SOCIAL NOTES.

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXIV, Issue 18850, 13 April 1931, Page 3

SOCIAL NOTES.

Miss Fox. Wai-iti Road, will leave next week on a trip to England. Mrs Vernon Bowker, Cave, is on a visit to Mrs A. C. Stevens. Dunedin. Mrs G. Hart and Miss Pigeon, Waiiti Road, have returned from a visit to Akaroa. Miss Muriel Garland, Waimate. is the guest of Mrs P. B. Hume, Christchurch. Mrs Eric Rillstone, Grasmere Street, is the guest of her mother, Mrs J. A. Haggitt, Dunedin. Mr and Mrs Hamilton SinclairThomson. Park Lane, have returned from a visit to Christchurch. Miss Alma McCallum, Sefton Street, has returned from a visit to Miss Lucie Annett, "Airies,” Fairlie. Miss Alice Kitson, who is spending the week-end with the Misses Hassell, Carshalton, North Street, will return to Christchurch to-day. Mrs Neill Rattray, “Ngahere,” Waimate. returned home yesterday after a visit to her mother, Mrs G. Helmore, Christchurch. Mr and Mrs S. D. Sutherland and Miss Nancy Nicholson, Dunedin, have returned home after a visit to Mrs E. Philp, Highfield. Miss Betty Cossins. Ardnaquere, Wai-iti Road, who has been on a motor tour through Canterbury, returned home yesterday. Miss Wright. Wai-iti Road, who is staying with her sister, Mrs J C. Templer, Waimate, will return home to-day. Miss Hunter-Weston and Miss Pauline Bennett, Blenheim, who are staying at Mt. John, Tekapo, will return to-morrow to “Highthorne,” Timaru. Miss Oliver Kay, Otago, who won the women's golf championship of Canterbury on Saturday, has now won it five times in succession. This championship has previously been won four times by Mrs J. C. Templer, Waimate. formerly Miss N. Wright, of the Highfield Golf Club. The cabaret at The Broadway on Saturday evening was well attended and as usual much enjoyed by those present. Popular numbers were recorded, and extras were played by request by Fred Edney. To show to better advantage the colours of the charming and becoming frocks, brilliant lights have been added. Blended colours of red, gold and blue and masses of coloured sweet-peas made a beautiful setting.

Miss J. Bicknell. chief of the New Zealand Nursing Services, who has retired on superannuation, is an Oamaruvian who joined the Health Department in 1907 when there were only two active nurses on the staff. Now there are more than 50. Miss Bicknell’s post carries with it the duties of assistant inspector of hospitals, registrar of nurses and midwives, director of the division of nursing, and matron-in-chief of the N.Z.A.N.S. During the war Miss Bicknell was for one year matron of the hospital ship Maheno. her services being recognised with the A.R.R.C. second class. Shortly after taking over her departmental duties from her predecessor in 1923, Miss Bicknell went abroad to study nursing conditions, I and was present at a meeting of the | executive of the International Council of Nurses in Denmark. Many of the acquaintances she made then were j renewed in 1929 when, as specially J elected president of the New Zealand nurses’ organisation, she went to a conference of the Council in Montreal. The Dominion’s delegate was on the board of directors which guided the deliberations of 7000 people, the largest gathering of women ever assembled. Miss Bicknell has a sym-

pathetic attitude of mind which won the confidence of nurses, and she did a great deal for their advancement both in training and in working conditions.

A huge butterfly of gold and brown marigolds, with wings spread as if for flight, was the symbolic decoration at St. Mary's Parish Hall on Friday afternoon, when members of the Mothers’ Union gathered to bid farewell to their secretary. Mrs A. C. Murray, who is to leave for her new home in Christchurch this week. Prior to the opening of the proceedings, little Daphne Lawrence presented the guest with a bouquet of roses and maidenhair fern, each member having contributed a flower. During the afternoon musical items were given by

Mesdames H. Hall and L. Wood, and Miss Marjorie Shirtcliffe. Archdeacon Monaghan, who presided, in referring to the sterling qualities of Mrs Murray, not only as the Mothers' Union secretary, but in all parish work she undertook, said that her resignation after seven years was accepted with regret. He wished Mrs Murray to convey to Mr Murray and family his thanks for all the valuable work they had accomplished in connection with the Church, but especially he desired to thank Mrs Murray herself for her untiring and increasing efforts in all phases of the Church work. The speaker then called on Mrs Clissold, j president of the Union, to present Mrs Murray with a beautiful silver tea- | pot and silver coffee-pot, suitably engraved. On rising to reply, Mrs Murray j said that she first of all wished to j thank Archdeacon Monaghan for the 1 many kind remarks he had made con- ! cerning her family and herself. She ! thought that they had only done what i was their duty, and what had really j been a very great pleasure to them j all. She also wished to thank them I for their valuable and useful gifts, | which would always serve to remind her of the many friends she had made | in the Mothers’ Union and in South ! Canterbury. (Applause.) At the con- | elusion of the presentation, afternoon | tea was served and a pleasant hour j spent in friendly conversation and various competitions.

LATEST VISITORS. | At the Grand: —Mr and Mrs W. S. j Angas, Mr and Mrs G. H. Edmonds, I Mr L. Cornaga, Mr N. Le Cren, Mr | and Mrs J. G. Herdman, Misses M. and | L. Herdman. Miss I. L. Hiron, Mr and Mrs J. B. Norris, Mrs D. McGilvray, Mr S. A. Wade. Mr Novella Andrews, Mr S. Howarth, Mr A. W. Moulton (Christchurch), Mrs H. E. Shacklock (Dunedin), Mr C. W. Bridge, Mr A. W. Grant (Wellington), Mr Wm. Robertson (Tapanui). Mr and Mrs N. F. Foreman (Masterton), Mr W. H. , Towney (Oamaru), Mr James Webb (Auckland), Mr Douglas WoilßC (Lon-

don), Mr A. G. Copeland (Sydney), Mrs W. F. Hamilton (Fairlie), Mrs A. F. Allan (North Canterbury), Mr and Mrs R. D. Macdonald (Balclutha), Mr Douglas B. Muir (Temuka), Mrs E. Miles. Mr K. Fulton, Mrs E. M. Thomson. Miss E. B. Thomson, Mr Thos. Thomson (Dunedin). VALEDICTORY. Despite the cold wintry weather on Saturday afternoon, there was a good turn-out of the Highfield Croquet Club to bid farewell to two of their members, Mr and Mrs A. C. Murray, who are moving to Christchurch. Mr and Mrs Murray have been members of the Club since its inception some seven years ago, and have thrown themselves whole-heartedly Into all that made for the progress and welfare, not only of the Highfield Club, but of croquet generally. Mr Murray has acted as green supervisor, and Mis Murray is a past president, and has held the position of Club captain this season. The president, Mrs W. S. Curr, occupied the chair, and the ladies provided an abundance of good things to which with the inevitable cup of tea, ample justice was done. All engaged in a happy chat over the battles lost and won on the lawns. At the request of the president. Mr Curr then presented Mr and Mrs Murray with a handsome travelling rug as a memento of their happy associations in the Highfield Croquet Club. Mr Cun* eulogised the good service rendered by the departing guests. As players, he said, they had been., a stimulus to other members in the consistent high standard of play that they had maintained, and as club captain Mrs Murray had filled well an onerous position. He hoped that in their new sphere they would find croquet players who would be as pleased to welcome them as Highfield was sorry to lose them. He felt sure that they would give a good account of themselves on the lawns. On behalf of the Club he wished them all success and happiness in their new surroundings.

Mrs Shirtcliffe, Mrs Taylor, and Mr Dawson endorsed Mr Currs remarks, and added their testimony to the good work done by their guests during theii long association with the Club. Mr Murray, in reply, thanked members for their handsome gift, and the kind references to Mrs Murray and himself. It needed no gift to remind them of the kind friends and happy associations which had surrounded them in Highfield, and which they would ever look back upon with pleasant memories. He hoped that the Club would continue to prosper, and he felt sure that it would. Should they be back this way at any time they would look forward to renewing their acquaintances with old friends.

Mrs Murray briefly added her thanks, saying that she felt that they did not deserve all the kindness that had been extended to them.

It was hoped that Mr and Mrs Murray could have been present at the closing of the season on Saturday next, but this could not be arranged. Musical honours brought to a close a happy gathering. COUNCIL OF WOMEN. MONTHLY MEETING. The monthly meeting of the South Canterbury branch of the National Council of Women was held in the Y.W.C.A. club-room, Church Street, on April 10th. The president, Mrs F. S. Cave, was in the chair, and delegates from 12 affiliated societies were present. A letter was read from the Dominion president urging the Association to invite a member of the New Zealand Manufacturers’ Association to address the branch on "Buy New Zealandmade Goods." Members agreed that in view of the unemployment iai New Zealand this was a very good suggestion. and it was left to the president to arrange for a speaker on the subject to address the annual meeting in May, and to throw the meeting open to all members of societies who wished to attend. The president reported that the Conference of the Dominion Council of Women would be held in Wellington on April 16, 17 and 18th. and that the branch was endeavouring to get a delegate to attend from South Canterbury. This concluded the business part of the meeting, and a most interestingaddress was then given by Sister Adams on the work of the Mary Raymond District Nurse.

A hearty vote of thanks to Sister Adams concluded the meeting.