SOCIAL AND PERSONAL

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3124, 30 June 1917, Page 4

SOCIAL AND PERSONAL

'Surprise Bay Day Gifts. A meeting of the Surprise Bag Day workers wae held in tho Y.M.CA. roome yesterday afternoon (Mrs. Gibboiw presiding to decide upon what course was to oe followed in connection with the provision of comforts for sick and woundca soldiere iti hospitals in Kgypt, Engilimdj and Mesopotamia, with the funds I'esultins from the recent campaign of Surprise Bags. It was decided after som'e discussion that .£4OO should bo sent to Brigadier-General Chaytor, to bo expended upon comforts for the men in hospitals ia Egypt, tho amount to bo fent XIOO at a time. To tho Aotea. Convalescent Home was to be forwarded another cfilOO for tho convalescent soldiers tliero. _ In regard to the men in Mesopotamia it was decided to send parcels, as New ZealaM was in a better position to supply many littlo comforts and luxuries than could bo obtained in Bombay from which place they would have to bo dispatched to Mesopotamia. Tho committee and workers will meet next Friday at tho Town Hall, to commence tho packing of tho first instalment of these gift parcels. Another supply will bo sent a littlo later on, to reach the men in titno for Christmas, and so on till tho .£SOO set aside for this purpose will have been expended. Tho sum of .£9l which remains in hand is to bo kept in tho bank as n. nucleus for other colls for soldiers' needs, which are. suro to arise. Women's Anti-German League. Members of the Women's Anti-German. League are notified by advertisement that Hie annual meeting has been postponed until Monday, July 9, when a full attendance is expected. The first case of clothing, containing 90 garments, has been handed over to the secretary of tho Navy Leaguo for our sailors' dependants. Tho secretary would bo glad to receive further donations of clothing or pieces for tho same object, as the league hopes to continue the good work through tho winter. "Mrs. Every/ , tho now treasurer, will be in attendance oyery Monday, and will bo pleased to give any information in that capacity. Correspondence of importance is constantly coming in and receiving attention, showing tho keen interest the public is taking in tho work. Parcels of clothing from Mrs. Pirani and Mrs. Moore wero received, and several new members were elected. Donations liavo been received from Mrs. Hathlam, Christchurch, £1; Miss Grace Belworthy, ss. Miss Macdonald (Te Kuiti) is spending a few days in Wellington. Mrs. IS. J. Moore, secretary of the AntiGerman League, has received a cablegram to tho effect that her son, Mr. Howard Moore, engineer on the Mongolia, has been saved, and has beon landed at Bombay. Tho members of the T.W.C.A. Savings Club are to l)e tho guests of Mrs. George, their president, at a social evening at the Y.W.C.A. Club-rooms, Fowlds , Building, to-night at 8 o'clock. The halfyearly report of tho elub shows an increase in both the members and deposits. Tho amount deposited since tho beginning of tho year is .£333 17s. 3d., and the membership etands at 155. This club, which was started to encourage habits of thrift among its members, has certainly justified its existence. Tho amounts deposited by individual girls vary from 3d. to £&, and tho weekly visita of tho collectors simplify tho banking of deposits.

Tho Red Cross workers, who mot at the Y.W.C.A. Club-rooms, have arranged to hold a jumblo sale in Newtown in the middle- of July, to get funds to purchase wool. Many useful goods have already been sent in, and tho secretary will be glad to receive gifts of clothing or furaituro for this pnrposo at the Y.W.C.A. Club-rooms. Tho busy workers are- anxious for tho co-operation of tlioso_ interested, so that the work of knitting for the soldiers may progress rapidly. Girls' Department Sunday, which, was a feature of tho Y.W.C.A. meetings in June, has again come round. To-mor-row afternoon, at 4.15 o'clock, there will be an especially bright service for girls and others interested at the Y.W.CA Club-rooms, Fowlds' Buildings, HerbertStreet. The speaker at the service will j>o Miss Grace Warren, Chief Pioneer of the Pathfinders' Club, and the singing by the Girls' Choir, with Miss Pair, one of the Hearth-fire Guardians, as soloist, will help to make this service one which will tell in the lives of the girl members. Staff-Nurses Everett and Garnor and Nurso Tobin, at tho Christclmrcli General Hospital, have resigned. StaffNurses Cromwell lyid Jones havo been promoted, to sisterships, Information has been received in London from New York of tho death them on May 5 of Mrs. Arthur Covey, eldest daughter of Professor G.G. Sale, late of Dunedin. Writing from London on May 5 a correspondent states that Mrs. I. W. Ray- | mond, with Mrs. Harbord (Nelson) as assistant, had charge of tho New ZcaJjnd depot in tho High Commissioner's Office in the Strand, and tho ladies did a good business selling flags and emblems on behalf of the Russian Red Cross. Among tlio Now Zealand sellers were:. Mrs. Talk, Mrs. and Miss Bosworth (Auckland); Mrs. Elsworth (Christchurch), Mrs. Fox. Mrs. Rowse, Miss V Porter Miss Davis, Mrs. Leslie Harris (Dunedin), Miss Hosking (Dunedin). Mrs Moss (Auckland), Miss Margaret Brown (luvercargill), Miss M'Nab (Nelson), Miss Rankm (Stewart Island). Miss Gossott (Ghnstchurch). and Mrs. Fleming Tea was provided by tho High Commissioner.

S.P.W.C. A meeting of the Society for lie Protection of Women and 'Children was held on Friday afternoon, Ludy Stout presiding. There were present Mesdames W. Ponsonby, J. Kirkcaldie, 0. Winder, N. M'Lcan, A. Hoby, Griffiths, and Miss Parlane. A large number of cases which had beon investigated were reported upon and help rendered wjiere necessary. Tlio following subscriptions were acknowledged with thanks:—Hie Worship tho Mayor (Mr. J. P. Luke), Is!; Mr. J. Parker, 10s.; P. Jlnyman and Co., 55.; Mr. C. B. Kline, 7s. W.j Dr. J. Eivart, 10s. 6d.j Messrs. Badhani and Biss, 10s. The Sailors' Friend Society. A highly successful concert was given at the Sailors' I'riend Society on. Thursday evening by tho Misses Toychenno and Walter. Tho principal features of the concert wore- tho instramontaL pieces, which wore re-demanded with much vigour, as also wero the vocal items. The following wero very heartily thanked: Mrs. Hathaway, the Misses Teychenne F. Walter, Elsn, Walter, and Messrs. Plupps, Liiycock, and Sutherland. Miss Teychenno was tho accompanist. Added '/.cat was given by the quaint stories sent' up in tho competition, for which prizes uumo from a distance;

Mrs. Lethbridgo and >.er little daughter have- returned to Otaki.

Mrs. ,T. C. Saxon, of Hautere Cross, has returned from tho south.

Mrs. G. Barclay. (Duaedin), wife of Major 6. Barclay, is to have charge of one of tho homes in connection with tho No. 2 Now Zealand General Hospital at Walton.