The Social Round

Southland Times, Issue 24180, 17 July 1940, Page 7

The Social Round

The lady editor will be pleased to receive for publication In “The Social Round” each day items of social or personal news. Such Items should be sent in promptly and should be fully authenticated. Engagement notices must bear the signatures of both parties. Correspondence is invited on any matters affecting, or of interest to. women Miss Daphne Collett, of Tuatapere, is visiting Bluff. ' j Mr and Mrs W. Grieve, Russell street, returned from the North Island on Monday. Mrs Roy Hanan, Duke street, returned last night from a visit to Waimate. The death occurred at Waimate on Saturday of Mrs Kidd, wife of Mr D. C. Kidd, M.P. for Waitaki. Miss P. McCarthy, who left at the week-end for Wellington, will spend an extended holiday in the north before returning to Invercargill. Mr and Mrs Noel McGregor, and their baby son, Mt. Linton, will motor to Dunedin on Monday from where they will fly to Auckland to visit Mrs McGregor’s mother, Mrs E. H. Dane. Miss Alison West-Watson, daughter of the Archbishop of New Zealand, was married at Hythe to Robert, son of Mr J. W. Sims and Mrs Sims, of Middlesex. Mrs J. Dennis, of Waikaia, provincial president of the Women’s Division of the Farmers’ Union, and Mrs W. Orr, of Balfour, are attending a conference of the division in Wellington. Misses Dorothy and Joyce Willett, Princes street, have returned from a holiday in Australia. They spent most of their time in Sydney, but paid a ten days’ visit to Kosciusco, 300 miles beyond Sydney, for the ski-ing. Madame Winnie Fraser, who has spent the last year with her son, Mr Douglas Fraser, in Heriot, is staying in

Dunedin with her daughter, Mrs E. G. Boddy. She will later go to Oamaru, where she will live in her former home.

Mrs Geoffrey Cox, wife of the New Zealand Rhodes Scholar, whose brilliant despatches to The Daily Express, London, from the war theatres in Europe have attracted so much attention and interest, is now, with her two children, on her way to New Zealand. She is coming via Canada. Mr Cox’s parents, Mr and Mrs Sandford Cox, are at present residing in Parnell, Auckland. PLAY-READING AT WOMEN’S CLUB PRESENTATION OF “DEAR OCTOPUS” The Play Reading Circle of tire Southland Women’s Club chose a popular play for its open night when it presented “Dear Octopus,” by Dodie Smith, at the Southland Women’s Club last night. The chairman, Mrs T. F. Gilkison, welcomed the large number of members and their friends in the audience. The room was decorated with large bowls of foliage. The play was cast as follows:— Charles Randolph, Mrs R. Crawford; Dora Randolph, Mrs A. M. Macdonald; Hilda Randolph, Miss P. Sutton; Margery Harney, Mrs H. Drees; Cynthia Randolph, Mrs A. Owen-Johnston; Nicholas Randolph, Miss D. Washer; Hugh Randolph, Mrs R. Robb; Gwen (Flouncy) Randolph, Mrs A. G. Simmers; William (Bill) Harney, Mrs G. R. Milward; Kathleen (Scrap) Kenton, Mrs H. R. Gibson; Kenneth Harney, Mrs E. H. J. Preston; Laurel Randolph, Miss E. Hulston; Belle Schlessinger, Miss M. Tring Crofts; Grace Fanning (Fenny), Miss I. Fenn; Nanny, Mrs J. N. Armour; Gertrude, Mrs H. H. Royds; chorus, Mrs J. L. Cameron.

EVACUEES RECEIVE CLOTHING LETTER OF APPRECIATION

Some time ago a women’s committeee was formed for the purpose of providing clothing for the evacuated children in England. As a result of their efforts a substantial amount of clothing provided by town and country women was fci warded to the High Commissioner in London for distribution. The following letter of appreciation was received by the honorary secretaries, Mrs T. Wray Wilson and Miss L. F. Watson:—

We have received, through the courtesy of the High Commissioner for New Zealand, the case of clothing so kindly forwarded by the Evacuated Children’s Committee of Invercargill and Southland, for evacuated children in England and on behalf of the council of the Save the Children Fund I wish to thank you and your committee most sincerely for this splendid gift. We heartily appreciate both the material help which you have given for these children of ours over here and also the kind thoughtfulness and sympathy on the part of your committee towards this work which we are doing. I think you may be interested to know that we decided to send these gifts to Brighton, to which area many of London’s poorest children have been evacuated. The following is an extract from the letter which we have received from our worker ’ho distributed these most welcome garments:— “Thank you very much indeed for sending our children the gift of a case of clothing from New Zealand. The clothing was mostly new and some second-hand, the latter being in excellent condition, and there was something for children between the ages of two to 13. I have kept some for my own RedrifE children (ages eight to 14); some I have sent tc the Redriff Infants’ Department (ages five to eight); the other clothing for the youngest children has been sent to the Evacuated Mothers and Babies’ r lub. The clothing will be distributed to the most needy cases.

“The Redriff children come from Surrey Docks, one of London’s large docks. The children live in the docks and their fathers work in the docks. They are cut off from the rest of London, the Thames being on the north side and the docks on the south side—that is, the children really live in a

in the heart of London. In peace time there is usually plenty of work in the docks, but now there is ver little because the ships that normally come to irrr Docks trade with Norway and Sweden and bring wood to England. Now all this trade is gone, the docks are idle and the men are out of work or in the Army or Navy. The children are being well cared for in Brighton, but their parents find it a hard struggle to keep them supplied with clothing. Therefore we are all the more grateful to the New Zealanl people for their most generous gift of clothing. Pleace give them our very best thanks. It is really wonderful to think that the clothes have come from the other side of the world. Again thank you very much indeed.” Please accept once again our very warm thanks for the help of your committee. Yours, sincerely, G. F. GRACEY, General Secretary. BIRCHWOOD HUNT MEETING FLAG STEEPLECHASE HELD IN BRIGHT SUNSHINE Bright sunshine favoured the annual flag steeplechase fixture of the Winton branch of the Birchwood Hunt, held on the Winton racecourse on Saturday. Those present included: Mr and Mrs R. B. Wilson, Mr and Mrs J. B. Swale (Boggy Bum), Mr and Mrs J. L. Hazlett (Oreti), Mr and Mrs W. L. Cunningham (Castle Downs), Mr and Mrs J. Kean (Lochiel), Mr and Mrs R. A. Norman (Forest Hill), Mr and Mrs R. E. Cowie (Oreti), Mr and Mrs J. R. Todd, Mr and Mrs F. Moore', Mr and Mrs Ray Swale (Limehills), Mr and Mrs G. Excell'(Nightcaps), Mr and Mrs F. W. Dunlop (South Hillend), Mr and Mrs Ralph Swale, Mr and Mrs J. Purdue (Nightcaps), Mr and Mrs J. J. Woods (Oreti), Mr and Mrs W. G. Clark, Mr and Mrs J. Moylan, Mr and Mrs E. Pike, Mr and Mrs J. de la Perrelle, Mi’ and Mrs S. Kean (South

Hillend), Mr and Mrs D. W. Campbell, Mr and Mrs H. Morton (Riverton), Mr and Mrs M. Smith (Oreti), Mr and Mrs A. T. Gerrard (Barkly), Mr and Mrs J. Baird, Mr and Mrs A. Miller (Oreti), Mr and Mrs A. J. Minnie, Mr and Mrs L. G. de la Perrelle, Mr and Mrs W. Kini, Mr and Mrs J. Doherty, Mr and Mrs J. Gaut (Invercargill), Mr and Mrs A. Hagerty, Mr and Mrs H. Graham, Dr Peter Gow and Dr Moana Gow.

Mesdames J. Lawrence, J. Martin (Benmore), P. Reynolds, Gilligan, F. Anderson, E. Kean, A. Chilton, C. McLean (Thornbury), F. Langford, J. Deegan (Oreti), J. Austin (Tuatapere), J. Blackmun (Barkly). Misses M. Campbell, T. Clark, S. Norman (Forest Hill), E. Pierce, J. Swale, K. Stevenson (Invercargill), B. Walker, N. Mathias, J. Rizzi, P. Rabbitte, V. Crowe, T. Cavanagh, I. Deegan, D. Cowan (Drummond), M. Hamilton, Slater, Fogo, A. Moore, M. Kerr, M. Kirkwood, T. Boylen, J. Grimwood, A. Cunningham, B. Moore, N. McLeod (Otahuti), J. Morton (Riverton). WEDDINGS COULING—GREEN The wedding took place on Thursday at St. John’s Anglican Church of Ismay, only daughter of Mr and Mrs S. Green, Fulton street, Invercargill, and George Andrew, elder son of Mr and Mrs C. M. Couling, Layard street, Invercargill. The ceremony was performed by Archdeacon J. A. Lush and Mr Charles Martin played the wedding music.

The church was decorated with winter roses, Iceland poppies and greenery. The bride, who was given away by her father, wore a period gown. The bodice was of brocaded satin and the taffetas skirt was made with rucked godets forming a short train. She wore a hand-embroidered veil and carried a bouquet of narcissi and freesias. Miss Mollie Moir, cousin of the bride, was bridesmaid. She wore a period frock of sea-green taffetas and a pillbox hat of autumn tinted flowers. She carried a bouquet of chrysanthemums

and tagetas. Mr Frank Penman was best man and Messrs Gordon Couling and Wallace Green were ushers

The reception was held at Elmwood Garden, where the guests were received by Mrs Green, assisted by Mrs Couling. The bride’s mother wore a navy figured satin frock with navy accessories. The bridegroom’s mother wore a navy costume. Foi- travelling, the bride wore Centennial blue ensemble, with black military hat and accessories. Mr and Mrs G. A. Couling will reside in Invercargill. Before her marriage, the bride was entertained by Mrs C. Robertson, Elies road, Waikiwi, at a bathroom afternoon; by Mrs Moir, aunt of the bride, at a kitchen afternoon; and by Misses E. and E. Dunlop, Avenal street, at a gift evening. CLEAVER—THOMAS A quiet wedding was solemnized at St. John’s Church of England, Te Awamutu, recently, in the presence of relations and immediate friends of Myra Elizabeth, the second daughter of Mr and Mrs A. R. Thomas, Compton street, Invercargill, and Rex Hilary, second son of Mr and Mrs J. W. Cleaver, of Pukekohe District. The Vicar of Te Awamutu performed the ceremony. The bride, who was given away by her uncle, Mr John Howie, of Tokanui, wore a frock of white lace over satin. The bodice and sleeves were tightfitting and the skirt was finished with a long flowing train. A full length veil fell from a topknot of tulle. Miss Edna Thomas, sister of the bride, of Invercargill, was bridesmaid. She wore a frock of violet taffetas with a tight-fitting bodice and flared skirt. She carried a bouquet of violets, daphne and maidenhair fern.

Mr Seddon Pratt, of Wharepununga, was best man, and Mr Rex Marx, of Kihikiki, was usher. Mrs Sullivan played the organ.

After the ceremony a reception was held, Mrs Cleaver mother of the bridegrom, deputising for the bride’s mother. She wore a navy tailored costume with accessories to match, with furs.