SOCIAL NOTES

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXVII, Issue 19670, 12 December 1933, Page 12

SOCIAL NOTES

Mr and Mrs J. W. ®Fair, Douglas Street, are on a visit to Christchurch. Mrs R. B. Bell, “Arden,” Wai-iti Road, is spending a few days in Christchurch.

Mrs James Maling and her son, Mr John Maling, Christchurch, will leave this week on a visit to England. Mr E. C. Patterson, Miss E. Patterson and Miss A. Wood (Mosgiel) are staying at the Grand. Mr and Mrs C. S. Bruce, Douglas Street, returned on Sunday from a holiday at Wanaka. Miss J. Turnbull, Wai-iti Road, has returned from a visit to Mrs J. C. Templer, Waimate.

Mr and Mrs Pat Webb, Christchurch, spent the week-end with Mrs F. G. M. Raymond, Beverley Road. Miss Katrine Loughnan, who has been staying with her sister, Mrs Patrick Jennings, “Dunrobin,” Southland, has returned to Christchurch. Mrs F. T. Withers, Christchurch, who was the guest of the Misses Stubbs, Wai-iti Avenue, has left for Invercargill. The Rumanian Government has issued a decree that in future no waitress under 40 years of age shall be employed in public cafes, hotels, bars, or clubs.

The thrill of Princess Elizabeth's young life is always a visit to Glamis Castle, her mother’s old home, and to don her kilt. The little Princess never looks prettier than when in her Highland attire, and she never feels prouder, for she has heard all the romantic history of Glamis. and she loves all her Scottish friends in the vicinity. Many is the tale of adventure and romance that she tells her little sister, Princess Margaret Rose, who has not taken to wearing a kilt just yet. Retiring at the end of the year is Miss Elizabeth Anne Miller, who has been a Plunket nurse in Wellington for 15 years and for 12 years has been attached to the Karori and Kelburn districts. Over 2000 young mothers with their babies have passed through Nurse Miller’s capable hands during her long period of service in the Plunket Society’s rooms. She spends her mornings visiting the mothers, and her afternoons in interviewing them at the rooms and giving them assistance and advice.

In the annual report of the principal of the Timaru Technical College (Mr F. L. N. Tuck), presented at last night’s meeting of the Board of Managers, regret was expressed at the resignation of Miss M. Manson. Miss Manson, said Mr Tuck, was appointed to the staff shortly before his arrival in 1930, chiefly to undertake the development of the science course on the girls’ side as well as to teach dressmaking and cookery. She had carried out her work most conscientiously and thoroughly, and had made a valuable contribution to the progress of the College.

A Press Association message from Wellington c -s:—Miss P. Bourne, accompanied by her mother, Lady Bourne, arrived by the Maunganui, and intends to spend about six weeks in New Zealand, touring the South Island. A lover of the sea, Miss Bourne, who has worked as a sailor from Capetown to Melbourne, and for a year has been wandering about the Pacific, her mother accompanying her in most places, proposes sailing in one of next season’s wheat ships from Australia to the Baltic. Miss Bourne and Lady Bourne passed through New Zealand in July en route to Tonga, and their experience on that occasion made them enthusiastic about the Dominions.

A long journey undertaken to win a wager was that made by Miss Phillipa Bridges, an Englishwoman. whose brother, Lieut.-Gen. Sir Tom Bridges (Governor of S.A., 1922-1927), bet her that she would not ride from Oodnadatta (S.A.) to Port Darwin (N.A.) by camel. Miss Bridges took train to Oodnadatta, where she engaged a black boy and his lubra to accompany her. hired two riding camels and one pack camel, and set out on her lonely journey of hundreds of miles, sometimes spending many days between stations. The experience would have been trying enough for one used to bush life, but for an Englishwoman entirely unused to the bush and to Australia it was a great achievement. Miss Bridges has written a book or* her travels. The soprano solos in “The Messiah,” which will be presented in the Opera House at Qamaru to-night, will be sung by Mrs W. I. Tait, of Timaru. Mrs Tait was also the soprano soloist in “The Messiah” in Dunedin last week, and the “Otago Daily Times,” in a report of the performance, said “Mrs Tait possesses a clear, well-trained soprano voice, and everything she sang she treated mast artistically. Mention must also be made of her splendid enunciation and she was practically tone perfect in all her numbers. She achieved her greatest success with a beautiful interpretation of ‘I Know That My Redeemer Liveth,’ but in Come Unto Me.' 'Rejoice Greatly,’ and 'Lo! An Angel of the Lord,’ and other numbers allotted to her she sang with great charm and interpretative insight.”