CURRENT NOTES

Press, Volume XC, Issue 27446, 4 September 1954, Page 2

CURRENT NOTES

Lady Doidge has announced her decision to return to New Zealand and will probably leave London on October 1.

Miss G. E. Mayhew, former headmistress of Marsden School, Wellington. will leave England this month to visit her many friends in New Zealand.

Mrs R. W. Borland presided at the September meeting of the needlecraft circle of the Home Economics Association. Mrs Basil Jones was presented by the president of the association (Mrs E. D. Killner) with a life membership badge. Christmas gift suggestions were brought by members and demonstrated by Mesdames Watson, Richards, Hill, Ferris, Kilner, O’Brien, and Willis. Mrs Moncrieff won the competition. The hostesses were Mrs M. Williams and Mrs E. Williams. Representatives from sister guilds •were guests at the first birthday party of the St. Martins Townswomen’s Guild. The programme included songs by the guild’s choir.

Some new features will be introduced by the Plunket Society in its Violet Day programme next week. The Junior Chamber of Commerce will conduct a mock court in Cathedral square behind the Godley statue, and about 30 persons are to be arraigned before a dignified “magistrate.” Around the Cathedral grounds some Dutch girls in national dress will conduct a copper trail and others, equipped with big baskets, will sell flowers near the society's stall on the southern side of Cathedral square. On the strictly practical side the society will offer for sale a number of day-old cockerels that they are receiving as a welcome gift.

The September meeting of the Opawa-St. Martins Red Cross subcentre was held at Mrs F. H. Polhill’s home, where Mrs Nelham Watson presided. A roster of members was arranged to help in the Good Neighbour scheme for the coming month. Ways and means of raising funds to buy blocks for the Red Cross building fund were discussed and it was decided to have a sales table at the next meeting. New and used garments were handed in.

Mrs Clara Richards, of Auckland, died on Tuesday aged 99. She was born in 1855 in a boarding house situated where Milne and Choyce’s now stands. Her parents, named Grimmer, migrated from England and farmed in the Dome Valley, Wark worth, and she was sent to a girls’ finishing school in Wellesley street Her husband was a schoolteacher before he opened a general store at Matakana, where they lived for 40 years before retiring to Howick. 8

For its September meeting, the Wairarapa Garden Club held a successful evening gathering at Elizabeth House. Husbands and other guests were invited. The president, Mrs Eric Millton, welcomed the guests and also the speakers, Dr. J. E. Saville and Mr J. Watling. In screening a beautiful collection of coloured slides. Dr. Saville described the many vanities of lily that were shown. Mr Watling followed with an equally interesting series of •hdes of roses, irises, and begonias. 3? e speakers were thanked by Mrs H. J. Quarrell, after which supper was served. Competition results were •* follows: spray, class A, Mrs J. Rus•gg L Mrs H- T. Jennings 2, Mrs M. Wilson 3; class B, Mrs A. Nicholls 1, Mrs E. Douglas Pullon 2, Mrs L. W. Matson and Mrs T. Gibson (equal), 3; n® s t bloom, class A, Mrs Jennings 1, Mrs Denis Johnston 2. Mrs Nicholls 3; class B Mrs Matson 1, Mrs F. Morri•on 2, Mrs Quarrell 3.

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