WOMEN'S CORNER.

Press, Volume LVIII, Issue 17625, 30 November 1922, Page 2

WOMEN'S CORNER.

The Lady Editor will be pleased to receive for publication in the "Women's Corner" items of social or personal news. Such item* should be fully authenticated, and engagement notices must bear the signatures of both parties. Correspondence is invited on any matters affecting, or of interest to women.

Mrs George Rhodes and Miss Shona Rhodes returned yesterday from Timaru.

Mrs Herbert Acton-Adams is the guest of Mrs John Stevenson, Fendalton.

Mrs Frank Petre (Dunedin) is visiting Mrs JR. O. Pot re, .Merivale.

Mr and Mrs George Gould are returning from England next week. They are passengers by the Uiimaroa, which is due at Wellington from Sydney on Monday.

Mis-: Frances Cracroft-Wilson is visiting friends in Nelson. Sirs Kenneth Macdonald (Longbeach) arrived in town last evening and is staying at Warwick House. Mrs 6. B. Birss is the guest of Mrs May, "Tintagel,"' Opawa. Mr and Mrs A. C. Turnbull (Wellington) arrived from Dunedin last evening, and are staying at the Clarendon Hotel. Mrs L. Macfarlane (Kaiwara), and Mr and Mrs W. T. Smellie (Green Island) are amongst the latest arrivals at Warner's Hotel. Mrs T. T. Thompson and Miss Thompson (Amberley) are staying at the United Service. . The ladies of the Masonic Entertainment Committee certainly conceived a very happy idea, when they decided to give a supper party last night for the visiting ladies at the Exhibition Tea Room. Mrs C'lifton Bingham (president), Mrs Dickenson, Mrs Wyatt, Mrs Hobbs, Mrs Du Feu, Mrs Gidding, Mrs W. E. Scott and Miss Dougall acted as hostesses. Amongst their seventy guests were ladies from all parts of New Zealand, and about eighteen from Victoria, all of whom spent an enjoyable evening. In the afternoon the visitors were taken to the Cashmere Hills Terminus, where afternoon tea was disnensed by the Ladies' Committee. Tito-day a party will motor to Rangiora, and in the evening a conversazione will he held in the Metropolitan Trotting Club's pavilion at Addington. Undoubtedly much of the euccess of the Sumner-Redcliffs Horticultural Show yesterday was due to the ladies who .worked so hard to make it a success. . The afternoon tea was in the capable hands of Mesdames Barber, Benjamin', T. E. Whitfield, C. M. Roswell, Nicholson, Longuet, Merry, J. H. Thomas, Thornley, Mies Deacon and a number of young helpers. The smnl' afternoon tea tables were artistically decorated with (vases of sweet peas and feni. Dr. Mary Harris Armor spols® in St. Paul's Churoh on Tuesday everting. -Mrs Cracroft-Wilson, who was in the chair, read a letter of thanks and ap>preciation from the Efficiency Committee. Bouquets were presented l to Dr. Armor from the Papanui, Sydenham, and New Brighton Women's Christian Temperance Unions. There was a very large and Dr. Armor had an enthusiastic reception. Her address, which dealt with Prohibition in the United States, was largely on the lines of the one delivered by her on Sunday night. The meeting closed with the Temperance Doxology. There is a jgreat commotion in the Diamond City, Kimberley, concerning a suggestion that a mixed lawn tennis matcn should be played in whioh the ;players would wear the _ garb of their opposite sex. One indignant citizen Iras declared!: "It is an insidious attempt to convert our South African girls to the wearing of that wicked, unmaidenly, immodest, and masculine garb—trorusers. In my young days th« girl who attempted such a. thing would have been severely sihacked, and rightly so. lam given to understand that the wearing of trousers by girls was common in England during tne war. I nm not going to pass any opinion as to the right or wrong of that over-educated, vote-Bnatoliing, window-smashing women adopting the garb, but if our young womenfolk follow their lead the war is responsible' for another great wrong. Years ago our girls were noted for their unaffected modesty and feminine chwm, and, with the exception of the short skirt and open blouse type of woman, this is as true as it was forty years ago. In the interest of the girls of South Africa, I object."

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CHURCH OF ENGLAND HOSPITAL. A meeting of the executive of th© Church of England Hospital was held at Church House yesterday afternoon. There were present Messrs J. D. Hall (in the chair), J. F. Collins, H. DAcland, E. A.' Cogan, C. G. Dalgety, L. G. Haines, T. I>. Harman, Captain Tatu Rnodes, Dr. Sandston, and Canon Wilford. The Sites Committee reported that they were treating with tiie Churcu Property i'ruatees in regard to the Victoria sueet section ana nad also otner sites in view, liiey were asKed to continue their work taking into consultation with them the Medical Advisory Board, and to report as 6oon as possible. Air T. D. Harman was appointed legal adviser to the executive. Mr E. Edridge was elected assistant secretary. Mr Harman reported on work done in regard to incorporation of the hospital. Satisfaction was expressed with the keenness shown at the two hospital stalls in the Exhibition. Canon Wilford reported that things were we.i in hand for the Christmas Market of December 12-15, and that over 200 stallholders were very busily at work.