PERSONAL AND SOCIAL

Otago Daily Times, Issue 25560, 13 June 1944, Page 3

PERSONAL AND SOCIAL

Mrs A. McKellar, Mayoress of Alexandra, Is visiting Dunedin. Lieutenant-colonel Maurice Myers will give an address to members of the Otago Women’s Club on Thursday afternoon. The Gardening Circle of the Otago Women’s Club will hold an exchange of plants this afternoon, after which Mr D. Tannock will speak on " What to' Plant in Dry Places, in .Damp Places, and in the Shade.”

Miss Margaret Dunning, a Canadian girl who arrived earlier in the year to take up the post of director of training courses in recreational leadership for the Y.W.C.A. of New Zealand, was married in Wellington recently to a Christchurch airman, Flying Officer Douglas Farr. Miss Molly Robertson, ’who has been nursing in Palmerston North and Wellington for the past five years, has returned to Dunedin, where her wedding to Mr Herbert Williams, of Featherston, will shortly take place. She is at present visiting her parents, Mr and Mrs J. Robertson. of East avenue.

Miss Muriel Wilson, one of the New Zealand representatives of Miss Jean Begg’s staff in the Middle East, has been acting as organising secretary for the various Y.W.C.A. war-time clubs in Egypt. Miss Wilson has now been transferred to the area of the South-east Asia Command with a view to establishing clubs for uniformed girls near the Burma front. The monthly meeting of the Dunedin Women’s Institute Club was held in the rooms of the Pioneer Women’s Club on Tuesday last. Mrs Nickers presided over a good attendance, which included visitors from Wellington and Roxburgh. Mr Braille gave an address entitled “ Children of Russia,” and Mrs Gamble rendered a solo. Many congratulations were received by the club for its display at the Winter Show, which won first prize.

The Music Circle of the Otago Women’s Club met on Friday evening. Miss E. Lcgie (acting chairwoman) presided, and welcomed Mrs Olive Campbell, who gave an evening on “ The Development of Keyboard Music from the Sixteenth Century to the Present Day.” Mrs Campbell gave great pleasure to the members by her playing of works by Bull, Byrde, Farnaby, Arne, Green, Purcell, Handel, Scarlatti, Bach, Couperin, Daquin, Beethoven, Schumann, Chopin, Debussy, Rachmaninov, York Bowen, Cyril Scott, and Mary Martin. Miss Claire Stevenson, whose marriage to Brigadier Pieter Johannes Schoon (Royal Netherlands Indies Army) will take place on Saturday, has been the guest of honour at many functions recently. Among her hostesses have been Mesdames H. D. Tennent, W. K. Gasquoine, S. M. Sparrow, A. De Beer, Alan Gray, L. M. Wright, John McGill, and Reginald Hudson, and Misses Barth, Judith Gallaway, Rosslyn Brown, Margaret Miller, Dorothy Gregg, Ellice Brickell, Beverley Boyd, Betty Buttle, and the Navy League Girls’ Auxiliary. Group 4 of the Women’s Section of the R.S.A. held its monthly meeting in the R.S.A. Social Hall on Friday. It took the form of a prisoner of war meeting. Mrs Osborn presided and welcomed members, espec’ally. next-of-kin of prisoners and visitors from R.S.A. subbranches. Miss D. Ramsay gave an account of Red Cross activities in connection with prisoners of war. The speakers were Mr R. McLeod, who gave an interest’ng account of life in a German prison camp, and Private Mount, who spoke of his experiences in Italian camps. Vocal solos were rendered by Mrs Barron. Mrs H. L. Paterson, president of the Women's Section, thanked the speakers for their interesting and informative addresses and the soloist for her items.

On Tuesday last, after the Rev. H. Hook had conducted an admission service in St. John's Church, Milton, when two members of the Mothers’ Union were enrolled, a meeting was held in the Parish Hall, over which Mrs E. Hughes presided. The speaker was Mrs Parata, who took for her subject the three objects of the union—(l) To uphold the sanctity of marriage; (2) to awaken in all the sense of responsibility in the training of the young; and (3) to organise in every place a band of mothers who will unite in prayer and by their own example lead their families in purity and holiness of life. At the conclusion of the address the vicar moved a vote of thanks tc the speaker. Afternoon tea was served, the hostesses being Mesdames J. Campbell, A. Currie and D. Cockerill.

An interesting display of the activities which comprise physical education at Archerfield School, was given in the Concert Chamber on Saturday afternoon by junior and senior classes fro mthe school. In her introductory remarks. Miss Black indicated that the exercises were pdrt of the ordinary curriculum and had not been worked up specially for the display. A class of seniors, wearing tunics of different colours in pastel shades, gave a graceful demonstration of dancing, and of individual rhythmic interpretation of music. A demonstration of daily drill by the juniors, in brown shorts and cream blouses, was characterised by good posture and precision of movement. Two scenes from “ Cranford ” were then presented in costume by the Sixth Form pupils, after which the seniors gave an exhibition of drill, games, and warming up exercises. The demonstration concluded with junior and senior interhouse relay races.