CURRENT NOTES

Press, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 27132, 31 August 1953, Page 2

CURRENT NOTES

Mr and Mrs W. Williamson (St. Albans), who have been visiting England, are returning in the Strathmore to Australia, and from there will fly to Christchurch, where they are due to September 11. Mrs E. D. Mosley (Cashmere) will leave by air tomorrow for the North Island, where she will spend a . few months.

Anne Clarke, of Remuera, a 16-year-old blind girl, was last week presented with a cheque from the Auckland branch of the Royal Aeronautical Society for winning the intermediate section of the Walsh Brothers Memorial essay competition. Anne Clarke wrote about the life of an air hostess. She gathered the material from information read to her by her mother and wrotfe it on her own typewriter. Anne, who is now a pupil at the Auckland Diocesan High School, came from England with her mother two years ago to settle in Auckland.

Georgina Te Rauoriwa, twin daughter of the late William Strew and Mareti Watene, chieftainess of the Ruingarangi and Rauhoto sub-tribes of the Tuwharetoa, of Taupo, died at Rotorua last week in her seventy-third year. Georgina was known, to thousands of visitors to Whakarewarewa where she was a guide. Her husband, the late Mr A. P. Warbrick, was also a guide. The annual Dominion conference of the British Sailors’ Society will open in Dunedin on Friday. September 4. Mr and Mrs Wallace Keetley (Christchurch) and Miss J. Sneddon and the Rev. R. J. Witty (Lyttelton) will represent the Canterbury branch at the conference. The Oxford Garden Club held on open night for its August meeting. Professor L. W. McCaskill gave an address on trees in the New Zealand landscape. He also showed coloured slides of New Zealand, with and without trees. The results of competitions were as follows: decorative A. Mrs St. Laurenson 1, Mrs A. D. Chisnall 2, Mrs I. C. Boyens 3: decorative B. Mrs E. C. R. Inwood 1, Mrs R. E. Meyer 2, Mrs E. Feary 3: best bloom, Mrs H. R. Green and Mrs N. H. Johnston, equal 1, Mrs H. Taylor 3. Mrs F. Gorton 4: two leeks. Mrs M. H. Johnston 1. Mrs F. Gorton .2.

At the August afternoon meetin® of the Randolph group of the New Zealand Pioneers’ Descendants Club, the quest speaker was the club’s president. Miss Mary Wigley, who spoke on previous visits of Royal persons to New Zealand, beginning with the visit of Prince Alfred. Duke of Edinburgh, in the late sixties. Mrs H. A. Young played pianoforte solos. The director of the group. Mrs Elsie M. White (honorary secretary), and the assistant group director (Mrs C. E. Foweraker) received the guests. Mrs W. Hopley thanked those who had provided the programme.

The Riccarton branch of the Women’s Christian Temperance Union entertained about 40 children and some of their mothers at a party at which musical and elocutionary items and competitions and a party tea were enjoyed. Mrs H. Griffiths presided and gave a short talk to the mothers. A vote of thanks was passed to the entertainers, pupils of Mrs I. Ander-’ son, and Miss L. Hughes. Each child was given a gift and sweets on leaving. Miss Feaver, the International Florist, will send your floral • gift world wide. —Advt.

You’ll find your dreamwear now either side of the Square, Hereford court cr 11 New Regent street,, where lovelier lingeries costs you less. —Advt