PERSONAL ITEMS.

Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20360, 18 July 1934, Page 10

PERSONAL ITEMS.

Mrs P. N. Jeffreys, Fendalton, is visiting Wellington.

Miss Betty Whelch, Akaroa, is visiting Miss Nancy Robinson, Chertsey.

Miss V. Hynes, Otahuna, left last evening for Wellington.

Miss Blanche Sanders, Worcester Street West, left last evening on a brief visit to Wellington. Miss Josephine Kennedy, Fernside, is spending a holiday with Mrs P. J. Hartnett, St Andrews. Mrs M. York has returned to Christchurch, after staying with Mrs M. Sutherland, LeCren Street, Timaru. Mrs J. W. Adams, Wai-iti Road, Timaru, who has been visiting Christchurch, has returned home. Miss Betty Cotterill, St Elmo Courts, has returned from a visit to North Cariterbury.

Miss Jacqueline Ormond, Hawke’s Bay, who arrived in Christchurch yesterday morning, is the guest of Lady Acland, “ Chippenham,” St Albans.

Mr and Mrs Herbert Elworthy and Miss Cecil Elworthy, Craigmore, who visited Wellington for the races, have returned home.

Miss Adele Wellard-King left for the North Island last evening on a visit to friends and relatives in Wellington and Hawke’s Bay.

The Rev and Mrs J. C. M’Caw, The Manse, Akaroa, left on Monday for their new home in the parish of Te Puke, Bay of Plenty. Miss Betty Bolyn, who has been in charge of the Takamatua School since February, has been transferred to Culverden.

Miss Ellen Jones was unanimously elected president of the Business and Professional Women’s Round Table Club at the annual meeting. held last evening.

Miss Katrine Loughnan, Christchurch, left for Timaru to-day en route to Fairlie, to attend the wedding of her brother, Mr P. Loughnan and Miss Ursula Henderson, Victoria. Mrs B. L. Blunden, “ Carvossa,” Waikari, will leave next week for Wellington to attend the annual conference of Women’s Institutes, which will be held next Wednesday and Thursday. Later she will travel to New Plymoutn to visit her son, Dr Rex Blunden. Miss L. D. Allen will arrive in Christchurch this week from Dunedin, where she has been staying with her parents. Sir James and Lady Allen. While in Christchurch she will be the guest of Mrs J. G. Collins, Springfield Road.

Mrs William 6eans, president of the North Canterbury Federation of Women’s Institutes, will leave for Wellington next Monday night to attend the annual conference of 'Women’s Institutes. She will be the guest of Miss Gladys SpmmervUie.L >

At the last meeting of the committee of the Citizens’ Day Nursery, Wellington, Lady Luke, who was in the chair, asked Lady Gray to convey the good wishes of the members to her daughter, Mrs S. H. Ziegler, who has recently married and settled in London. As Miss Marjorie Gray, Mrs Ziegler is well known in Christchurch, having been a pupil at Rangi-ruru School for a short time. From Auckland comes the account of a young woman, Miss Edna Dawson, who has mastered the intricate work of watchmaking and repairing, a trade that is very much a ‘‘man’s preserve” in Europe. Miss Dawson is said to be probably the only skilled woman watchmaker in New Zealand. There are one or two in Sydney and possibly more in other Australian cities. Another instance of woman’s invasion into hitherto masculine preserves is that of a Victorian girl who, last year, travelled once a week from Ballarat to Melbourne to study wool-classing.