PERSONAL ITEMS

Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20222, 5 February 1934, Page 9

PERSONAL ITEMS

Miss Jessie Dickson, Bealey Street, returned on Saturday morning after a few days in Wellington. Mr and Mrs G. L. Ray, of Christchurch, are at present visiting Invercargill.

Mrs Spiers, Lower Mutt, will arrive in Christchurch to-morrow and will stay at Warwick House.

Miss Ena Dent, Kilmore Street, has returned home from a holiday in the North Island.

Mrs C. L. Ridgen, Worcester Street, and her sister Miss Irene Neville, who recently arrived from abroad, are staying with relatives in Grey mouth. Mr and Mrs W. N. Masefield, Kekerangu, will arrive in Christchurch tomorrow and will stay at Warwick House.

Miss Betty Wishart, Innes Road, who has been on holiday in Tauranga, where she stayed with her sister, Mrs John Mark, returned home on Saturday. Mr and Mrs Walter Baxter and Miss Yvonne Baxter, Bristol Street, will leave to-day on a tour of the Southern Lakes district.

Miss Theresa Ward, Merivale Lane, who has been the guest of Mrs George Moffett, Invercargill, will return to Christchurch to-morrow.

Guests at War-wick House include Miss Montgomery Moore, Wanganui, Miss Munro, Wellington, and Miss Edgar Jones, Timaru.

Mrs H. J. Otley, St Andrew’s Square, returned to Christchurch yesterday from a holiday spent at Whatane, Rotorua and North Auckland. Dr and Mrs D. E. Currie and son, Colombo Street, who are motoring round Southland, spent several days at Lakes Te Anau and Manapouri and the Eglinton Valley recently. At present they are the guests of Mr and Mrs Albert Napper, Woodlands, and intend returning to Christchurch early this week. For the first time for many years the annual conference of the National Council of Women of New_ Zealand will meet this year in Christchurch. The conference, which will be held on April 18, 19, and 20, will be presided over by Miss Carnachan, of Auckland, and will be attended by delegates from all parts of the Dominion. Miss Felcie Childs, of Ashburton, has been accepted by the Church Army in New Zealand, as a probationary candidate for training. Miss Childs, who is the first New Zealand candidate, is a daughter of Mr and Mrs W. Childs. The Church Army is putting a mission van, to be known as the Canterbury No. 1 Mission Van, into commission shortly, and Miss Childs will be attached to it. Amongst those attending the Waitangi celebrations are Mrs H. S. Whitehorn, of Bavswater, Auckland, and her brothers, Messrs Selwyn and Percy Simcox. Mrs Whitehorn is a granddaughter of the Rev. William Colenso. who was present at the signing of the treaty, and her grandmother, who was before her marriage Miss Elizabeth Fairburn, was a teacher in the Maori school there. Miss Paula Scherek, who was well known in musical circles in Christchurch a few years ago, and who has since been a resident in Melbourne, is revisiting the Dominion. She will arrive in Christchurch from Dunedin on Thursday evening, accompanied by Miss Eileen Lawson. They will be the guests of Mrs Alf. Dickson, Bealey Street, St. Albans, during their stay in Christchurch.

Mrs Guy Nicoll, Poyrtder Avenue, is staying with Mrs Arthur Nicoll, Ashburton.

Mr and Mrs J. 11. Williams, I-leaton Street, have returned to Christchurch from Nelson.

Miss Gladys Gray, Rangi-ruru, has returned from a visit to Mrs Horace Macalistcr, Invercargill.

Sir James and Lady Allen and Miss Allen, Dunedin, are spending a holiday at Te Anau. Mrs Arthur El worthy, Timaru, arrives to-day to visit her daughter, Mrs Derrick Gould, Fendalton. Mr and Mrs O. Waymouth and famil}', Cashmere Hills, have returned from a holiday at Castle Hill. Mr and Mrs A. Keith Hadfield have returned to Christchurch after spending several weeks in Nelson, returning home via Westport and the Coast Road. Mr and Mrs A. P. Chamberlain, Burnham, who have been the guests of Mrs 11. E. Parsonson, Cashmere Hills, have returned home.

Mrs R. A. Campbell, Cashmere Hills, who has been the guest of Mrs F. M. Jervis, Lower Hutt, has returned to Christchurch.

Miss Lucy Hogg, of the Auckland Diocesan School, who has been spending a holiday with her parents, Mr and Mrs E. G. Hogg, Cashmere Hills, has returned north.

Mr and Mrs F. M. Dennehy, and their two sons, Gret’mouth, who have been motoring through the North Island, arrived in Christchurch last week, and returned yesterday to the West Coast. Miss Joy Tennent, Poynder Avenue, Fendalton, returned horns on Saturday from a holiday spent at New Plymouth where she was the guest of Mr and Mrs Henry Weston. Mrs H. Horton and family, who have been the guests of Mrs T. Gaskell, Curlett’s Road, Upper Riccarton, for five weeks, Lave returned to their home at Oriental Bay, Wellington.

Passengers by the Mataroa which sails from Wellington on Wednesday, for England, include Mrs Guy Williams, and Miss Joan Williams, Masterton, Miss Jessie Reid, Auckland. Miss Oliver Kay, Dunedin, and Miss Bessie Gaisford, Marton. Miss Laetitia Borthwick, who has been spending several months in New Zealand with her brother and sister-in-law, Mr and Mrs A. P. Borthwick, Masterton, will return to England by the Mataroa, which sails on Wednesday from Wellington.

A beautiful blonde New Zealander, Miss Peggy Ford-Oarrington, a former protege of the late Dame Nellie Melba, made her stage debut in London in a leading role in the Christmas production of “When Knights Were Bold,** at the Fortune Theatre, presented by Mr Caspar Middleton, an Australian. Following the London run, she has been engaged for a starring tour in the principal provincial centres. Miss FordCarrington is a dramatic soprano, and the quality of her voice was first noticed by Melba during a visit to the Sydney Conservatorium, Where the young singer was a student. With Madame Rosina Buckman, she returned to New Zealand; and in company with that great artiste, went to England about five years ago. Since then, she has struck more luck than falls to most young stage aspirants from overseas, for she has had work almost continuously. While studying in Italy Miss Ford-Carrington made the decision not to continue training for opera, which had been her early ambition.