AT HOME AND ABROAD.

Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 256, 29 October 1929, Page 11

AT HOME AND ABROAD.

Miss May Viellc Boussell, M.A., o! Ivelburii, a 'blind student, topped tlie lists at the State examinations in massage at Dunedin last week. Miss Boussell is a-graduate of Victoria University College, and an ex-pupil of tlie Jubilee Institute for tlie Blind, Auckland.

Sirs. Branscombe, whose husband is the director of the Westminster Glee Singers, was the guest of honour of the

Pioneer Club Singing Circle at morning tea in Wellington. Mrs. Branscombe was accompanied by her sister, Miss Clark, and Miss Fearn, sister of one of the boy singers, was also present.

The feminine side of the aviation question is certainly making good headway. There is a girls' school at Tarry-town-on-Hudson, in the United States, which has recently started a course in aviation for its pupils. «The school authorities combine the air course with practical lessons in journalism, foreseeing in tlie near future a wide demand for society reporters -who can pursue their profession by airplane.

Maharai Komavi Lolita Irani Devi, a daughter of the Maharajah of.Burdwan, one of the richest rulers in India, has

opened a shop in Berkeley Square, London, where she will sell Indian furniture, porcelain and embroidery. She is the iirst Indian woman of rank to engage in,any,form of trade. Dressed in a beautiful sarri, she will serve behind the counter, assisted by her English partners.

In the last edition of "St. George's Misericordiae," special reference is made to. the. work and help given by the late Lady Rhodes. Lady Ehodes was an active member of the Society of the Friends of St. George. . Her name is written in the large book at the hospital, over which —as was explained in her drawing-room at Otahuna—-a lamp perpetually burns to show that the work of a Friend of St. George continues for ever, and when the veil is passed reaches back to those left behind 011 earth.

The Federation of University Women, Dunedin Branch, held its final meeting for the year at Archerfield College on Saturday, evening, a welcome being extended to Miss Mary De Beer,"who has just returned from a two years' sojourn abroad. Miss Lambrevo7 of Bulgaria, who was also a special guest; delighted her audience with an interesting talk on her country and its customs. Later in the evening much interest was evinced when letters sent by Miss Wells, late dietitian at the Dunedin Hospital, giving an account of the recent international conference of federated university women were read.

A few days ago a" splendid limousine drew up alongside a refreshment room in one of the Wellington suburbs. A young woman left the car, and after a minute or two she reappeared from the shop with two ice' creams overflowing from pink cones, but instead of handing them to her friend, she snuggled up in the driver's seat, and patiently held the ice creams until two "poms"- had licked'them pretty AV6II dry.~