SOCIAL NOTES

Timaru Herald, Volume CXLVIII, Issue 21573, 8 February 1940, Page 10

SOCIAL NOTES

Mr and Mrs G. B. Pike. Nile Street, have returned from Akaroa. Mr and Mrs Wooding, Geraldine, are spending a camping holiday at Akaroa.

Miss Violet Martin, Seaview Terrace, has returned from a visit to the North Island.

Miss Aspinall, who is the guest of Mrs F. A. Raymond, Wai-iti Avenue, will return to-day to Christchurch. Mrs A. E. Kerr, “Belmont,” Cave, who has been on a visit to Timaru, returned home yesterday. Mrs G. Gould, who was the guest of her daughter, Mrs R. M. Innes, Orari, has returned to Christchurch. Miss Hilda Matheson, Melbourne, arrived from Dunedin yesterday to stay with Miss Mary White, “Summerhill,” Levels. Mrs S. T. Nevill, Christchurch, will arrive from Dunedin to-day to stay with her sister, Mrs F. Newton, Maltby Avenue.

Miss Anne Rattray, who has been spending a holiday in Timaru, has returned to her home in Remuera, Auckland. Mr and Mrs Derrick Gould and their children, who were visitors to Timaru for the Wilson-Elworthy wedding have returned to Christchurch. Miss M. Crawford, Beverley House, Wai-iti Road, district school nurse, has been transferred to Ashburton and will leave to-day to take up her new position.

Royal Lodge, the King’s house in the middle of Windsor Great Park, is being prepared as an evacuation home for Princess Elizabeth and Princess Margaret. The Princesses will go there immediately after the Court returns from Sandringham, where Christmas was spent. This arrangement will give the King and Queen an opportunity of seeing their daughters at regular intervals. The Princesses motored with the Queen from Sandringham to King’s Lynn one day and helped her to make purchases at a departmental store. Among the things they bought were five fireside chairs, handbags at 7/11, cushions, aprons at 2/6, and bundles of pipe lighters.

Although it is generaly understood in London that the Duke and Duchess of Kent will move into Kensington Palace some time this year, a member of the late Princess Louise’s household, which is still at the Palace, has stated that any definite announcement would be premature. It is known that Princess Louise wished her greatnephew to follow her at the Palace, which has not been occupied by a Duke of Kent since Queen Victoria’s father lived there. The rooms, though, are still being “done out,” and the Duke, though he has been a frequent visitor to them since his great-aunt died, has not yet put any alterations in hand. His wartime duties, according to the Palace staff, are probably delaying his decision on improvements and modernisation.