

Mr and Mrs F. M. MacKenzie and their two children left New Zealand in the Maui Pomare yesterday for the Cook Islands. Mr MacKenzie is to be dental officer for the Cook Islands Administration at Tonga for three years. He has been dental officer of a school dental clinic at Whangarei, treating adolescents. Miss Chau, one of the Cambodian delegates to the Pan-Pacific Women's Association Conference in Christchurch in January, recently paid a three-day visit to Hawaii on her way to the United States for. study in pedagogy. Various functions were arranged in her honour by Honolulu delegates to the conference, including a tea at which every delegate was present. In a letter received from Mrs Willowde'ne Handy giving news of the visit she remarks: “Miss Chau is certainly the kind of person who spreads goodwill, and we all felt warm and glowing over the renewal of acquaintance with her.** At the September meeting of the Cust sub-centre of the Red Cross Society, Mrs S. Gillespie presided. Members were asked for donations for the garden party to be held in Christchurch at the home of Lady Wigram in November and also for continued help for the Good Neighbour scheme. As next meeting day would fall on Labour Day, it was decided to hold the meeting during the second week in November. Eighteen garments were handed in and will be sent to the central depot. Mesdames Kingsbury and McArthur were hostesses.

Brigadier J. T. Burrows, commander of the Southern Military District, will on Saturday formally open the garden party, organised by the Comforts for Korea Committee in aid of itfe funds. Brigadier Burrows advised the committee that there were now 369 Canterbury men serving in Korea and he supplied their addresses so that reading matter and parcels of food and clothing may be sent to them. This was reported to a meeting of the committee yesterday by the chairman (Mrs G. H. Watts), who said that generous support was being given to the various stall-holders. Final arrangements were made for entertainments and sideshows and for the dolls’ exhibition and competitions. Mrs Watts said she had received some donations of money towards the funds. The party will be held in the grounds at Mr P. H. Vickery’s home. Banks avenue. Mrs Charlotte Lucy McCaw, who died in Christchurch recently, was for many years an active worker for the St. John Ambulance Association, and at the time of her death was a representative of the association on the Aged Peoples’ Welfare Council. Mrs McCaw was also a keen member of the women’s auxiliary of the association and of the St. John Social Club, and was a kindly and useful supporter of the Health Camp movement.

Mr A. W. Mitchell presided at the October meeting of the Avonside Girls’ High School Parent-Teacher Association. Members stood, in silence as a mark of respect to Mrs T. H. McCombs, a representative of the association on the board of managers since its inception. It was announced that the new swimming baths would be officially opened late in November. Parents of fourth form pupils met members of the staff and discussed the progress of their daughters. A bequest of £2OO made recently to the St. John Ambulance Association by the- late Miss M. A. Bishop would be put into the ambulance replacement fund, said the secretary of the association (Major-General G. B. Parkinson) yesterday. “This timely gift will be a. great help to the association in its plans for replacing obsolete vehicles.” he added.

Mr J. Watling spoke on roses at the monthly meeting of the Cashmere Garden Club. Mrs G. S. Webb presided. The hostesses were Mesdames J. Clarke, S. G. Prebble, M. Taylor, and Miss M. Dougall. Competition results were as follows:—mixed trough, A class: Mrs S. G. Prebble 1, Mrs F. Bowron and Miss M. Salmond (equal) 2, Miss E. Bowron 3. B class: Mrs R. Blunden 1, Mrs M. Taylor 2, Miss E. Clucas 3. Peg crinoline lady, A class: Mrs Prebble 1, Mrs J. Olds 2. B class: Mrs F. H. Thrbwer 1, Mrs Blunden 2, Mrs Cochrane 3. Best bloom: Mrs G. S. Webb 1. Miss Sims 2, Mrs B. Falck 3. Best shrub: Mrs Falck 1, Mrs C. G. M. Boyce 2, Mrs A. Falconer 3. Mrs Constance Spry has been chosen by the British Minister of Works as his chief adviser in arranging the decor of Westminster Abbey for the Coronation ceremony in June. Mrs Sprey, who was born in Derby, decorated the Abbey for the Queen’s wedding, and for the weddings of the Duke of Kent and the Duke of Gloucester. Three Australian women journalists are members of a party of five who are travelling through the North Island on their way to Tahiti. They are the guests of Tasman Empire Airways, and on Tuesday, in company with New Zealand journalists they will leave Auckland on the company’s inaugural flight to Samoa and on to Tahiti. The women journalists are Mrs Hazel McCadden of the United Press, Miss Betty Best (Sydney), and Miss Eleanor Fleming (Melbourne).

Lieutenant-Commissioner Robert A. Hoggard leader of the Salvation Army m New Zealand, announced this week that this year’s self-denial appeal raised £39,653. This, he said, was £l7B more than last year’s sum. Castillo designed a clever new halter neckline for. many of his Empirewaisted evening dresses. It is intricately cut to turn into a cuffed decollete neckline. The neckline is used on a slim tubular “twenties-ish” dinner dress of black crepe, which has a long train sweeping to the floor at the back and a knee-length hemline at the front. Bright cotton plaid is veiled in misty blue chiffon by Schiaparelli for her Empire evening dress, a great favourite with the young in Paris this season. Night colours in Paris include a deep vibrant green bronze shade called “Beetle’s Wing” shocking pink, and all paler shades of pinks, bright purple, orange and sunshine yellow. Your passport to dreamland! Dreamwear, 11 New Regent st. —Advt? HURRY! LAST OF SEASON’S JAMS AT OLGA MILES These varieties of Jams and Jellies are still available from our very popular stock of this season’s Jams • • , A Pricot Jam, Loganberry Jam, Blackberry Jam, Tree Tomato Jam, Cherry Plum Jam, Blackcurrant Jelly, and Marmalade. Stock up now. Also, by popular request, available on Friday our delicious Chocolate Sponge, filled with Cream and Walnuts 3/6. Call at OLGA MILES DELICATESSEN, 95 Cashel street. ’Phone 38-709. —Advt.

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