SOCIAL NOTES

Timaru Herald, Volume CXLII, Issue 20536, 30 September 1936, Page 12

SOCIAL NOTES

Mrs Maitland Rich. Christchurch, i staying with Mrs Geoffrey Rich, Cave

Mrs G. J. Wallace, Albert Street is on a visit to Ashburton.

Mrs A. A. Scott and Miss Maud Wilson, Bidwell Setreet, are spending a few days with Mrs Hector Scott. Ealing.

Mr and Mrs Dampier Crossley, North Canterbury, who were the guests of Mrs Polhill, Orari, have returned home.

Mrs F. F. A. Ulrich and her children, Elizabeth Street, have returned from a holiday at the river.

Mr and Mrs W. N. Mann, Christchurch, are staying at Beverley House, Wai-iti Road.

Miss Mollie Cave, Raymond Street, left yesterday to take up a position on the staff of the Central School, New Plymouth.

Guests at the Balmoral include: Mrs Branthwaite, Miss .Handyside (Havelock), Mrs W. A. Yardley (Heriot), Messrs H. F. Hanna and W. F. Bennett (Christchurch).

Lady Young, England, who is staying with her brother, Mr Charles Miller, Woodbury, will leave on Monday to stay with Mrs F G. Gibson, Christchurch, and will leave later for the North Island.

The engagement is announced of Marjorie, eldest daughter of Mr T. D. ’■Mackenzie, “Takitu,” Waimate, and the late Mrs Mackenzie, and Herbert Eric, q-nly son of the late Mr H. C. Cox, R Ighbridge, Somerset, and Mrs Cox, If andon.

Mr and Mrs W. N. Bond and Miss IM ary Bond, “Dunrobin,” Southland, •wlio are the guests of Miss Elworthy, ♦“Bireora Cottage,” LeCren's Terrace, will leave on Saturday to spend the weq k-end with Mrs P. A. Elworthy, .Gol don’s Valley, before returning south |on. i Monday.

,As the liner Queen Mary was being biniftt. at Clydebank, a rose-grower in Efolland was experimenting with a new t/ype of rose which would be a cross jbetwijen rose pink and salmon pink. When the Queen Mary left on her maidet i voyage she carried 1000 of these blooms as a gift to Lady Bates, wife of rthe president of the Cunard Company, 'who sent some to Mrs Franklin Roosevelt. Finally, the blooms appeared a/. .the garden exhibition at Radio City (and : the name was established.

All ttht- King’s horses for the Coronation* next May will be Cleveland Bays, once Britain’s most fashionable horses* For *5O years Sir Alfred Pease, sporting baronet of Guisborough, Yorkshire, has be ?n fighting to revive the popularity cX this strong, handsome horse. he and Lady Pease are searching tt te country for the few survivors of tills once-famous breed. In Britain the breed has gradually fallen out of favor! •. But next year 20 Cleveland Bays wl U draw the Royal carriages in the CorawAi tion procession.

Miss Agnes Smith, London, arrived in Auckland Hast week by the Rotorua and expectstip spend some time in New Zealand. 'MYss Smith, who is an expert in cookin g demonstrations, has had an extensive training in England as well as doing much experimental work. She JuAe spent a year at the Helena Club* studying sicentiflc cooking, and hasfjeew associated with Miss M. S. Frood, iD .a ,E„ as assistant secretary. Miss Tfrooti, who is a New Zealander by biriih, is well-known in England for her* experimental work in cooking.