WOMAN’S WORLD

Dominion, Volume 16, Issue 89, 11 January 1923, Page 2

WOMAN’S WORLD

BIATTERQ JJE INTEREST FROM FAR AND NEAB

(By

Imogen.)

SOCIAL AND PERSONAL

The marriage took place at St. Anne’s Church, Northland, of Miss Olive Lois Eton, only daughter of Mr. and Mrs. E. H. Eton, -of fiorthland, to Mr. Frederick George Tailor, eldest son of Mr. and Mrs. G. J. %;ylor, of Johnsonville-. The Rev. J. ,'Edwin ■tones officiated. The bridesmaids were Miss Freda Kemble (chief). Miss Alice Eton, and Miss Hazel Wilkinson, and the bridegroom was attended by Mr. R. Brownlee as best man, and Messrs. Ivan Eton and IV. Taylor as groomsmen. Later. Mr. and Mrs. Taylor left for the North, following a reception which was held in St. Anne’s Hall. Mrs. Arthur Martin (Otoraia.) is visiting Wellington.

Mrs. Malcolm Ross is leaving for a visit to England next month.

Mrs. Henderson-Begg (Christchurch) intends, leaving next mouth by the Remuera for a visit- to England.

Miss Humphreys (Christchurch) leaves by the lonic for England.

Miss Edna Loader is visiting Wellington.

Mrs. Pitt-Rivers arrived, in Wellington yesterday from Australia. Her husband, Captain Pitit-Rfivers, is » delegate to the Science Congress.

Miss Bage, Miss Hindmarsh, Mi ss A. Newman, /Miss J. Newman, and Miss Ida Brown, delegates to tha Science Congress, arrived by the Ulimaroa yesterday.

Mr. and Mrs. Donald Fraser, of Palmerston North,' and 1 Mrs. and Miss Brooker have taken a house at Seatoun.

Miss I. Houisson, assistant secretary of the Australasian Association for the Advancement of Science, and Miss L. Houisson, 8.A., arrived in Wellington yesterday by the Ulimaroa

Mrs. and Miss Duncan (Featherston) are visiting Wellington, and are staying at Oriental Bay.

Mrs. Edmunds (Lower Hutt) spent the Christmas and New Year holidays with Mrs. Guy Williams, To Pnrae (Masterton), and returned to her home last week.

Mr. and Mrs. F. J. White (Hobson Street) left early’ this week for a visit to Auckland.

Among the visitors who have arrived in Wellington for the Science Congress are Dr. and Mrs. Fi,tt, of Auckland; Dr. and Mrs. Church, also of Auckland ; and Miss Herriot-t, of Christchurch. Delegates -to the congress will bo entertained at afternoon tea at the Kclburn Kiosk this afternoon at half-past three.

Professor and Mrs.. Chilton (Christchurch) have arrived in Wellington for the Science Congress.

Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Wallis, of Taihape, have arrived at Whakatane, after having spent an enjoyable time in Rotorua. .

Mrs. Canu. of Otaki, who recently underwent a- serious operation in the Bowen Street Hospital, is now enjoying excellent health.

Miss Todd (Masterton) is staying 'at Muritai.

Mrs. Duncan Stout is visiting Mrs Arthur Pearce, at Featherston.

Mr. and Mrs. Coom (Masterton) and family‘har’C returned, from Muritai.

Mr. L. H. B. Wilson and Miss Wilson have returned to Wellington from a visit to Rotorua.

Wedding at Lower Hutt. A wedding of much interest was celebrated yesterday afternoon, when Miss Helen Pearce, only daughter of Mr. and Mrs. G. F. Pearce, of “Brampton,” Lower Hutt, was married to Dr. Eric Anson, son of Dr. and Mrs. G. E. Anson, also of Lower Hutt. The ceremony was performed in St. Peter and St. Paul’s Church, Lower Hutt, which had been prettily decorated for the occasion, and the Rev. Father Lane officiated, il’he bride, who was given away by her father, wore a- gown of cream satin, very gracefully and simply made,- with lace sleeves and panelled train of brocaded satin. Her veil was held in place with orange blossoms, and she carried a sheaf of lilies. Miss Janet Anson attended as bridesmaid, and wore a frock of yellow satin girdled with fiat shaded flowers at the waist and a browp lace hat. Her bouquet was of yellow and cream roses. The bride’s small brother Alec was in attendance upon her as a page, and was dressed in a Kate Greenaway suit of cream satin. The best man was Mr. George Tripe. Following tho ceremony a reception was held by Mr. and Mrs. Pearce at “Brampton,” at which were present many friends and relatives.’ Beautiful flowers decorated the hall and the various rooms, principally hydrangeas, dahlias, sweet peas, and roses, the table in the dining room, where tea and other refreshments were served, having been arranged with Irish Elegance roses. Mr. Mowbray, an old friend of the family, proposed the health of the bride and bridegroom, and the latter responded. Mrs. Pearce, who, with Mr. Pearce, rece'ved the guests in the entrance hall, wore a frock of black marocain draped with lace, and a black lace hat trimmed with white paradise plumes. Her bouquet was of beautiful crimson roses. Mrs. Anson was also in black maro--?ain, worn with a black lace hat trimmed with shaded mauve berries, and she carried a bouquet of thalictrum, fastened with streamers. Among those who were present were: Dr, Anson (the bridegroom’s father), Mrs. F. Pearce, who wore a black beaded frock and large black hat with paradise plumes Mrs. H. Crawford, m grey, with lift-tded embroideries and black hat: Mrs. E. Pearce, apricot lace frock and brown hat; Mrs. Vivian R-iddiforct, cream frock, with a wide-brimmed black hat; Mrs. Collins, black, with a black hat; Miss Anson (England), mole marocain frock and pretty hat to tone; Mrs. A. Crawford, black and white frock, with black hat; Mrs. Eric Marchant, cream lace frock and hat to match; Mrs. W. Pearce, black beaded frock and black hat; Mrs. AV. Wardell (Masterton) and Miss Wardell, Mrs. J. B. Henry, Miss Nance Drummond, Mrs. T. Cameron, Mrs. George Tripe, Mr. Turrell, Mrs. Edmund Bunny, Mrs. Arthur Duncan and Miss Duncan, Mrs. Sommerville, Aliss Purdy. Aliss Jones, Aliss ztona \ allance’(Alastcrton), Dr. and Airs. Tilly, Air. Kebbell, Air. and Airs. Brandon,, Mrs. Young, Dr. and Mrs. Hislop, Airs. lan Duncan, Airs. Gon don, Air. and Airs. Sladden, Alessrs. Ned, Harold, Athol, and J. Pearce (brothers of tho bride), 'All - . J. Crawford, Air. Inn Pearce, Alessrs. Allan, J. aiid R. Wardell (Alastcrton). Later in the afternoon tho bride and bridegroom left bv motor for tho north, the former travelling in an oyster-coloured frock with beaded embroideries, a white marabout stole, and black hat.' A small dance for tho young people wtts held in the evening at “Brampton.”

Mr. and Airs. Yeats and Mrs. Finlay Bethune have been spending the Chrijitmas and Ngw Year holidays in Taranaki. They’ left early' this week on their return to Wellington.

Mr. Costin Webb and Mrs. Webb are visiting New Plymouth.

Many people in Hastings, especially member's of the old operatic society, who produced “Les Cloches do Coritevillo,” “The Pirates,” and many other comic operas, will bo interested to learn of the marriage on November 8 last, of Mr. Bert Bamforth, an enthusiastic member of the society (states the “Hawke’s Bay' Tribune”), Mr. Bamforth, who its the second son of Nurse Bamforth and Mr. Bamforth, of Hastings, was married in Salisbury, Southern Rhodesia, to Miss Madge M. Walkington, of Frere, Natal.

Ladv Rachel Sturgis, who before her marriage was known ns “the beautiful Stuart-Wortkley girl,” is having her portrait painted by Cyril Roberts, R.8.A.. “for inclusion in that artist’s contribution to the Queen’s doll house, designed for the Queen by Str Edwin Lutyens. The picture will be painted full .size nt first, and then will be repainted, by the aid of a powerful magnifying glass, in the microscopic dimensions required.

Mrs. .F. S. Hodson is visiting Titnaru.

Mrs. Selwyn Chambers (Hawke’s Bay) returns to-<lav from a visit to England, and while in Wellington will ■stay at Miss Malcolm’s. ,

Miss Marchbanks leaves to-morrow for a visit to England, via- Sydney.

The death occurred in Auckland on Monday at a private hospital of Mrs. Whitaker, wife of Air. Joseph R. AVhitaker, Ifeadmastcr of the-Alount. Albert public school. Airs. 'Whitaker was the eldest daughter of the late Mr. John McLean, of Ramarama. Prior to coming to Auckland, 19 years ago, she lived for several years at Helcnsville and To Kopu’ru, of which schools MrWhitaker was headmaster. The cifly surviving member of her family is Mr. Grayton Al. "Whitaker. The eldest son, •the late Air. Cecil G. 'Whitaker, paid the supreme sacrifice’ parly in August of 1915, during the Gallipoli campaign-

Mr. and Airs. S. Rankin, of Christchurch, passed through Wellington early this week on their way to- Auckland, en route for Suva by’ the Navtia.

■’ Aliss Sylvia Wilson (Christchurch) is visiting relatives in Wellington.

The death took place in Auckland on Monday at the Dominion Road Post Office of Aliss Matilda Ellen Lundon. For the past 12 yeaTs Aliss Lundon has been postmistress at- Dominion RoadShe was a very old official m the Department, being one of the first four female exchange clerks' appointed ro the Auckland Exchange at its estab lisiimcnt about 32 years ago. For many years she was a senior supervisor in the Auckland Telephone Exchange, and was highly respected by tne public in the performance of her official duties. She was a daughter of the late John Lundon, first Liberal and Labour member for the Bay of Islands constituency. Aliss Lundon leaves thieo sisters, Miss 11. H. Lundon, Assistant supervisor in the Auckland telephone Exchange; Miss C. J« Lundon, lie ad teacher of the Native School, Papamoa, Tauranga; and Aliss T. y. Jmndon of Auckland; and one brother, Mr. J. R. Lundon, Remuera.

A very quiet wedding was celebrated at St. John’s Cathedral, Napier, by Archdeacon Simkin, when Chris. Curtis Bee, younger son. of the late Mr. George Bee, of Kote Alaori, was married to Alary Christian Stainton, late of the Napier Hospital staff, and only daughter of Air. W- Stainton, of 'lo Tai, Rawhiti, and grand-daughter of the late Wi Houkamau. of Hicks Bay, Gisborne. The bride was given away b,- her fathehr, and was supported by the Aliases Molly and Nancy daughters of Air. and Airs. Leslie M ilson, of Tanga Tupara, Waipukurati. The bride wore a frock of maize-col-oured Jersey silk and hat of same shade, relieved with saxe blue. the bridesmaids wore frocks of organdie, Alary, blue, and shrimp pink respectively, and mob caps to match. All. John Stainton acted as best- man. A reception was held after the ceremony.

Aliss Laura Walker, the well-known Auckland vocalist, has returned after spending the last three years at the Melbourne Conservatorium or Alusic (states an Auckland exchange). Aliss Wa-uker, who holds a scholarship, has had it extended to another three years on account of the successful use she has made of her time, receiving great encouragement from Dame Melba, who has imported a new instructor, m operatic work, Air. Haige Jackson, to tra-m the advanced studenta. Miss M alker is working very hard under this tuition. It is the great wish of Dame Alelba to establish in the near future an Australian grand opera company in Australia Ibr Australians, composed of Australian talent. The Princess Theatre in Burke Street, _ Melbourne, has recently been renovated and put in order after many years neglect and opened by the Ward-Fuller combination. Those interested in music are wondering whether this will be the place that will witness the launching of what will be undoubtedly a remarkable and historic venture, but no details are as yet known of Aladame’s intentions.