SOCIAL NOTES

Timaru Herald, Volume CXLIII, Issue 20927, 5 January 1938, Page 10

SOCIAL NOTES

Mr and Mis McArtney, Napier, are itaying at the Dominion.

Mr and Mrs D. Bennie, Dunedin, are guests at the Dominion.

Mr and Mrs W. G. Robertson and Mr and Mrs F. E. L. Forrester are Dunedin visitors at the Empire Hotel.

Miss A. Clifford. Christchurch, is a guest at the Empire.

Mr and Mrs 7. W. Duncan, Alexander, are staying at the Grosvenor.

Mrs E. C. Walker and the Misses Walker, Dunedin, are at the Grosvenor. Miss Fullerton, who was the guest of Miss Fox, Wai-iti Road, returned yesterday to Dunedin.

Mr and Mrs Douglas Barker, Kaikoura, who have been on a visit to Timaru ret .rned home on Monday.

Mr and Mrs Harold Wright, Mayfield, are staying in Mr Torlesse’s hcuse i" Park Lane.

Miss Bernadette Mangos, Craigie Avenue, left yesterday on a visit to Mrs Frank Mangos, Auckland.

Mr and Mrs Douglas A. Walker have returned from a camping tour of the Eglington Valley and Southern Lakes district.

Mrs J. Ramsden, Christchurch, who was the guest of her daughter, Mrs G. R. Kingston, Grey F 1, returned home on Monday.

Miss Dorothy Barren. "Ranui,” Grey Road, will leave to-day to join the Arawa at Lyttelton on a visit to England and the Continent.

Miss Marion Ross has returned to Wellington after spending a short holiday with her parents Mr and Mrs W. F. Ross, Albury, and Mr and Mrs W. Duncan, Elizabeth Street. Timaru.

The engagement is announced of Margaret, eldest daughter of Mr and Mrs W. S. Young, Ashbury Avenue and Herbert Alexander, only son of Mr and Mrs IT. G. Duff, "Goyenbracs,” Edievale.

Mr and Mrs J. M. Hood, Mr and Mrs W. Self and family, and Mr and Mrs Russell Douglas, Dunedin, are the guests of Mrs Cecil Holdgate. Otipua Road.

The engagement is announced of Jean Aileen, eldest daughter of Mr and Mrs William Sullivan, Domain Road, Whakatane. and Selwyn Wood, youngest son of Mr and Mrs John W. Foldgate, North Street, Timaru.

Mrs W. F. Hamilton, who has lately i"turned from a trip to England and America, spent a few days with Mrs C. W. F. Hamilton. Irishman Creek, before returning to “Ashwick,” Fairlie. Miss Armstrong Victoria. British Columbia is her guest. The Queen and Princess Elizabeth had a “feast day” on Friday, November 19, for that date is dedicated to St. Elizabeth, states the “Daily Telegraph.” In Belgium feast days are considered more important than birthdays, and. where Royalty is concerned, they are always occasions of great rejoicing. King Leopold followed the custom of his own country by ordering a choice bouquet of roses, St. Elizabeth's flower, for Queen Elizabeth. Princess Elizabeth was remembered by Princess Josephine, who sent her a rose-embroidered book-marker, made by her own hands, as a feast-day gift.

On New Year's day, Mrs J. P. Morrison (Arno) and Mrs E. H. F. Pearse (Timaru) gave a dinner to celebrate the silver wedding of Mr and Mrs L. A. Archibald. Allandale, Fairlie. The tables were tastefully decorated with bluebells and sweet peas. Those present were Mr and Mrs T. A. Archibald (Allandale, Fairlie), Mr and Mrs J. P. Morrison (Arno), Mr and Mrs E. H. F. Pearse (Landsborough Road), Misses Grace and Muriel Archibald (Fairlie), Miss Helen Archibald (Christchurch), Miss Isabel Archibald (Temuka), Miss Winifred Morrison (Dunedin), Misses Olive, Joan and Cathie Morrison 1 Arno), and Mr Unwin Riddle (Kimbell).

London typists are “pale, shivering, needy creatures in cheap clothes,” according to a German writer, a London correspondent of a Berlin newspaper. On raw, cold mornings, he says, they are to be seen patiently waiting in queues for buses, with “their hair and f 2 made to look as neat as passible.” He qouted figures, which, he claims, prove that the London girl typist is under-nourished. He mentions one girl who said that she had to keep up appearances to hold a job at 30/- a week, and comments: "The very essentials for such a girl cost 29/6 a week. Our neat English miss has nothing left to provide for clothes as things are, nor for her holidays. She is certainly not well fed.”