SOCIAL NOTES

Timaru Herald, Volume CXLIII, Issue 20893, 24 November 1937, Page 12

SOCIAL NOTES

Miss Marion Hay, Geraldine, spent the week-end at Akaroa. Mrs W. Friedlander, Te Awamutu, is staying at the Grosvenor. Mr and Mrs E. .Teague, Christchurch, are staying at the Dominion. Mrs G. Jackson, Methven, is staying at the Grand.

Mrs L. Suhan, of Levin, is the guest of Mrs A. E. Lawrence, LeCren Street.

Mrs E. Halsted, Dunedin, is a guest at the Grosvenor.

Mr and Mrs J. Elvidge, Dunedin, are registered at the Grosvenor. Mrs W. Purves, Pareora West, is spending a holiday in Dunedin.

Dr and Mrs F. F. A. Ulrich, Elizabeth Street, left yesterday to spend a few days at their cottage at the river.

Miss G. Jones (Oamaru) and Mrs W. Hannan (Springburn) are at the Balmoral.

Mr and Mrs F .A. Cooke and Miss E, Cooke, Dunedin, are staying at the Grand.

Miss Bonchart, Melbourne, is visiting Timaru, and is staying at the Grosvenor.

Miss I. Watson, Otipua, is staying a few days at Pleasant Point as the guest of Mrs E. Halstead. Mrs Beck and family, Christchurch, are spending a holiday with Miss Hide, Seddon Street.

Miss Alice Osborne, Walmate, who was the guest of Mrs B. Sutherland, Wellington, has returned south. Mrs Wilfrid White, Summerhill, levels, who is staying with her mother. Lady Fenwick, Dunedin, is expected home on Saturday.

Mrs Bruce Murray, who has been spending the winter months in Timaru will leave to-day for "Braemar,” Mackenzie Country.

Mr and Mrs W. B. Cunningham have returned to Timaru from a holiday on the West Coast and have taken up residence in Nile Street.

Miss Holford, who is the guest of Miss Wade, Wai-iti Road, will leave today to represent the Dunedin Trained Nurses Association at the conference of registered nurses held in Wellington this week.

Miss Wade, Whare Nana Hospital, Miss Lindsay, matron of the Timaru Public Hospital, and Miss Stevenson, matron Bidwill Street Hospital, will leave to-day to attend the Dominion conference of registered nurses to be held in Wellington this week.

Miss M. Boyce, matron of St. Helen’s Hospital, Christchurch, will be invested with the Order of the British Empire by the Governor-General, Lord Galway at Government House during her visit to Wellington for the Dominion conference of registered nurses.

The manner in which the face of London is rapidly changing was commented upon by Mrs C. M. Turrell, of 'Wellington, who arrived at Auckland by the Awatea from a visit to England. Living in flats had become such an institution in London that many old, well-known and historic buildings had been pulled down and enormous blocks of flats erected in their place, Mrs Turrel said. One of the saddest things was to see the fine old homes on one side of Berkeley Square recently demolished to make room for flats.

Miss Ella Wilson, M.A., Dip. Ed., L.R.S.M., of the Hastings High School, and formerly of Wellington Girls’ College and the Rotorua High School, has been appointed by the New Zealand Education Department to exchange for a year with Miss H. Appleby, M.A. (Cantab.), senior English mistress at the Kendrick Girls’ School, Reading, England. Miss Wilson, who is a daughter of Mrs Wilson, Ellice Street, and the late Mr Thomas Wilson, 0.8. E., Wellington, will leave Auckland by the Aorangl on November 30, and will travel through Canada and the United States before taking up her appointment in Reading.

Lady Maxwell, president of the North-eastern Division of the Girls’ Life Brigade, has addressed a message of greeting and good will to G.L.B. officers and girls in Australia and New Zealand. This will be presonally conveyed to them by Miss E. F. Blenkinsop, of Benton, national field organiser, when she visits those countries early in the New Year. The message says:—“We believe that we are upholding, as you are doing, the great traditions of righteousness and truth, and that in so doing, not only atvancing the Kingdom of our Saviour, but also advancing the interests of our King and Country, My message to you girls in Australia and New Zealand is one of sincere friendship and affection, and to ask you to carry on In the best interests of our great and good work.'’