The Social Round

Southland Times, Issue 24600, 24 November 1941, Page 7

The Social Round

The engagement is announced of Irene Myrtle, eldest daughter of Mr and Mrs A. Heath, Gap road, Winton, and John Thomas, eldest son of Mr and Mrs W. W. Sands, Park street, Winton.

Miss Joan Lynch, Nith street, returns tomorrow from a visit to Christchurch and Greymouth. Mrs B. W. Baird and family, Ritchie street, leave today to spend a holiday in Queenstown.

Captain- A. L, H. Barsdell and Mrs Barsdell, formerly of Gore, have taken up residence at Levin. Mrs W. M. B. Veitch, Wellington, is visiting her mother, Mrs F. Cowie, Dee street. She will return home after Christmas.

Mrs James Hargest, Rakauhauka, has returned from Wellington where she attended the National Patriotic Council meeting.

Thirty women—first members of Britain’s unofficial Home Guard —learned to snipe when they spent hours lying on a roof at Kingston-on-Thames receiving instruction from a Home Guard sergeant. Included in this “Amazon Army” are mothers, typists, telephonists, and ambulace drivers. “We don’t intend to be glamour girls,” they said. “We claim equality with men and are willing to submit to discipline.” General Sir Alan Brooke, who will succeed Sir John Dill as Chief of the Imperial General Staff, has been twice married. His first wife, a daughter of Colonel Richardson, of Ballinamallard, County Fermanagh, Ireland, died in 1925, leaving one son and one daughter. Four years later he married the widow of Sir Thomas Lees and daughter of Sir Harold Pelly. There is also a son and daughter of this marriage. Before her departure for Invercargill, Mrs L. Couchman was the guest of the Bluff Ladies’ Bowling Club at an afternoon social. The president, Mrs A. Vincent, in making a presentation of a handsome vase, referred to the guest’s skill as a player and the fine spirit of comradeship she always displayed on the green. She would be missed in the club. Other members endorsed the president's remarks. Mrs Couchman replied.