SOCIAL NOTES

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXVIII, Issue 19933, 18 October 1934, Page 12

SOCIAL NOTES

Mr and Mrs F. E. Duncan. Craighead Street, will leave to-day on a visit to Dunedin. Mr and Mrs F. R. Parks. Birmingham, are visiting Timaru, and are staying at the Grosvenor. Mrs M. Ott. Mrs Dolne and Mrs Gould, of Invercargill, are guests at the Grand. Mrs T. Bowker has returned to Christchurch after a visit to Mrs C. Bowker, Sarah Street. Mr and Mrs Bruce Murray, Godley Peaks, who were guests at the Grosvenor, returned home yesterday. Miss Marjorie Whitehead. Seaview Terrace, has left on a visit to Masterton. Miss M. Struthers, Dunedin, is the guest of the Misses Millar, “Campsie,” Pleasant Point. Miss Vera Field has returned to Ashburton after spending a week with her parents, Mr and Mrs H. Field, Otipua Road. Mrs W. A. Moore, “Venard,” Wai-iti Road, will leave to-day on a visit to her parents, Sir Joseph and Lady Kinsey, Christchurch. Mrs D. W. Hunter. “Bell Brae,” Balcairn, arrived yesterday to stay with her sisters, the Misses Mcllroy, “Kelso,” Sarah Street. Miss Catherine Johnstone, “Springbank” Otaio, has returned from a visit to Mrs John Deans, “Kirkstyle,” North Canterbury. Miss Natalie Grushenkova, representing the Russian Missionary Society, who is on a lecture tour in New Zealand, arrived in Christchurch yesterday.

Miss Maisie Andrew, who has been staying with Miss Marawill Burnett, Hakataramea, has left to spend a few days in Christchurch before returning to Marlborough. The engagement is announced of Daisy Lavina, second daughter of Mr and Mrs R. Taylor, Timaru, to John Albert, youngest son of Mr and Mrs J. T. Howell, Chapel Street, Masterton.

The engagement is announced of Rosamond, second daughter of Mr and Mrs F. J. Rolleston, LeCren’s Terrace, and John, second son of Major-General Sir Andrew and Lady Russell, Tunanui, Hawke’s Bay. Mrs J. Hill. Church Street, was hostess at a delightful kitchen evening, given in honour of Miss Doris Taylor, Mowbray Street, whose marriage to Mr Douglas McKerchar, takes place next week. During the evening, Miss Taylor was presented with many beautiful and useful gifts. The following were guests at The Hermitage during the last week:— Sir Arnold and Lady Theiler, South Africa; Mr W. P. Thompson, Hongkong; Mr C. Mackay, Melbourne; Mr and Mrs W. C. Barray, Wellington; Mrs C. S. Hopkirk, Wallaceville; Mr and Mrs E. E. Broad, Mrs R. M. Royds, Invercargill.

St. Paul’s Hall, Oamaru, was filled to capacity on the occasion of the congregational farewell social tendered to the Rev. Brian Kilroy and Mrs Kilroy, and Mrs Kilroy, sen., by adherents of St. Paul's Church, as well as representatives of public bodies and outside organisations. Various speakers eulogised Mr Kilroy’s work during his six years’ stay in Oamaru. Mr Kilroy left on Monday to take up his new appointment as minister of St. Andrew’s Church, Wellington. Mr Kilroy was the recipient of a well-filled wallet from St. Paul’s congregation, and a presentation from the Oamaru Rotary Club, and Mrs Kilroy and Mrs Kilroy sen. were the recipients of gifts from the women’s organisations of the church. For the next two or three weeks the Duchess of York and her small daughters will be leading an ideally happy life at Glamis, writes a correspondent. The whole family foregather there yearly, partly to celebrate together the birthday of the heir, Lord Glamis, and partly because Lady Strathmore has a strong family feeling. Not long ago she had portraits in stone of the whole family made to be set up in niches in the hedge that surrounds one of the formal gardens. Lady Strathmore, like Queen Mary, finds much enjoyment in needlework. One of the huge four-poster beds kept for distinguished visitors has hangings of cream satin embroidered in Chinese blue, most of which she has done herself. Round the border of the canopy valance she has worked the names of her nine children and the dates of their births. The historic bed in which Prince Charlie slept has hangings and i coverlet of gold silk embroidered by her which are faithful copies of the originals, still kept in the castle museum. Every year while the Duchess of York is at Glamis she helps her mother make up the cloved oranges and pot pourri for which the castle is noted. For the last few weeks rose petals and cuttings from every one of the vast variety of herbs in the herbal garden have been drying in readiness for this.