WOMEN IN PRINT.

Evening Post, Volume CIII, Issue 76, 31 March 1922, Page 9

WOMEN IN PRINT.

! Visitors to town for the races include ; Mrs. Newbigin (Hastings) and Mrs. i Nantes (Napier). ■ Miss Dorothy (Bowden (Christchurch) is visiting Wellington. i .Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Bamsey (Welling- : ton) are vieiting Christchurch. ! Mrs. Allan- Moody (Auckland) is at I the Midland. I Mr. und Mrs. Rogers and Dr. and Mrs. Rogers, of Hamilton, are staying at the Midland, on their way to England. j Mrs. Ritchie, of Dunedin, is paying ! a .short visit to Wellington.. j Mrs. C. Mills is the guest o£ Mrs. A. I H. Mills, Hobson-street. ' Mrs. 1,. Mills,is paying a short visit to Martou. -» Mr*'. Eric Riddiford is staying at the Midland. ' j Mrs. W. Stewart' is paying a visit to Christchurch. j Mrs. (Dr.) Marcbant has returned ' from a visit to Auckland, and her sister has returned with her on a" visit. i Mr.s. I. Johnston is the guest of Mies Harcourt. ' Mr. and Mrs. James Gamble * have returned to New Brighton, from Wellington. : Miss "Fanny Hall-Jones, who hae been visiting O-pawa, has returned to Wellington. - I , M.i.-:s E. Viles (Featherston) is viait- ' ing Auckland. j Mr. .i.nd Mrs.. Macarthy Reid have ! returned from their visit South. j Tile annual meeting of the St. Peter's ! Young Women's Club was held this I week, when Archdeacon Watson presided. The annual report and statement M accounts were, read and adopted. The ] ! election of officers resulted as follows :— President ex-officio, Archdeacon Watson; vice-presidents. Mesdames Watson, Nicholls, A. Richards, Perry, Betlume, "D----j Anderson, Birchallj Carter, Sevil!, Peteh, Brov.'n, and Miss Dixoa, chairwoman, j Miss' Watson ; secretary. Miss- Leonard j treasurer, Miss Anquetil; libMi-ia'i, Jvis-s Bentley ; assistant, Miss Sanr.viiys ; cc mmittee, Misses Bentley > Dawes, Ivi'iom, | Cook, and Lyons. It was decided lb cim- i mence a course of lectures hw'.m: the auspices of the St. John Ambulance Association as soon as a class could bef.-.r-nuiged, all girls and women of the parish being invited to joiii. T!?& club is alsi; endeavouring to.increase i!>i> fund for its new dub buildings as much as possible, as they are hoping to be able to commence building about Ulio r-ml of t).e year. Miss Watson thanked the worki:^ 'party for a gift of £130, and siltfo thanked club members for tlie way in which they had all responded "to !!.e i-p----peal'of the Social Service Board. Hearty votes of thanks were accorded to the club by the Ladies' Wording l'artv for the way in which the meinujrs helped at the annual sale of work, and to the oxcliairworoan for the way in which she discharged her duties during the preceding year. . ] A pleasant afternoon was spent at the ■residence of Mrs. R. Humphreys, Tod- ' man-street, Brooklyn, on Wednesday, when guests numbering about thirty assembled. Songs and elocutionary items were rendered by Mesdames Clarke, AY. J. Coventry, and Mrs. A. J. Humphrtys. j A competition was held, \»hicr. was won j by Miss Crabtree. Donations were received and cakes sold; also flowers kindly sent in by Mrs. Backhouse, in aid of the Copper Trail to augment the funds ] for the Brooklyn Soldiers'. Memorial. The result of the effort will lengthen the trail 32 yards. The annual meeting of the Women's I National Reserve will take place to-night. A jumble sale will be held in the Baptist Church Hall, Vivian-street, to-1 morrow, at 3 p.m. The proceeds are in aid of the Bible Class 'Camp Fund, and the public are cordially invited. , Mrs. Paul Coffey, widow of the late Mr. Paul Coffey, died this morning at her residence, Oriental Bay. Her husband died in December last. The late Mrs. Coffey, who was well known for her charitable and kindly nature, was born,in Nelson 77 years ago. She was ■ the daughter of one of the early colorij ists (Mr. Newman), who came out to New Zealand in one of the first four ships, the Bolton. She was married to Mr. CoTfey at Nelson by the Rev. Mr. Kirk; there being no church, the ceremony was conducted in the open. The 1 Jate Mrs. Coffey, who had been ailing for some time, leaves two sons (Messrs. Newman and Paul Coffey, of Wellington) and three daughters, Mesdames Parry (Oriental Bay). Morn's (Hataitai), and James Rod (Lyall Bay). The funeral takes place on Sunday at Karori. An evening wedding took place recently at St.' Paul's Pro-Cathedral, when Miss Eileen Nesta, Barker, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. T. L. Barker, of Lower Hutt, was married to Mr. jAllan Russell Bull, son of Mi 1, and Mrs.' James Bull, of Hunterville. The ceremony was performed by the Yen. Archdeacon Johnson, only the immediate relatives and intimate friends being present. The bride, who was given away' by her father, wore a dress of embroidered tissue over palest pink, with a veil and wreath of pale pink roses. She carried a shower bouquet of roses and clematis.-. The bridesmaid, Miss Gweneth Barker, wore shell pink taffetas, with a wreath of pale pink roses, and carried an early Victorian posy of carnations wreathed in silver leaves. The best man was Mr. D. D. Simpson, of Hunterville. After the ceremony a reception was held at the residence of Miss Barker at Hataitai. Later the bride and bridegroom left for a tour in the North. ■ . The wedding was solemnised: at St. Peter's Church recently of Miss Adelaide May Camithets, eldest daughter of Mrs. and the late Mr. George Birrelt Oarruthers, of Wellington, and Mi 1. Horace Norman M'Leod, second eon of Mr. and Mrs. D. M. .M'Leod, of Preymouth, Uicllev. Feilden Taylor officiating. The bride, who was given away by her brother, Mr. Victor Car/uthers, wore a beautiful gown of ivory georgette with an overdress of silk spider-web lace, caught at the waist with a girdle of orange, blossoms. Her train/of ivory duchesse satin was carried by her small nephew, Master Edgar Carruthers, who wore a suit of ivory satin, and lace. Her bouqaet was of'white roses and orchids, a veil and wreath of orange blossoms completing a most becoming toilet. The Misses Grace' and Ella Carruthers, sisters of the bride, wore frocks of apricot georgette with bodices of panne velvet, and sleeve* of gold face, finished at the waist with gold ribbon and apricot ■flowers, wreaths of the- same flowers' being worn round the hair. They carj ried bouquets of heliotrope pansies, yelj low roses, and maidenhair fern. The j bridegroom's gift to the bride was a ] diamond brooch, and to the bridesmaids : o topaz bangle and opal ring. Mr. j Oswald M'Leod attended his brother as • best man, and Mr. Edgar Carruthers '• was groomsman. The numerous guests were entertained by Ml;c. Carruthers at her residence, the decorations being carried out in heliotrope and white. Mr. and Mis. M'Leod afterwards left for a tour of the North Island, the- bride travelling in a. navy tailored- costume, ' and black panne hat with osprej'3. I