SOCIAL NOTES

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXVIII, Issue 19987, 20 December 1934, Page 12

SOCIAL NOTES

Mrs Ross Brodie, Rangitata Island, is spending a few days in Christchurch. Mrs F. J. Perhan, Invercargill, is staying at the Empire. Mr and Mrs F. Reid, Dunedin, are guests at the Grosvenor. Miss M. Ford (Dunedin) is a guest at the Dominion. Miss C. L. Brown, Wai-iti Road, will leave next week on a visit to her sister, Mrs H. Gibson, Sydney. Miss Elsie Macauley, Highfield, has returned from a visit to Mrs H. Hargreaves, Christchurch. Mrs George Dennistoun, Peel Forest, has returned from a visit to Hawke’s Bay. Mr and Mrs Sandral, Elizabeth Street, have returned from a trip to Australia. Miss Margaret Webster, Nelson Terrace, who has been on a visit to Palmerston North, will return home to-day. Miss June Orbell, “The Croft,” Park Lane, will return to-day from North Canterbury. Misses Amy and May Oliver, Surrey Downs, Pleasant Point, left yesterday on a visit to Akaroa. Mrs R. A. Rickman. Grey Road, is staying with her daughter, Mrs Finch, Oamaru. Miss Edith Roberts, Hewling Street, has returned from a motor trip through Southland. Mr and Mrs J. B. Callan (Wellington) are visiting Timaru and are staying at the Grand. Mr and Mrs Douglas Barker, Kaikoura, will arrive on Sunday to be the guests of Mrs W. E. Gibson, Elizabeth Street, for Christmas. Mrs MacPherson, and her children, Craighead Diocesan School, will leave to-day to spend the holidays at Marlborough Sounds. Miss Fox, and Miss Helen Fox, Waiiti Road, will leave to-day on a visit to Wellington. Mrs Percy Cox, Christchurch, will accompany them. Mrs I. J. Andrews, Dominion secretary of the New Zealand Red Cross Society, will leave by the Wanganella to-day on a six weeks visit to Sydney. Colonel and Mrs W. Shakespeare, Auckland, arrived in Timaru yesterday and are spending a few days with Mrs J. Temple. Highfield. Mr and Mrs G. H. Andrews and Misses Andrews, Evans Street. are spending the holidays at the river. Mr and Mrs R. Hudson, Dunedin, who have taken their house, arrived in Timaru yesterday. Miss Myra Bassett, Bank Street, who was a debutante at the Mayoral Ball, given in honour of His Royal Highness, the Duke of Gloucester, in Wellington, on Monday night, wore a frock of white satin and georgette, and carried a bouquet of pink and white flowers. Mrs B. Arras and Miss M. Arras, “Hollybank,” Gleniti, and Miss M. Jamieson, Christchurch, who have been visiting Blenheim. Picton, Nelson, Westport and Christchurch, are expected to return home at the end of the week. Advice has been received that the following candidates were successful at the written examinations of the Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music, London, held last month. Grade IV., pass—Coventry, Edith M. (Miss O. Cameron). Grade 111., pass—Chapman, Dulcie N. (Mr D. Parkin). Grade I. pass—Swanson, Valerie M. (Mrs M. J. Readie). The r amount of amusement one can get from shop windows is incalculable, not only entertainment because of the beauty and the good taste evidenced in contents and their arrangement, but in the conscious or unconscious humour and the proofs of originality one comes across. “I was delighted,” writes a Londoner, “with a milliner’s window in Bath, where there was a sign which read: ‘We are every bit as exclusive and not nearly as expensive as we look.’ Now, that w r as really provocative. Only a tender conscience and the knowledge that I had already provided for adequate head covering for some time to come, kept me from going in to discover the truth of the amusing notice.”