SOCIAL NOTES

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXVII, Issue 19802, 18 May 1934, Page 12

SOCIAL NOTES

Miss Isobel Macdonald, Waimate, is on a visit to Dunedin. Miss M. Cruickshank, Geraldine, is staying at Tekapo. Miss Molly Collins, Elizabeth Street, left for Dunedin yesterday. Mrs P. B. Benham, Pleasant Point, has returned from a visit to Dunedin. Mrs J. H. Grigg, Longbeach, who was the guest of Mrs P. R. Woodhouse, Bluecliffs, returned home yesterday. Miss Olive Mcllwraith. Christchurch, is staying with Mrs J. S. Barker, Four Peaks. Lady Ferguson, who his been on a visit to Waimate, has returned to Dunedin. Mrs R. B. Bell, “Arden,” Wai-iti Road, left yesterday on a visit to Dunedin. Miss Clifton-Mogg, Craighead Diocesan School, is staying at the Hermitage. Mr and Mrs W. K. Patterson. The Bungalow, Wai-iti Road, are spending the winter months in the North Island. Mr and Mrs Dudley Hayhurst, have arrived from Ashburton to take up their residence in Temuku. Mrs R. Hungerford and sons, Dunedin, are spending the holidays in Templeton, with Mrs W. T. Leggett. Miss Ericker and Miss Hulston (Christchurch) are staying at the Empire. Miss W. Tait and Mr and Mrs G. L. Roy (Christchurch) are guests at the Dominion. Mrs C. J. M. Rendle, a niece of the late Lord Inchcape and her daughter Miss C. M. Rendle, arrived in Auckland this week by the Niagara. Miss Elizabeth Harris, Christchurch, has left for Kerikeri, North Island, where she will spend the winter months with her brother. Dr and Mrs Calenius, who have spent several months in the South Island, will leave by the Monowai on their return to Stockholm. Miss J. B. Wilson, principal of the Waitaki Girls’ High School, has been spending a holiday at the Hermitage, Mt. Cook. Madam Gower-Burns. and Mrs Harris, Christchurch, arrived yesterday on a visit to Timaru ar d are staying at "The Bungalow,” Wai-iti Road. Miss Barbara Williams, who has been staying with her sister, Mrs Forbes O’Rorke, Hororata, has returned to Dunedin. The latest undergraduate fashion in Oxford is the revival of the umbrella. This is not the usual sober, black affair, but a gaily coloured creation of dazzling hues. The most popular design is either in wide stripes or m futuristic jazz designs, while the "last word” is one which matches your shirt. It is said that the new craze is the Oxford man’s retort to the recent efflorescence of beach pyjamas among women undergrads. Inquiry having been made as to the prescribed Vice-regal etiquette concerning debutantes, reference was made to Government House. Information has been given that the correct, procedure, where it is cesired that daughters should be presented to their Excellencies as debutantes, is lor the mother (or other nearest relation) to write to the aide de camp in waiting, stating that it is proposed that the daughter should make her debut during the year, and asking for the honour of presentation to their Excellencies. The names of the parents and their grown-up sons and daughters should previously have been inscribed in ihe visitors’ book at Government House, but the name of the debutante daughter should not be so inscribed until after the function at which she has been presented. The proposal to erect a day nursery at Lambeth as a memorial to Lady Cynthia Mosley, on behalf of which an appeal was made recently by the Prime Minister and members of the House of Commons in all parties, has received generous support, but not sufficient to enable the scheme to be completed. Day nurseries are performing a splendid service for children in different parts of London, and Sir George Newman, Chief Medical Officer, Ministry of Health, in a recent report, emphasised the advantages of a wellorganised day nursery, which, he stated, “provides not only the essential elements of a healthy life but also lays the foundation of training and education.” A day nursery is stated to be urgently needed hi Lambeth. Land for its erection has been provided by the London Countv Council at a nominal rent, and a grant of £3OO a year towards maintenance has been made by the Lambeth Borough Council.