WOMAN'S WORLD

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3031, 19 March 1917, Page 3

WOMAN'S WORLD

'(Continued from page 2.) MAORI NAMES FOR GIRLS A GROWING FANCY. Maori names for girls aro becoming popular with parents, principally because of their brevity and euphony (states a, writer in the "Lytteltou Times")- Tho word "Rata," which is the nanio of the woll-known tree, is also the name given by the Maoris to a doctor. It is a very popular name for girls, like Bona, tho maiden in tho moon, and Hinemoa, tho name of tho beautiful historical maiden of Roi-irua. 'A Maori scholar has supplied tho following list of names euitablo for girls', with a special warning that the proper pronunciation should bo carefully given :— Rata—a tree. Roka—sweet. Tui—tho parson bird. Miro—a. tree. Rima —five. Mini—name of a goddess. Raukura—-red plume. Rangi—tho sky. Maia—brave. Marama—bright. Rona—tho moon maiden. Kura—glowing, ruddy. Rehu—sea sprayMarie (pronounced Mari-eh)—peace-ful. "" Marire —peaceful. , Ngaio—a "free. 'Amai—gentle waves of tho sea. Aroha—love. Manu —birds. Tawera —the morning star. Huia—a bird. Muritai —the sea breeze. . : Hinemoa—a girl. Moana —the ocean. Rawhiti—the place of the snn-risino;. Marewa —to solir aloft; also girl's name in TJrewera Country. Raureka—sweet k>3f; the namo of tho woma nwho is supposed to havo wandered from the West Coast, and pointed out to the white man the passes of the Southern Alps. The Russian Red Gross. •

The Russian Red Cross is primarily intended to act as a. supplementary agency to the Medical Department of tlio War Office, upon which in Russia the care of the wounded the "Hospital'); ■ On what a gigantic scale this supplementary work is carried out can be judged from the fact that at the present time the Central Depot of the Red Cross supplies 2007 institutions of all kinds, either in the war zone or at the base. The council of the depot has fitted out since the outbreak of the' war two hospital ships, both of which have unfortunately been sunk by the enemy in the Black Sea. It has provided and sent out to the front 90 portable X-ray installations, some of them fixed upon motor-cars; has equipped 26 hospital trains; and has-established five factories _ for the making of artificial ice—all this .'in addition to the numerous field hospitals. How the demand upon the council has steadily increased is seen from the fact that whereas in 1914 the expenditure by the council was. 7,000.000 roubles, it rose in 1915 to 20,000,000 roubles, and had already reached a like sum in the first half of 191S-