HERE AND THERE

Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 133, 3 December 1930, Page 15

HERE AND THERE

Navy League Ladies' Auxiliary. Mrs. James Findlay presided over the annual meeting of the Navy League Ladies' Auxiliary, held in the league room yesterday afternoon. The report and balance-sheet, which have already been published, were adopted, and the outgoing president and committee were re-elected as follows: — President, Mrs. James Mndlay; committee, Mesdames Larnaeu, Harding, Marshall, Tripp, Luke, Kirk, Middleton, Hansford Johnson, Walker, M'Evedy, H. Kirkcaldic, Adams, Howard Reid, Finch, W. Perry, Keith Kirkcaldie, Miss Edwin, Miss Cable, Mrs. Brown. A vote of condolence with Miss Edwin in the loss of her brother was passed, all present standing in silence. Votes of thanks were jiassed to Mrs. Larnach (for presiding during the absence in England, of Mrs. Mndlay), Mrs. Brown (treasurer), the auditor, Mrs. Finch, Mrs. Harding (who supervises the garment making and all who had helped her), to the girls' branch (for consistent and willing help), and to Mrs. Bullen (Paekakarild) for hand sowing over 100 garments during the past iive years. School Children's Bazaar. Gaily decorated with streamers and paper flowers, the stalls arranged in St. Mark's Schoolroom, Duft'erin street, yesterday, were laden with good things for the opening of the annual bazaar. The past and present pupils had been working for some time, and the sale, which is being continued this afternoon and evening, promises to be a groat success. The proceeds will be devotod to the new school building fund. Various song and dance items were given during yesterday afternoon by the school children, and for the evening's performance the stage was turned into "fairyland." A Christmas Tree, which had been sent by Mr. Armour, was a special attraction. The stallholders are as follows:—Books, old boys; mothers' stall, Mesdames Madeley, Beales, Grove, and Redwood; cakes, Mesdames Croll, Russell, Scott, and Miss Beck; produce, Mesdames Mann, Taylor, Scott, Misses Beck, and Mann; fathers' stall, the Rev. H. E. X Fry; fish pond, old girls; tea room, Meadames Murdoch, Gibson, and Grant; Aunt Sally Messrs. Thompson and L. Pavitt; fancy, Mrs. and Miss Lewis; Christmas Tree, the teachers and Mrs. Martin; sweets, Miss I. Baird and Mrs. Baird. Auckland Victoria League. The Auckland Victoria League has made a specialty of Christmas work for people in the back blocks. They held an exhibition of gifts collected, which included piles of neat brown paper parcols containing books and magazines. Then there was the work of the girls' branch, which included dolls of all shades and sizes, dressed charmingly by the clever fingers of the girls. There was a wonderful collection of toy animals, also made by the same people out of velvet, fur, wool, and cloth, black and coloured cats with realistic eyes and whiskers, long-eared rabbits, brown furry dogs, and a collection of tiny grey mice. The scrap books shown were things of beauty, while the collection of little knitted garments also waa quite charming. All those nice tilings have been made to deck Christmas trees in the country districts, and no doubt will give immense pleasure. Her JFirst Motor-ride. Princes Margaret Rose had her first motor rido in a new all-black saloon of a popular British make, which the Duke of York bought just before the little girl was born, writes a, Londoner. The Duke is the most enthusiastic motorist in the Royal Family, and had run a number of high-speed cars before this latest purchase. On this first run the Royal baby was taken, in company with her father, mother, and Princess Elizabeth, from Glamis Castle to the little railway station in Glamis village, a distance of about two miles, to catch the train for London. A Pleasant Finale. A very pleasant time was spent at Wellington College on Monday evening, when over 60 old girls met together for the final club night of the year. The president welcomed Miss Greig, principal of the college, and Miss Ward and Miss Korshaw, representing the staff of the college. She gave an outline of the«6ocial service work that had been done by the club girls during the year, and mentioned that two parcels of baby clothes had been sent to the Old Girls' Orphan, "Ina," at St. Barnabas Home, and that a Christmas parcel would be sent later o». Several cheerful games were played during the evening, and an excellent programme of songs, recitation, dances, etc., were rendered by Misses Faire, Spurdle, Balliugcr, T. Oonlan, R. Bitossi, V. Cathcart, E. Bath, D. Buck, and the pupils of Miss H. Watt. A stall for the sale of hand work made by the girls of the olub realised £5 10s 9d, and this, together with the takings at the door, made a total of £8 12s 9d, which will enable the old girls to do a little more practical social service work during the coming year. After supper had been served a. very happy gathering was brought to a close by the singing of "Old-Lang Syne" and the National Anthem. Cancer Research, Campaign. A number of matters of interest were doalt with at the meeting of the committee of the Women's Branch of the Cancer Campaign. The reports received from some of the branches already at work were most satisfactory. It was stated that the president and honorary secretary (Mesdames Morice and H. Hadiield) had visited over twenty centres, and had established committees. The executive will be in recess till February, though Mesd.-mes Morice and Hadh'eld will carry out the engagements already mado before taking their recess. A meeting was held at tho residence of Mrs. David Anderson, Hankey street, yesterday afternoon, when there was a good attendance of interested women. A committee was formed out of those present with Mrs. Anderson as chairman. The other officers will be appointed at the next meeting. Mrs. Morice ga.vo au interesting sketch of the work contemplated and that already done, and those present undertook to work in the New Year. In. connection with the report of the cancer campaign meeting at Upper Hutt, Mr. A. J. M'Curdy writes pointing out that he and his wife are referred to incorrectly as '' Mayor and Mayoress" of Upper Hutt. They are not now holding these positions, and he states that his wife, at 'the request of the local president of the Red Cross, convened the meeting, while ho himself acted as Hutt County and Upper Hutt representative of the Wellington Hospital Board. Her Father's Secretary. A lovely, dark-eyed Eastern woman in rich gold and blue headdress who raised her trailing draperies of silk to protect them from the puddles caused a stir of interest as she stepped from tho Ostend boat train at Victoria Station, states the "Daily Mail." She was Mrs. Shah Nawaz, one of the two Indian women delegates to the Imperial Conference and the Indian Round Table Conference. With her father, Sir Muhammcd Shafi, a leading Moslem, politician who is also a. delegate to both conferences] {and her

mother, Lady Shafi, she had arrived from Brussels. Mrs. Shah Nawaz has eyes which flash with gaiety, a laugh which sounds like music, and a complexion so creamy and pure as to look like marble against the background of her glistening jet black hair. "Both mother and 1 have been in England in tho past," she said to a "Daily Mail" reporter, "and we are ever so glad to be back again. "We have a lot of old friends to meet, and London is so big there is always plenty to see. I shall be rather busy when the conferences begin. I shall have to attend both, and I am also a secretary—to my father."