SOCIAL NOTES.

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXIV, Issue 18822, 10 March 1931, Page 3

SOCIAL NOTES.

Miss O’Brien, Orbell Street, returned yesterday from a visit to Christchurch.

Miss Ella Templer, Geraldine, is on a visit to Christchurch.

Miss Lucie Annett Airies, Fairlie, has returned from Christchurch. Miss Clara Brown. Cross Street, is spending a holiday in Invercargill. Mrs C. H. Tripp, Wai-iti Road, has left on a visit to Mrs Charles Tripp, Nithdale, Southland. Miss Turton, Woodbury, has been staying a few days with friends in Christchurch.

Mrs Leslie Fifield and family, from Napier, are staying with Mrs Fifield, senr., at Woodbury. Mr and Mrs E. D. Mosley, Christchurch, will arrive to-day on a short visit to “Cadogan,” Sefton Street.

Miss Vera Hartley, Elizabeth Street, is spending a holiday at Lake Wanaka.

Mr and Mrs W. K. Paterson, The Bungalow, who had been on a visit to Mrs Ange, Glenrogan, have returned to Timaru.

Miss Edith Hassell, “Carshalton.” North Street, left yesterday on a visit to her sister, Mrs J. Barrie Martin, Wellington.

Miss Ailie Gillies. who is staying with Mrs Hunter-Weston, Highthorne. will leave this week to stay with Mrs Melville Jameson, LeCren’s Terrace. Mrs A. Hope and Mrs Ormsby, “Tumanako,” Wai-iti Road, have returned from a visit to Mrs T. Northcote, “The Doone,” Waiau.

Miss Norrie Fenwick, Dunedin, who has been paying a round of visits in South Canterbury, will return south to-day.

Mrs Duffell and Mrs W. Rowe, Christchurch, who had been spending a holiday with Mrs R. Watson, Cross Street, have returned home.

Mrs Barron, Wellington, who had been staying with Mrs A. Grant, Aigantighe, Wai-iti Road, is now the guest of her daughter, Mrs W. C. Burns, Church Street.

Miss R. Lee, who during the past sixteen months, has acted as relieving assistant at Winchester Public School, left on Saturday for her home in Ashburton.

Miss Olive Lyon, England, who had been staying with Mrs John Temple, Highfield, left yesterday to stay with Mrs C. L. Orbell, “Pentlow,” and will leave at the end of the week for North Canterbury, where she will be the guest of Mrs Charles Macfarlane. Miss A. E. Clarkson took up her duties on the staff of the Winchester School on Monday, having been appointed permanent second assistant. Miss Clarkson is one of a number of Hawke’s Bay teachers thrown out of employment by the recent disastrous earthquake, and who are being placed in other parts of the Dominion as rapidly as possible. Art, has a very special appeal to many women, but there are not so many who succeed in putting it on a commercial basis. Yet if at any time you happen to be in a tiny place called Waireka—a corner of sunshiny Blenheim—you might see a blue feather of smoke perched on top of a most unusual chimney; and if you went so far as to make inquiries, Elizabeth Lissaman, a tall, fair girl in her early twenties, would explain to you that here is the kiln where she makes the charming pottery jugs, vases and plaques which have commanded the attention of so fastidious a publication as “Art in New Zealand.” Without any help from the outside world, she discovered that the clay around her little home was as suitable for good pottery-making as that which spun on an old Eastern potter’s wheel a few thousand years ago. She experimented, advanced far along her road, and then crossed over to Sydney to learn the highly technical kiln processes. Her present kiln she built herself. But the thing I like most is her subject matter. Her model for some dark blue, deliciously-shaped jug may be a native bird flashing across her lawn to the old pine trees a few yards away. The wheeling flight of gulls, the quaintness of an old lizard basking in the sunshine, the gold of tall daffodils —these are her artistic material, and the medium of pottery expresses them with uncommon charm.

BALL AT FAIR VIEW. The Harvest Home Ball held by the Fairview Tennis Club on Thursday last proved an outstanding success, both financially and socially. The hall had been beautifully decorated by members of the Committee, red and gold streamers and trails of greenery being suspended across sheaves of oats and wheat. Colour was added by red and gold flowers, and gold shades on the lights. Good music and supper, and an excellent dancing floor, all added to the enjoyment of the many people present. Mr W. Mack kindly acted as M.C., and he was assisted by Mr A. Hide. Extras were played by Miss J. Gilmore and Mr L. Andrews. Those present included:—Mr and Mrs A. H. Abott, Mr and Mrs S. Raddon, Mr and Mrs Grieve, Mr and Mrs J. Husband, Mr and Mrs McDonald, Mr and Mrs Woodward, Mrs Vigers, Misses D. Butchers, M. Kingston, N. McMillan, V. Kingston, R. Butchers, H. Kingston, S. Buchanan, S. Dale, J. Abbott, S. McMillan, J. Gilmore. A. Brosnahan, A. Rogers, D. Wade, M. Duffey, M. Shepherd, I. Hooper, P. Richards, B. Richards, W. Cross, A. Mclnnis, S. McPherson, S. Annett, M. Hessell, S. Loomes, V. Hight, E. Mauger, B. Hastie, M. Bracefield, E. Anderson, F. Davey, N. Shaw, F. Shaw, Ngaire Shaw, Munro, Page, F. Thompson, M. King, Smith, H. Campbell, Goddard, M. Gilmore, M. Gilligham. Messrs W. Butchers, T. Butchers, A. Johnson, E. Mauger, T. McMillan, H. Dale, E. Butchers, T. Anderson, A. D. Leslie, M. Latta, N. McVey, W. Mack, V. Clark, A. Hide, N. Vincent, P. Vincent, P. Hen wood, S. Brosnahan, J. Rogers. L. O’Donoghue, C. Talbot, V. O’Donoghue, R. A. Jackson, J. Cross, E. Jackson, L. Jackson, L. Horsfall, J. Hill, G. Wallace, G. Ogden, T. Hughes, Solomon, L. Andrews, Leopold, Verdon, H. King, J. Frame, A. Butchers, R. Vincent, W. Squires, W. McPhedran, E. Aitcheson, Mitten, H. Hooper, R. Brown. W. Cassidy, J. Greig, L. Blunden, J. Best, Jackson and many others.