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Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 49, 26 August 1938, Page 14

The engagement is announced of Mary Ada (Molly), elder daughter of Mr. and Mrs. H. Clark, Wellington South, to Samuel Charles, only son of Mr. and Mrs. S. B. Rofe, Kilbirnie. PERSONAL NOTES Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Todd, Tinakori Road, who have been spending a fortnight at the Chateau Tongariro, have returned to Wellington. Miss M. Gifford, Auckland, is the guest of Miss Barbara Blundell, Heretaunga. I Mrs. Guy Batham and Miss M. Scott have returned to Dunedin from the Wellington Kindergarten Conference. Mrs. Walter Norwood, Wellington, is visiting her mother, Mrs. John Redpath, Fendalton, Christchurch. Mrs. D. McClurg, Lower Hutt, left for Auckland on Tuesday to visit her father, Mr. C. V. Houghton, Parnell. Miss Eileen Hegarty, who is staying with Mrs. R. A. Whyte, Selwyn Terrace, will return to Gisborne at the weekend. Mrs. J. P. Farrell (Kaiapoi) and Mrs. J. Lee (Wairarapa) are spending a motoring holiday in Marlborough and bNelson. Mrs. B. K. White has returned to Blenheim from a visit to Wellington. Miss Helen Maysmor, Kelburn, left Wellington today for Palmerston North, where she will, with other members of the students' executive, represent Victoria University College at the conference of the New Zealand Universities Students' Association. Mr. and Mrs. S. Rivers, Palmerston North, are visiting Dunedin. Miss Joy Row, Wellington, is visiting her aunt, Miss M. Stewart, Avonside, Christchurch. Miss Jean Begg, national general secretary of the Young Women's Christian Association in India, Burma, and Ceylon, who recently arrived in New Zealand, and Miss Margaret Begg (Dunedin) are the guests of their sister, Mrs. J. Lorimer, Edgeware Road, Christchurch. , Miss Eileen Hartley, Wallaceville, is visiting Dunedin and Invercargill. Mrs. A. Fraser, Gisborne, is visiting Wellington, and is staying at the Grand Hotel. Guests at the Hotel St. George include Mrs. H. Caro (Hamilton), Mrs. E. Boulton (Christchurch), and Miss M. P. Neild (United States). The Misses Daphne Mann and Ray Shannon (Stratford), Mesdames J. J. Kincaid (Auckland), F. G. Coxhead (Dunedin), and J. Manderson (Christchurch) are among the guests at the Empire Hotel. Mrs. N. Archer is a Palmerston North visitor to Wellington. Mrs. W. Fussell, Wellington, who has been the guest of Mrs. T. Russell, Judge Street, Parnell, Auckland, has returned home, accompanied by her husband. Miss Cicely Greatbatch and Miss Rita Edgecombe, New Plymouth, arrived at Wellington yesterday for a holiday. Miss L. M. Beard, Wellington, is a visitor to Dunedin. Miss H. A. Searell, Cnristchurcll> has left for a visit to Wellington, where she will be the guest of Mrs. H. Featherstone, Ngaio. Mr. and Mrs. E. J. Rixon, Palmerston North, are visiting Wellington.^ Mrs. J. A. Gunter (Auckland), Mrs. T. A. Brown (Masterton), and Miss M. Simpson (Marton) are guests at the Midland Hotel. Mesdames J. H. Bethwatt (Wanganui), P. Harrison, E. C. McKay, J. Anderson (Auckland), Macphel (Hastings), S. Clarke (Melbourne), P. Gardner (Southland), T. McCarthy (Wellington!), and Miss Mary Samson (Christchurch) are staying at the Hotel Waterloo. CHILDREN'S ART A LONDON CRITIC Writing of the show of children's drawings at the London County Hall, Mr. Eric Newton, the art critic, says it is not the main object of the children's art exhibition •to prove that most children are potential geniuses. Too much sentimentally exaggerated praise has recently been bestowed on children's drawings. Admittedly they often have a reckless courage and a fertility of invention that any professional artist might very well envy; but since, of their very nature, they can be neither disciplined nor mature, these enviable qualities must perforce be like good tools in the hands of a man who has neither skill nor knowledge enough to use them to their full advantage. What makes the exhibition significant is that it sliows how certain adults in England are beginning to understand the workings of the child's mind. Children have long been taught to speak and write, not in order that, when they are grown up, they may become poets and novelists, but simply in order to turn them into more adequate human beings. And yet, strangely enough, it is a comparatively recent notion that they should also draw and paint for precisely the same reason. In later life some of them may possibly wish to be artists, but that is unimportant. What is important is that they should be taught to use ("allowed to use" would be a better way of putting it) the language of line and colour as freely as they use the English language. What they create may or may not be of intrinsic worth, but the process of creating it is one of the most valuable of human activities. DANCING ROUTED RED CROSS YOUNG PEOPLE Red Cross activities in Wellington are being considerably enlivened by the enthusiasm of the young people's committee. Last night the Red Cross rooms in Dixon Street were en fete for a games evening organised by the committee. Monopoly, table tennis, lotto, and other "round" games caused much amusement, and the spectators enjoyed themselves almost as much as did the participants. The rooms were almost too small for the crowd of people present. When supper time was nigh the guests, particularly those who had been playing the more strenuous games, were more than ready for the appetising refreshments provided. Executive members present included the chairman (Mr. H. J. McDonald), the secretary (Miss Betty Rendle), and the social organisers (Messrs. Derek Cochrane and Geoffrey Lloyd). Others present included Misses Nancy James, Patricia Hogg, Margaret Evans, Beverley Luke, Carol Coyle, Meg. Stott, Margaret Elleray, Betty Bird, Joan Anderson, Peggy Quilter, Joan Juriss,- Joan Shannon, Nan Cameron, Dorothy Smith, Betty Cameron, June Finlay, Margaret Johnstone, Betty Sanderson, Gaze; and Messrs. A. Andrew, B. Gibbons, K. Buck, P. Hayward, M. Morpeth, R. Bush, H. Olive, S. Toms, P. Kennedy, R. Carney, E. Sunderland, R. Mirams, N. Picton, D. Whiran, P. Rashley, R. Hawken, J. Blyth, R. Fletcher, G. Taylor, O. Lamb, B. Holmwood, P. Dhyrberg, C. Marshall, T. Lynskey, N. Bethell, T. A. Moncrieff, G. Philp,! and G. Dowling.