SOCIAL NOTES

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXVIII, Issue 19904, 14 September 1934, Page 12

SOCIAL NOTES

Miss Myra Maister, of the staff of St. George’s Hospital, Christchurch, is spending a holiday in Temuka. Mrs Purcell Hunter-Weston, “Huntersley,” Albury, is spending a few days with her mother, Mrs W. G. Taylor. Selwyn Street. Mrs Edgar Jones and Miss Enid Edgar Jones. “Otiritiri,” are expected back from Christchurch at the end of the week. Miss Mary Cleland. Bidwill Street, who has been visiting Miss Jean Mowat, Cheviot, is now the guest of Mrs Hunt, Nelson. Mr and Mrs Harvey and Mr Peter Harvey, who have been staying at Beverley House, Wai-iti Road, returned yesterday to Christchurch. Miss Joan Anderson. Wellington, is joining the staff of the Rothamsted Experimental Station at Harpenden (near London), as general assistant to the head of the entomological staff there. The Young People’s Christian Temperance Union held their monthly meeting in the Wesley Hall. One new member was initiated. A vote of sympathy was passed to Mr Low in his bereavement. During the evening Mrs Dick gave a talk entitled “The Little Things.” Dr. and Mrs William C. Burns (Timaru), went to Bournemouth where the British Medical Association Conference was held. From Bournemouth they will go on to Cowes for the regatta week, and thence tour in Devonshire, Cornwall, North Wales, and Scotland. They will be back in London about the middle of September, and expect to leave for New Zealand at the end of December. The wedding was celebrated on Tuesday afternoon at St. Paul’s Cathedral, Wellington, which had been beautifully decorated for the occasion, of Helen Sara, eldest daughter of the Hon. Mr Justice Blair and Mrs Blair, Eccleston Hill, Wellington, and John Campbell, eldest son of Mrs Hutton and the late Mr Colin Hutton. Wanganui, and grandson of the late Mr Hutton, at one time postmaster at Timaru. and the late Mrs Hutton. The twelve delegates who attended the Conference of Pan-Pacific women, held in Honolulu, returned to the Dominion by the Niagara, last week. For the first time the Maori race was represented at the Conference, Mrs H. D. Bennett attended as deputy-leader, and with her was Mrs B. L. Hammond (Lower Hutt). Miss Elsie Andrews, of New Plymouth, Dominion President of the Pan-Pacific Conference, headed the New Zealand delegation. Miss Hary (Molly) Gribben, of Northcote. now on the staff of St. George’s Hospital at Christchurch, has received official notification that in the recent examination held at Dunedin for the Plunket certificate she was successful in passing with honours. She took her course in general hospital nursing at the Taumarunui Hospital, subsequently going to St. Helens at Wangauni for midwifery training, in each case in the final examination being bracketed in the honours list. A woman who spent more than sixty years nursing wounded soldiers has died at Mougins, France, at the age of eighty-four. She was Victorine Tarte, honoured as a heroine of the Franco-Prussian War and the Great War. In 1870 this remarkable woman was wounded by a bullet while tending French soldiers on the battlefields of the Franco-Prussian War. In August, 1914, she enlisted as a nurse, although then more than sixty years old. French service medals of 1870 and 1914 were pinned to her shroud. Mrs Helga Swinburne Johnson, known professionally in Sydney as Madame Rolunde, is the only woman judge in the musical section of the City of Sydney Eisteddfod, now in progress, That is rather a distinction for a New Zealander, who has had nearly 10,000 entries in her particular section to deal with. The section comprises violins, instrumental ensembles, and lyric instruments. Mrs Swinburne Johnson, who formerly resided in Te Kuiti and in Hamilton, has won the high regard of Sydney’s musical leaders since she came to Australia five years ago. In New Zealand her studies were completed with Max Hoppe, when the well-known German musician made his home here for some time. As a teacher in New Zealand Mrs Swinburne Johnson established a record for the Dominion with her students in Royal Acamedy honours and distinctions in examinations.