Notes for Women

Southland Times, Issue 25564, 6 January 1945, Page 6

Notes for Women

Mrs H. G. Davie, Esk street, is spending a holiday at Wellington. Mrs G. M. Todd, Alice street, has returned from Stewart Island. Mrs Keith Palmer, Grace street, leaves for Queenstown today. Miss Lilian Uttley, Oamaru, is the guest of Miss L. Martin, Forth street. Miss Molly Moore, Wellington, is the guest of Mrs Ivon Wilson, Duke street. Miss Joan Carswell, Waimahaka, is the guest of Mrs G. J. Yule, the Rocks. Mrs J. Robertson and Miss Leta Robertson, Lewis street, have returned from the Rocks.

Mrs Murray Wilson, Alice street, leaves tomorrow to spend a holiday at Queenstown. Mrs E. V. McKeever, Kelvin street, leaves by the express tomorrow night for a holiday at Akaroa. Mrs G. M. Davies, Wellington, who has been visiting friends in Invercargill, returns north on Tuesday.

Mrs H. Thomson, Teviot street, and Miss H. Roff, Lindisfarne street, left yesterday for a holiday at Timaru. Mrs J. C. Rogers, Hastings, who has been staying with her sister, Miss Lilian Martin, Forth street returns north today. Miss Edith Hastie, W.R.N.S., Wellington, arrives tonight to spend her leave as the guest of Mrs J. G. Hastie, Robertson street.

Miss Mary Wilson, who has been visiting her parents, Mr and Mrs Ivon Wilson, Duke street, returned to Christchurch on Tuesday.

Miss May Mahoney, Wellington, who has been staying with Mrs E. C. Scully, Ythan street, left yesterday to spend a holiday with Mrs Sutton Gardner, Otara.

Visitors to town for the Kerkin— Booth wedding, which takes place today, are:—Mrs P. P. Kerkin, Picton, Mr and Mrs A. C. Jack, Roslyn Bush, Mrs C. Robinson, Dacre, Mrs C. Wyeth, and Mr and Mrs W. A. Wyeth, Woodlands.

Writing to relations in New Zealand, a woman in England says: “It has just been announced that we are to have extra rations for Christmas. Everyone will have half a pound of sugar and half a pound of margarine (which will make a nice lot for cooking). Children are to get an extra half-pound of sweets, and the meat ration in Christmas week is to be 1/10 each person, instead of 1/2 worth. You can take it that we shall have more than sufficient. We have been getting good supplies of dried fruit lately—dates, raisins, prunes, and sultanas. Some time back there were currants, and I have kept some of these for Christmas cooking.”

The New Yorker, in an article on the fashion front, says it is regrettable that after so much talk of trying to make New York the world’s fashion centre, all the leading designers and buyers are joined in a long and frantic queue to get to Paris by the first available clipper. “It seems odd,” says the paper, “that so many fashion leaders and designers are anxious to get out of the stuffy old United States and go to Paris for inspiration, when these same people have just turned out some most inspiring fashions.” New York salons, the article adds, have just put on the best fashion show in the city’s history, but apparently they have not convinced themselves.

Three judges had the task of choosing the winner of the title, ‘*Miss Wellington, 1944,” from 15 competitors, at a gathering of 2000 at Newtown Park, Wellington, recently. Miss Alberta Walters, Auckland, a commercial artist in Wellington on holiday, was the winner. Nearly all the competitors were brunettes and the placings were a blow to blonde entrants. One judge was a woman well-known in amateur swimming circles, the second a broadcasting official, and the third a young doctor. The contest was sponsored by the Wellington South R.S.A. to assist the building funds for a new memorial hall and clubrooms, and at its request, was organized by the Wellington Swimming Centre. The award gained by Miss Walters was an order for £l5; Miss Dawn Jenkins, Wellington, in second place, gained an order for £5, and Miss Billie Ponds, who was third, with the Misses Noeline Hodson and Kathleen Somes, gained trophies. ENGAGEMENTS Mr and Mrs C. H. Gatehouse, 79 Don Street, announce the engagement of their elder’ daughter, Patricia, to Ist Lieutenant Laurence Raymond Jones, eldest son of Mr and Mrs F. R. Jones, High Street, Dunedin. The engagement is announced of Allan (Private) Greg. Timpany, second son of Mr and Mrs W. Timpany, Chesney Street, and Dorothy Ellen, eldest daughter of Mr and Mrs G. Matthews, John Street, Invercargill.