SOCIAL;AND PERSONAL.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1027, 17 January 1911, Page 9

SOCIAL;AND PERSONAL.

.Resoluta Workers and a Friend. Fortunately for the efforts o£'those resolute ladies wlio are determined-: to carry ■ ,through the work o£ tho Y.W.G.A.—especii lally the litetel-proposal—all of which has : reoeived a-fiet-back by the recent' fire, tho f .. (land of h?lp is being extended by her Ex- ! jcellency liil-iy Islington"-and others. Theassociation- is now. calling a meeting for evening at the Y.M.C.A. rooms ' 'to further-consider matters, and they, hav6 .hope of-a-good atteridhh'ce. "'His •Worship ' .the Mayflr.is to be asked to.Jpreside. As Lady.,lslington idjlnterested in . -the" associySoti-s ! ''-w6r£;':-!fli<i-she lias incited the committee and other workers to tea at Government House on February 8. ■the object-of-the-gathering being to afford Ian 1 opportunity .of talking over matters. On. the belting'of-that day an-eiitertaiii-j merit is to 'be given at the Town Hall in [aid of the funds. At this entertainment .'Lord Islington will preside and; Lady Islington.will speak.'' 'It Is.hoped, that this ■ will result. in the raising of sufficient 1 funds'to nieet the rent of the hostel. The .association also hope to open the hostel an. the near future. ' , . . Mrs.', Siddells (Wanganui) is on a visit ! .'.to Wellington. • . i . Mr. and Mrs. E. Queree are tho guests I cf'Mrs. Williams at . | • Miss-E. Fitzgerald .has! gone : tji '-tho •Southern;; Lakes. ; Mrs. Gillies is staying, with Mrs. Speed, Hobson Street.. Miss Speed-has . gone' to. t Picton for a visit. ' '. :; Captain and Mrs. Prine Webb (India) and' Colonel W r ebb, of Nelson, aro visiting -Christchurch. MiSs Elfie Williams is. rvisiting her I sister, Mrs. Vernon Reid,. Hobson Street. I -Miss Travers, Miss Nunneley, and Miss Simpson 'left for Danncvirke yesterday , to'take part in tho tennis championship there. 1 ; - Miss Stewart (Khandallah) is staying with Mrs. Eowe in Wanganui. Mrs. Leslie Hill is spending a few days with her mother, Mrs. Newcombe, Castlecliffe. . - ' I ilia. W. Spencer ,is' the-guest of he*; I "brother, Mr. L. Jacob, at Mokau.