CURRENT NOTES

Press, Volume XC, Issue 27501, 8 November 1954, Page 2

CURRENT NOTES

Mr J. T. Watts, Minister of Industries and Commerce, and his wife and family have arrived in Christchurch from Wellington, and have taken up residence in their house in Clyde road. Fendalton.

Mr and Mrs Leslie Orbell (South Canterbury) are visiting the North Island, where they met their son-in-law and daughter. Captain T. D. Herrick, R.N., and Mrs Herrick, who have arrived from England.

Advice has been received in Auckland that Mrs Lucy Mary Doidge. mother of the late Sir Frederick Doidge. has died in Sydney. She was 97. Mrs Doidge was born in London, and after her marriage to Mr Edwin Doidge, a Thames journalist, settled at Cootamundra, New South Wales. There Sir Frederick Doidge was bom in 1884. Mrs Doidge outlived all her four sons, but her three daughters, one of whom. Mrs O. C. Tudehope, lives in Auckland, survive her.—(P.A.) Miss Eileen O’Meighan (Wellington), is visiting Christchurch as the guest of Mrs W. Toomey, Fendalton.

Miss Sally Sinclair-Thomson (Timaru), who has been in England and Europe for the last two and a half years, has returned home and is staying with her aunt. Mrs Derrick Gould, for Cup week.

Miss Prudence Barker, only daughter of Mr and Mrs Harola Barker, Garden road, has returned from a visit to England. In spite of the rain on Saturday afternoon the Methodist Conference held a garden party at Abberley Park. The Mayor (Mr R.,M. Macfarlane, M.P.) attended and opened the function. The president of the conference (the Rev. C O. Hailwood) also welcomed the visitors. Afternoon tea was served in a large tent. A gymnastic group gave a display. Three young women who have completed their training as deaconesses of the deaconess order of the Methodist Church of New Zealand were dedicated to their work in the Church at a special service held in the Durham Street Church last evening. The president of the conference (the Rev. C. O. Hailwood) presided, and the Rev. Raymond Dudley, of Dunedin, a former minister of the church, delivered the charge to the deaconesses. A successful fair arranged by the Beckenham Kindergarten was held in the Beckenham School grounds on Saturday. It was opened by Miss M. B. Howard, M.P. The programme of entertainment included a gymnastic display by pipils of Buckett’s Gymnastic School, a contortionist trio —Peter Remi, Monica Stewart, and Denise Monkman—a show of string marionettes by Alison and Ivan Comfort, rides on a motor conveyance and a chocolate wheel. An unusual *bouquet was presented to Queen Juliana of the Netherlands when she opened an orphanage at Buren, Holland. Instead of the usual beautiful bouquet presented to Royalty at such functions, each girl in the home, big and small, presented the Queen with a single bloom. In this way she met all the children—and had a charming bunch of flowers. Miss Jennifer Cooke, daughter of Mr and Mrs Lionel Cooke, formerly of Christchurch and now of London, is visiting Christchurch, and is the guest of Mrs T. F. M. Gibson. Fendalton. She will leave soon for England, where she is to be married.

The final meeting of the Xavier College Parent-Teacher and Friends* Association, held in the college, took the form of a quiz session, conducted by Mr A. J. Wills and Mr E. J. Ironside. The 200 persons present thoroughly enjoyed this novel feature. Mr Olin contributed saxophone solos. Mrs Gibson was accompanist. In reply to the good wishes of the association extended by the president (Mr Wills), the director (the , Rev. Brother Maurice) thanked the association for its unstinted help during the year and remarked on the great development of the college. For the first time the University of New Zealand had granted the college the right of accrediting for university entrance. The college was conscious, too, of the honour conferred on its cadet corps in providing the guard of honour for the Governor-General (Sir Willoughby Norrie) at the opening of the Mary Potter Hospice yesterday. Supper was provided by the women’s committee. The most practical form of guarding your personal freshness ... A solid stick Deodorant by Cyclax of London ... inconspicuous, easy to carry, and harmless to the most sensitive skins. Absolutely and completely effective but never preventing the skin’s natural functions. It comes to you in a simple polystrene container which is absolutely airtight ensuring that there is not the slightest waste through evaporation .. . Cyclax Solid Deodorant Price 8/11. Available at BaHantyne’s Cyclax Counter Advt.