Women's World

Auckland Star, Volume L, Issue 67, 19 March 1919, Page 8

Women's World

SOCIAL JOTTINGS.

Mrs. R. Xicol, of Auckland, is visiting Chriatchurch.

Miss Coates, Hobson .Street, Wellington, is visitinj; Auckland. Mrs. W. Shaw, Takapuna, Auckland, is in Christehurch for a fortnight.

Miss Sydney Lusk, of Auckland, is the guest of Mrs. F. H. Robertson, Taranaki.

Mr. and Mrs. David Nathan leave for a trip to England on the Makura tomorrow.

Sir Robert and Lady Walker are amongst the Makura's passengers for England

Dr. and Mm. Gordon have returned home after a visit to T.ake 'Waikareraoana and the Ray of I'lentv.

Mr. and Mrs. L. Seifert, of Palmerston North, and Mr. and Mrs. S. Seifert, of Morrinsvillc, »re visitinfr Auckland.

Mr. and Mrs. F. Wake and Miss Freda Wake, of Auckland, have gone down to Wellington to meet Mr. Barry Wa';o, who is arriving on the Athenic. to-day.

Mrs. K. M. Rhodes, of Seattle, who ras been touring the North Island, has returned to Wellington.

Mi&F Mary McLean, president of the Wellington 'Girl's College, arrived on the Makura last week and went south.

Mrs. Arthur Rawson. of Auckland, is staying at ti'J, Knightsbridge, Kensington.

Mesdames A. and J. Ambuiy, of "Auckland, and Mrs. Ray Ambury, of New Plymouth, are visiting Rotorua.

Miss E. M. Statham, officer in charge of soldiers' graves, is at present in Christchurch.

Mrs. O. A. Finlay and Miss J. Abeicrombie, who have been on a visit to Christehurch and the Southern Lakes, have left for Auckland.

The Hon. W. H. Triggs, M.L.C.. and Mr?. Triggs leave by the Ruapeini on Friday next on a visit to England. They will be away for six months.

Amongst the passengers by the Makura to-morrow will be Miss Hilda Miles, of Wellington, who is accompanying her brother, Lieutenant C. Miles, on a trip to America.

Mrs. .laeobson returned to Auc-Kland on the Makura. in company with her daughtiM - , Mrs. Letters, who is the wife of the assistant manager at Fanning Island.

The collection at Newmarket, Epsom, and Onehunga by Mrs. Leek and lady helpers in aid of the Auckland Hospital patients' benevolent fund realised the sum of £32 11/1. !

Miss E. Griffon, general secretary of the Y.W.C.A., has returned from a holiday trip to Honolulu on the Makura, which proved very enjoyable and provided both change of scene and a. well deserved rest , .

Mrs. Lucas Bloomfleld. who wae intending to proceed to England shortly, has postponed the trip because her son. Lieutenant Trevor Bloomtield, R.F.C.. is returning shortly to New Zealand.

Dr. Platte-Miils, of Wellington, will deliver a lecture in C'hristchureh HJbout the end of the month, under the auspices of the Social Hygiene Soeiet3".

Mr. and Mrs." Wilfred Rutherford and Miss S. Rutherford (\Vaihaorun3a) are about to leave for Auckland, states a Canterbury exchange, where they will in future "reside, Mr. Rutherford having sold Id's property in Waihaoruii({a. Sister Ruth Smith, daughter of Mrs. Charles Smith, Park Road, who went away with the Marama and returned with" the Devon, leaving with the 24th Reinforcements once again for the front, is expected back on the Athenic, which reaches Wellington to-day.

The Navy League Girls' Branch were in charge of the soldiers' Club last Tuesday, under Mr*. Ifweraon, and had a big day. Amongst the members present wore: Misses Dui'aur. secretary, O. Hardley, B. Grainger. Tattersall, and X. Hwereon.

The CJirlV Realm held a picnic to Titirangi on Wednesday last for the returned soldiers. It was arranged by the president. Miss Doris Chirk, and was very successful. Thirty-three soldiers from the Annexe were taken out in ten cars and regaled with afternoon tea at the kiosk, after which they made a trip to the 'beach, and altogether spent a very pleasant afternoon.

The Richmond Road Children's Home, which assists poor children who have no home, is in much need of funds. Before Christina* ;i committee of ladies arranged to hold a big bazaar and sale of work, but the coming of the epidemic prevented thh and has also, unfortunately, added considerably to the children in the heme needing assistance. The lidies interested have now made further arrangements for a large sale of work to be held at the end of the week, and, as it is for such v good object, hope that they will be heartily supported by the public.

On the 7th September, at Colombo, Major A. Fitzgerald, Indian Army, was married to Dorothy Margaret, only daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A. E. Bedford, of Napier, New Zealand.

Last week the Wellington Women Teachers' Association held a social in the Pioneer Club Rooms. This was an innovation for the Wellington Association, and proved a very happy one. The teachers met in social intercourse and also discussed more serioue matters relating to their profession. Miss Coad. M.A., president, was in the chair, and welcomed the visitors.

On the 17th January, at St. Mark's, Hamilton Terrace, London, by the Rev. W. T. Besley, Captain C. F. Seaward, M.C., of Te Awamutu, New Zealand, second son of Mrs. M. S. Seaward, of 134, Portsdov.n Koad, \V., was mairietl to Jessie.i May. X.Z..V.K.5., daughter of Mr. aii.l Mrs. Dune.in MfAlliini, of New I'lvmoiith. New Zealand.

Anions weddings recently celebrated in Kngland arc:—Captain Hiiroid Sharp, ot Halniuir, to Miss Alison Wcnley, of Napier; Captain Arthur Bigg, A.I.F. (who belongs to Wellington), to Miss Mary Wingrove. of Melbourne; J.ieut.Colonel Parker, X.Z.ICF., to Miss Maud iFnzakerlpy, of Cricklewood. London; Mr. Archibald Magill, of Napier, to Miss Christine Snelling, of Sideup. Kent. Miris Nora-lionic has been Rtavins at Henlev-on-Tbanscs with her sister the Hon. Mm, Algernon Hortlnviik for over a j-ear, working all the time as lion secretary of the Henley 1W Cross Hospital. Xow that the war h over Miss ?hin" c f P r to be ab, ° t0 s « s "">ethe Worcester r■ * 3 ° lieuten --"it in 1910. anothe", ta . action » J "lyland »'. tl'f Xew Zcl m Palestine. Prior t i din action S «'P at Henley she w ersec retarvPital visitor

THE GIRL IN BUSINESS.

Y.W.C.A. AND . EDUCATION. The preparation of the business girl of Australia and New Zealand for her position as a citizen is being taken in hand by the Y.W.C.A. movement, and Miss Jean .Stevenson, late industrial secretary to the association in Melbourne, has been appointed to the work. Miss Stevenson, who is a native of Dunedin, arrived in Auckland on the Niagara, and went south on Friday. Miss Stevenson has spent the last two years in America, where she graduated in the training college of the Y.W.C.A. in industrial study, and is especially interested in the industrial side of our national development, especially a* it affects women. In conversation with a " Star " reporter she had some very interesting things to say upon her observations in America. It was with the idea of adapting her knowledge to our own requirements that Miss Stevenson hae returned, and she wishes to get into close touch with the girls in our stores, our offices and our factories, and thus become fully cognisant of anything that is interfering with the girls' mental and spiritual life, for she recognises that in its women ia I bound up the future of the nation. While in America Miss Stevenson had the opportunity of seeing the different conditions under which the girls are forced to work in the United States, and found them very inferior to the conditions prevailing in New Zealand. For instance, they work longer hours. Miss Stevenson had four months' experience in organised j recreation in Pittsburg, and found that the great difficulty was that the hours were so nnteh longer, and the living conditions so much harder than she had been used to meet in Melbourne and New Zealand that the girls had not the same energy and stamina to develop in their play hours. They were worn out with the industrial strain of living under hard conditions. For instance, the girls in the telephone exchanges work all night shifts. Some worked all day and right up to ten o'clock at night. Many after this had long tram and train journeys to their homes, so very little time was left for recreation or study. The hours on the whole are longer in America for women than in this part of the world, and the living conditions are much worse. Industrial secretaries in America spend a great deal of time in fighting for better industrial conditions, in backing up unionism and labour legislation, and anything that will make for better conditions. Miss Stevenson informed the reporter that she had the same chances of doing group work with girls in America as she had with the girls in Australia, and found that under the worse conditions the girls simply had not the energy and the initiative that the girls in Melbourne displayed. She attended the Industrial Council at Altmont, Xew York, where the relation of the girls to their work and to the community was discussed by the representatives, and she noticed a lack of vitality to grapple with things, to get a broad outlook and a finely developed life. They had not the stamina of the Australian girl. Some people in Australasia had been getting irritated with Labour legislation, but Miss Stevenson emphatically declared that it was the effects of our past labour legislation that was responsible for the higher stamina that was showing in the community amongst girls in Australia and Xew Zealand in comparison v with the girls of the United States.