Women Folk

Star (Christchurch), Issue 19986, 29 June 1920, Page 9

Women Folk

By " STELLA"

Tim M .isses Million (Geraldine) are in town. Dr and Mrs F. A. Scanned (TeJnuka) are staying at the. Clarendon. Mrs Malcolinsen, Christchurch, is the guest of Mrs J. Hole, Wai-iti Road, Timaru. Mr and Mrs George Reid have returned to Christchurch from ' Auckland. Mr and Mrs Cruttenden (Sydney) have returned to Christchurch after"a stay in the south. Miss Nan Rich has returned from Timaru, and is spending a few days at Dunsandel. Mr and Sirs B. Friedlandor (Ashburton) are in Wellington, pending the departure of’the lonic. Miss Flora Osterstock (England), who •as Been spending several weeks in Jhristchurch, will leave this evening mr tho north, en route to .Sydney and ’ furtatra. She is accompanied by her lousin, Miss Mabel Roscoe. Tim Christchurch Technical College Past and Senior Students’ Association spent a very enjoyable evening on Vriday. Musical items wore given by fiss D, Howarth and Mr Howartlr. ;burning was kept up until a lalo bom. Dr T. S. Pearse, who is on a visit pi New Zealand, is at present staying . with his parents, who reside in Tcmuka. Dr Pearse is a brother of Mr I Warren Pearse, the well-known tennis •layer, aud of Mrs C. J. Gall, Shako■pcare Road. 1 Miss Ngaio Marsh, Cashmere, who pas been touring New Zealand as a meriiber of the Allan Wilkie Company, s expected to return to her home this ■eok. Mr and Mrs Wilkie, with their unpany, leave Now Zealand this eck for Melbourne. A social was held in the Bromley ipoolroom on Saturday and despite the .dement weather there was a good tendance.. The tournament prizes ere won by Mrs Partridge and Mr"' Jcoth, and tho chocolates fell to Mr W. Moore and Aliss.G. Eodda. Mr T. L. Pole presided at tho piano ajjd .Mr ■. D. Gowio acted as M.C. for the ■hnriug. The popularity of D.i.jse auctions has encouraged" the school .miniHco to liold them fortnightly log 1 ' rest of the winter to augment the" -- mol funds,. On Saturday evening the inmates of he Military Sanatorium were (interallied by one of tho finest juvenile con•erb parties that has visited tho institution. The “boys” uro deeply indebted 0 Mrs Baxter for the trouble she has gone to in getting the party together. I’iio following children took port : Misses Nora and Peggy Baxter, Valerie Tolputt, Emily Turner, Edna, Malzard, Grace Moulin, Marjorie Nciigau, Doha Duffy and Edna. Miles; Master Nelson Turner. Mr Ileeclmer supplemented Iwo very good comic items. _ Mrs Elizabeth West, who died cm Saturday last, aged eighty-two. was lie widow of the. lato Rev William 'Vest, of Southbridge. She arrived in pick la nd in 1863 by the ship War Spirit, anti resided afterwards at Wan- - ganui, Kumara, Southbridge, and, mice her husband's decease, twenty-six yeurs'ago, in Christchurch. Site leaves eight sons and six daughters to. mourn ncir doss. She bad also fitly grandduldrcn aud six greatgrandchildren, hvo of her grandsons made the supreme acriftee in the war. « Al the usual weekly cnlertaiument 'old in the Queen Mary Hosniuil, Haulier Springs, -Miss' Summers‘was asked y Colonel Chisholm, on behalf of rodents, patients ami staff, to accept a icscntotion as a mark of tho-ir esteem or tlio manner in which she had aspled with the music in connection ith all entertainments, The preseuition took tho form of a travelling ise and manicure, set. Miss Summers 1 leaving Hanmer Springs to join the ii-siug -staff of : the Dunedin hospital, fl takes with her the best wishes for hj; welfare of very many of the Hanmer isideuta and inmates of the hospital. Da Dodds invited a number of Alias timmers s friends to an evening, which as most enjoyable. Iho various rooms ero tastefully decorated, aud-tho hos■ss provided a, delightful supper, imes, competitions it ml musical items led in a. pleasant evening. The winrs of the competitions' were AUmam competition—Aliss Summers and iptarn Rbind. Euchre—Miss’ vSumT s Sjstcr 'Punier, Privates Profit

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