PERSONAL AND SOCIAL

Otago Daily Times, Issue 25276, 13 July 1943, Page 3

PERSONAL AND SOCIAL

Mrs Howard Glazebrook, of Hawke s Bay, is visiting her mother, Mrs Arthur M. Sidey, of Carroll street, Mrs J. T. Holloway, of Wellington, is at present visiting her mother, Mrs W. Stevenson, of Dunottar. The speaker at the Travel Club meeting to-morrow will be Squadron Leader G. K. Mitchell, whose subject will be “ Music in Toronto.”

Mr Tannock will speak to the Garden ing Circle of the Otago Women s Club this afternoon on “Hydrangeas and Garden Pests.” The first anniversary of the inauguration of the New Zealand Women s Army Auxiliary Corps was celebrated by a ball held in the Winter Show Building in Wellington recently, when Lieutenant-general Sir Bernard Freyberg was the guest 01 honour. He was welcomed by the chiet commandant, Mrs V. Jowett, and officers and other members of the corps were presented to him during the evening. Miss Rena Simpson, whose marriage will take place next Saturday in Wellington, has been the guest of honour at a number of parties. Her hostesses have included Mesdames C. Gore, A. Halligan, R. Walton, A McPherson, F. Hobson, A. McGregor, J.' Mitchell, and Misses Molly Simpson, Joy Starr. Nance, Rose, and Veni Davis (Dunedin), Mrs L. Bardsley and the Misses Marie Tilleyshort, Ngaire Glue, Maty Ridley, Imelda Ryan, and Kathleen Gullick (Wellington). Lord Clifford, who has just succeeded his father, Lord Clifford of Chudleigh, the tenth baron, is 56 years old. He was educated at Downside, and as the Hon. Charles Clifford he served in the European war from 1914 till 1918. He was married in 1917, and the next year his wife died, leaving a baby daughter. Later he married a daughter of Captain J. G. Mayne and granddaughter of Sir Frederick Weld, a former resident of Marlborough and Premier of New Zealand in 1864. The death has occurred of Mrs Emily Howard Kenderdine, a well-known philatelist. Born at Maunganui 82 years ago, Mrs Kenderdine was the daughter of Mr W B White, who had been appointed magistrate in the district by Sir George Grey. The only New Zealand woman to become a fellow of the Royal Philatelic Society, Mrs Kenderdine gained many awards for exhibitions, both in the Dominion and Australia. Among her collections were a complete set of Tongan stamps and a fine set of New Zealand stamps.

i Sister Freda Willcox, formerly of Papatoetoe, was included in the Birthday Honours, and is now an Associate of the Royal Red. Cross. Trained at the Auckland Hospital, and later associated with the Timaru Hospital, Sister Willcox left New Zealand five years ago to join her brother, now Wing Commander H. L. Willcox, of the R.A.F. After doing some private nursing in England, she joined an R A.F. medical unit. When war broke out she was for a time stationed at Cranwell, and later was sent to the’ R.A.F. hospital in Iceland, where she served for 13 months under most trying conditions. It was for this service that the present honour was conferred on her after her return to England. She is at present stationed. at an R.A.F. hospital in Lancashire.

The tragic death of Madame Frantiska Plaminkova, a senator of the Czechoslovak Parliament, and vice-president of the International Council of Women and International Suffrage Alliance, will be regretted by women of many lands, to whom her precept and example in international well-being taught much. When the Germans invaded her country she was imprisoned, and all efforts to get in touch with her failed. Now her death is reported, by hanging. Reference to her personal attributes has been made by Dr Lena Madesin Phillips, of New York, president of the International Federation of Business Women, of which Madame Plaminkova was also a vice-president, in an article paying tribute to her as an articulate, determined, and fearless personality at international meetings.