SOCIAL AND PERSONAL

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 2953, 13 December 1916, Page 2

SOCIAL AND PERSONAL

Dance at Anzao Club, Featherston. An enjoyable dance was lield in the social hall on Monday evening, as a t'nrowoll to the Twenty-first RcinforccmcJit3, tho attendance being about four hundred, including soldiers and ladies. Mosdames Q. Donald, Arch. Clark, R. Matthews, and Miss Card wore the ladies' committee, and they were assisted by membors of the general committee. The music was supplied by the Camp Military Band, oxtras being played by Mosdames Wickens, Clark, Parnell, Miss Bish, and Scrgeant-Major Wicks. At the conclusion, Mr. and Mrs. Clement May, with Misses Ivy Stewart and Miriam Leslie, who are on a tour of the district, gave a' number of items, which vcro greatly appreciated. The Red Cross Shop. The Wellington Red Cross Shop, 125 Lambton Quay, will be opened ou Friday next, when tho ladies of the Red Cross Depot, Mercer Street, will be in charge, and stock tho shop. There will be a plentiful supply of good things, such as eggs, cakes, foods and produce of every kind. Red Cross friends and sympathisers are asked to help both in giving and buying. It is expected that this new venture will bo tho means of raising a large sum wcokly for the Red Cross Funds. Tho shop will be carried on hy moans of voluntary help, and all proceeds will be sent to England for our sick and wounded soldiers. In other towns in New Zealand large sums of money have been raised by Red Cross Shops, arid it is hoped that the effort in Wellington will bo equally successful. Town and country friends are asked tj send direct to the shop eggs, butter, poultry, hams, jams, pickles, chutnoy, cakes,, vegetables, and all kinds o f produce or othor saleable goods. Special needlework or fancy goods should be marked with the name of tho giver and tho price to be obtained, so that theso articles may not be sold too cheaply. AH gifts become the property of the AVcllington Red Cross Shop, and all held in trust and sold for the Red Cross Funds. Next Tuesday the shop will be in charge of Mrs. Cornish and Mrs. Fuller (of Seatoun), and there will be a plenteous supply of provisions. On Friday, Doccmber 22, the AVadestown ladies will stock the shop and be in charge, and the stalls will contain all kinds of good things, such as mince-meat pasties, savouries, home-made jams, pickles, chutneys, cakes, etc. Everyone is asked to patronise and buy Christmas cheer at the Red Cross Shop, and so help to bring comfort and joy to our sick and wounded soldiers. Mothers of soltliors will here find just what they want for their boys in camp. Miss Cooper and Miss Moss will, on Tuesdays and Fridays, have their flower stall in the shop, and this should be sufficient attraction for all lovers of flowers who wish to add their help to the good cause. All- correspondence should bo addressed to tho lion, secretary, Red Cross Shop, 125 Lambton Quay. Bazaar at Unitarian Church. A very successful sale of work/ was held yesterday afternoon and evening in tho Unitarian Church in Vivian Street. After evoryone present had joined in singing the National Anthem to an organ accompaniment by. Miss J. Newton, Mr. Coleman Philips, of Carterton, was introduced by tho president (Mr. J. M. Gcddis), and then he declared the sale open. Tho church is airy and well lighted, and tho numerous stalls wcro arranged round a largo Christmas tree, whioh stood in tho centre of the floor. Tho following were in charge of the stalls: —Produce, Mrs. Forest and Miss Thompson: jumble stall, Mesdames' Beagleholo and Osborne; Christmas tree and bran tub, Mesdarnes Geddis and Ballinger; sweets, the Misses Macdonald (3); flowers, Mrs. A. W. and Mrs. J. Newton and Miss J. Newton; fancy work, Mesdames Oliver and Hale, and Miss Rushtonj tea room, Mesdames Lissint, Howe, King, Priddy, Duncan, and tho Misses Nolan, Oliver, and Frame. The tea room was in the body of tho hall, screened off by curtains, over which hurig festoons of greenery. During the evening various amusing competitions, such as nail-driving, etc., wero running, and a good deal of fun and enjoyment was the result.

Mrs. Selwyn Chambers motored to Havelock North from town on Tuesday, taking with her Mrs. and Miss Mftclauchlan.

Mr. and Mrs. F. R. Chamberlain aro staying at the Hotel Australia, in Sydney.

Mr. and Mrs. Toogood aro staying at Petty's Hotel, Sydney.

The breaking-up of Miss Morton Clark's Kindergarten and Preparatory School will take place in the Thorndon Hall on Friday evening at 7.30; Miss Coates will present the prizes.

Dr. Elizabeth Maedonald arrived in Wellington yesterday from Auckland, and will ho leaving shortly for Sydney.

Mrs. Noel Adams and Mrs. Neville Jamieson are staying at Miss Malcolm's during the grand opera season.