CURRENT NOTES

Press, Volume XCVI, Issue 28329, 15 July 1957, Page 2

CURRENT NOTES

About £3O was raised at a jumble sale held by members of the Christchurch branch of the League for the Hard of Hearing, at St. Luke’s schoolroom on Fri-j day. Proceeds will go towards the branch’s building fund. In the! evening a euchre tournament was organised by Miss I. Nunweek.' Prize-winners were Mesdames D. 1 Darroch and L. S. Birdling, and. Miss I. Nunweek.

Miss M. Corkill, matron of the Nurse Maude District Nursing Association, told of the association’s work to members of the associates’ group of the National Council of Women. After her address, the chairman of the group (Miss R. A.. Alston) presented Miss Corkill with a donation for the association from the group.

Miss Margaret Jones arranged the programme for the monthly social of the Cambrian Society, held on Saturday evening. A quiz on Welsh place names and history was won by the president of the society (Mr J. G. Parry). Items were given by the following:—Miss Shirley Chapman and Mr Penhry Manning (songs); Mrs M. Johnson (monologues); Miss Katherin Wynn Evans (violin solos); Miss Jones (recitation in Welsh); Miss Jones and Miss Jean Anderson (humourous sketch). The accompanists were Mrs K. Newson and Mr Parry.

Miss Elsie K. Morton, New Zealand journalist and author, was entertained recently by Auckland newspaperwomen, in honour of the fiftieth anniversary ol the publication of her first article in the “New Zealand Herald,” on July 7, 1907. Miss Morton served the “New Zealand Herald” for 23 years, including 10 years on the general reporting staff and as organiser and editor of the children’s page. She and Miss Nelle Scanlan were the only two women journalists to cover the Royal tour of New Zealand by the Duke and Duchess of York (later King George VI and Queen Elizabeth) in 1927.

Mrs Bessie Dyke, formerly Miss Bessie Bell, a daughter of .Mr Thomas Bell, who pioneered Sunday Island (now Raoul Island) 80 years ago, was recently honoured by the Auckland Travel Club on the occasion of her, eighty-ninth birthday. Mrs Dyke has told the story of her family’s life of hardships, during their 35 years on the island, to Miss Elsie K. Morton. Miss Morton has now published a book, “Crusoes of Sunday Island,” and presented Mrs Dyke with an advance copy of the book, handbound in blue leather, at the party. A special birthday programme was arranged by the president of the club (Mrs E. V. Edgecumb).

Berets, which are fully gathered on to a band and worn back from the brow, are the most popular version of the old favourite in Paris at present. Guy Laroche, regarded as the leader in styles for debutantes, recently showed this type of beret for evening, made of two layers of beige tulle gathered into a beige satin band. Between the two layers of tulle tiny red flowers were affixed. Another “afterfive” beret of the same shape, which he showed in a recent parade, was made of a blonde tan satin, worn with satin gloves to match as accessories to a

white sheath frock of wool jersey.