TO CORRESPONDENTS.

Sun (Christchurch), Volume V, Issue 1274, 13 March 1918, Page 2

TO CORRESPONDENTS.

[Py arrangement with Mrs Hollcsten, Hair Physician, Specialist in Electrolysis and Face Treatments. Qualified London, Paris, and America.}

Correspondence replied to privately and confidentially hj y post or through this column on all matters pertaining to the care of the hair and complexion. Advice is also given gratis on the treatment of the following;— Falling Hair. Premature Greyness. Faded or Lifeless Hair. Baldness. Dandruff and Sehorrhoea. Alopecia Areata (Bald Patches). Electrolysis (Permanent Kcmoval of Superfluous Hair). Complexion Treatment. Blackheads (Acne). Freckles and Tan. Premature Wrinkles. Care of Hair Combings. Value of Transformations, Toupees, and Switches. Ttcatment of Children’s Hair. Write MRS ROLLESTON, Dominion Buildings, Cathedral Square,

Mrs Robert Stewart, of Kingsdown, Tiinaru, -lias received word tlmt her son, Captain ,T. Garfield Stewart, now of the Royal Flying Corps, has been granted seven weeks* leave in New Zealand, Captain Stewart loft with the Main Body as a second-lieutenant.

Mrs H. Hibbard, of 140 Aikman’s Hoad, Merivale, received advice yestcrday that her son, Private Fred. Hibbard, had been 'wounded in the chest on February 1, and' admitted to the Military Hospital, Endcl Street, London, on February 28. Private Hibbard left with the 17th Reinforcement. Private R. 11. Hanna, who is returning to Hew Zealand with the next batch of invalided soldiers, has been on active service since September, 1914, serving through the Gallipoli, Somme, and Messiues campaigns. He is one of six brothers who joined the colours. Four are still at the front, and one died last year from illness.

A Press Association telegram from Palmerston North on Monday announced that his Honour Mr Justice Edwards had had a some\vhat serious seizure, and was confined to his bed, his temperature being very high. This, it is pointed out to the “Post” yesterday, was rather exaggerated, and the “serious seizure” nothing more than a comparatively slight indisposition. As a matter of fact, his Honour, accompanied by Mrs Edwards and their daughter, motored down from Palmerston North yesterday.

1 Mr William John Mountstephen, of | the Registration Department, Chief I Post OlTice, Wellington, has received | notification that he has been awarded the Gray• Memorial Medal for his suggestion (which has been adopted) that the letter bill booh bo printed in a form to enable duplicate copies to be taken by the carbon process for retention at the forwarding office for reference purposes, thus enabling a registered letter register, written up separately, to be abolished. In forwarding the medal, the Secretary of the Postal Department (Mr W. E. Morris) congratulated the winner of the prize, and expressed the hope that he would regard it as “a badge of honour in the service. ’ ’

By the American boat which arrived at Sydney las week oaine the wellknown Now Zealand actress, Miss Maud Beatty, Miss Beatty was one of the artists secured by Mr H. ,T. Ward, for the .1. C. Williamson, Ltd., firm. Miss Beatty said that since leaving Australia she had played through the Orient and America. When last before an Australian audience she played principal boy, and it was strange that her next part before an Australian audience will be that of the principal boy’s mother. It is understood that Miss Beatty will open in “Oh! Oh! Delphine,” a piece secured by Mr Ward during his visit to America. It is to open in Wellington on Easter Monday.