SOCIAL NOTES

Timaru Herald, Volume CXLIII, Issue 20669, 6 March 1937, Page 20 (Supplement)

SOCIAL NOTES

Mr and Mrs V. Marshall, Christchurch, are staying -,t the Grand. Mrs J. Satterthwaite, Nile Street, will spend the week-end in Christchurch. Mr and Mrs H. N. Spence, Patearoa, are guests at the Grand. The Rev. J. Miller and Mrs Miller are registered at the Grand. Miss A. Doreen Cross, Park Avenue, is visiting Dunedin. Miss Nora M. Firth, Christchurch, is staying at the Grosvenor. Mrs P. R. Woodhouse, Bluecliffs, has returned from a visit to Christchurch. Mrs J. M. Ballantyne and Mrs W. J. Hudson, Christchurch, are staying at the Grosvenor. Mrs Veale, England, Miss Olive McIlraith, Christchurch, are the guests of Mrs John Barker, Four Peaks. Miss Agatha Upham, Christchurch, is the guest of Mrs Herbert Elworthy, "Craigmore.” Mrs M. Clark, Shanghai, who was the guest of Miss J. Stephens, ‘‘Waitemata,” Wai-iti Road, left yesterday for Port Chalmers. Miss Kathleen Kerr, of the staff of the Christchurch Hospital, who is the guest of Mrs J. Smith, Otlpua Road, will return north to-morrow. Dr. and Mrs W. T. Simmons, Patea, who were the guests of Mr and Mrs C. W. Simmons, Marybrook, Makikihi, have left for the Southern Lakes. Miss Bonnington who has been spending a holiday with Mrs G. W. Graham, Kimbell, has returned to Ashburton. Miss and Mr Drennan, Oamaru and Miss McEwan, Wyndham, are spending the week-end with Mrs Paterson, “Glenshea,” Kimbell. Miss Edith Roberts, Hewling Street, will leave to-day on a visit to England and the Continent. Miss Nola Relling, Tycho, will go to Wellington to see her off. Mrs W. H. Helmore, formerly of Timaru is returning to New Zealand from England. She will visit her daughter, Mrs Michael Connell, Wairoa, formerly Miss Elena Helmore, before coming to the South Island. Kilts will replace shorts for women on Europe’s fashionable beaches when our summer comes. Paris fashion houses are already displaying kilts of printed dotted cotton, mostly in scarlet Or royal blue. They will be worn very short with panties. Brassieres of the same design are to be worn. Irish linen kilts, duplicating patterns of well-known Scots tartans, are another coming fashion. Due to the English Government rearmament programmes there is a great demand for executive officers in the Civil Service. At the recent examination 100 vacancies were announced. These have now been increased to nearly 200, and more are likely. Seventeen women were in the first 100 successful, and there are 26 more women in the second hundred. One of the successful women, Miss B. J. Moore, who obtained 55th place, chose lower mathematics as one of her subjects, and was awarded 195 marks out of a possible 200—a record success. Six hundred and twenty-seven men also took this subject, and Miss Moore beat all but one, who obtained the same number of marks as she did.