Notes for Women

Southland Times, Issue 25514, 7 November 1944, Page 6

Notes for Women

Mrs W. J. Moffett, Tokanui, is visiting Mrs K. Golden, Lewis street. Mr and Mrs N. W. Gale leave on Thursday to live at Christchurch. Mrs J. Murray Wilson, Alice street, is spending a holiday at Mt. Cook.

Mrs I. F. Small has been spending the weekend with Mrs John Kerr, Makarewa.

Mrs J. S. Robbie, Spey street, and Miss B. Beadle, Earn street, leave today for Auckland. [ Mrs John Kerr and her small son Russell, of Makarewa, have returned from a holiday spent at Christchurch. Misses Marie O’Sullivan and Edna Watson, who have been spending a holiday in Christchurch, have returned to Winton.

Mr and Mrs James Wylie, Louisa street, have received advice that _Mr and Mrs Murray Fastier have arrived in London.

Miss Margaret Monaghan and Miss Allison Kennedy, of the nursing staff of the Southland Hospital, are spending a holiday at Queenstown. Miss Dora Drake, Dunedin, a soloist at the recital of the Invercargill Musical Union tonight, arrived yesterday and is staying with Mrs A. Walmsley, Duke street.

Mrs I. E. M. Spellman, toll officer at the Invercargill Post Office, has arrived at Gore to take up the position of relieving supervisor at the telephone exchange in place of Miss J. E. Aitken, who will leave today to take up the position of exchange supervisor at Timaru.

Members of the Southland branch of th? Waitaki High School Old Girls’ Association held a tea party in H. and J. Smith’s tearooms. Miss E. Melville, president, and Mrs J. C. Tapper, extended a welcome , to members, on whose behalf a presentation was made to Mrs J. D. Speirs, who will leave shortly to take up residence in the Oamaru district.

“New Zealand, the Birthplace of a Nation,” was the title of a talk given to members of the Southland Travel Club yesterday by Mr Geoffrey Hodson. He had travelled all over the world, and his studies of ethnology had helped him to form his views on racial evolution, stated Mr Hodson. There were two points of view on the future of civilization, he said: the pessimistic, which was derived from a study of history, and of the part which wars, famines, diseases, floods and decay had played in .the destruction of empires; and the optimistic, which took a wide panoramic view of the evolution of the races and saw that if they continued with the unification begun by colonial settlers, as in America, South Africa, Australia and New Zealand, civilization need not die. Mr Hodson was introduced and thanked for his talk by the president, Mr A. W. Jones. Visitors were Mrs Skinner, Dunedin, Mrs W. J. Moffett, Tokanui, Miss M. Finlayson, and Dr K. J. H. Davies. Two songs were sung by Mrs S. A. Gibson, with Mrs J. Simpson as the accompanist.