WOMEN'S WORLD.

Auckland Star, Volume LIII, Issue 73, 27 March 1922, Page 9

WOMEN'S WORLD.

SOCIAL JOTTINGS

Miss Edith Cpfi.ll, of Auckland, is visiting Winchester, South Canterbury. Mr. and Mrs. Alex Geddes, of Auckland, are paying a visit to Christehurch. Mrs. J. M. Barker (Woodbury) and Miss Dobic (Auckland) are staying in Christehurch. Miss D. Tompkins, of Carlton Gore Road, Grafton, leaves by tlie s.s. Athenic on a year's holiday to England. Mrs. Howard-Smith and Sister McWhinnie. of Rotorua, who leave for Australia at the end of the week, are staying at the Grand Hotel. During their stay in Christehurch their Excellencies I—rd and Lady Jellicoe will be the guests of Mr. and Mrs. A. E. G. Rhodes, at Te Koraha. Miss Major, daughter of the Rev. H. D. A. iMajor, principal of the Ripon Clergy College at Oxford, is visiting Auckland. She will return to England via Suez. The engagement is announced of Miss Marjorie Webster, third daughter of Mrs.' and the late Mr. H. B. Webster, Victoria Avenue, Remuera, to Mr. Bert Dunne, of Auckland. Miss Daisy Friend has returned from a visit to Taupiri, where she lias 'been staying with Miss Roskruge nnd Miss Goulstone. Miss Gonlstoiie has nowtaken up the seed farming industry.

I Tin , engagement is announced of Mise j Gladys Raynrr. only daughter of Mr. I.T. II! Rayner, of Auckland, to Mr. Alex I James Lodder, youngest son of the latp Mr. A. V. R. Lodder, of Bellvuo Cardens, Wellington. •At a recent meeting of the Dunedin i'branch of the Women's National Council the (business dosed with the parsing of a resolution reaffirming the non-sec-tarian and non-political nature of the Women's Council. Danish women have submitted to the ! Rigsdag an urgent petition against the ! ratification of the Washington Labour I Convention prohibiting women's right ■ 11> work. I Miss JlcPhail lias been elected a intraI her of the Federal Parliament of Canada. ' Several women have already bee.n re- , turned in the provincial governments, ' but Miss McPhail is the first to sit in i the Federal Parliament. We congratui late ourselves on her victory, it is a proof of the increasing belief that ■women can 'be of use to the State. j j In Xew South Wales the compulsory \ \ notification of venereal diseases lin* j j been abolished. The Minister of Health j , lias declared that experience has proved I this measure to be useless. I The engagement is announced of | ' Xancy, younger daughter of Mr. nnd ; j Mrs. A. W. Beaven. "Te Rae," Redcliffs. J Canterbury, and Dr. D. H. Saunders, I youngest son of the Rev. and Mrs. Win. I founders, 'Moray Place. Dimedin ; Tlic lion. George Fowlda and Mre. Fovvlds, who have been staying in Christchurch, have left for the South. They break their journey at Rakaia, where they will be the gurets of the Hon. C. A." C. Hardy. The engagement is announced of Miss Muriel Parker, -eldest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. .1. Parker, jun., of Xew Lynn, to Mr. Oeorgc McWliirter, oldest- son of Mr. and Mm. Jno. Me-j Whirt«r, also of New Lynn. ilr. and Mrs. T. E. Y. Seddon are spending their honeymoon in South i Wcstland. From Chriatcliurch they | went to Dunedin, and thence via C-en- j tral Otago, crossing by the Haaal, Pass to the Haaat. The bridal party will I ravel up the coast to Greymouth, where they are to reside for the future. 'Private advice has 'been received that the Rev. I , '. 11. and Mrs. Wilson. New Zealand representatives of the Sudan l T nited Mission, reached their linal destination at the Heiiban mission station, Xuba Mountains Province, on January S. They are now associated with Mr. and Mrs. D. X. MacDiarmid in the work at Heiban. The marriage of Mr. Daryl Lindsay, a .brother of the famous cartoonists, Xorman and Lionel Lindsay, took place in London recently to Miss Joan Weigall. The 'bride is the youngest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Theyre Weigall, of St. Kilda, [Melbourne, and. Hire her husband, an artist. They expect to be 'back in Australia in April. Miss Joyce Baillie, daughter of Mr. Herbert Baillie, the Wellington public librarian, who has Ibeen assistant in the children's 'branch of the Wellington Central Free Public Library, has 'been awarded a Ibursary by the Cleveland Public Library (Ohio, "U.S.A.), in association with the Western Reserve University, which entitles her to two years' training in library work in Cleveland and a university course. 'Mies Baillie will leave shortly for America with the purpose of taking full advantage of the excellent course for training that has been presented to her. An interesting visitor who is making a brief stay in Wellington at the present time is Miss Gladstone, who is on her way back to Melbourne, after spending four months in New Zealand. Miss Gladstone is a grand-niece of the famous Prime Minister of the Victorian era, the late William Ewart Gladstone. Finding the winter climate of England too severe for her health, she has made her home in Melbourne. Some thirty years ago she visted New Zealand, and tells the story of travelling in the train from Dunedin to Invercargill, and the train stopping for a woman, waving a white tablecloth, who wanted to get change of money from any of the officials who happened to have the necessary equivalent. Furthermore, the train was ready to stop at the "factory" (woollen) should anyone want to visit it. As Miss Gladstone remarked, •'times are changed. -. During the war Miss Gladstone did "her bit" for the soldiers, and saw something of the New Zealand soldiers in doing so. She has travelled extensively, and knows much of Europe, particularly the northern part jof it. "T must apologise for being a little I late," said Archdeacon A. M. Johnson jon rising to speak at a meeting in the I Wesley Church, Wellington, in connecj tion with the Methodist Centenary, "but iit is a grouch rather than an apology I I want to deliver. I must say that I do I not like night weddings; t protest I against them. They are all right in J Austra.Ua, where it is hot; they are all I right in America, where everyone is in a ■ hurry: but they are not wanted in Xew I Zealand. Night weddings arc exceedingly unpopular with the clergy, who have to i work overtime, and naturally do not make speeches quite so nice as they do at day weddings.- Just a word of advice to you young women who have still to be married: Brides cannot look their best at night; they need the stained glass effect to set then-.- off." The audience was i serious for a moment, but there was a ; twinkle in the archdeacon's eye that ! started a hearty laugh.