WOMEN'S CORNER.

Press, Volume LIV, Issue 16350, 23 October 1918, Page 2

WOMEN'S CORNER.

Tile Lady Editor will be pleased to receive for publication in tho "Women's Comer" items of social or personal news. Such items should ? be fully authenticated, and engagetj. ment notices must boar the signa•y tures of both parties. Corresponi- dence is invited on any matters afir fecting, or of interest to, women. T \ g a Mrs W. H. Triggs left for Welling--0 ton last night. d Tho friends of Mrs Ambrose, wife of Mr T. W. Ambrose, headmaster'of the n Rangiora school, will regret to hear e that she is seriously ill. , A cable message to the Australian 8 papers states that Princess Mary has a been appointed colonel of the Lothian !. Regiment of Royal Scots. [j Miss Malcolm (Opawa) has returned to Christchurch after spending a holiday in Auckland, Whangarei, and Russell. Mr and Mrs C. H. Ensor (Whiterock) are staying at the United Service Hotel for a few days. j Mrs D. D. Macfarlane (Lyndon) has 3 leturned from Akaroa, and is staying t at Warner's. 5" Mrs Giarles- Clark (Thorringlon) is 1 staying at "Stanage," Cashmere Hills, f for a short period. [ Mrs Vavasour and the Misses Vava- ' sour (2}. who have been here on a visit, motored yesterday to Blenheim, r Miss Colin Macfarlane (Kaiwara) is [ in Wellington to meet , her brother, [ Captain Macfarlane, who is returning i from Egypt on furlough. ' Mr and Mrs Maclaren motored up from Dunedin, and caught Monday's ferry boat to Wellington, where they ( will stay for a few days. Sergeant and Mrs John Patrick left last night for Wellington, after a holiday spent in Christchurch, and the 60Utll. Visitors to Christchurch who are staying at the Glarendon are: Mr and Mrs Herbert Brown (Mount Thomas) and Mrs H. J. Lewis (Oxford). Mrs Bernard Wood, who has been on a visit to Auckland, is at present staying with Sir Joseph and Lady Ward, Wellington. Mrs C. G. Dalgety has returned to Waitikiri, Marshland, from a visit to Dunedin. Sirs Bampier-Ciossley, who has been staying with her sister, Mrs Hunt, Auckland, has returned to Queen's avenue, Fendalton. . Mr and Mrs H. L. Glover, Mrs J. Greenfield, and Miss Hume, who have been on a visit to Christchurch, motored through to Dunedin yesterday. Mrs Tyrell-Baxter (Timaru) is the guest of her sister, Mrs Denys Hoare, Rugby street. News has been received that Lieu, tenant Reginald Gillon Christophers, eldest son of Mr A. Christophers, In- ! vercargill. had died of wounds. - Bb married the second daughter of Mr P. A. Vyner, of Southland, who, with her two little sons, is living in Remuatfa, Auckland. A sister of Mrs, Christophers is Miss M. Vyner, of Fendalton. A section of the summary of the report on work done in July by the British Red Cross Society in Egypt reads"The highest praise should be given to the cooks in our Red Cross invalid kitchen. In Egypt and Palestine alone , they have cooked between four and five million special invalid diets. Havin<* regard to the fact that these ladies are ! cooking in hot kitchens in the great heat of Egypt this record must surely i be regarded as a great achievement."