WOMEN IN PRINT.

Evening Post, Volume XCI, Issue 109, 9 May 1916, Page 9

WOMEN IN PRINT.

TO CORRESPONDENTS. All notices sent for publication in this column must be signed. Engagement announcements should contain the signatures of the principal parties interested.

The Town Hall—always a centre of patriotic activity—is 'even more than usually .occupied just now. The latest development of work is in the- Concert Chan:ber, where about twenty-five ladies belonging to the National Reserve are engaged in sending registration cards and new explanatory notes from Mr. R. R Martin, the secretary of the Wellington Recruiting Committee, to all who are entitled to receive them. About 2000 have been "put through" already, which shows good organised work, and there are about 13,000 still to go. Captain Barclay and Mr. D M'Laren are superintending the work. In the Council Chamber hold-alls are being cut out and machined; housewives are also' bcine made up, _ and a larger party of workers _is filling them with the usual necessaries. .Goods are being received in 31r Tripp's room, and the Mayoress's secretarial office is busy as usual. Downstairs in the big hall great preparations were being .made for the apple show to.day. Most appetising fruit was being unpacked and placed on the stalls The Nelson pavilion in scarlet and white should show off the fruit to. great advantage, and the screen drapings on the stage are of apple green and yellow, with green, stands artd shelves. Pictures are shown of the various fruit pests, and there are the competition pies and .many other points of interest in the exhibition.

Mr. and Mrs. R. P. Greville, formerly of Island Bay, Wellington, who have been residing in Auckland 'for some time, will leave for America by the next mail boat from Auckland.

M.r. and Mrs. A._ T. Chapman, of Christchurch, are visiting Wellington.

The promoters of the Triangle Depot at Miss Maxwell's rooms had a very satisfactory week-end last week, and wish to thank all those who contributed to the depot. During the' three months they have occupied the rooms they have made. £111 for soldiers' comforts, and desire to thank Miss Maxwell for allowing them the use of the rooms. In future the depot will .be in -the reception hall of the V.M.C.A., in Willis-street, and goods may be sent there This week Mesdames Lowe and Rist will he in charge on Friday, and Mrs. Rose on Saturday. . / . .

Miss Ward, the hon. secretary of the Wellington 'Branch of the Women's Na.tional Reserve, wishes to receive applications for voluntary workers at the Town Hall as soon as possible, as it is very important that the work . being done should be promptly finished. The three sessions of work begin at 10 a.m., 2 p.m., and 7 p.m., and workers are-required for each.

The Greymouth Evening Star announces the dea^h of. Mrs. Heslin, sen., of Brunnerton, who arrived on the West Coast ill the days of the first gold rush, and had a remarkable experience in 1867, when she journeyed from Greymouth to Brunner in a lighter,, before a railway, or even a road, existed between the two Mrs. Heslin was a native of Ayr, Scotland, and spent .a few years, in Queensland before 'coming to New Zealand. She was well known among the mining community on account of her .hospitality and good nature. She leaves a family of six, Mrs. Manderson, of Wellington, being a daughter.

Miss A. Carroll and Mesdames U. Shannon and H., Fellowes will be in attendance at the Bed Cross shop, Wood-ward-street, to-morrow They will be pleased to receive flowers, fruit, sweets, etc., from workers in the cause of the wounded soldiers.

The. Hon. Joan ' Dickson-Poynder—a much-admired girl—now gives up her time, to war industries, says a writer in the Gentlewoman. She is the only child of Lord and Lady Islington, and had there been no war would have been one of the beauties 0f'1915. Also her brains count, aa'she reads a great deal, writes well, and once wrote an historical article on 'the life and times of Ma-rie Antoinette. She likes an active life—ride 6, dances, is a first-rate swimmer — and when only'ten, won the twenty-five ya.rds handicap at the Bath Club in 1907. Her mother, Lady Islington, is still a young and pretty woman, clever;and cultured, and, as a girl, belonged to the oncefamous society of "Souls." At present she .does much war work, and has a. hospital for wounded officers in her house in Chesterfield-gardens. Lord Islington is a rich man, who made his mark in the Boer War, and has since been Governor of New Zealand.

A very interesting letter was received this week by a Wellington lady from afriend at, the front. He says: "Since writing last we have been across the Canal, occupying and digging trenches on the Sinai Peninsula; not a bad place, for drill was easy, and swims frequent in the Canal. The passengers on the large boats used to throw tins of ciga.ettes, etc., across to us. The Canal, being about 100 yards wide, made quite a nice swimming bath, although the current, which runs continually from the R.ed Sea to the Mediterranean, used to carry the weak swimmers down past their objective on the opposite bank. We had good tucker at Zeitoun, and leave frequently to Cairo if we required it, and nice huts to live in. On the Canal, nowhere to go, army rations, and drill every day with monotonous regularity. This since the . 9th January. Imagine yourself as dried Jjruit, packed away in sawdust to keep, and placed on a top shelf! Then you've got us. Heat and flies to worry or try to worry us. A chap has to be pretj/y slick in beating the flies for his bread and jam. . Ours is a happy section, and we sort of go alone. .' By the way, we see numbers of the celebrated Lancers, very picturesque with their lances and chain armour epaulettes. Their uniforms are most becoming to them, the coat being long, of a grey-green colour, reaching about to the knees. . The salutation to any of the Indian troops is 'Salaam, Johnny.' They are dead shook on our wrist-watches. I showed-one mine, and there was a crowd round me in no time. .. • Having reason to complain of some biscuits being weevily the other day, one of the lads steps his frame up 'to"the General, who happened to be passing on horseback. ' Weevils in the scran, sir,' says this representative. Our worthy General turned round to the. next in command, and remarked, 'These men have been inoculated for almost everything now, have they not?' —and passed on. Poor consolation; however, we received no more weevil biscuits. The Prince* of Wales is often seen around our camp, with many officers with him. The Australians cotton to him well, and cheered him the other day as if they had received inarching orders to France. New Zealanders can't clveer. ... As you can guess, our piastres do not last long. We soon learn to reckon in Turkish tnoney, and wo know the value of what we an. navins for. „ . 'We

come across English, Spanish, Greek, and Turkish coins—such a collection you never saw in the course. of your life, and one gets absolutely flabbergasted trying.to reckon up the values."

At St. Mary of the Angels, Boulcottstreet, Wellington, Miss Annie Loftman, Mitchell Town, eldest daughter of the late Mr. Loftman, was married to Mr. Arthur W? O'Sullivan, youngest son of Mrs. o" Sullivan, Aro-street, Wellington. The ceremony, which was a Nuptial Mass,. was celebrated by the Rev. Father Yenning, S.M The bride wore a charming gown of embroidered voile. She also wore a wreath and veil, and carried a beautiful shower bouquet composed of white cactus dahlias and roses with maiden-hair fern. The bride was attended by the Misses Maggie and Mary Loftman. . They wore . pretty dresses of grey, with black velvet hats, and carried beautiful shower bouquets of pink • cactus dahlias, roses, and autumn leaves with pink streamers. Mr. 11. J. O'Sullivan was the best man. Mr. and Mrs. O'Sullivan left in the afternoon for a trip, the bride wearing a. tailor-made costume of dark grey and a black velvet hat.

Thi V.M.C.A. desires to acknowledge the sum of £50 3s Id, proceeds of home sale of work, from Mrs. M'Manaway, Tinakori-road; also £146 10s from the Marton Patriotic Shop. Further gifts of music have been received at the V.M.C.A. rooms, Willis-street, and are gratefully acknowledged, from Mr. P. N. Denton, Wellington, and four parcels from Mr. C. H. Thorly. Further gifts of popular music are needed for immediate transport to "somewhere in the fighting area."

St. John Ambulance, Senior Division, will be the hostesses at the Soldiers' Club to-morrow evening.

Interesting facts are given in the following private letter from a woman in Berlin, which appeared recently in the London Times :—" On the whole, my experiences in Berlin are almost as inter-, esting as those opening days of the war, when T and T were ill Paris.; Slightly, but distinctly, increasingly, we are all beginning to feel rather like a besieged population. There is not the least abatement in the confidence of the Germans that they have won the war,, but there is increasing annoyance and irritation because the Allies are so slow; in asking for peace. Irritation is also arising against the women of the lower classes'here in Berlin and in other German towns whose ridiculous and despicable desire for 'butter, culminating, as you know, in butter and other riots, ismaking the official classes thoroughly ashamed of them. In the first few days of the war Paris was a city of queues. People were waiting in long lines for passes and permissions of all-kinds Berlin is now a city of queues. I counted a score of them the other day during a short,walk These queues are of people waiting for the microscopic amount ofbutter and other commodities allowed to each inhabitant. There is every effort to put'the best foot foremost in Germany at all times, but especially now. This butter craze, however, seems to be beyond the power of the authorities to suppress. The state of affairs here is difficult to describe, for the Germans are adepts at make-believe, and are always posing before the world. The shops have been filled with people, and the people have been buying- Christmas gifts. This I know, for I saw them Wertheim's was crowded. The tableaux which form an attraction of their Christmas bazaar were almost entirely devoted to the, war. One will amuse you, as it represented a Zeppelin raid on London. It was most, realistically produced. There was an exact model of a Zeppelin, with searchlights shining upon it from Tra-falgar-square. Suddenly the roof of one of the houses opens, and an Englishman with, as usual, side whiskers, long teeth, and check suit, rises slowly and elevates a long telescope from a -rooftop. Directly he catches sight of the Zeppelin he pops down and disappears from view! This clockwork '^presenta-tion-was the chief feature of the bazaar, and must have pleased hundreds of thousands of people. Small change is getting very difficult to obtain in shops, and one is now usually given change in postage stan.ps The authorities say that owing to the great extension of German territory there is not enough German coinage to go round, and that is why we must berconteut with postage stamps. But B tells me that it is due to the nickel and copper famine."

Godber's are making sweets of all kinds, which are on sale at their various shops, aud are guaranteed pure and fresh Buy your sweets at Godber's.— Advt.