PERSONAL AND SOCIAL

Otago Daily Times, Issue 24800, 27 December 1941, Page 5

PERSONAL AND SOCIAL

Mrs Holden Mirams is at present residing in Ashburton. Mrs Raymond Kirk and her family are spending the Christmas season at Brighton Mr and Mrs J. Livingstone Tapley, of Invercargill, are visiting Dunedin, and are guests at the Excelsior Hotel Mrs E. C. Tapley, of Merivale, Christchurch, is visiting her sister, Mrs W. L. Cunningham,’ Of Downs. Southland. r ’-s.

Mr and Mrs John Bond (Manila Philippine Islands) are visiting Mrs Bond’s uncle, Mr George Moffett, of Invercargill. Mrs Bond, formerly Miss Alison Rowley, is a daughter of Mi and Mrs Spencer Rowley.

Mrs Thomas Thaine, of England, who has been staying with her mother, Mrs Allah Moody of Auckland, is at presentvisitihg her sister, Mrs John Ritchie . .

A Red Cross message, despatched from Denmark in; September last by Miss .May' Barron, wais received this week by a friend in Dunedin in reply to a letter sent to her last Christmas. The message is a cheerful one and recalls happy days spent in London in August, 1939. A Wellington girl, Private Gladys Clark, who left New Zealand with the “Tuis” . for the Middle East in August, was taken ill on the voyage but and had to be put ashore at an Australian port She has now arrived at Cairo and has taken up her duties as secretary to Miss E. M. Nutsey, matron-ln-chief. New Zealand Army Nursing Service Mis< Kathleen Geerin, who has been secretary of the Overseas League for the past 10 years, is retiring from that position. To mark the occasion. Mrs J A. Hanan entertained lady members of the league to tea at the Savoy, and made the presentation to- the chiei guest of a leather handbag. Mrs Hanan expressed the good wishes of members and their hope that Miss Geerin would remain an active member of the league.

One of the 11 childreni ,of the * late Mr Ebenezer Baker, Miss Annie Helen Baker died at her home in Mount Eden this week She was a granddaughter Of the Rev. Charles Baker, of the Church Missionary Society, who accompanied the Rev. Samuel Marsden on his third trip to this country. Mr Baker’s work was at Keri Keri, Bay of Islands, and when Colenso brought the , first printing press to New Zealand ini order to print in Maori translations of parts of the New Testament, it was set up in Mr Baker’s house. Miss Bakers work among girls’ Bible classes and other Christian activities was widely known in the Auckland Province.