SOCIAL JOTTINGS.

Auckland Star, Volume XLIX, Issue 145, 19 June 1918, Page 3

SOCIAL JOTTINGS.

■ ■ Miss Florence Grylls, of Byoo Station, Upper Murehison, West Australia, left ; Auckland on Saturday evening for Eng- ] land. Miss Grylla, who is on leave from. ; I the Scottish Women's Hospital, is rejoining her unit in Serbia immediately. 1 The marriage took place on Wednes- ! day at the Synagogue, Princes Street, of ! Miss Carrie Braham, youngest daughter i of Mr. and Mrs. L. Braham, of O'Neill : Streat, Ponsonby, to Mr. J. Davis, son of Mr. and Mrs." Charles Davis, of Wellington. The ceremony was performed by Rabbi Goldstein, assisted by the 1 Rev. Mr. Katz. The bride was attired ' ! in a pretty dress of white lace worn . over ninon, with veil and wreath, and ' , was supported by Miss Ethel Davis and : ' Miss Vera Emanuel as bridesmaids. Two ' ' little nieces. Miriam and Zelda Harris.

_ utile nieces, .Miriam ana £eiaa Harris, ; I acted as flower girls, and Master Harry [ , I Harris as page _ boy. The groomsman '~ - -was Mr. Jack Harris. I i) Miss Craig and Miss Doris Craig returned from Wellington yesterday morn- '" ing, after spending a very pleasant vacaII tion in the South. J Dr. and .Mrs Paterson, of Cliristchurch, £ who are staying in Auckland after a y visit to Rotorua, are going on to the 1. Bay of Islands for a visit to Russell. I" Miss C. R. Stevenson, of Auckland, y left for Washington on Thursday even--8 ing. *j A presentation took place recently, r> when Miss Alice White, who has resigned ly from the Elam School of Art, was pre- =- scnted with a set of Kipling's works by the trustees, and a gold -wristlet watch 7) from the staff and students.lt The sale room of the Mutual Aid Soci- , a ety was in charge of Mesdames Hemingl- way, G. Hutchinson and 0. Brett last - week end, assisted iby Mesdames Easton ' d and Millington. ,d Mrs. E. T. Wilder, of Kawhia, is visitit ing Auckland, and is the guest of her •J sister, Mrs. "I. Reimers, of Remuera. f Miss Statham, Government Inspector ) — of Graves, is visiting Wellington, and j st will confer with the .Graves Committee , s - |of the W.X.R. this week withvregard to ! ,11 the proposed soldiers' cemetery at Kait ' rori. Miss Statham is staying at "Ken- .

c - i ilworth." I °' ' . Miss Margery Richards, of Auckland. it. j is visiting friends in North Canterbury, 91 I says the " Lyttelton Times." , j Mrs. Devore and the Misses Devore »t I (2) arc at Rotorua. spending a holiday, iu I vr-_ n„~-„... n...,„..„ :„ „+.,,-:„„ «+ t>™..-

I Mrs. George Devore is staying at Parj nell. Miss Jean A. Gibson, daughter of Dr. ; J. Gibson, Hobart, passed through Auck- ! land this 'week en route to England, and j was engaged in looking up old friends. I Miss Gibson is going to England to be' ! married to an Australian officer, and ' made one of a party of five on the ', Makura on a similar mission. Miss E. Walters, of Wellington, and I late of Mena House Hospital, Auckland. I has been appointed nurse in charge of I the cancer -ward at the Greytown pubI' lie hospital. A patriotic bridge party in aid of the ' j Point Chevalier Flower Queen Carnival I funds, was given by Mrs. S. V. Irwin on : i Monday afternoon, at which about forty ; invited guests were present. Tables had been arranged in the billiard room' down- . staire, which was decorated with pot - plants and flowers in bowls, while the ' unusual collection of objects of art and ' vertu possessed by the hostess lent an l unusual charm to the setting. A very • remarkable object was a Russian ikon, " before which the mystically religious '. Slav bends his head in prayer, and which l Mrs. Irwin brought back with her from Petrograd, and it was duly admired. Five * of the tables were placed in the big bili Hard room, and five in the sitting-room . arid lounge upstairs, and a merry party j fully enjoyed the afternoon's entertain- . ment provided. Afternoon tea was laid i out in the dining-room, the table decoe rated in white spring flowers, which served to show up the beauty of the 1 hand painted plates— each one a beauti- •~ ful painting of a■< different flower s group, and all the ■ -work of i. an eminent artist- in Brussels i- attached to the family of the hostess. Mrs. Irwin received her guests in a frock of brown velvet and crepe de chenc. The annual meeting of the Parakai _ branch of the A.WJP.P.kr was held on - June 7th. The president, Mrs. W. Green, y and the secretary, Mrs. J. Newman, :- were re-elected. The balance sheet re- '• vealed that the sum of £235 7/10 had

veaiea mai tne sum or 3.200 i/iu nau been raised during the year. Mrs. A. Gould-Smith; secretary of the New Zealand Soldiers' Entertainment Committee, an institution formed by New Zealandcrs in Sydney for the purpose of extending hospitality to our troops who call into that port, either on the way to .or returning from the front, 'w at present on a visit to Auckland, and is' staying with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. S. I. Clark, Wynyard Street. Next Thursday the Girls' Friendly Society will devote itself to a day of intercession for girls all over the world, especially for those now in danger behind the battle-line, and in" dangerous work in England. The society lias its headquarters in England under Royal I patronage., and has been asked to keep i on providing hostels for ' girl munition workers. There are branches all over the -world, where girls are met. and, it necessary, given shelter. This day for public intercession has-been arranged by the London headquarters, and is to be held throughout the. civilised world. The Red Cross shop was under the management of the Prisoners of War Committee of the Patriotic League dur- , ins Friday and Saturday. At present this committee is confined to sending parcels to the Wireless Corps in Mesopotamia as the military authorities have forbidden the forwarding of gifts to the men imprisoned in Germany. The committee are now working for the men in the East, from whom they have received grateful acknowledgments. The workers for the shop specialised in home- : made black eats for the little ones, which had a ready sale. As they were made out of old stockings and bits of wool, the money earned was all profit. Another line was hand-embroidered handkerchiefs. Miss Mabel Reid was in charge, assisted by Mesdames A. Winstone, W. Lane, Simmonds. W. Brown, Udy, H. Crump, J. Winstone and Miss V. Harbutt. Generous support was accorded the shop by the branches at Wellsford, Birkenhead, and Mount AlbertNews from a London correspondent. j dated April 30, includes the following; I The engagement is announced of Capt. ,G. M. Wilford, N.Z.R.8., only son of the lion. T. M. Wilford, Minister of Justice, and Mrs. Wilford. of Wellington, and Dorothy, eldest daughter of Mr. Herbert Wilson. K.C.. and Mrs. Wilson, of 12. Hatch Street. Dublin, and Holmhurstj Graystones, Ireland.