In and Out of Town

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19700, 4 August 1938, Page 17

In and Out of T own

News items intended for publication in this column cannot be accepted unless accompanied by the signature and address of the sender. Notices of engagements require the signatures of both parties, and a charge of 5s will be made for such announcement. Mrs. A. Lewis, Heta street, intends leaving on Saturday on a holiday visit to Wellington. * s*. * * Mrs. J. Giliillan, Auckland,,is visiting her niece, Mrs. A. F. Hall, “The Vicarage," Cobden street. * .* * * Lady Owen, who lias been the guest of her mother. Lady Chapman. Wellington, left Wellington to-day on her return to Sydney. Mrs. Lawson Field intends returning to Waimata Valley to-morrow after a short visit to her cottage at Wainui Beach. * * * * Mrs. R. C. Murphy, Panikau, in:ends leaving for Napier on Sunday .o visit her daughter, Mrs. R. S. Reed, Brooklands. * * ♦ * Miss Joan McCormick, Wellington, is spending a few days in Gisborne is the guest of Mrs. 11. P. Hamilton, Stout street. * ■* •* * Miss Gwen Crawford, Ormond road, returned yesterday after spending a veek with her sister, Mrs. E. Gully. Wainui Beach. # * * * Miss Barbara Blunt, Wanganui, it expected to arrive early next week to stay with her aunt, Mrs. D. C. Gray, Hexton. * * » * Mr. and Mrs. George Coop, Morere. and Mr. and Mrs. R. W. Coop, Muriwai, intend leaving to-morrow for Christchurch to attend the Grand National Steeplechase meeting. * * * * Mr. W. Acton-Adams, Whatatutu, formerly of Dunedin and Christchurch,’was the guest of Mr. and Mrs. A. S. Seymour, Russell street, last week-end. • * * Miss Eileen Hegarty intends leaving to-morrow for The Chateau, Tongariro National Park, where she will spend a holiday with a party of friends from Wellington. » * * * Mrs. Macky Hercus, with her husband, left Auckland by the Awatea for Australia this week. From there Dr. and Mrs. Hercus will go on to Ocean Island, where Dr. Hercus has taken a position for the next 18 months. ♦ * t= * Miss Jocelyn Bousficld, who has been spending a holiday with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. F. B. Bousfield, Cdllins street, returned, to Napier yesterday by ’plane to resume her duties on the nursing start' of the Napier Hospital. * * • * Mr. and Mrs. F. R. Tyerman, accompanied by Master Tyerman, Stoke, Nelson, were the gudsts of Mr. and Mrs. H. Berkley Tyerman, Whitaker street, while visiting Gisborne to see their daughter, Miss Tyerman, and left for Rotorua and Hamilton on Tuesday.

Mrs. P. Malcon and Mrs. M. Cleary were among the members of the committee responsible for the successful organisation of the annual Catholic Ball held in the City Hall on Monday night, their names having been inadvertently omitted from the list of committee members already published. * * * * • * • • Mrs. H. B. Williams, Turihaua station, and her daughter, Miss Jan Williams, intend leaving on Saturday for Auckland, where they will embark on the R.M.S. Niagara for Vancouver, sailing next Tuesday. After crossing Canada, Mrs. and Miss Williams will travel to England by the liner Empress of Britain. * * * * Mr. Douglas Bowie is arriving from Wellington on- Saturday to spend a week with his parents, Dr. and Mrs. W. A. Bawie, Kaiti esplanade, before leaving for Auckland to embark on the s.s. Tainui for England. Mr. Bowie intends taking a three years' course of study at the Leather Sellers’ College, London. Mrs. Moss Davis, mother of the Mayor of Auckland, Sir Ernest Davis, celebrated her ninety-second birthday recently at her home in London. Mrs. Davis was a well-known figure in Auckland for many years, and left with her husband, the late Mr. Moss Davis, to live in London some years ago. She still takes a keen interest in New Zealand and its people.

English Traveller’s Adventurous Life To have been held for ransom by I Abyssinian natives after a forced I whin* Hying from Khartoum :<> Addis Ababa, has been the experience of Mrs. Ursula Lloyd, an English traveller, who has led an unusually active and adventurous lite. She has been visiting New Zealand. Flying, bear-shooting, hshing and ski-ing are among the activities which have claimed Mrs. Lloyd’s attention, and she holds the distinction of having made the record catch from the Blue Nile. The fish was a Nile perch, weighing lliTJib and was caught at the Scnnar Dam, just south of Khartoum. A keen airwoman, Mrs. Lloyd owns her own aeroplane, and when she married Captain Charles Lloyd, an air surveyor, in 10311, she llew with him te Abyssinia. In the flight from Khartoum to Addis Ababa, one engine cut out nne y forced landing was made. Abyssinian natives surround ed the machine and took Captain and Mrs. Lyold prisoners, being first intent on putting them to death, and later deciding to hold them instead te ransom. The prisoners were put into a stick and mud hut for three days with 22 natives, and the food ollcred them was so filthy that they were unable to touch it. At length word came through from the English Consul at Addis Ababa to release the prisoners and send them to the capital. Here bad luck again attended then! The damaged engine, which they attempted to repair, again cut out and the aeroplane crashed into a tree, Mrs. Llovd being fairly severely injured. They had to return to the hut for another two days, after which Mrs. Lloyd was carried on a stretcher by the natives at the run for seven hours and then transferred to a lorry. Mrs. Lloyd is a member of the Hamvorth Aviation Club in England and is also a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society. She L keenl\ interested in the people of the various countries she visits and paid a striking tribute to those of New Zealand. The Statuesque Mode The ultra siren sheath is out. The nearest to it is the statuesque frock, deftly draped, like the one here. There is beautiful drapery on the corsage of both afternoon and evening frocks, and soft scarf-like arrangements round the neck which pass through a plain body section and continue again from waist to hem, the fullness always centred in front. It means something extra special in brassieres, and the new controlettes and brassieres rise to the occasion with entirely new bust contours. If anything, we're more uplifted, but not longer pointed.

One of the new styles for the evening The main thing is the wide separation between the bosoms —and they’re held outward a little, for the benefit of the lovely draped corsages. It takes one of the new specially designed evening controlettes to wear any of the new evening styles well —particularly the new and very popular sweater-line, which is very difiicult. You have to get used to the idea of your waist being no longer a little 2in. wide belt around your middle, but anything from a wide corsette-belt to an entire corselette in width. You're smoothed from high under the bosom to low down on the thigh—without even a waistline break. That takes a controlette!

The Ideal Wife A Nottinghamshire miner's wife has been chosen out of 5000 other women as "the most representative British housewife.” She is Mrs. F. M. Millward, of Mansfield, and she was chosen because she had had six children, had been married 21, years, was a wonderful “budgeteer,” and was really happy. Mrs. Miltward, who is a member of the Women’s Institute and of the women’s section of the British Legion, thinks it is a fatal mistake for married women to have no interests out side the home. A great deal has been said and written in the last few years upon the subject of the ideal wife. Mr. Robert Boothby, Conservative M.P. for Aberdeen and Kincardine, for example, warned bachelors some time ago not to marry any girl until she has proved she can cook, while Mrs. Dobbin Crawford, a Liverpool surgeon, urged that a man and woman should marry for love, should be of the same social scale, the same age. and interested in one another’s pur suits and occupations. Viscountess Astor, M.P., thinks that a good wife should not. be afraid te correct her husband sometimes. “Every woman knows,” she told a gathering of wives at Nottingham, “that no matter how much you love your husband, you don’t say ’Hear, hear,’ all the time. Love him, but correct him.” Mr. Lewis Casson, actor-husband of D une Sybil Thorndike, thinks it is an excellent thing for a married woman a have a job. He believes that “too much domesticity is bad for all.”