SOCIAL NOTES

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXVII, Issue 19627, 23 October 1933, Page 10

SOCIAL NOTES

Mrs B. H. Howell, Cave, left yesterday on a visit to her father, Mr G. E. Rhodes, “Beverley,” Christchurch. Miss Joan Glasgow, who has been staying at “Cadogan,” Sefton Street, returned north yesterday. Mrs H. Thompson, Methven, who has been staying at “Cadogan." Sefton Street, returned home yesterday. Mrs Hansell, Wellington, is the guest of her sister, Mrs P. A. Elworthy, Gordon’s Valley. Mrs P. Evans, Gisborne, arrived yesterday, to stay with her sister, Miss Wright, Wai-iti Road. Mrs R. T. Turnbull, Beverley Road, who has been on a visit to England, is expected home on Wednesday. Miss Ena Ward, of Christchurch, is the guest of Mrs A. E. Lawrence, LeCren Street. Miss Stella McLean, Mere Mere Street, is spending the week-end in Christchurch. Mrs Nottingham, Christchurch, who was the guest of Mrs F. A. Raymond, Wai-iti Avenue, returned home yesterday. Mrs G. Helmore, Christchurch, who was the guest of her daughter, Mrs Neill Rattray, Waimate, returned home on Thursday. Lady Herdman and Miss Joyce Herdmail, who have been visiting England, will leave on December 1 for New Zealand, arriving in Wellington on January 3. The serious illness of Mrs Cobbe, wife of the Hon. J. G. Cobbe, Minister for Defence, is giving concern to members of her family. Mrs Cobbe has been an inmate of a private hospital in Wellington for the last fortnight. G. B. Lancaster (Miss Lytteltonl, the well-known authoress whose book on Australian life, “Pageant,” has been so well reviewed, is coming from Australia in November to New Zealand, and, later, will write a book about this country. Miss Lyttelton will stay first in Hawke's Bay, and will be the guest of Mrs Norton Tanner, Hastings. Mrs R. Heald, Miss Marjory Morphy (Feilding), Miss Barbara Pilgrim, Miss Jessica Scott (Christchurch), Nurse Smallbone, Nurse Mee (Ashburton), Miss Frances Haskins (Dunedin), Mrs Cruikshanks, Miss Kerr (Invercargill), Mr and Mrs Roberts, Misses D. and M. Ross (Dunedin), will be among the guests at the Watt-Brodie wedding.

A most enjoyable evening was given for the Chalmers Junior Choir by Miss Adelaide Allchurch at her home, Evans Street, on Friday. The time was spent in games and dances, and competitions played were won by Miss M. Young and Mr lan McLean. Among those present were: Misses Adelaide and Pont Allchurch, Jeanette and Muriel Young, Myra Newitt, Margaret Rennie, Irene McLean, Karine Darroch, Winifred Bird, Violet Chamberlain, Joyce Lslip, Dorothy Gibb, and Messrs E. Allchurch, A. Bird, A. Kay, R. Darroch, I. McLean, A. Cameron, I. and G. Powell, C. Holden, C. Cook. One of two sisters who were decorated by the French with the Croix de Guerre and palms for their services in the war, has died at Boxley Abbey, Maidstone, and sixty-four. She was Miss Grace Nickalls, a sister of Captain Guy Nichalls, the oarsman. Both she and her sister, Miss Maud Nickalls, who is still living at Boxley Abbey, served throughout the war. first with the British Red Cross and then in a similar capacity in France. Mrs Turner, another sister, said: “My sisters i found that age regulations debarred them from going abroad with our own Red Cross, and as they could both speak French they offered their services to our Allies in 1916. They were drafted to a casualty clearing hospital on the Rheims-Verdun front not far from the trenches. They went right through the victorious advance of the French which began in July, 1918."

A London woman, after nearly a year’s painstaking investigation, has shattered one of London's most treasured legends. It has always been taken for granted that Grinling Gibbons, the greatest carver in wood of modern times, carved most of- the screens, pulpits, fonts, and other woodwork in the City churches. Miss Norah Davenport, after delving into the parish records of London for nine months, has established that Grinling Gibbons did none of the carving m any parish church in the city! In St. Paul’s Cathedral, of course, much of the work is by him. The names of the wood carvers who actually executed the beautiful work in the City churches have now been established. The best of them were Edward Pearce, William Cleare and Jonathan Maine. The reason why Grinling Gibbons did not do the carving in the City Parish churches is simple enough,” said the annalist of the Wren Society. Mr A. T. Bolton. He was far to busy with royal orders and commissions from wealthy nobles to accept the poorlypaid orders of parish churches.”