CURRENT NOTES

Press, Volume XCIII, Issue 27962, 8 May 1956, Page 2

CURRENT NOTES

Mr and Mrs Leyden Baker (Cashmere) have left by air for six months’ holiday overseas. They are travelling by the Polar route, and will spend several days in Amsterdam to see the tulips in bloom in Holland.

Mrs R. Gould, of Madras street, St. Albans, who celebrated her ninetysecond birthday recently, was guest of honour -at a party given by members of the Women's Auxiliary of the St. John Ambulance Association. She is the oldest member of the association and received a gift, a bouquet of flowers, and many messages of congratulations. The Mayoress (Mrs R. M. Macfarlane), the president (Mrs Walter Hobbs) and Mr B. J. McKenna, chairman of the Canterbury and West Coast centre of the St. John Ambulance Association. congratulated Mrs Gould and expressed their thanks for her long and untiring service to the association.

Mrs C. R. Irvine, who has retired after 14 years’ service as a member of the committee of the McKenzie Free Kindergarten, was the guest of honour at a buffet morning tea party held at the home of the president (Mrs R. W. Jones). Mrs Irvine was presented with a gift, and elected an associate member of the kindergarten. Other retiring members. Mesdames E. Cross. H. L. Hancock. J. Milsom, W. H. Tanner. S. Niven. A. Wilson, and C. Manning, received flowers.

A talk on how to achieve a colourful display of flowers and shrubs in the garden during the winter months was given by Mr W. J. Humm at the monthly meeting of the Upper Riccar-ton-Sockburn Garden Club. Mrs H. Gentles presided. Competitions, judged by Mr Humm. resulted:—Large bloom. Mrs Wallburton 1. Mrs Holbrough 2. Mrs Hall 3; small bloom, Mrs Holbrough 1, Mrs Spitz 2. Mrs J. Sinclair 3; cluster. Mrs H. Gentles 1. Mrs Holbrough 2, Mrs Gilmore 3; spike. Mrs Gentles 1. Mrs Blakeway 2, Mrs McIvor 3; shrubs. Mrs Taggart 1. Mrs Gentles 2, Mrs Holbrough 3; vegetable, cabbage. Mrs E. Collins 1. Mrs Holbrough 2, Mrs E. Marshall 3; decorative. an arrangement of berries. Mrs Wallburton 1, Mrs Gilman 2. Miss N. S. Holmes 3.

A s successful bring and buy sale in aid of the piano fund was held recently by the Pioneers’ and Descendants’ Club. Members of the committee were stallholders. During the afternoon three members of the North Beach Drama Club. Mrs R. Darby. Mrs P. Yates, and Mr W. Watson, presented a humorous sketch.

Members of the Waikari branch of the Mothers’ Union were the guests of the St. Paul Church, Papanui branch, recently. A service was conducted by the vicar (Rev. Canon H. M. Cocks). After a visit to a factory a party was held, when members of St. Paul’s Church theatre group presented a play and Mrs Strong sang two songs. After nearly a year’s absence in London, Miss Joyce Barrell, of Christchurch, will return home early next month.

Members of the New Zealand Junior Red Cross have recently provided eating utensils and three metal bowls each for 400 boys on Dong Bok Boys’ Home in Seoul. Korea. These boys were formerly bootblacks and beggar boys gathered off the streets and were eating out of old tin cans with their hands. Their food was brought to them in old oil tins which had long since rusted. There was a special ceremony when Miss Helen McArthur, the League of Red Cross Societies Coordinator in Korea at the time, presented the boys with their gifts. The boys were delighted and laughed when one of them, in his “thank you” speech said “Now our soup and rice will not fall through the holes in our dishes, but will all get into our stomachs.” More recently Junior Red Cross members have provided money to pay for digging a well and installing a pump at “Hope Boys Town.” Previously all their water had to be carried about half a mile from a small stream. When the water got low. it froze solid in the winter, and left the home without water.