WOMEN'S CQRNER.

Press, Volume LIV, Issue 16309, 5 September 1918, Page 2

WOMEN'S CQRNER.

The Lady Editor will bo pleased to for publication in the "Women's Corner" items of social or personal news. Such items should bo fully authenticated, and engagement notices must bear the signatures of both parties. Correspondence is invited on any matters affecting, or of interest to, women. 3lr and' Mrs D. L. Rutherford (Leslie Hills) aro staying at the Clarendon. Mrs Andrew Rutherford, junr. (Brookdale), is visiting Christchurch. Miss Molly Boan is staying with Dr. and Mrs Morice, in Wellington. Mr and Mrs D. Fricdlander returned to Ashburton yesterday. Mr and Sirs D, Phillips (Dunedin) aro staying at Warner's. Mrs Walter Parkinson and Miss Parkinson (Kaituna) motored home yesterday, after a stay in town. Tho week-end salo at the Red Cross Sales Depot this wock will be under the direction of Mrs J. G. Wilson. A specialty will be mado of all kinds of edible dainties, and, in addition, there will bo many lovely spring blooms on s'alo. Mrs W. Casbolb and her two little daughters left by the ferry steamer last night, cn route'for their'homo in Wanganui. Tho following are tho results of the nurses' examination in invalid cookery held at tho Technical College, on August 22nd :—First-class : Nurses Annie Busch, Doris Dobson, Margaret Lambie, Jessie Randall, Maude Russell, Alizon White, Lucy Williams, Margaret Wood. The ladies' golf match, originally arranged for next Saturday at New Brighton, has been postponed, so that the final of tho championship between Miss W. White and Miss M. Sapsford may be played. j General sympathy was expressed for Mr M. Amy, town eierk oi Rangiora, i wlion it became known that Mrs Amy had died at an early hour yesterday morning. Several months ago the deceased lady had a fall and broko her j thigh, and never recovered from the shock. On Tuesday evening Mrs Amy was fairly well, but during the night she had a paralytic stroke, which proved fatal. Mr and Mrs Amy landed in New Zealand in the year 1867, residing for a time at Leithfield, and moving to Rangiora in 1885. A very old Napier identity, in the person of Mrs jilizabcth McKnight, wife of Mr James McKnight, died on Sunday, in her 81st year. The deceased lady, with her husband and some of the members of her family, came to New Zealand by the ship Helen Denny in 1874, and had resided in Napier ever since. She leaves a husband and two grown-up daughters, Mrs G. H. Thompson, Johannesburg, and Mrs McLachlan, Auckland, and four sons, Messrs James and Joseph McKnight, Johannesburg, William McKnight, who is with the Flying Corps on active service, and David McKnight, of Napier. A perfect pearl necklace of 51 pearls realised £47,500 at Christie's, London, in July, the highest price for any single lot ever offered in an art auctionroom. Tho necklace once belonged to Mme. de Falbe, who died 20 years ago; her third husband was M. de Falbe, Danish Minister in London. The patriotic bazaar in aid of the Lady Liverpool Tramway Copper Trail to-morrow will be conducted by the ladies of Papanui. A fine display of produce, flowers, cakes, and sweets will be for sale. A ladies' walking competition in connexion with the effort promises to arouse considerable Interest. For the Latest improved Methods of Treating tho Hair and MRS ROLLESTON is recommended. Her roomi, in Dominion Building, Cathedral square, are fitted up with all modern applianoea. A largo stock of Switches, Toupees, and tho Transformations of over; shads ore always on hand. As MBS ROLLESTON is one of the largest importers of Hair in Australasia ladies may depend on having orders executed to their satisfaction of the beet quality hair at English prioee. 1 WEDDING. STRACK—LUCAS. A pretty militaiy wedding took place yesterday attemoon at 'St. Jonn's Ciiurcn, when Lieutenant George titracK, son of Mr ana Mrs Strack,, oi' Wellington, was married to Miss Annie (Bay; ijucas, daugnter of Mr and Mrs C. jLmcas, Opawa. The ceremony was» performed by tne Rev..P. J. Cocks. The ohurch was beautiiuliy decorated with peach blossom and spring flowers. AoOve the bride and bridegroom was a lovely white bell, suspenued from a trail of green leaves. The bride, who was given away by her father, was charmingly gowned in white crepe de chine, embroidered with silver and pearls, and a pearl and diamante girdle. Her coronet of orange blossoms and silver leaves was arranged over a fine tulle veil. She carried a bridal bouquet. She was attended by two bridesmaids—Miss Bear trice Lucas (sister of the bride), who wore a picturesquo frock of pale mauve crepe de chine and ninon, with which was worn a black picture hat lined with mauve georgette and wreathed with small mauve and pink flowers round the crown • and Aliss Rita, Strack (sister of the bridegroom), who wore a dainty frock of palest pink crepe de chine, with a deep vieux rose satin hat, wreathed with small flowers. Each bridesmaid carried a bouquet to match her frock. Lieutenant East, a brother officer of the bridegroom, was groomsman, and Private Chappef was best man. The bridegroom was in uniform as well as tho groomsmen. Mrs Lucas (mother of the bride) was in a simple frock of nade green chiffon taffetas, with a hat to mateh, and Mrs Strack (mother of the bridegroom) wore a bottle green gaberdine costume and black hat. After the ceremony a reception was held in Opawa at the residence of the bride's parents, when there were over forty guests, amongst whom were Mrs E. Bruce, Mr and Mrs Holmes, Mr and Mrs Farrow, Mrs Collins, kiss Ida Collins Miss Joy Bowron, Miss Sapsford, Miss Ritchie, Mr and Mrs Robert T\ uson, and the Misses Wilson.

PERSONAL NOTES FROM HOME.

(FBOM OCR OWX CORRESPONDENT.) LONDON, July 16. Mrs Hamelius Wilcox (formerly Miss Dora Wilcox, Christchorch) has been pronoted from nursing-sister to nursingofficer in the St. John's Ambulance Brigade.

On July 17th, Captain R. F. Gambrill, Wellington Regiment, of Gisboroe, was married quietly at St. Mary's Church, Wimbledon, to Miss Grace T. Brenton, Nursing-Sister Canadian Army Medical Corps, of Stewiacke, Nova »Scotia.

The engagement is announced of Major Geoffrey ae Bohnn Devereux, N.Z.; Auckland Regiment, son of the late Hon. H. de B. Devereux and Mrs Devereux, of Auckland, and Maye, only , daughter of the late Captain "Vf*. Grosr. j venor Harding, Lincolnshire Regiment, i and Mrs Harding. Lear© permitting, the wedding of Lieutenant W. Wallace Cook, M.C., R.A.F., and Charlotte (Jill) A. I>. . Utterson-Kelso, youngest daughter I of the late Captain W. E. TJtter-son-Kelso and Mrs U tterson-Kelso, of Brafferton Hall. Helperby, York, will. : take place at the end of this month. Lieutenant Cook is the second son of

Mr and Mrs William Cook of PaJmerstou North, and qualified at JioWmarama in January, 1917. At tho Parish. Church, Henley-on-Thames, on July 16th, Captam Noel Storrier Johnson, N.Z.R.8., was married to Margaret (Peggie) Asenath. Danvers, eldest daughter of the late Theo. A. Wooldridge, Penang, Straits Settlements, and Mrs Theo.. "Wooldridge, Rhuelm, Henley-on-Thames. Captain Johnson is the fourth, son of Mr and Mrs Clarke Johnson, Wellington. Miss Kathleen Levi, who won the Sterndale Bennett Prize at the Royal Academy of Music for pianoforte playing, has also been awarded Chappell and Sons' Gold Medal fo# the best playing by lady students at tho annual examinapositions last week at the Wigmore tion. She played two of her own comHall. Miss Levi belongs to I>unedin. Mr Martyn Spencer, N.Z.E.F., was married at St. Mary's Church, Fulham, on July 3rd, to Justine, daughter of Colonel H. A. Sawyer. The engagement is announced of Miss Helen Mackenzie, elder daughter of the Hon. Sir Thomas Mackenzie, and Captain A. V. McDonald, M.C., Royal West Kent Regiment, tliird son of Mr J. S. McDonald, of Ballyedon House, Oonroche, Co. Wexford. At Dunfermline, on July 9th, Captain F. Noel Johns, M.C., N.Z.M.C., was married to Mary Jane (Mayme) Michie, youngest daughter of Mr Robert Michie. Elibank, Dunfermline, and late of Walkerburn. The bridegroom is the elder son of Mr F. • J. Johns, Wanganui. " The ceremony was performed by the Rev. Donald Grigor, New Deer, and the Rev. W. Selby Stein, M.A., Dunfermline. Mrs Daisy Stratford-Henniker (Greymouth) has been promoted to be a Lady Superintendent under tho Ministry "of Munitions, and is transferred from Woolwich Arsenal to an aeroplane factory at Hollinwood. Miss M. Isobc] Middleton was on the ncrsing staff of St. Thomas's Hospital for some time, but left a few months ago, and has been spending furlough in Scotland, awaiting the departure of a transport for New Zealand, to which she will be attached. Staff-Nurse M. Owen Johnston has been discharged from the N.Z.E.F., I in England, at ber own request. [ Sister I. Higginson, I -who was matron of Wairoa Hospital before coming to England for war duty, hasjust completed a year at the Belmont War Hospital, in company with Sister M. Collins (formerlv of Cambridge Sanatorium and Wairoa), and they are now awaiting posting to a British hospital ship. They have both done a year's duty in the Mediterranean. Sister H- Sutherland (Auckland), after spending six weeks' leave in New Zealand, came to England early last month, and is now attached to the Oatlands Park Section of the No. 2

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