SOCIAL NOTES

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXVIII, Issue 19943, 30 October 1934, Page 10

SOCIAL NOTES

Mr and Mrs C. S. Hammond have left on a visit to Mount Cook. Miss Devenish-Meares, Bidwill Plats, is staying with Mrs Walpole, Geraldine. Mr and Mrs P. A. Elworthy, Gordon’s Valley, will leave to-morrow on a visit to Christchurch. Mrs W. R. Haselden, Wellington, is the guest of Mrs C. C. W. Haselden, Bank of New South Wales. Mr and Mrs F. Lewis, Evans Street, will leave to-day on a visit to Australia. Mrs Leslie Sheild, Dunedin, is the guest of Mrs Harold Elworthy, Craigmore. Miss B. Hadlee, Clyde Street, who has been visiting friends in Dunedin and Invercargill, has returned home. Miss B. Norman, of Auckland, is visiting Timaru, and is staying at the Grosvenor. Mrs Pat Downey and Miss Patricia Richardson, left yesterday on a holiday visit to Melbourne. Mr and Mrs A. E. Sandral, Elizabeth Street, left yesterday for a six weeks’ holiday trip to Melbourne and Sydney. Miss Margaret Conaghan left yesterday for Invercargill, to spent a fortnight with relatives. Mrs John Anderson and Miss Dorothy Anderson, Christchurch, are staying at Beverley House, Wai-iti Road. Miss Rosamond Rolleston, LeCren’s Terrace, who has been paying a round of visits in the North Island, is expected home to-day. Mrs G. Cossins, Craighead Street, who is the guest of Mrs Russell Ritchie, Dunedin, is expected home today. Mr and Mrs A. S. Elworthy, Holme Station, Pareora, will leave on Friday to attend the Cup meeting at Christchurch. Miss Anne Macfarlane, Christchurch, who was the guest of Mrs C. H. Gorton, Nelson Terrace, returned home on Sunday. Mrs E. H. Pike, “Crohamhurst,” Fairlie, who has been staying with Mrs N. Palmer, Wai-iti Road, returned home yesterday. The engagement is announced of Miss Bessie Gaisford, daughter of Mr H. Russel Gaisford, and Mr R. S. Fullerton-Smitfh, son of Mr and Mrs F. A. Fullerton-Smith. Miss E. M. Gotts, of Guy’s Hospital and Westminster, London, arrived from England on Friday afternoon to take up a position in the massage department of Dunedin Hospital. When washing fuji silk add a little blue and raw starch in the last rinsing water. The silk will look new every time it is washed. If a little vinegar is added to the rinsing water it will keep white silks from fading. To keep white silk a good colour use methylated spirits when washing it. Mrs H. J. Kennedy, of Invercargill, who has been visiting Timaru, returned south, accompanied by Mr Kennedy yesterday. The departure of Mr and Mrs Kennedy breaks the chain of family residence in Timaru extending over a period of 60 years. Mr N. Kennedy left Timaru recently for Palmerston North, and Miss M. Kennedy Left last week to reside in Wellington. Miss M'Callum, who has been mistress of the Junior Department of John M’Glashan College for a number of years, and who resigned her position recently, was the recipient of several tokens of esteem at a function prior to her departure. On behalf of the staff Mr Holme presented Miss M’Callum with a leather travelling case. The head prefect, G. Stevenson, made the presentation of a python-skin handbag, the gift of the pupils and ex-pupils, and on behalf of the boarders P. Cook and M. O’Callaghan handed Miss M’Callum a clock. She was also handed a bouquet and a posy. Miss M’Callum suitably acknowledged the gifts.

More than 80 friends of Mrs R. Martin, Rose Street, gathered in St. Patrick’s Hall recently to bid farewell to her before her departure for Christchurch where her future residence will be. In presenting Mrs Martin with an inscribed silver entree dish, the Rev. Father M. A. Murphy, S.M. referred to her long connection with the parish and her efforts in the cause of charity. Members of St. John’s Tennis Club also took the opportunity of farewelling Mrs Martin, a vice-president, and Miss Mary Martin. On behalf of members, Mr C. Durning presented Mrs Martin with a pair of bronze bookends and Miss Martin with a crystal powder bowl and vase. Both presentations were acknowledged by Mr David Martin (Christchurch). During the evening, which was spent in cards, community singing and dancing, items were given by Miss Marie Burns and Mr W. S. Minehan. Lady Burdett, of New Zealand—formerly a resident of Auckland—who arrived in Sydney recently after a holiday visit to the Far East, said that Japan had a good scheme in force to keep beggars and conjurers off the streets. “No begging is allowed,” she said, “because the rich people are compelled by law to keep all their poor relations. It is pretty hard on the rich who have big poor families to maintain, but the scheme seems to be working fairly well. Although the scheme might be all right for the East, I could not imagine it being put into operation in Australia or New Zealand. Wealthy relations would leave for other lands in shiploads.” Lady Burdett said that women in the East were getting more freedom and independence. They were gradually discarding their national dress for fashionable European clothing. At a recent dinner party somebody asked why, since everybody so much prefers them, big firms do not make “home-made" bread and jam. The answer given by experts was that it was impossible to keep the home-made touch with machine-made material. It must needs be hand-made, and that meant it would be hopelessly uneconomical on any large scale. By the same authorities we were told that, in the North of England, most women still bake their own bread. There is not one in a hundred thousand in the South who can or does. Cockney housewives are the least capable of all, and the Cockney household is the great prop of tinned goods. This may explain the Londoner’s C 3 symptoms as compared with country folk. Homemade wine, however, is still a domestic industry in the South. At this same dinner-table, I heard of country aunts who make a rhubarb vine that is like pink champagne, and also a cucumber wine warranted to subdue even hardheaded cavemen.