SOCIAL NOTES

Timaru Herald, Volume CXLIX, Issue 21896, 24 February 1941, Page 8

SOCIAL NOTES

Mrs J. C. Mackenzie, Queen Street, and Mrs R. T. Turnbull, Beverley Road, are staying at Hae Hae Te Moana. Miss Laura Baxter, Christchurch, is staying with Mrs Bruce Baxter, Evans Street. Miss M. H. Gillon, sub-matron of the State Receiving Home, Greenmeadows, has been spending a holiday with her parents, Mr and Mrs R. Gillon, Waimate. Mrs E. R. Goulter, Fairlie, who is a visitor to Christchurch for Bishop Brodie’s episcopal silver jubilee celebrations, is the guest of Miss Hilda Nottingham, Merivale. The wealthy widow of the Rajah of Pudakota, formerly Miss Mollie Fink, of Melbourne, is working as a saleswoman in a store of Fifth Avenue, New York. The Ranee has a fortune in London, but, owing to the restrictions on removing money from England during the war, it is necessary for her to work while in America Sne went there so that her son, Marthanda, who was injured in a car accident, could receive special treatment, and she will have to remain for six months because of the stipulation on the form she signed before leaving London. She is anxious, however, to return to London to do war work. The hospital in which she was working was destroyed by bombs, but there are other hospitals, she said, and she wants to help. “In London, just before I came out,” she said, “I worked on the night shift at the National Heart Hospital as a nurse. We worked from 11 p.m. to 9 a.m. and there was other work to do during the day. I just got out of the habit of sleep.” The Ranee met the Rajah when he went to Melbourne on a health trip in 1915, and after their marriage they lived in India for some time. They also had a villa at Cannes and a house in London. The Ranee has liquidated all her Indian holdings, and has invested all the money in British securities.