SOCIAL NOTES

Timaru Herald, Volume CXLVIII, Issue 21785, 15 October 1940, Page 8

SOCIAL NOTES

Miss Muriel Haney, Sydney, is the guest of Mrs A. Chiles, Clyde Street.

Miss D. Rodgers is staying with her sister, Mrs A. .Garland, Waimate. Mr and Mrs F. Nevill, Dunedin, are staying with Miss Cargill, Waitawa. Miss Joan Ritchie, Dunedin, is staying with Mrs Guy Rhodes, The Cottage, Hadlow.

Mrs R. W. Brickell, who has been on a visit to South Canterbury, has returned to Dunedin. Mrs C. L. Orbell, “Pentlow,” who is staying with her daughter, Mrs Brian Savill, “Langley,” Raincliff, is expected home to-day. Mrs Noel Newton and her children, England, who have been staying with Mrs Newton’s mother, Mrs J. Meehan, Sefton Street, have left for Christchurch. Sister Ramsay, sub-matron of the Dunedin Hospital, has been appointed matron of the Westland Hospital. Hokitika, and will leave to take up her duties early next month.

The engagement is announced of Onna, only daughter of Mr and Mrs G. E. Ford. Stafford Street, and Douglas William, twin son of Mrs Smith and the late Mr F. G. Smith, Otipua Road. The Crown Princess of Norway and her three small children—two daughters and a son—have arrived in tne United States, where they will be the guests of President and Mrs Roosevelt while the war lasts. The Crown Princess, formerly Princess Marthe of Sweden, was married in 1929. Her elder daughter is ten years old, the younger eight, and her son is three years old. Miss Janet McKellar, a graduate in arts of the University of Otago, who has been in England for the last four years, is now working with the Red Cross, whose offices are in St. James’s Palace, London. Her particular section is almost exclusively connected with trying to find British subjects lost on the Continent, practically all inquiries going through the International Red Cross at Geneva. Miss McKellar was educated at Craighead School.

Woollens, light as silk, for evening wear, are among the novelties which have just been shipped from Great Britain to her pavilion at the New York World’s Fair, states an overseas writer. Fifty materials all told have been made up in special designs to attract the U.S. market and sets of fine Irish linen are also being displayed on dining tables in the pavilion to show their decorative value. Among the men’s wear is a new style of “Anthony Eden” hat in Air Force blue and a “peach boom” velour which used to be made only in Austria and Czechoslovakia. In the new war section of the pavilion are four paintings of the evacuation of Dunkirk. They show the Army covering the retreat to the coast; the beach swarming with thousands of figures; the English Channel with a motley collection of craft bringing the troops off; and the R.A.F. covering the operations.