SOCIAL NOTES

Timaru Herald, Volume CXLIV, Issue 20982, 10 March 1938, Page 12

SOCIAL NOTES

Mrs A. Garland, Waimate, is spending a few days with Mrs Wilford Scott Park Lane.

Miss Molly Chapman, who has been staying with Mrs J. Page, Albury Park returned yesterday to Christchurch.

Mrs R. J. Guy, Te Kopuru, and Mrs F. B. Cutler, Whakatane, are the guests of Mrs W. H. Walton, Russell Square. Mrs R. Pattenson, Auckland, will arrive to-day to stay with Mrs L. Almond, Nelson Terrace.

Mr and Mrs Charles Rettine, Kent, England, are visiting Timaru and are staying at the Grosvenor.

Mrs D. C. Kee. Finlay Downs, Otaio, and her daughter. Nurse Edith, have left for an extended tour of Otago and Southland.

Mrs E. J. LeCren, Auckland, will arrive from Port Chalmers to-day to stay with Mrs H. E. D. Willcox, Bidwill Street.

Mr and Mrs A. M. Helps, who have been on a short visit to South Canterbury, have returned to Mt. Pleasant, Akaroa.

Miss Alice Evans, Wellington, who is staying with Mrs J. L. Gillies Craigie Street, will return north today.

Miss L. Sutherland, Wellington, and Miss Varrie, Christchurch, are the guests of Mrs R. Sinclair. Elizabeth Street.

Mrs H. Hay, who has been spending several weeks in Dunedin, is now staying with her daughter, Mrs Bruce Murray. “Braemar,” Mackenzie Country.

Antiquities dug up in London City soil are to be sent as a gift from London to Sydney, New South Gales. The Corporation Library Committee, which controls Guildhall Museum, has decid-

ed to make this gift. The objects I chosen are mostly Roman and medieval. In their selection, the design is to illustrate the life of the people who have lived on the present site of London since the earliest times. Frequent excavations for new buildings have brought up keys, writing tablets, lamps, and jars with potters’ stamps, used by the Roman invaders of Britain. Of later date are ox-bone skates worn by Londoners seven centuries ago. The city soil has also given leather sandals and medieval pointed shoes, and clay pipes that Elizabethan Englishmen smoked soon after Raleigh introduced the leaf from America.