SOCIAL NOTES

Timaru Herald, Volume CXLIII, Issue 20851, 6 October 1937, Page 10

SOCIAL NOTES

Mr and Mrs C. Russell, Grey mouth are staying at the Empire.

Mr and Mrs R. Russell, Evans Street, Timaru, have returned from Christchurch.

Mrs W. D. Campbell and Miss Margaret Campbell, Wai-iti Road, have returned from a visit to Dunedin.

Mrs Neil Rattray, Waimate, will leave to-day for Christchurch where she will attend the Christ’s College sports. Miss N. Gray, Dipton, is the guest of the Rev. J. B. Kirk and Mrs Kirk, Waihao Downs.

Sir Henry and Lady Brackenbury, London, who were guests at the Grosvenor, left yesterday for Christchurch.

The Rev. and Mrs A. H. McAcheson. of Waimate, intend visiting Paris and Geneva during September, and expect to return to New Zealand early in December.

Miss Grace Manchester, Kitchener Square, acted as a delegate at the meeting of the Ladies’ Golf Union at Napier. During her stay in the North Island she will be the guest of her sister, Mrs Long, Palmerston North. Miss Elsie Fletcher-Watson, Sydney, has received word from London that the Princess Royal has purchased one of her pictures at the Royal Academy exhibition in London. Miss FletcherWatson is a daughter of the late Mr P. Fletcher-Watson, who was the first president of the Australian Academy of Arts, which began to exhibit in Sydney in 1892. At two exhibitions of miniature watercolours in London, she sold more than 100 examples. Sydney and its surroundings provided the subjects of these pictures. Passing through Auckland on the Monterey was Dr Emma Perry Carr, of Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, Massachusetts. She is on a holiday trip to Melbourne to visit her sister, who is general secretary of the Y.W.C.A. there. Dr Carr is a doctor of philosophy at one of the half-dozen large colleges for women. The colleges in the United States, she said, were not affiliated with the universities, but conferred their own degrees. They were endowed and maintained through philanthrophy. The men’s colleges of Harvard and Yale were not open to women whose own colleges were run on similar lines. Dr Carr is returning early in January.

A delightfi afternoon was held recently at the home of Mrs Anderson, Washdyke, who offered her beautiful garden for the pleasure and benefit of members and friends of the Washdyke Women’s Institute. A very interesting feature of the afternoon was a well arranged treasure hunt which gave all the visitors an opportunity of viewing the delightful display of spring flowers. The lucky gate ticket was won by Mrs James and the flower competition was won by Mrs Gaffaney. During the afternoon musical items were contributed by Mrs W. Kellahan and Mrs McDuff and Miss K. Connolly. A brisk sale was done in home made sweets, etc., and the afternoon proved very beneficial to the Institute funds.

A young Melbourne girl who has carved out an extraordinarily interesting career for herself is Miss Veronica Seton Williams, now in London for two weeks before she sets forth for Palestine, by devious routes, to start digging once more in archaeological fields, states a London correspondent on September 8. Last year she pursued her archaeological researches in Turkey, and for the past two months has been in Liverpool writing up the result of these researches. And once she gets to Palestine—she is going to the southern part this month—she will remain there until April of next year, when once more she will return to England to collate on paper the results of her work. She will go first to Berlin, then to Vienna, from where she will go down the Danube to Budapest After Budapest, her next large city will be Istanbul, and from there she will go to southern Greece and Cyprus, where she will meet her mother, Mrs V. Seton Williams, for a brief holiday, before finallv setting out for Palestine.