CURRENT NOTES

Press, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 27010, 9 April 1953, Page 2

CURRENT NOTES

Lady Madden, wife of Commodore Sir Charles Madden, the recently arrived Chief of the Naval Staff, is greatly interested in painting. Sir Charles Madden paints landscapes in water colours, Lady Madden is a painter of flowers, and her work is almost always in oils. Since her marriage 10 years ago her home has been at Kensington, London. Sir Charles Madden is a nephew of the Dowager Countess Jellicoe.

Dr. M. S. Lamont will join the Department of Health as a medical officer on Monday. Dr. Lamont qualified at Aberdeen University, and later served at the Royal Hospital for Sick Children in Aberdeen. She held other hospital appointments in the United Kingdom, and she served for four years with the Royal Army Medical Corps in north-west Europe, Cyprus, and Palestine. When she was demobilised she held the rank of captain. Dr. Lamont, who has been in New Zealand for some time, will be engaged chiefly with the B.C.G. vaccination programme conducted by the department.

Mrs C. T. Wright, vice-president of the National Council of Women of Canada, is visiting New Zealand after attending a conference on child welfare in Canada. She spent Easter in Wellington, and is now on the West Coast. She will acrive in Christchurch on Monday and go north on Tuesday. Mr and Mrs A. M. Hall, Mr W. K. Tomlinson, and Miss Phillis Tomlinson and Mr and Mrs F. W. Wadsworth and Mrs H. H. Thomason (all of Nelson), MissHsobel Turnbull (Wellington), Mr and Mrs A. M. Adams and Mr Murray Adams (Langleydale, Blenheim), and Mr and Mrs lan Menzies (Menzies Bay) are visitors to Christchurch for the wedding of Miss Gladys Rogers and Mr H. R. Henderson, which will take place today. Mrs Enid Frye will leave for Wellington on Saturday to stay with her daughter, Mrs Ronald Gibbons, Lower Hutt, before leaving for the United Kingdom and Europe in the Rangitoto on April 18.

Miss Amy Kane (Wellington) will leave this week by air for London, where she will attend a meeting of the executive of the Associated Country Women ©f the World before going to Toronto, where the triennial conference of the A.C.W.W. will be held in August. Miss Kane has been vice-president of t-he organisation for more than five years, and is one of the nominees for the world presidencv of the organisation. She is also a vice-president of the Pan-Pacific Women’s Association. Miss Joyce Satchell will leave New Zealand on April 22 by the Tamaroa for a trip to England.

Mrs T. E. Y. Seddon (Wellington) arrived in Christchurch from Dunedin yesterday to attend the private view of the Canterbury Society of Arts seventy-third annual exhibition, in which four of her paintings are hung.

Mr Raymond Ferner was the guest speaker at the fortnightly meeting of the Catholic Women’s League held at “Maryknoll,” last evening. Mr Ferner spoke on child delinquency in New Zealand, and the work of the Children’s Court. The Very Rev. Father T. Liddy thanked the speaker on behalf of the members. Miss K. O’Connor, Dominion president, who will leave by air today for Auckland to reg resent the league at the Eucharistic ongress in Sydney, was bidden farewell. Mrs R. Lattimore presided.

With women forming nearly half of the 115 exhibitors whose works, numbering 827, were displayed at the private view of the Canterbury Society of Arts annual exhibition last night, it was not surprising that women were most successful in gaining prizes in the members’ art union. Of the 14 prizes nmc, including the three most valuable, were won by women, and one woman won two prizes, the third and the tenth.

The director of the Asia Travel Service m Singapore, Mrs Boris Holland, is visiting Auckland. Situated in the foyer of the Adelphi Hotel'in Singapore, the service has recenlty been appointed agent for the New Zealand Government Tourist Bureau, and Mrs Holland has come to the Dominion to explore the attractions for tourists. Pupils of the North Loburn School recently won the first award of a trophy for their portfolio, illustrated with pictures, to show the New Zealand way of life. The portfolios are a project peepared by members of the Junior Red Cross and exchanged with overseas children to help promote international understanding. The trophy is a silver bowl on a stand, and has been given by Mrs L. G. Bassett, a former director of the Junior Red Cross in New Zealand, for competition among the smaller country schools The North Loburn School will hold the trophy for one year. Lady Wigram, president of the North Canterbury Centre of the Red Cross Society, visited the school yesterday to make the presentation.

Contract bridge players from many parts of the Dominion will meet at the Chateau Tongariro at the beginning of May to take part in bridge tournaments arranged by the Auckland Contract Bridge Centre. The principal events will be the Chateau Pairs competition and the <Tongariro plate. The April meeting of the Mount Pleasant Garden Club was held at the home of Mr H. Worrall. Mrs H. A Hunt presided. The guest speaker, Mrs W. Milne Shand, gave a demonstration on decorative work. The competitions judged by Mrs Shand resulted as follows:—most outstanding exhibit: Mrs R. P. Jameson. Decorative: Mrs Jameson 1. Mrs Deavoll 2 Mrs Worrall 3. Specimen bloom: Mrs Stevenson 1, Mrs Deavoll 2. Miss Hood WiHiams 3. Fruit: Mrs Hunt 1, Miss Hood Williams 2, Mrs Wood 3. Vegetables: Mrs Allington 1, Mrs Deavoll 2, Mrs Stevenson 3. The hostesses were Mesdames Gainsford, Stevenson and Miss Allington. An increasing number of women are now. qualifying as lapidaries and are moving into the field of commercial buying of Australian gems. The president of the New South Wales branch of the Gemmological Association of Australia, Mr A. A. Wirth, says that women have adaptability for handling gems and a deep appreciation of colour. “If they maintain the everincreasing interest they have shown since our course began with the association’s foundation seven years ago, we should see greater use of Australia s untapped resources of gems, like agate and jaspar, sapphires and others, he added.

The following were the results of the twelfth round of the club pairs championship played at the Christchurch Contract Bridge Club:—northsouth: Mesdames T- Armstrong and H. B. Holder 1, Mrs M. E. Pipe and Mr B. Culkin 2. Mesdames H. P. Lawry and R. D. Iles 3. East-west: Mrs C. Tasker and Mr P. H. Jones 1, Mesdames Norman Barlow and H. R. Pool 2, Mr F. Dornwell and Mr E. C. Tapley 3. The handicap results were as follows:—nor th-sou th: Mrs Pipe and Mr Culkin 1, Mesdames G. B. Parkinson and Powell 2. Mesdames Armstrong and Holder 3. East-west: Mesdames Barlow and Pool 1, Mrs Tasker and Mr Jones 2, Messrs* Dornwell and Tapley 3. The final results of the 12 rounds were as follows:—open: Miss P. Norton and Mr D. T. McCormick 1, Mesdames Armstrong and Holder 2, Mrs N. Laver and Mr M. Shand 3. Handicap finals: Messrs Dornwell and Tapley 1. Mrs Claude Ring and Miss N. Hartley 2. Mrs S. E. T. Crimp and Miss C. Wgdmore 3. When winter comes, new ways of using little touches of fur will make big fashion news. “Little furs’’—the odd collar, pocket, cuff, or glove trimming—are autumn’s important high fashion accent. Here are some ways with fur suggested in American and English collections:—A small barrel muff of black or white fox dramatises a knpbbly tweed suit. A long necklace of mink or ermine—a single strand of fur worked into a circular rope—makes the luxury touch on a suit or fitted winter coat. A strand of dark mink surrounds the cuff of a “shortie” glove in beige suede. One mink shoulder-strap is the only trimming on a Grecian-draped jersey evening dress. Dark ermine is used instead of a fringe at -the ends of a wool crepe stole.

Fashions for town-wear tweeds prompted Edmund Garigue to launch his lace tweeds, which have been having a big success in London, Paris and New York. Transparent, as diaphonous as net, some examples weighing as little as five ounces, his new range is fascinating. Woven in Scotland by a process of which Mr Garigue jealously guards the secret, the tweeds combine the fashionable bulky look y'u h whi ch is a delightful toil. What is SO amazing Is that although they are loosely woven these lace tweeds keep their shape so that the woman who fears to buy them lest hension neec * have no appre-

The Annual Debutante Ball of the Avonside Girls’ High School Old Girls’ Association on Monday, April 20, 1953, in the Winter Garden at 8.30 p.m. Tickets obtainable from the secml a i ry 7ur Mrs t ™ Nicholls, 54 Sumner road. Mount Pleasant, and at DIC Booking Office. —Advt A small number of exquisite evening gowns and debutantes’ frocks has just been completed by the London and Continental-experienced staff designer at Anthony Andersen, Ltd., the centre tor exclusive wear for women, at 81 Cashel street (near the Bridge of Remembrance) . Each one an individual model m the thrilling new Coronation Year styles, they are made from such lovely materials as Slipper Satin, Erencn Brocaded Nets, Tie Silks, Needierun Lace, and Nylon Tulle. With so many important functions in prospect this winter, it would be advisable to call early and see this selectlon - Advt. Miss Feaver, the International Florist, will send your floral'gift world Wld e. Advt Cyclax of London, Colour-Cling Lipstick' . . . creamier, more dramatic and available in many different shades. In a gilt case priced at 12/6. or in a twotoned enamel case at 9/11 . . . Refills at 6/11. Available at Ballantynes’ Cyclax Counter. Advt.