SOCIAL NOTES

Timaru Herald, Volume CXLVI, Issue 21244, 14 January 1939, Page 16

SOCIAL NOTES

Miss D. Kane, St. Andrews, has returned from a holiday at Cheviot. Miss Kathleen Bishop is spending a holiday with her parents Mr and Mrs H. W. Bishop, Lyalldale. Mrs F. Harper, “Stratheona,” Pleasant Point, will leave to-day for a holiday on the West Coast. Mrs Gregan and Mr F. Gregan, have left for the south after visiting friends in Timaru and Mt. Nessing. Mr and Mrs R. S. Kent who have been visiting the Southern Lakes, have returned to Christchurch. Miss Sheila Macdonald, Christchurch, who was the guest of Mrs T. C. Maling, Elizabeth Street, has returned home. Mr and Mrs W. I. Tait, Beverley Road, and their family will leave to-day on a caravan trip to Hanmer. Misses J. and D. Coates left yesterday to spend a holiday at Waikehi Island, Auckland. Miss Milla Kempthorne, Christchurch, and Miss Joan Sheenan, Wellington, are the guests of Miss Jean McClure, Geraldine. Mrs Clive Crozier, Christchurch, who is staying with Mrs T. W. Satterthwaite, Elizabeth Street, will return home to-morrow. Mrs G. H. R. Ulrich, Wai-iti Road, and her children will leave to-day to stay with Mrs F. F. A. Ulrich at her cottage at the river. Mr and Mrs J. Ronaldson who have been staying with Miss Ronaldson, Chalmers Street, have left for Sierra Leone, via Australia and London. Mr and Mrs O. T. Harris, who were the guests of Mrs C. A. Paterson, Sefton Street, have returned to Dunedin. Mrs W. D. Campbell and the Misses Ailsa and Margaret Campbell, Wai-iti Road, returned on Thursday from Peel Forest. Miss E. M. Morrison, Waimate, is included among the teachers from all parts of the Dominion who are attending the summer school in Napier this week. Mrs R. Raines, who has been staying with her mother, Mrs C. J. LeCren. Grey Road, and is now the guest of Mrs F. Burton, Caroline Courts, will return home to-morrow. In the Mayfair dregs salons and the big London stores recently, 150 mannequins hurried off to hold the first general meeting of their newly-formed trade union. Elegant in silver fox capes, and every example of the quaint little hats of the moment, they crowded into a private room at a wellknown London restaurant, where, at a long table, sat their new president, Miss Susan Grey, one of the best-known dress-show commentators. The committee were “Gloria,” Della Delahaye, and Sylvia Cowan, all celebrated mannequins. A black list of cut-price employers, a stabilised wage-scale, and insurance against illness were the chief objects planned at this first meeting. The worst enemies of mannequins, according to “Asta,” an Austrian-born, naturalised English model, were “pinmoney models,” or society girls who took mannequin jobs for fun. Several other girls supported “Asta” in this remark, all agreeing that steps should be taken to see that these society girls should go.

Acclaimed as "the Palestine heroine,” Miss Winifred Rogers, of Bournemouth, has been receiving congratulatory letters upon her heroic work in Jerusalem, where she is head of the infant welfare and maternity centres. She entered an area that troops had not been able to penetrate, although warned that she did so at her own risk, and with three native assistants distributed 6000 loaves to the starving people. Miss Rogers, »who has been nine months in Palestine, was trained as a nurse at Charing Cross Hospital during the war. She has been a sister in Army hospitals on the North-west Frontier of India and the Punjab. In the Jubilee Honours List she was awarded the King’s Medal, and in the Coronation Honours List received the M.B.E. “My sister simply lives for her work out there,” her brother told a reporter. “She speaks Arabic and Hebrew, and is responsible for training both Arab and Jewish girls as midwives. I understand from a friend that she is so respected that there is not an Arab or a Jew in the country who would harm her, because they realise the splendid work she is doing.”