SOCIAL NOTES

Timaru Herald, Volume CXLVII, Issue 21528, 15 December 1939, Page 10

SOCIAL NOTES

Mrs Derrick Gould and her children, Christchurch, will spend the holidays at “Holme Station,” Pareora.

Miss L. Hurle, Girls’ High School, left yesterday to spend the holidays in the North Island.

Miss Oliver, ‘ Surrey Downs,” Waitt” r a, has returned from a visit to Wellington.

Mrs J. M. Scott. Seddon Street, returned yesterday from a visit to Mrs J. W. Hayes, “Centrewood,” Waimate. Mrs Redmond Neill, “Barossa,” Mt. Somers, is on a short visit to her mother, Mrs Sinclair-Thomson, “The Crossing,” Woodbury.

Miss Thomson, who has been staying with Mrs Thomson, Bidwill Street, returned yesterday to Havelock North. Miss Nancy Thomson, has returned from a visit to North Canterbury. Miss Eileen Rose, Christchurch, has been appointed to the staff of the art school at the Technical College, Wellington, and will take up her new duties early in February. Since her return to Christchurch from London and Paris last August, Miss Rose has filled a temporary position on the staff of the Christchurch Girls’ High School and the Christchurch West High School.

The King and Queen chose their Christmas cards some weeks ago, but their design will be kept secret until just before Christmas, says an English newspaper. This will prevent plagiarism for commercial purposes, which has often happened before when the Royal cards were published too early. This year’s Royal Christmas cards will not deal with war. but happier things to come. Some of these cards have already been sent to distant parts of the Empire. The Princesses have selected a simple little card with a pastoral scene as their subject of the picture.

West End hotels, attempting to satisfy the dancing craze, have introduced “dansants.” The smartest dressmakers are doing their utmost to whip up the wearing of cocktail dinner frocks. “Hartnell” reports hand to mouth buying. The Queen alternates between two ensembles, wearing each for a month. She then summons

"martnell” to the palace and orders another two. Victor Stibel, the Duchess of Gloucester’s suitmaker, has become a commercial traveller and taken his 40-guinea models from door to door on a selling campaign in the big northern towns, where he contacts wealthy evacuees.