SOCIAL JOTTINGS.

Auckland Star, Volume XLIX, Issue 244, 12 October 1918, Page 16

SOCIAL JOTTINGS.

The engagement in announced of Miss Marion Wood, daughter of Mr and Mrs iWalcot Wood, of St. Albans, Christchurch, to Lieutenant Geoffrey Hamilton, son of the Rev. Thomas Hamilton, Fendalton, Christehurch. Lieutenant Hamilton has recently returned from the front. Major and Mrs Ball, of Wellington, are at present at Cargcn. Mr and Mrs Arthur Kalman, of Sydney, arc staying at Vontnor. Devonport. Mrs Walter Blundell, of Wellington, is paying a visit to Auckland, and is at Cargen. Mts. and Miss Moritz.son arrived at Cargen last week, alter a . visit to Christehurch. Mrs Hopkins, who has been staving •with her sister, Mrs R_ ,T. King, at fren- j tham, has returned to Cargen. She itj ■ accompanied by Mrs King. I An afternoon was given in Christ- J church last week by Mrs Bernard Wood | ac a farewell to Lady Ward, after spend- j ing several months in Christehurch. Tho reception rooms were decorated with ! lovely spring flowers. Lady Ward is awaiting the arrival of Sir Joseph Ward in Auckland. ''The Gentlewoman," in an article by Lady Beccham, states that the following alterations to the marriage laws are suggested for women to champion: — ( 1) ; To demand a clean bill of health from both contracting parties to the marriage. (2) That adultery, like bigamy, should be made a punishable offence. (•") That mothers, equally with fathers, should i hare control of children, guilty parties only to bio deprived of that control. (4)1 contribute, on marriage, at least one-, third of his income to his wife in her: own right, to be increased propor-; tionately with the birth of every child,! bo as to obviate appeals to Court. Miss Reah M. Whitehead, of Seattle, was the first woman appointed as Justice of the Peace in the State of Washington. I She was elected in 1014. and is now; seeking re-election. Criminal proceed-! ings involving -women have been largely 1 assigned to her Court. During the three' and a half years of her inciHnbencv there las been 'paid £3000 by husbands and fathers •who had failed to support their families. Miss Whitehead has lived in : Seattle 2R years, and received her education in Seattle schools. She is a trustee ■ of the Seattle Bar Association, member of the Seattle Business Girls' Club, College Woman's Club. Women's Pioneer iAnxiliary of the State of Washington. Seattle Central Council of Mothers Congress and Parent.-Teacher Associations.! Phi Belta Delta legal eorority, National, Woman Lawyers' Association, legal ad- i viser Women's Legislative Council of j Washington, and treasurer of Council ofi Patriotic Service, Division 5. '

The many friends of Miss Wallace, who iei so well known for her work in connection with the Navy League, will be glad to hear that she is recovering from her recent siekneeo, but is not yet well enough to he about again. The Australian journalists visited Windsor Castle on September 20. nnd were shown over the Royal apartments, the library, and Chapel Royal. They I hud tea with the King and Queen and Princess Mary. Mrs A. C. Crowthor, formerly of Rotorua and Auckland, who left New Zealand in February last to again engage in voluntary war work, is at present at Codford, taking charge of the Y.M.CA. No. XI. camp. Mrs Crowthor was one of those who left New Zealand early in the wnr to take up I voluntary work, and was at Tel-el-I Kebir, Egypt, for some time. From there she went to F.ngland, and worked !at the convalescent home at. Codford till | her health broke down, and she returned jto this country for a rest. Mrs Crowthor remained here for some months, but at ;tho beginning of the year proceeded to I Kngland nnd again took up work. She .was so successful at Codford that the 'men made her a presentation for her efforts on their behalf. In a recent I number of the N.Z. Y.M.CA. active j service magaaine her photograph appears and a descriptive note about the work which is carried on each day from half-past eleven in the morning till halfj past nine at night. Mrs Crowthcr lias ; many friends, both in Auckland and Rotorua, who will bo interested to bear, that she is well and happy in her selfimposed task. The usual monthly packing of parcels | for the front took ]i!acc at the Town Hall on Thursday morning, when 7000 ! were dealt with. A fair quantity of I Havelock tobacco h?.s been packed, but jit is petting more and more difficult to I obtain, and anyone having clean Have- [ lock tins would assist by bringing them in to the League rooms. The packing I this month was done shorthanded, as : many nf the regular workers were away j from Fickness, and the men who usually j I arc able to assist had to rlo nther work.i ■so the Indies were nrting- as their own stevedores, and moving boxes and cases as to the manner born. The grert need at the preoent time in for 10.000 pairs of sodks to be sent in before the beginning of December, when a big packing i takes place for France, Egypt, as well as parcels for Samoa, local gr-rrifons, and I the transports at sea.