SOCIAL AND PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 16, Issue 165, 31 March 1923, Page 14

SOCIAL AND PERSONAL ITEMS

' MATTERS OF INTEREST FROM FAR AND NEAR

(By

Imogen.)

• Miss Ethel Roydhouse is spending the Easter holidays at Taupo and Rotorua.

Mr. and Mrs. Llewellyn Jones (England), who have been spending the past jthree years in New Zealand are at ■ present 'fishing at Taupo. They ini £end returning to England in May. » -

1 . Mr. and Mrs. Eric Russell (Sydney), ; Mr. and Miss Turton, and Miss Luti jtrell, also of Australia, are visiting ' jtho hot lakes. '■ ,’j Miss P. Bloomfield (Auckland) is Palmerston North.

; ■ The Arts and Crafts Circle of the i Women’s Club Auckland held their first meeting last week, when the pre- ’ 'aident of the club, Mrs. Parkes, pre'•ided. Miss Elsie Reeve was elected , ! convenor; Miss Miriam Norisli, secretary; Mrs. Brookes, Mrs. Carling and iMiss Goldie, numbers of the commit- ' ftee.

' ;• Miss 0. Wright, of Cornwall, Eng-. ! -fond, is spending a few days at Taupo i y>n her way to Rotorua and Auckland, j ’Later she will leave for the Island trip I going Home.

! j; Mr. J. L. R. Bloomfield, Mr. Tremor Bloomfield and Miss L. Leatham, ; jar© sailing by the Makura next week route for England where they intend to spend some time. Other passengers leaving shortly for England *hy the Makura are Mr. and Mrs. Wes2ton, of New Plymouth, 1 Miss Necker, L .’of the .Diocesan Girls’ High School, :Epsom, and Mr. and Mrs. Russell, of •' ' *

' Miss C. W. Christie, for many years lecturer for tho Theosophical Society in New Zealand, has recently Returned from a lecturing. tour in ’ Scotland, Wales and Ireland, l Ithe Channel Islands,'and South Africa. ;She is at present with her sister, ‘ jj. W. Wallace, and intends remain- • ling some time in Wellington. Miss 'Christie’s tour in Great Britain was Jinost successful, comprising lectures lin twenty-five English towns, includ- [ ling Cambridge; thirty towns in Scot- } Hand, eight in Wales, and seven in ! Miss Christie also attended Jjthe first All-world 'Theosophical ConI igress in Paris, where she represented iNew Zealand, and where shp once more ‘ linet Dr. Annie Besant. In South •Africa she lectured in Durban, Petor- ' jinaritzburg, Port Elizabeth, Stelleny ■bosch, and Cape Town. Miss Christie -will begin her Wellington lecture cam- : ;paign on Easter Sunday, at the ThesoHall, 19 Marion Street. ’ When you require your hair marcel ; Waved, curled, or dressed in simple, ’elaborate or period fashion, ’phone usi -We have ■white court, comedy, Shakes- ! -Jpeare, and fancy wigs for hire, and can copy any illustration. Powders, cremes, liquid powder, water black, rouge, masks, etc., always in stock. Jet, pcarline, ivory, and tortoiseshell combs from London and Paris.. Stamford and Co., 123 Cuba Street.*’Phono 21— 220.—Advt.

Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Harper, of Wellington, are visiting Auckland.

Mrs. W. D. Ward (Christchurch) is visiting her son in Hawke’s Bay.

Miss C. McArthur, of “Levenvale,” Lower Hutt, left . Wellington on a month’s holiday visit to Auckland this week.

The marriage took place at the Cartelton Methodist Church on ’Wednesday afternoon of Mr. Melville I'. King, youngest son of Mr. and Mrs. D. 1. King, of Carterton, and Miss Mary Laurenson, only daughter of _M-rs. K. S. Laurenson, of Carterton. The ceremony was -performed by tho Ke v - D. Peryman, and a reception was held later in tho schoolroom.

Mr. and Mrs. Edward Duthie, late of Boulcott Terrace, will leave by the Ulimaroa on Friday next on an extended visit to Australia. They intend residing in Sydney during the coming winter, and may go further abroad to wards tho end of the year. They have sold their house in Boullcott Terrace to Mr. P. J. Ryan, late of Napier.

Miss Williamson, who has taken her diplomas of Physical Education at Homo, is taking somo physical culture classes at the Y.W.C.A.-ono for club members and one for. ordinary classes.

The Y.W.C.A. has started oil its year’s programme. Work in classes and clubs has begun, and everything promises a very busy and at very full year. Several new clubs have been formed among the senior members, and in the girls’ department some extension work has also begun. Classes have been formed in millinery, dressmaking, cooking, elocution, physical 1 culture, and first aid.

\The Republic of Armenia has the credit of having the first woman cattle expert (says an exchange). This is Madam Zonia Tsendorf, a Russian refugee, who has been appointed chief veterinarian and director of stock farming for the American Near East Relief Organisation in Armenia. In her new post she will have control of several of the most important stock farms in Armenia. Madam Tsendorf was formerly the wife of one of the largest stock farmers in Russia. She lived in Moscow and assisted her husband in the management of seven big estates in Southern Russia. She received tho title of veterinary surgeon from the Government College in Moscow. During the revolution, she became a*refugee in South Russia, and filially, when her last resonress were gone, she found herself an applicant for rpfugee relief. It was discovered that she was a cattle expert, and she was immediately employed on one of the farming projects in Northern Armenia, from which she rose rapidly to her position as director f«r’ the Republic. Weddings to be artistic must have Bouquets to harmonise with frocks. Miss Murray, 36 Willis Street. Deliveries anywhere in Dominion. —Advt.