SOCIAL NOTES

Timaru Herald, Volume CXLIII, Issue 20680, 19 March 1937, Page 12

SOCIAL NOTES

Mrs Denys Davey, Green Island, is staying at the Dominion. Mrs B. R. Macdonald, “Waitui.’ Geraldine, left yesterday for Christchurch. Mr and Mrs Sinclair, Dunedin, are staying at the Empire. Mrs S. Harper formerly of “Somerdale,” Fairlie, is leaving for England by the Arawa on March 27. Miss H. C. Strachan, “Rosebank,” Albert Street, will leave by the Arawa on a six months’ visit to England. Miss Minnie Lody, Miss Nellie Kolle and Miss Sands, Sydney, are guests at the Grand. Mrs Ernest Howden, Park Lane, who is on a visit to Hanmer, will return home to-day. Mrs Arthur Jones, Beverley Road, has returned from a visit to Christchurch. Mr and Mrs J. Conaghan, Lake Wakatipu, are visiting relatives at Kerry town. Mr and Mrs Noel Leslie, who have been spending a holiday in Timaru, will leave to-day on their return to Wellington. Mrs J. Page and her children, “Mt. Gerald,” Mackenzie Country, who have been camping at the Rangitata river returned home on Tuesday. Mr F. W. Cooper (Christchurch), Mrs W. Paterson (Dunedin), Mr and Mrs W. Doyle and Miss M. Doyle (Bluff) are guests at the Balmoral. Lady Bruche, Victoria, accompanied by her sister-in-law Miss Bruche, have left the Hermitage, Mt. Cook for a tour of the Southern Lakes. At present at the Hermitage, Mt. Cook is Miss D. Groom of the Johnstone River Advocate,” Innisfail, North Queensland. Mrs Renton and Mr S. Hogue, Nelson Terrace, will leave to-day for Wellington to attend the marriage of Miss Mona Renton to Mr A. Blackburne, of Khandallah, Wellington. Mrs G. Helmore, Christchurch, who has been staying with Mrs E. P. Chapman, Salisbury, has left to stay with her daughter, Mrs Neill Rattray, Walmate. Mrs J. R. Loughnan, who is the guest of Mrs J. A. S. Wait, Christchurch, will leave at the end of the week to stay with her daughter, Mrs Patrick Jennings, Waiau. Mrs J. H. Grigg, “Longbeach,” and Mrs John Barker, “Four Peaks,” will be the guests of their mother, Mrs T. Teschemaker, Christchurch, for the Easter holidays. Mrs Russell Ritchie, Dunedin, has returned home after a visit to Mr and Mrs Derrick Orbell, “Balmoral,” Mackenzie Country, and to Mr and Mrs James Ritchie, Christchurch. Mr and Mrs E. S. Wilson, Mrs E. J. Smith, Dunedin, Mr and Mrs T. Labone, Wellington, Mr and Mrs Connors, Miss Celestine Connors, and Nurse Whittaker, Sydney, are staying at the Grosvenor. Miss Joan Drummond, of Auckland, and Miss Elizabeth Ritchie of Dunedin accompanied by Guide Vic. Williams have left the Hermitage, Mt. Cook to visit the West Coast via the Copland Pass. They will return over the Graham’s Saddle. With Guide Harry Whitley, Mr W. J. Cleary cf Sydney and Miss Helen Blood are doing the round trip to Waiho via the Copland Pass and Graham’s Saddle.

A New Zealander recently returned from abroad gives an interesting description of the peasant life of Bavaria. “The women work in the fields and national dress is worn all the time,” she says. “The houses on the farms, instead of being scattered as they are in New Zealand, are built side by side, in a little village, and the people go out each day to their work. The houses are exceedingly high up and look like a picture- from Grimm’s fairy tales.”

Women’s organisation in Sydney have already submitt-d the names of several distinguished Englishwoman to include among the Government’s guests to the 15th anniversary celebrations next year. So far the only New Zealand woman invited is Princess Te Puea Herangl, the Maori leader, and it is not yet certain whether she can make the journey. If the Princess does go, she will take a party of Maoris with her. The English women suggested as guests Include Dame Gwen Wynne Vaughan (head of the Girl Guides in England), Lady Eleanor Cole (for eight years president of the Associated Countrywomen of the World), and Dame Ogllvia Gordon (a vice-president of the International Council of Women).