SOCIAL AND PERSONAL.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 188, 4 May 1908, Page 3

SOCIAL AND PERSONAL.

The bazaar at the "Wellington Girls' Col-' lege in aid of Pandita Ramabai's: mission, so successfully on Friday evening, was continued on Saturday afternoon and evening, when there was a crowded attendance. The musical program me of the previous evening was repeated, as was also the fancy , dancing and the exhibition of Indian club exercises. Such a brisk trade was done at the stalls that all the 1 homo products wore disposed of. A good deal of the beautiful lace, embroidered, linen, and Indian work remaining over is to be disposed of by private sale, and Miss Kemp, Constable Street, has charge of. this. "When the bazaar closed on Saturday the takings, ha'd amountedto £140. The College girls are to be heartily congratulated on' the success of their venture. . A dramatic entertainment was' given at Government House, Auckland, on Tuesday and Wednesday nights last, in' aid of the funds of the Society for.the Promotion of the Health of 1 Women and Childrenx 'It began with Sydney Grundy's one-act play, "In Honour Bound," in which the parts were taken by Mrs. Kaber Harrison, Miss Phyllis .Boult, and Messrs. A. M. Ferguson arid F. M. Bamfcrd. This was followed by-a elever farce, the principal parts in which were tajam by the Hon. Kathleen Plunket, Mr. and Mrs. : H. C., "Waterfield, and Captain .Lyon., Mr. "Waterfield gavei a good. character study of a deaf old curmudgeon. Captain Lyon-was'a most-amusing Cockney sportsman, and the, ■Hoii. Kathleen Plunket made a fine study in l comedy of the part of 'a discontented, plainspoken, and deliciousjy\ funny Irish housemaid. During the interval Lord Plunket made an appeal for help on behalf of tho Society. He pointed out.t-hat in the last ten : years-16,000 infants under one year old had died, and that expert evidonce gave us to understand that something like half that number might have been saved if the icothers had bean taught 1 hov/ to feed them properly, and ho said it was easy,.to realise that this' Scci6ty was doing, not only a k'indly charity, but'work ;of importance to the oountry at large..