PERSONAL AND SOCIAL

Otago Daily Times, Issue 24685, 14 August 1941, Page 12

PERSONAL AND SOCIAL

Mrs E. T. Moller will leave to-day for a visit to Wellington.

Miss Margaret Roy. of Mossburn, will arrive to-day on a visit to Dunedin.

Miss C. Low will leave this morning on a visit to Masterton. Mrs O. J. Cook is visiting her sister, Miss Jean Trench, of Christchurch. Mrs Lawrence F. Adams, of Christchurch. is at present staying with her sister, Mrs J. M. Benvie, of Mosgxel. Dr Gordon Whitta and Dr Elizabeth Whitta have left to make their home in Wanganui.

Mrs R. Clapperton and Miss J, Allan are visiting Woodbury. South Canterbury. Miss 1. McLean has returned from Wellington, where she was the guest of her sister. Lady Wilford. Lady Ferguson, who has been visiting Nelson, is now spending a few days with Mrs H. S. Vestey, of Cashmere Hills.

Mrs Fred Armitage. who has been the guest of Miss Wycherley, of Neidpath road, will leave to-day by air en route to Melbourne.

Mr and Mrs Andrew Jensen, of Stirling. and Mr and Mrs Dave Jensen, of Milburn, have returned home after a visit to Dunedin. Mr and Mrs G. T. Gillies and Mi and Mrs A. Ombler have returned to Oamaru after visiting Dunedin for the wedding of Miss B. Macandrew and Mr D. I. Jensen.

The crew of a Russian freighter which arrived in an Australian port recently includes four women. This is the first Russian ship to visit Australia since the war began. The post of telegraphist at the Gore Post Office has been filled by Miss N. E. Horrell. She succeeds Mr J. J. Anderson, who has been transferred to Wellington. Mrs I. E. Faris, of Auckland, who caihe to Dunedin for the wedding of Miss Moya Ripley to Mr Bruce Andrew on Tuesday, is the guest of her sister. Mrs A. R. Andrew, of Leith street. *

Miss E. Dickisob and Miss Helen King, both of Dunedin, are at present working in an aeroplane factory in England while waiting to return to New Zealand. They spent five months in Scotland.

Dr and Mrs Sydney Allen, of New Plymouth, will arrive to-morrow to be present at the marriage of their son, Dr Dennis Allen, to Miss Doris Francis, which will take place on Saturday afternoon. Dr and Mrs Allen will be the guests of Dr and Mrs Kenneth Ross, of High street, arid their daughter. Miss Judith Allen, who will also arrive to-morrow, will stay with Mrs J' U. Francis. In honour of Miss Doris Francis, whose marriage will take place this week, Mrs R. Cameron and Misses Joyce Burnside and Rae Vernon were ioint hostesses at an afternoon tea party in Tudor Hall at which the guests were Mesdames F. U. Francis, Gregory, Alistair Stewart, M. Pithie, Professor Strong, Dr Elizabeth Gregory, and the Misses Una Francis, N. Ainge. C. McGibbon, V. Macmillan, Anne Pithie, Lyndsay Burnside, Betty Brodrick, Bessie Wilson, Ellen Naylor, A. Stevenson, Helen Thomson, and A. Bowbyes. "I want the portrait to be of a woman, not of a queen; I want to wear a simple dress, with no tiara.” said Queen Wilhelmina at the first of the three sittings she gave M. Cor Visser for a recent crayon drawing. Previously all the published pictures of Queen Wilhelmina have been copies from photographs. The crayon drawing by the 38-year-old artist, who is well known in Holland, has been lithographed. and copies are to be sold at a guinea each. The proceeds will be divided amongst the Prince Bernhard Fund—which is the equivalent of the Spitfire Fund—the Welfare Fund for Dutch fighters, and the Red Cross. For the portrait the queen wore a black taffeta frock with a collar of* Brussels lace.

A well-known New Zealand singer Denis Dowling, of Ranfurly, who won the Tagore Prize at the Royal College of Music, was a member, of an E.N.S.A. concert party which gave a command performance before Queen Mary on her seventy-fourth birthday. The Duke and Duchess of Gloucester were present. Her Majesty gave a party at Lord Beaufort’s home at Badminton, inviting 150 soldiers, who included many New Zealandejrs. She asked especially for an E.N.S.A. party to entertain them. Mr Dowling sang “ Fishermen of England,” “ The Garden Where the Praties Grow” and “The Floral Dance.” With members of the party, he afterwards met Queen Mary, who shook hands with him apd complimented him on his singing. This is the fourth occasion upqn which Mr Dowling has sung before royalty. He has sung twice to the' Queen and once to the Duchess of Kent. He also sang in the Coronation Choir in Westminster Abbey four years ago.

New Zealander In Melbourne Madame Katherine Wielaert, who gave a radio recital of biblical songs in Melbourne last month, is a New Zealander, who has spent most of Ijer life abroad. She has made a deep study of sccientific voice building, and left in London many successful exponents of the system she uses. Mr Wielaert. composer of the biblical songs, has acted as accompanist on all her tours. Their son Tristan is an auxiliary fire officer in London. They are now settled in Melbourne

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