SOCIAL NOTES

Timaru Herald, Volume CXLII, Issue 20493, 11 August 1936, Page 10

SOCIAL NOTES

Mrs S. Baildon, Auckland, Is visiting Timaru and is pt the Grosvenor. Mrs E. Gillum, Temuka, has returned from a visit to Dunedin. Mrs G. Hancox, Dyson Street, Temuka, has left on a visit to Auckland. Mr and Mrs Geoffrey Rich, Cave, are visitors to Christchurch. Mr and Mrs H. P. Brosnahan, Seadown, are visitors to Christchurch for Grand National week. Mr and Mrs A. R. Guild, “Strathearn,” Milford, are visiting Christchurch for the races. Miss V. Alley, Miss Nella Alley and Mrs Spedding, Bay of Plenty, are staying at the Dominion. Mrs F. H. Thompson and Mrs J. McKann, Dunedin, are guests at the Grand. Mrs H. Webb, Mrs Hay ter and Miss Nurse, Mackenzie, are staying at the Grosvenor. Miss May Morris has returned home after spending a holiday with Mrs R. McLean, Waimate. Miss Margaret McPherson, “Braevae,” Cave, is in Christchurch for National week. Mrs Henry Harper and Miss Joan Harper, “Grassy Hills,” are visitors to Christchurch for Grand National week. Mr and Mrs J. W. Hayes, Waimate, left yesterday to attend the races in Christchurch. Mr and Mrs Herbert Elworthy, “Craigmore,” left yesterday for Christchurch, for the Grand National. Mrs C. Mathias, Fairlie, who was the guest of Mrs D. Murchison, Fairview, returned home yesterday. Mr A. G. Quartley and Miss Quartley, Auckland, will arrive in Timaru today for the Quartley-Inman wedding. Mrs W. A. Piddington, Irvine Street, is a visitor to Christchurch for race week. M’iss Margaret Quartley will arrive from Christchurch to-day to stay with Mrs R. B. Temple, Cattle Valley, for the Quartley-Inman wedding. Miss Joyce Edgar-Jones, “Otiritiri,” and Miss Loo Cartwright, Orbell Street, will leave to-day to attend the races in Christchurch. Mrs P. Black, Opotiki, who is the guest of Mrs Sholto Black, Branscombe Street, will leave to-day to stay with Mrs Unwin, Winchester, before returning north. Short skirts, particularly for sportswear and day wear, are returning to vogue. The professional woman has discovered that she has no time to manage a hem near her ankles. Guests at the Balmoral include Messrs L. Ryan (Christchurch), L. A. Churchill (Dunedin), Mr and Mrs W. G. Imrie (Mayfield), Mrs W. M. Thompson and Mrs M. Dempster (Invercargill) . Miss Shona Bennetts, who won the grand championship at the recent N.Z. Eisteddfod, entitling her to represent New Zealand in the dancing section at the Sydney Eisteddfod, sailed by the Marama on Friday. It is surprising to see a woman gardener in green linen coat and brown knickers and gaiters working in the grounds of the Royal Horticultural Society at Wisley, states the London “Daily Mail.” She is the first woman to be allowed the privilege of gaining experience there, although there are 16 young men students. The woman gardener who has gained admission was trained at Waterperry Horticultural School, Oxford. She has been working in the propagating department at Wisley for the last few weeks and attends the students’ lectures. A Princess has found an interesting use for one of the old-fashioned copper preserving pans in which Victorian housewives made their jams, states the London “Daily Mail.” For years a feature of the spacious inner hall at Princess Beatrice’s residence at Kensington Palace has been a tall, wellbranched palm. It was looked after with the greatest care and sent away once a year to be spring-cleaned by experts. Recently the Princess decided that she would like something lighterlooking there. The palm has been banished, and its place taken by a copper preserving pan filled with soil and a flowering plant.