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Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 184, 7 May 1928, Page 5

Mrs. Vaughan MacDonald will leave Wanganui for Wellington to-day and will sail by the Makura to Sydney on Tuesday to spend the winter with her daughter, Mrs. A. de C. Quince, who lives at Leura, near the Blue Mountains. . At the opening of the New Zealand Women Teacher’s Conference on Saturday night greetings were received from Miss A. C. Finlayson, who is on her way to England. • The moving picture screen will have a place under novel circumstances at the forthcoming Auckland Advertising Exhibition (says the Star ). Continuous programmes of interesting industrial, scenic and other pictures will be screened afternoons and evenings in the supper chamber, where patrons will enjoy refreshments while being pictorally entertained. A most elaborate scheme of decoration and lighting effects will give this hall an enchanting environment. Manufacturers and other firms are being given opportunity to have suitable pictures included in the daily programmes. As many as ,35.500 inventors’ appucatioiis werp filed in Britain during. 1927, compared with 33,050 in 1926. The average British woman welgus 7st. 121 b., is sft. 2in. in height, has a pull of 1831 b., and a grip of 581 b.