CURRENT NOTES

Press, Volume XCIII, Issue 27874, 24 January 1956, Page 2

CURRENT NOTES

Miss Lois Holland, daughter of the Prime Minister and Mrs Holland, will leave by air for Australia early next month to join the Strathmore for a visit to England.

Mrs John Wad worth, Blenheim, is the guest of Mrs perrit Van Asch, Hoon Hay. Mr and Mrs Gerald Murray have returned to their home at Tekapo after visiting Christchurch for the wedding of Miss Adrienne Nutt to Mr David Henderson, at which Miss Geraldine Murray, Miss Noeline Nutt, and Miss Berenice Barbour were bridesmaids. Mrs Henderson is the daughter of Mrs J. Nutt and the late Mr J. W. Nutt (Park terrace). Her husband, who has been living at Singapore, and earlier in Sarawak for several years, is the son of Air Vice-Marshal Henderson and Mrs Henderson, of Ascot, Berkshire, England. Mr and Mrs Allan Innes were among Mackenzie Country visitors to Christchurch for the wedding, and Mr and Mrs Michael Newton came from Hororata.

Miss Millicent V. Kennedy, who will retire from the position of warden of the Teachers’ College at the end of February, will leave by the Ruahine for England on March 14. She plans to visit Europe also, and to renew friendships made when she was overseas formerly. .Mr and Mrs W. E. Turland, Mount Pleasant, returned recently after spending 18 months overseas. Miss Eleanor Masterman, aged 20, New Zealand roller-skating champion, was crowned queen of the Auckland Birthday Carnival on Saturday. Her £lOO prize will help to pay her expenses to the world roller-skating championships in the United States this year. Miss Masterffian works as an assistant in an Auckland drawing office. Her candidature in the queen carnival was sponsored by the New Zealand Roller Skating Association, which is trying to raise £lOOO to send her and two top men skaters—W. Mudford and R. Collier—to America. “I’m surprised and thrilled,” said Miss Masterman, who, before the carnival, had undergone personality and conversational tests along with the other candidates. A talk on pot plants in the home was given by Mr Marcussen, of Christchurch, at the monthly meeting of the Sheffield Garden Club. Mrs T. L. Jenkins presided. Competitions resulted: decorative, open class, Mrs R. M. Baxter 1, Mrs D. Jenkins 2, Mrs E. Eaves 3; cut flowers, Mrs W. Montgomery 1, Mrs H. O. Judd 2, Mrs Eaves 3; vegetables, Mrs Jenkins 1, Mrs M. Stufkens 2.

Racegoers were let into a Vice-Regal “secret” at the Trentham races on Saturday. The club president (Mr H. R. Chalmers) announced that it was the fiftieth birthday of her Excellency Lady Norrie when he asked her Excellency to decorate Syntax, winner of the Gloaming Stakes, with the riband. As well as it being the racing club’s golden jubilee it was also that of Lady Norrie, he said.

Hints on how to keep cut flowers alive in the heat are being exchanged by Dunedin women, who will be responsible for flower-filled boxes which will line the main city streets and the Octagon for festival week, commencing next Monday. The Mayoress (Mrs L. M. Wright) said all the women’s organisations that had arranged flower boxes last year had volunteered again this year, with additional new groups. Each of the 46 groups taking part will make a contribution ranging from 41 to five boxes. The Mothers’ Union has assumed responsibility for the whole of the Octagon. Stewards have been appointed to assist the women by lifting boxes. The flower boxes will remain in position until February 6. The flowers will be sprayed with water daily by the reserves department, and flowers will be renewed, if necessary, by the organisation responsible or by business firms in the block. Mrs Peter Sutton, formerly Miss Pamela Dailey, who worked for two years as a physiotherapist at Christchurch Public Hospital, met her husband the Rev- Peter Sutton, of St. £pth]b er t’s Vicarage, Berhampore, Wellington, when she was on her way to pay her first visit to New Zealand and he was returning from a trip overseas. She went back to England to visit her parents at. Kidderminster last year.

“We felt that the English, and the Americans, too, were much more bird conscious than New Zealanders,” said Mrs L. E. Richdale, who, with her husband, Dr. L. E. Richdale, the noted ornithologist, has returned to Dunedin after almost two years overseas. Most of their time was spent at Oxford, where, at the Edward Grey Institute of Field Ornithology, Mrs Richdale assisted her husband with the statistical work and the library research necessary for his new book, “A Population Study of Penguins.” Each of the English counties had its own bird club and published its own journal, said Mrs Richdale. Not only did birds appear more plentiful in England, but there were many more species to be found there than in New Zealand—4oo to 500, as compared with little more than 200 in New Zealand. We specialise in three kinds of Eugene Waves. Cold Wave, Original Spiral, Steam Cassett. State Beauty Salon (up Ethne Tosswill staircase). ’Phone 76-388. —Advt.

Holiday prices for models, also for ready-to-wear straws and felts, from 19s lid. Bargains for all. Georgette Millinery, Ballantyne’s Buildings, 122 Cashel st., and Ashburton. —Advt. Bargain Prices' this week at Chez Nyna Gowns, next Warner’s Hotel (Cathedral Square). Cottons from 49s 6d. W. and W.X. fittings in sheers, nylons, pure silks and linens, heavily reduced. Stock must clear to make room for autumn goods arriving. —Advt. “Celia’s” Summer Sale begins Tomorrow (Wednesday), January 25. This is your opportunity to purchase quality garments at reduced prices. Salon Celia, Ltd., 115 Cashel street, opp. Ballantynes, take lift to first floor. —Advt. Most people go to the Coffee Pot for a large evening meal but “THE FOUR SHIPS” is now open from 4.30-6.30 to cater for those who want a lighter and less expensive meal, and possibly a better salad. (The “Pot” can disagree if they like about the salad.) -—Advt. Hearing Aid Services, Hereford Court. It is so central—batteries for all aids. All aids serviced. Ask to see the latest Hearing Aids. ’Phone 77-782. •—Advt