SOCIAL NOTES

Timaru Herald, Volume CXLVIII, Issue 21645, 4 May 1940, Page 12

SOCIAL NOTES

Miss Bennett, Orari, is staying with Mrs Oakley, Hororata.

Miss Dorothy Thwaites left yesterday on a week’s visit to Christchurch. Mrs H. Sinclair Thomson, Hampton House, Lecren’s Ten-ace, has returned from a visit to Wellington. Mrs R. D. Mclvor, Kajkoura, who was the guest of Mrs E. Vincent, Kingsdown, returned home yesterday. Mrs Trevor Stacey and Miss Lotus Stacey of Auckland, are the guests of Mrs J. S. Scoullar, Cain Terrace.

Miss L. Hurle, headmistress of Timaru Girls’ High School, will leave to-day on a visit to Wellington.

Mrs C. Christainsen, Avenue Road, left yesterday on a visit to Christchurch.

Miss Evelyn Hosken, “Simon’s Hill,’’ Mackenzie Country, who* has been on a visit to the North Island, has returned home.

Mrs G. H. R. Ulrich, Wai-iti Road, and her children will leave to-day to stay with Mrs D. C. Macfarlane, Mt. Paul, Waiau.

Miss A. Tizard, Harper Street, has left on a visit to Wellington where she will attend a conference of the New Zealand Teachers’ Institute as delegate for South Canterbury.

Miss Helen F. Smith, Waratah, left yesterday to stay with Mrs Alister Deans, Darfield. Miss Cushla Rutherford, “Connemara,” who was staying with Miss Smith returned north with her.

Selina Lagerlof, the famous Swedish novelist, has died, aged 81. She was the first woman to receive the Nobel Prize for literature, the gold medal of which she recently gave for sale to help Finland. She wrote widely on the folk-lore and mythology of Sweden.

Miss Elizabeth J. Bush (Marton) has joined the staff of the Macaulay Institute for Soil Research, Craigiebuckler. Aberdeen, states a London correspondent. From July, 1939, until February of this year she worked at the Reid Library, Rowett Institute, Bucksbum, Aberdeen.

Lord and Lady Bledisloe have lent their home in Sloane Square, London, to the New Zealand War Services Association. A New Zealand Work Party, to provide hospital needs and comforts, will be shortly opened there, says a London correspondent, writing on March 14.

A pleasant Flag Bridge afternoon was held in St. Peter’s Hall on Thursday under the auspices of the South End Sub-Centre of the Red Cross Society. The hostesses were Mesdames H. B. Hall, J. Taylor and E. Wyatt. Prizes were won by Mesdames B. T Campbell, Purcell and Wurm. Booby prizes were won by Mesdames Cottam, Greenfield and Rippin.