INTERESTING FACTS ABOUT

Hutt News, Volume 3, Issue 24, 6 November 1930, Page 2

INTERESTING FACTS ABOUT

FACTS PROaVSINENT V^Oflix,!.; Among her many activities^ Princess^ Mary "rims'an excellent poultry farm at Goldslbofough'"'("Erig.).'it is conducted on a strictly -business basis, proper profit and loss books, being kept, and it is in such a flourishing condition that its owner is considering the adr visaibleness of extending it. Tihe Sunday Dispatch (London), rjays a generous tribute to the work of Kathleen Lady Drqgheda and Lady Mauc Hoare in bririi^ng:into'being the Chelsea Imperial OI'TSJb for domestic servants The olbjetet of the club is to provide a home for country girls working in London. Tie mexnlbers themselvesrun the institution and the founders . take a keen interest in it. Lonely girls who were formerly forced to snake their awn amusements, are finding new friends and developing a community spirit ihitherto lacking in then- ... Mrs. Douglas Blair, of Gisiborne (N.Z). has publisher a beautifully illustrated voluano of her collected poeme, entitled "Kowhai Blossoms." Many of the illustrations have been; prize-win-ners in various photographic competitions. Miss Elsie K. Morton, N.Z. journalist and author, contributes an interesting preface to the boot. Evelyn Griffiths, aged ten, of Bridgen'd (Wales) is believed to be tiie youngest artisit to be recorded far the gramophone. She recently went to London and sang at a studio. Her songs were "Daddy" and Tosti's "Good-ibye."