SOCIAL NOTES

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXV, Issue 18499, 21 February 1930, Page 3

SOCIAL NOTES

Mr and G. B. Crcemer are settled In their new home, 28 Orbell Street. Mr and Mrs Roberts, Christchurch, are staying at “Kelso,” Sarah Street. Mrs J. W. Adams, Wai-iti Road, has returned from a visit to Dunedin. Miss Joan Forbes, England, is the guest of Miss Tripp, Orari Gorge.

Mrs W. L. Mitchell, Kitchener Square, is oh a visit to her mother, Mrs Neave, Christchurch.

Mr and Mrs Gamble and the Misses Gamble, Christchurch, are guests at “Kelso,” Sarah Street.

Mrs W. H. Unwin, Church Street, who has been on a short visit to Christchurch returned home yesterday.

Mr and Miss Johnson. England, have been spending a few days with Mrs Maurice Harper, Waitawa. Miss Craig, who was the guest of Mrs L. M. Inglis, Preston Street, returned to Wellington yesterday. Mrs S. I. Pitch, Waimate, left yesterday to spend the week-end with Mrs Douglas Pullen, Christchurch. Mrs Webb and Miss Barbara Webb, Christchurch, who are the guests of Mrs F. A. Raymond, Beverley Road, will return home to-day.

.Dr and Mrs Shackleton, Waimate, who have been on a visit to Hanmer Springs, are in Christchurch for the Medical Conference.

Miss Madge Rodgerson, of the Timaru Telephone Exchange, left yesterday for Dunedin on a two months holiday.

Mrs Edgar Hazlett, Dunedin, and Miss Hilda Matheson, Melbourne, who have been staying at the Grand, will leave to-morrow to spend the weekend with Mrs W. White, “Summerhill,” Levels.

Mrs Agnes Hamilton, the Labour M.P. and biographer of the British Prime Minister, has written under the title “Special Providence; a tale of 1917,” a story of the war from the standpoint of a soldier’s wife at home. Miss E. C. Pryor, of the Public Hospital, has been granted by the % South Canterbury Hospital Board a nursing bursary, valued at £9O. Miss Pryor will commence her studies in Wellington on March 1. The course is for a period of six months, and at the end of that time, Miss Pryor will return to Timaru to take up an appointment at the Public Hospital as tutor sister. Lord and Lady Bledisloe spent their last Christmas for some Christmases to come at the ancestral home. Lydney Park, Gloucestershire. Lord Bledisloe has appointed Major Arthur Bathurst, late Royal Berkshire Regiment, Private and Military Secretary. Lord and Lady Bledisloe return to town on January 4 and expect to leave for New Zealand on February 14.

In connection with the Press Conference, which opened in Timaru yesterday, Mrs R. B. Bell (“Arden,” Wai-iti Road) entertained a few friends at afternoon tea.-Those present included Mrs Will Appleton (Wellington), Mrs W. C. Weston (New Plymouth), Mrs W. Easton (Dunedin), Mrs Edgar Hazlett (Dunedin), and Mesdames Wilfrid White, W. H. Walton and C. A. Paterson and Miss Hadfield.

In a charming temporary home in Remuera. Auckland, reside Mr O. F. Nelson and his family of six daughters. To meet Mr Nelson in his home one finds in him a most devoted father who is justly proud of his attractive girls. They have been educated mostly in Sydney, where two are still at college —one studying to be a doctor; the youngest, by, the way, is a clever little elocutionist. 'They are keen tennis players and give weekly garden parties at Remuera. The Nelson home in Samoa is remarkably beautiful as regards both house and grounds. The house is very large and spacious, with balcony and verandahs. The grounds are artistically laid out with flamboyant shrubs and wonderful trees. An appealing spot in the grounds is a group of statuary—two angels, life size, leading a little boy of six years of age. Underneath is the inscription “A Father’s Lost Hope.” In that lovely spot lies buried the only son of Mr Nelson.

Mada'me Louise Kirkby Lunn whose death was reported from London the other day, was one of the great contraltos. She was born in Manchester, and at the age of twenty went to London to the Royal College of Music. Whilst there here singing and acting attracted the attention of Sir Augustus Harris, and under his auspices she made a striking debut as Nora in “Shamus O’Brien.” Later she played at Co vent Garden, and after Harris’s death she joined the Carl Rosa Opera Company, In 1902 she went to America and made her debut at the Metropolitan Opera House, New York, scoring a big success as Amneris in “Aida,” which remained one of her best roles. Perhaps her greatest part of all was Delila in the first production of the Saint Saens opera in England. She was one of Covent Garden’s established favourites in Wagnerian, French, and Italian operas. Some years ago she visited New Zealand on a concert tour.