The Social Round

Southland Times, Issue 24355, 8 February 1941, Page 5

The Social Round

The engagement is announced of Delia Margaret, eldest daughter of Mr and Mrs P. Gutsell, Preston street, Waikiwi, and Hylton Hugh, eldest son of Mr and Mrs H. V. Remnant, Lochiel.

Miss Lorna Hallamore, Elies road, leaves today to live in Wellington. Miss Helen Wilson, Birchwood, has been the guest of Miss A. Nicholson, Bay View road, Dunedin. Mrs A. Merton, who is the guest of Mrs F. A. Webb, Albert street, returns to Christchurch on Tuesday.

Mrs W. Johnston has returned to Caroline Courts. Timaru, from a visit to Dunedin and Invercargill.

Miss Mary Davin, who has been the guest of Mrs P. Mannion, Woodlands, has returned to Invercargill. Miss Mavis Brown, Gala street, is spending the week-end with her parents, Mr and Mrs J. A. Brown, Nightcaps.

Mrs R. E. Bennetts, of Dumbarton, with her daughter, is the guest of her mother, Mrs T. M. Rankin, Yarrow street.

Mrs P. Davin, Morton street, and Mrs J. W. Dale, Eye street, are the guests of Mrs D Dunlay, Roxburgh, for the week-end.

Miss Mary Grant, Gala street, who has been spending a holiday at Stewart Island, and with her mother, Mrs J. Hart, at Mataura, has returned to town.

Miss R. McAlister, advisor to infant departments and kindergartens has arrived in Invercargill from Canterbury, and will spend three months in schools in Invercargill and Southland.

Mr and Mrs J. H. B. Scholefield, Thomson street, accompanied by their guests, Dr and Mrs G. H. Scholefield and Miss Eila Scholefield, Wellington, are spending the week-end at Te Anau.

Miss A. C. Neave, Okeover, Christchurch, with her niece, Miss Helen Acton-Adams, Marlborough, will cross to Stewart Island today to be he guests of Miss Noeline Baker. Later they will visit Te Anau and Manapouri.

The Misses Smith Morton and Miss Sheila Macpherson, of Oamaru, who visited Invercargill and Te Anau, during the week, have returned to Oamaru, accompanied by Miss Philippa Hodge, Gladstone Terrace. Miss Hodge will visit Christchurch and Wellington before returning to Invercargill.

It is not generally known that the “inventor” of fish and chips for supper was an English noblewoman, Baroness Burdett Coutts. During the great International Fisheries Exhibition in London in 1883 the Baroness had an idea that the public consumption of fish could be increased by providing fish ready cooked at a cheap price. She financed a stall at the exhibition which provided fish suppers at sixpence a time, and during the few months’ run sold over 200,000 suppers, the stall making a profit of over £lOOO. The idea was taken up by private traders in London, the popularity of the cheap fish supper soon spread throughout the country, and, incidentally, a colony of Italians who settled in London after the Garibaldi affair and were well used at home to cooking fish in oil or fat were quick to size up the prospects of the new industry and to apply their culinary experience to exploiting it.

The engagement is announced of Rita Ethel, youngest daughter of Mrs Smith and the late Mr G. R. Smith, Invercargill, and formerly of Tuatapere, and Stuart Mitchell, youngest son of Mr and Mrs W. J. Newton, The Willows, Nightcaps. Mrs A. C. Simmers, Nelson street, is spending a holiday in Christchurch. Mrs H. Marsh, Timaru, is the guest of Mrs D. S. Sutherland, Tweed street. Mrs H. R. Gibson, Don street, leaves today, to spend a holiday in Queenstown. Mrs A. Owen-Johnston, Thomson street, has returned from a holiday at Hampden. Mrs M. Playfair, Bonniefield, Riverton, is spending a holiday with her daughter, Mrs R. Lumsden, Vogel street, Gore. Miss Gwennyth Chilwell, Underwood, leaves today for Wellington, where she will be the guest of her sister, Mrs Robert Lee. Mrs R. E. Free, of Christchurch, is the guest of Mrs W. A. Ott, Gala street, who, with her children, has returned from a holiday at the Rocks. Mrs J. R. Wham, of Elizabeth street, Timaru, and her small daughter, who have been the guests of Mrs Pannet, Athol, have returned north. Sister Esther, a well-known personality in Auckland, has retired after 33 years of ministration to the sick and needy. She was born in Central Otago and went to Auckland with her mother, Mrs M. Charles, and her sister, Miss Elena Charles. At Maidstone street,

Grey Lynn, they began charitable work in a small way. Her sister went to America for training as a nurse and went down with the Lusitania after volunteering for service with the British Forces. Sister Esther was awarded the M.B.E. in 1919, and was one of the first women to be appointed a Justice of the Peace.

WOMEN’S PATRIOTIC COMMITTEE PARCELS READY SOON The main work for the week of the Women’s Metropolitan Patriotic Committee has been the receiving and checking of goods for the parcels. These have been bought locally and will be packed shortly. All the country sub-committees have been circularized regarding their quotas. It is hoped that the women of Southland will respond to the appeal for home-made ginger-nuts and shortbread. A very welcome donation of handknitted socks has been received from an old woman over 80 years of age. This generous donation totalled 11 pairs of socks. SUB-COMMITTEE NOTES Waikiwi.—The first meeting for the • year will be held at the home of Mrs I Acton (president), Price street, on I Tuesday, February 11. at 7.30 p.m. Georgetown.—The February meeting will be held on Monday, February 10, i at 7.30 p.m., in the Presbyterian Sun- I day school hall, at the corner of Centre I and Conyers streets. Collectors are asked to bring along all tins for shortbread, biscuits and tea that have been gathered during their rounds. Central.—The members of the committee have started the monthly collections. Anyone prepared to knit socks for the parcels kindly ring the secretary. No. 1200. for instructions about wool. Cars for the relations’ picnic will leave St. Paul’s hall on Monday, February 10, at 1.30, weather permitting. The usual function will be held if the weather is not suitable.