SOCIAL NOTES.

Southern Cross, Volume 25, Issue 29, 10 November 1917, Page 12

SOCIAL NOTES.

Mrs Bush is on a visit to Timaru. • Mrs Hoyles entertained a few ladies at afternoon tea last Thursday. Mrs R. Gilmour is on a visit to Oamaru. Mrs Jas. Gardner is at present staying with her son, Mr G. Gardner, at Clifden. Mrs Scott, who has been staying with Mrs Keddell, has returned to Christchurch. Dr. Stanley Brown, superintendent of the Southland Hospital, has been granted leave for military service. Shortly after the outbreak of war the Doctor placed his services at the disposal of the Government, and his turn has at last come. Sympathy is extended to Mrs R. T. Searell, who has received word that her son, Driver L. T. Searell, of the Main Body, is suffering from gas burns received in the recent engagement. Her many friends wid be glad to hear of her son’s speedy recovery. Quite an attractive sale of work was held last week in connection with St. John the Divine. Good business was recorded. The following were the various stall-holders, etc.: —Flower Stall, Mesdames Howard and Batchelor; Work Stall, Mesdames Featherstone, Brass, Carew, Martin, and Wardlaw; Art Stall, Mesdames Wade, Petrie, Brebner, Jennings, and Rowley; Sweet Stall, Mesdames Martin, Todd, and Quicke; Produce Stall, Mesdames Churchill and Aldridge; Tea Rooms, Mesdames Page. Dennis, Whitaker, and Thomson. The Knitting Committee of the Gift Parcels Association, gave an enjoyable afternoon tea at the Y.M.C.A. Hall on Wednesday, 31st Oct., and a pleasant afternoon was spent, besides resulting in a good sum being collected. The committee comprise: Mesdames Tennent, Searell, J. Macalister, Longuet, Brebner, Rennie, and the Mayoress (Mrs John Stead), Morton and Ritchie. Some most acceptable musical items were rendered by Misses Bell, and Mesdames Copeland, C. Brebner, and Stanley Brown. Mrs Abbey Jones presided at the piano.

Baby week started in Invercargill on Friday night by a lantern lecture by Dr. Doris Gordon, and will be continued during next week by other lecturers. The objects are to arouse the sense of racial responsibility in every citizen in order to secure to every child born in N.Z. a birthright of mental and bodily health. To inform the public generally as to what is now being done for young children and mothers in N.Z. To show what could be done if every citizen shouldered his or her responsibility.