WOMEN'S WORLD.

Auckland Star, Volume LII, Issue 89, 15 April 1921, Page 7

WOMEN'S WORLD.

SOCIAL JOTTINGS. g Captain and Mre. Gage Williams; (Carterton) have postponed their visit to England this year. Mrs. Fcild Porter and the MUses Porter, leave by the Mahono to-day en route to Thursday Island, where they intend to take up residence. Miss C. D Grant, of Auckland, for- ! merly of the Xetf* Plymouth Gir'.s' High School, has boon appointed to take | charge of the Suva High School ■Drisr-fien. VyT <-. of Otsrban. South j Africa, accompanied by his wife and! nie>c, Sliss Skapjj, who have been making a tour of Australia and Xew Zealand, left for Wanganui by the midday train yesterday. The Baroness Furnrvall, whose hiw •band. Lieutenant Agar, is now attached to the Chatham, is paying a visit to Wellington, reports the "Xew Zealand Times," and will probably make her headquarters there. Muss Rene Jeffrey, of Croydon Road. Mount Kden. was a passenger by the | •Rimutaka. which left Wellington on i Tuesday, on route for England, where | she intends spending some months with j relatives ami friends. j Mrs. C. J. I'arr, together with her | family, who has been spending the last i four "months at her cottage at Milford, enjoying the beaches and having a rest, leaves on Monday evenng for Wellington where she will reside in the Ministerial residence at J .T, Molesworth Street. The marriage took place recently at the Methodist Church, Onehunga, of j ] \lss Irene Gilbert, youngest daughter of Mr. and .Mrs. G. Gilbert, "Pendennis," Onehunga. to -Mr. ¥.. Irwin. youngest son of Mr. and Mrs. Irwin of Onehunga. The bride, who was given away by her father, wore a frock of white crepe de chine with satin panniers and the usual veil and orange blossoms, and carried a shower bouquet. The bridesmaids were M'ss Olive Mawkes. niece of the bride, who wore*pale pink crepe de chine and black picture hat, and Miss iHansen, in in pale lavender crepe de chine and black picture hat. Both had bouquets to mat.-h their frocks. Miss I'ilkington officiated at t'ae organ. A reception was afterwards held by the bride's parents for relatives and int'mnte friends.

The question oi improving the class of picture entertainment provided for children has been engaging the attention of the Literature and Education Committee of the Victoria League, and as an outcome of the negotiations, arrangements have now been made for a speciaUy selected programme to be screened each Saturday afternoon at the Lyric Theatre. The" films will include special pictures of educational value as well as others depicting travel in other 1 lands, besides the necessary "comic relief." The innovation has been conveyed to the headmasters of the various I schools with a view to securing their co-operation in the movement. Another question in which the League is interested is the proper observance of the custom of singing the National Anthem at public entertainments. It is suggested that the iiiesent procedure should be reversed, and the Anthem should commence the" proceedings instead ol providing a rather undignified finale as at present. It was also decided to continue the" present practice of sending books to settlers in ba-ckblock districts.

Mrs. K. Preston and Miss N. K. Coad, M.A., the nominees of the Wellington branch of the Women's National Council, for election to the City Council, are putting in a very strenuous campaign. They have been asked to state their views before almost every women's society in the Empire City, and have done "so with lucidity and power. They have also been subjected to a searching cross-examination on questions of municipal policy by the women of Wellington, who are "very alive and up-to-date in their outlook. The Victoria League, vrriles our London correspondent, has initiated a very useful form of hospitality by a reception last week to meet oversea research students of London University at which the Dowager Lady Leconfield acted as hostess. All the students who were able to desert work at that hour of the day expressed themselves as very pleased to toe a-ble to meet a few people interested in them just because they were from overseas. New Zealanders are to be found at a number of the colleges, Moorfields alone having several, among them Dr. S. T. Parker, of Otago Univer- ! sity. Mr. W. 'H. Simpson, formerly at ! Moorfielde, is now at the Central Eye, ' Ear and Throat Hospital, Gray's Inn Road. Miss Katherine Mansfield, who lived in Wellington for many years, and whose stories are well-known to readere of the London "Mercury" and the "Athenaeum" is included in Messrs. Constable's list of fcutumn publications. Her book, "Bliss and Other Stories," is at present gaining favourable comment in the EngI lish reviews.

WAIKATO NOTES Olrs Yule and her daughter have gone for a holidiO'' south. Mr. and Mr 3. O. have Teturned after spending a holiday in Rotorua. Jliss D. Aitkin w paying a visit to Mrs. W. Pountney. •'Mr. and Mrs. Trail are visiting Rotorua. ■Mrs. H. Greenslade and Jlrs. Shaw are holiday-making in Wellington, Napier, and Hastings. » Mise Beckett, who has Ibeen the guest of 'Mrs. (Dr.) Douglas, has returned to ilasterton. Dr. and Mrs. O'C'allaghan have been on a visit to Mrs. ('■. Rogers. Miss Gallagher is relieving Miss Barribal at the High ScCiool. 'Miss Barribal is away on eick leave. Misses E. Dickinson and RCook have been staying with Mrs. Tompkins. A small dance was given by iMr. and Mre. Tompkins last week, when all the young folks spent a very pleasant time. The verandah was decorated and made a dancing hall, whiie supper was laid in a large marquee. Mrs. Tompkins wore to receive her guests a gown of brown tafTeta and net; Miss Tompkins a pretty frock of green and gold ninon: Miss <M. Tompkins. a very pretty frock of blue satin and net. Among those present were Misses K. Cowie, Beattie. Esdailie, Dickinson., B. Hunter, Chaa I wick, J. Cra-bb. M. Manning. Rawson, A. ! Mackay. R. Cook, C. Hunter, and Reid. ! An inter-club match between Huntly I and Fraiikton Croquet Club players

took place at Frankton on Saturday. The following are the results, the visitors being mentioned first: —Doubles: M rs. Harrison and Mr. Spiers, 11' pointe. v. Mrs. Forbes and Miss Higgin*. 2« pointe; Mrs. Sissons and Mr. I-ittle-proud, two games, both 11 points, v. Mrs. Warneford and 'Mrs. McArthur, 20 points each game; Mrs. Spiers and Mr. Harris. 18 points, v. Mrs. Ashby and Simmons, 20 points; Mrs. Harrison and Mr. Spiers, two games, first 24 pointe, second 13 points, v. Mesdames Smith and P.elgrave. 2G points each game. Singles: Mrs. Galloway, t> points, v. Mrs Ashby. 211 points. Miss Mitchell, Rotorua. has Yen on a visit to Hamilton, staying at Warwick. Mr. and Mrs. Trail are leaving for Hastings, where they intend making their home. Miss Campbell, first assistant at the Hamilton High School, took up lier new duties after Faster.