PERSONAL AND SOCIAL

Otago Daily Times, Issue 25300, 10 August 1943, Page 4

PERSONAL AND SOCIAL

Mr E. Young will speak to the Gardening Circle of the Otago Women’s Club on “ Flowering Shrubs ” this afternoon.

Mrs O. Gordon Cox will leave on Thursday to visit relatives in Remuera, Auckland. '"f

Mrs G. J. Yule, of Invercargill, is the guest of Mrs H. O. Stuckey, of Scarba street.

The Registered Nurses’ Council meeting was held on Thursday last. Miss E. J. Young presided. Miss Jeffrey and Miss Muirhead were appointed co-trustees with Miss Young to the R.N.A. Educational Trust Fund Prior to her marriage Miss Amy Gapper was a guest at several gift parties. The hostesses were Mrs R. V. Lavvrie, Mrs D. T. Skene, Miss Florence Pacey, and Miss Pauline Gapper. Miss Downie Stewart was hostess at a 5 o’clock tea. A farewell social was given by the members of the Trinity Methodist. Church Choir.

Mrs Donner, Dominion secretary of the New Zealand Registered Nurses’ Association, who is at present in Timaru to attend a conference of student nurses, will arrive in Dunedin on Thursday and will leave on Friday for Invercargill. Mrs Donner will be entertained by the Registered Nurses’ Association of Otago at the Somerset Lounge on Thursday evening, and returned sisters who are on leave in Dunedin have been invited to be present. At the August meeting of the Poetry Circle of the Otago Women’s Club the poet chosen for study was Samuel Taylor Coleridge, the late eighteenth century contemporary of William Wordsworth and Robert Southey. These poets were known as the “ Lake Poets," and exerted a great influence on the thoughts and literature of that time. Mrs P. L. Ritchie gave a delightful paper on the poet’s life and works, her summary of the mystical meaning of " The Rime of the Ancient Mariner ” being of great interest and value to the members. Many of the poems were read and discussed. The speaker at the Travel Club to-mor-row will be Lieutenant Alex. McDowell.