WOMEN'S WORLD

Auckland Star, Volume XLVII, Issue 174, 22 July 1916, Page 17

W OMEN'S WORLD

SOCIAL JOTTINGS. i "Mrs. Grierson is on a visit to Ler ' daughter. Mrs. 11. Bloomfield. Rev. and Mrs. Mawson. who have been attached to the China Inland Mission for . several year?, are on a visit to New Zea- : land. "A pleasant afternoon was spent on Saturday, when the Red Cross Committee of the Victoria League held an informal "musieale" in the sitting-room at the soldiers' annexe which had been furnished by their efforts. Miss Fenton's orchestra was in attendance. Pleasing items were given hr Miss Elsie 2Jorton. Mrs. Patrick Cole, and Mrs. Maguire. The thanks of the wounded soldiers were tendered to the Eed Cross Committee by one of the men on behalf of those soldiers at present in the hospital annexe. Miss E. Dorothea Troud. an Adelaide pirl. who had been lor nearly three years in England studying social economics, has lately been given a position of importance'under the Munitions Act in the Commonwealth. Her work to begin with will be to discover whether there is any possibility of getting women to supervise munition factories (or rather the girls and women in them I. and here herj two years of study in economics in Eng-, land should be of considerable assistance! Miss Proud, who is 'till quite young, had | a. brilliant university career and went to! England as the Catherine Helen Spence; scholar. She has recently finished a! thesis on welfare work—A Study of Emiilovers' Experiments for lmprovins Con-1 ditions Within Their Own Factories. If j the London University approves of it the thesis -will bring Miss Proud the deTee of Doctor of Science. The work I was only just completed when Mr. Lloyd j George summoned Miss Proud to com- j mandeer her for work in the munitions factories. Amonsst the visitors to Auckland U Madame" Fierz. of Cairo, to whom the latitude of all New Zcalanders is due. Madame Fierz not only kept open house for our soldier boys, nursed them whfr. ill and feasted them in batches of twenty and thirty when well, but also] did everything in her power to assist and | make them happier. Madame Fierz was j in Brussels when war broke out. and w as; one of those who stood all night in the, lope of escaping. Our visitor has, brought her children with her to escape the illnesses to which Egypt is subject in summer. Miss Davidson, of Gisborae. te on a tint to this city, and is staying at tlic Grand. ilrs. W. J. Lory, of Ihmedin, accompanied by her husband, is on a visit to the north. They are at Cargen. Mrs. Cooper, of Gisborne, is staying at the Grand. Mre. Cooper is accompanied by her husband. Mrs. Holgate. wife of Colonel Holgatc. is at present in Auckland, staying at Cargen. Mi. T. W. Whitney, formerly secretary to the Union Company, and Miss TVlitney have arrived in Auckland with the intention of spending a few weeks. The" have taken up their residence at Cftrgen. its. Walter Barker aoid family, of Gisixjme, are at present at Ca-Tgen.

Mrs. Earl, wife of Dr. Earl, of Wanganui, together Tith her daughter and son-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. H. C. Good, are at present staying at Cargen. lire, and Sergeant Mirams are staying at Cargen. Sergeant Mirams is on final leave before going to the front. Mrs. Mirams was formerly Miss Deverisn Meares. of Christdiurch. " 3lrs. Alfred Curtis, of Ashliurton, Canterbury, is on a visit to Auckland to sec friend*, and is residing at Cargen. Mrs. Mcßae Peacocke is on a visit to the city, and is at the Grand. Mrs. Pendarvis Curnow. who with her three little daughters has been in Canterbury for gome months visiting Mrs. Curnow and Mrs. Wall. Lismoi'. , Lodge, has returned north. AlLss E. McMullen, Queensland Australasian Imperial Nursing Service, of Dunj cdin. is at the Royal Herbert Hospital, I Woolwich, states a London corresponI dent.