HERE AND THERE

Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 49, 26 August 1938, Page 14

HERE AND THERE

A Staff Farewell. Miss Molly Chorleyy who has been a member of the "Evening Post" illustrations department for the past twelve years and who relinquished her position yesterday, was the guest of honour at a farewell gathering yesterday afternoon. Mr. J. R. Smith (acting editor), in presenting Miss Chorley with a silver tea service, spoke in appreciation of her efficient work, and said that she had made herself most popular with the staff as a whole. Mr. J. C. E. Turner, illustrations sub-editor, also spoke in appreciation of her work. Miss Chorley . briefly replied, and cheers completed a pleasant ceremony. Her marriage to Mr. Archibald Paton will take place on Tuesday. Farewell Parties. Several parties were held in honour of Miss Ida Baxter, of Paparangi, whose marriage to Mr. Basil Grenside took place recently. Mrs. Brooks entertained a number of friends at her mother's home in Wallace Street when an exhibition of tap dancing was given by Miss Audrey Bowen. Mrs. Garnett Norton, Ngaio, also gave an afternoon for Miss Baxter. Competitions were held, and Miss Gwen Roberts sang. At both of these parties the guest of honour was the recipient of many beautiful and useful gifts, and the good wishes of all present for her future happiness. Speech Training. Mrs. I. Halligan (Wellington) has been staying at Maidstone, in Kent, and from there she went to St. Leonards to visit Mr. and Mrs. Clinton Hunt. Mrs. Halligan has been visiting some of the principal schools and has been much interested in the methods of speech training adopted, states "The Post's" London representative. She met Miss Marjorie Gullan, of the London Speech Institute, and just now she is attending the institute, with forty other teachers from different countries, who are taking a refresher course in choral speaking, mime, and movement. Mrs. Halligan has been attending all the Open Theatre productions, and she was very proud to see a New Zealand girl, Miss Althea H. Parker, of Auckland, take the part of Stratylis, in "Lysistrata." With Mrs. Compton, Mrs. Halligan is about tQ leave for the English Lake District and Scotland to visit relatives. Edinburgh will be their headquarters, and they will go to Glasgow to see the Exhibition.