HERE AND THERE

Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 11, 14 January 1933, Page 6

HERE AND THERE

Residential Nursery.

Owing-to the ' generosity and kindness of the commercial travellers and many other kind friends, the little inmates of the Residential Nursery, Owen: street, had a very tiappy and festive Christmas time. Gifts acknowledged ■vyith; thanks were as follows:—Commercial Travellers, £10; Wellington Gas Company, £2 2s; Melrose Branch, £2$ Miss Sybil Nathan^ Hataitai Branch,' £1 Is each; Island Bay Branch," Lady; Beanchamp, Mrs. TV. Ferguson's Estate,Khandallah Branch, Miss Cock's Pupils* Beatoun- Branch, £1 each;., ■Wellington,' South Circle (Mrs. Penlington), Lyall Bay Branch, Feilding Branch,- ' Mr.James Findlay, Wellington East Girls* College, Kelbnrn-Northland Branch,Mrs. Marehbaiks, Wadestown Branch,; 10a each; per Mrs. Dobson, 6s; Misses Catherine, Pamela, and Biana Maunsell* 3s 6d. (and toys); Miss Banwell, 256 d.: Gifts in kind .were received from 'the following:—Mrs. Alf Gibbons, Miss Bennett, Mrs. Beales, Mrs. Huriell, Mr. Irvine, Mrs, Jas. Findlay, Mrs. Mannsell, Mrs. Reid/ Mrs. Peterson, Mrs. S; H. Budkin,. Junior Bed-Cross, Mr. Embury, Mrs. Brown, Mr. Jones (junior)^ M. S. Jones and Sons, Mrs. Bear, Sea-? toun Branch, Miss Jenkins, Miss Owen, Mrs. Ham, Miss Barbara Gibbons, Wadestown Branch, Mrs. Piper, Ladies '■ Guild, .Wadestown, Mrs. Leslie Mannsell, Mrs. Irvine, Miss Sheppard, Irvine Bros., Mrs. Porter, Mrs. Moore, Berhampore Branch, Mrs. - Penlingtori, Mrs. Morrison, Mrs. Dempsey,' Mrs. Haigh, Mrs. Jolly, and Master- Winton Bear.' ' Queen Elizabeth's Staircase. Authority was given by the Court of Common Council to the Epping Forest Committee to spend up to £125 on, cleaning and repairing the tapestries in Queen Elizabeth's Lodge, Chingford (states an English writer). The tapestries hang in the principal ropm on the first floor of the old building, where there is a wide staircase up which, it is said, Qneen Elizabeth used to ride to her bedroom.' It has beea described as "composed of strong timbers which will last to the crack of doom," and in more recent times a sportsman won a wager by repeating the Royal feat.' The City Corporation is bound by Act of Parliament to keep_Queen Elizabeth's Lodge in good condition as an object of antiquarian interest;-' -

Sports Clothes.

.There are some very interesting materials among the English sports clothes. Crinkled weaves predominate. In tweeds in the warm magenta shados which Worth uses so much, there are many novelties," writes a Melbourne woman from London. "Broad belts are worn with many sports dresses. Coats, on the whole, are most chic and comfortable. Ml are tightly closing, and great originality of fastening, such as clips and ties, characterises many models.''

'' When. I arrived in Christehureh and saw. the river and the trees, and was nearly biffed in the back by a bicycle, I felt I was really at home," said Dame Sybil Thorndike at a reception on Thursday (states "Tho Press"). "I thought it -was only in Oxford and Cambridge that people rushed about on bicycles to the imminent danger of pedestrians. Now I know better.'*