DONATIONS TO CHARITIES

Evening Post, Volume CXX, Issue 141, 11 December 1935, Page 17

DONATIONS TO CHARITIES

SARAH H. AMES'S TRUST

The late Mrs. Sarah Hurford Ames (who died in 1929) directed by her will that part of the annual income from her residuary estate be annually distributed to homes and other institutions in the city and suburbs of Wellington for poor and indigent children conducted by the Church of England, and to homes and other institutions for the care and welfare of aged or infirm persons of either sex by whomsoever conducted.

Mrs. Ames expressed a wish that the distribution of the annual income should be arranged so that it would reach the institutions participating during the first fortnight in the month of December.

The Public Trustee. Mr. E. O. Hales, announces that' (with the approval and concurrence of Mr. Douglas Jackson, barrister and solicitor, Wellington, the advisory trustee in the estate) allocations for 1935 have been made to the following homes and institutions: —

| St. Barnabas Babies Home 'Society, Khandallah, £2; St. Mary's Guild, Karori, £19; Anglican Boys' Homes Society, Lower Hutt, £8; Wellington City Mission, £10; Home for the Aged Needy, £10; Victoria Home, £14; Ohiro Home, £29; Salvation Army,, for the benefit of the following institutions: (a) Salvation Army. Eventide Home for Aged Ladies, Island Bay; (b) Salvation Army Eventide Home for Aged Ladies, Brittomart Street; (c) Salvation Army Women's Industrial Home; (d) ' Salvation Army Aged Men's Retreat, Wallaceville, £11; Home of Compassion, Island Bay, £9; St. Joseph's Home for Incurables, £9; Sisters of Compassion Relief Depot, Buckle Street, £3; Returned Soldiers' Association (inmates, Ewart Hospital), £10.

I The late Mrs. Ames was esteemed fOiher charitable gifts, acts, and kindnesses during her lifetime, including the gift of gates giving access to the Wellington East Girls' College and was also a generous donor to the New Zealand Academy of Fine Arts.

LONDON PERSONALS

(From "The PostY* Representative.)' LONDON, November. Iff.

Miss Gertrude Batchelor" has been visiting Oxford,. Bath, Wells, and Glastonbury, and she has spent a; weekend, in Yorkshire with relatives. Her midterm holiday was spent in the south, where she had one delightful day at Winchester and another at Salisbury and Stonehenge. Miss Batchelor was fortunate enough to receive an' invitation to the Fore Court of Buckingham Palace on the day of the Royal wedding,'and she was able to obtain an excellent view of the Royal bride and bridegroom, as well as of the bridesmaids and guests. The Lord Mayor's Show was witnessed from the Mansion House, and later Miss Batchelor had the privilege of being introduced to Lady Vincent, and of enjoying the .Lord Mayor's hospitality in the ■ famous Egyptian Hall. Miss Bachelor came from Christchurch Girls' High School to take up an exchange position on the staff of the Lady Eleanor Holies School, London.

Mrs.''.Edith Baird {Auckland) re- : ceived a great welcome by the President and various members of the Imperial Society of Teachers of Dancing, and is now starting on a round of visits to the most notable studios of dancing in London. Early in December she will be the guest of Sir Hamilton and Lady Balance at their home near Norwich. Mrs. Baird is still a Fellow of the Imperial Society of Teachers of Dancing, of which she was a past councillor; she is also a retired member of the Association of Operatic Dancers of Great Britain, which is now the Royal Academy of Operatic Dancers.

Mrs. !T.- W. Lewis arid Miss Hilda Lewis (Christchurch), who have been touring in France and Belgium, have returned to London;

Miss Ada Hall, of the Technical College, Christchurch, has been in Geneva, where she visited various sections of the League of Nations Secretariat and the International' Labour Office. She was particularly interested in the section Of the 1.L.0. dealing with vocational guidance and the unemployment of young people.

Miss Eva R. Melwon (Christchurch) is holding an exhibition of paintings at the Brook Street Art Gallery, New Bond Street, this month. Miss Melwon, who was formerly on the staff of the School of Art, Christchurch, has been living in England for the last nine years, and has spent a great deal of tune sketching on the Continent. The exhibition includes English and Continental architectural studies and flower paintings in oil colour. For several years she has been contributing regular articles on design and craft' to Messrs. C. Arthur Pearson for f'Modern Woman" . and for the Amalgamated Press.

Mrs. Primer (Dunedin), who has considerable knowledge o£ the East, has for some weeks been visiting schools to lecture on Chinese art, in anticipation of the important exhibition at Burlington House.

The Dowager Countess of Seafield left Tilbury today lor Bombay. . At the General Election of 1931, Mrs. Blanco White (nee Amber > Reeves, elder daughter of the late Rt. Hon. W. Pember Reeves and Mrs. Pember Reeves) stood for Hendon in the Socialist interest, and polled 15,305 votes to the 66,000 polled by Sir P. Cunliffe Lister. This week Mrs. Blanco White was standing for the same seat, and in the same interest polled 28,375 votes. The seat was won by Sir R. Blair, in the Conservative interest, who polled 69,762. A third contestant was an Opposition Liberal. Mrs. Blanco White was apparently the only New Zealand-born woman to offer herself at the polls. Women were less. successful in the present election than in'l93l and 1929. Only nine have been returned, compared with 15 in 1931 and 14 in 1929.

Mr. and Mrs. J. Armstrong Neame (Wanganui) and Mr. Max Smythe are holding an exhibition of flowers and landscapes in water colours at Walker's Galleries, in New Bond Street, this month. Mr. and Mrs. Neame have a very fine collection of sketches, which they have made on the Continent, notably in Switzerland and the' Austrian Tyrol.

Mr. and Mrs. T. P. Hughson (Kahotu), who sailed-for home by the Rangitane this week, • had an interesting time in the Shetland Islands which Mr. Hughson left 56 years ago. In the small island of Yell, a storeman whom Mr. Hughson visited, said lie stocked only New Zealand butter. New Zealand butter was also being supplied on the main island. . Mr. Hughson went out on one of the herring drifters. They visited Scapa Flow, in the Orkneys, and saw the last of the German battleships being raised to the surface of the water. Crossing to Northern Ireland, Mr. Hughson took a trip to the Giant's Causeway, and later they were in Edinburgh, Glasgow, Manchester, and Liverpool, through Wales, and at Bristol. As a Methodist local preacher, Mr. Hughson was well received and entertained in some of the centres by members of his own community. Mr. W. Eldon Coates (Christchurch), who has been stationed for the last three years at the Eastern Extension Telegraph Company's Cape St. James's Branch, arrived from Indo-China last week, accompanied by Mrs. Coates and their son. Mr. and Mrs. Coates intend to tour Great Britain and the Continent before leaving for New Zealand in March, where the balance of furlough is to be spent. Their son has been placed at St. Christopher's Nursery College, .Tunbridge Wells, ■ I