SOCIAL NOTES

Timaru Herald, Volume CXLV, Issue 21155, 30 September 1938, Page 12

SOCIAL NOTES

Miss June Orbell, Park Lane, who is staying in Christchurch is expected home to-morrow.

Mr and Mrs W. N. Bond, “Dunrobin,” Southland, who have been spending some months in Canterbury have left on their return south. Mrs R. G. Malcolmson, who has been staying with her daughter, Mrs A. B. Struthers, North Street, has returned to Christchurch. The engagement is announced of Joyce Ellen, younger daughter of Mr and Mrs R. Green, Timaru, and lan Alexander, younger son of Mr and Mrs C. F. Carnie, Timaru. Mrs D. S. Kemshed, Chalmers Street, is a visitor to Wellington for the annual meeting of the Dominion Executive of the National Council of Women held this week. Commander G. Dennistoun and Mrs Dennistoun and Miss J. Dennistoun, Peel Forest, returned to New Zealand by the Wanganella on Wednesday after an eighteen months visit to England. Mr and Mrs Brewer and Miss Nan Stewart, Dunedin, will be the guests of Mrs L. Grant, Temuka, for the marriage of Miss Constance Grant and Mr Jack Mackay, Wai-ti Road, which will take place in Temuka to-morrow. Miss G. L. Jeffreys, assistant librarian at Canterbury University College, has been granted extension of leave for three months to enable her to avail herself of a Rockefeller Foundation Grant. and to return to New Zealand via America and study libraries there. A small sale for Dr Barnardo’s Homes arranged by members of the Barnardo Helpers’ League at the Main School, was held at the Woodlands Methodist Sunday School. The stallholders were as follows.—Dolls, Joan Shephard and Gwen Cross; cakes, Betty Clausen; sweets, Ruth Strachan and Coila Johnstone; magazines, Bruce Dingwall; work, Yvonne Hunt and Betty Gosney; flowers, Chrissie Castle, Shirley Currie, lyma Irvine; jelly, Ngaire Best and Margaret Myers; toys, Jim Lyons. At the close Mrs Acutt (of London) thanked the parents for their attendance and for the nice lot of things sent for the stalls. The children had all worked well and she was exceedingly gratified for the sum raised. The personnel of the Royal Commission, which will leave London early next month to investigate social and economic conditions in the West Indies, was recently announced in the House of Commons. It includes two women, Dame Rachel Crowdy, and Dr Mary Blacklock, as well as eight distinguished men. Dame Rachel has a record of service unequalled among the women of England. She was commandant of the women’s organisation—the V.A.D.’s —in France and Belgium throughout the war. Soon after the Armistice she went to Geneva as head of the public health section of the League Secretariat, the constitution of which she drew up, and she was later put in charge of the section dealing with social questions and the drug traffic. The other woman member of the commission, Dr Mary Blacklock, is an expert on tropical medicine. Members of the Wellington committee of the Plunket Society met at morning tea to bid farewell to Miss Mary Truby King, who left yesterday by the Wanganella for Australia. Miss King took the opportunity of officially handing to Mrs Jowett, president of the Wellington branch of the society, the key of her late father’s residence at Mount Melrose. Sir Truby bequeathed the estate to the Wellington branch for the purpose of furthering the work which he founded for the benefit of mothers and babies. Mrs Jowett, in receiving the key, said she was honoured to receive the gift on behalf of the Wellington branch which would be the future custodian of the founder. It was desired that this memorial to a great man should be kept as near as possible to the home in which he had lived, and it would be the branch’s privilege to carry on as he would have wished, in the surroundings in which he had worked.