SOCIAL AND PERSONAL

Evening Star, Issue 22596, 13 March 1937, Page 26

SOCIAL AND PERSONAL

Will correspondents please note that items intended for Wednesday’s ‘ Star 1 must be in the office by Tuesday afternoon, and those intended for insertion on Saturday by Thursday afternoon, or at . the latest Friday morning. In the latter case they must be brief. Mr and Mrs R. Clapperton left to-day for a holiday at To Anau. Miss Denniston left during the week on a visit to Christchurch. Mrs Hannagau and family are spending a holiday at Macandrew Bay. Mr and Mrs A. E. Gascoigne left yesterday on a visit to the West Coast, Mr and Mrs Squire left yesterday to join the Eangitiki, en route to England. Mrs Newton, of Ashburton, is a visitor to Dunedin. Mrs A. D. Macartney has returned from a visit to the North Island. Miss Joyce Haggitt. is visiting Mr and Mrs Brian Haggitt, Wanganui. Miss Mary Wacher left to-day for Auckland, en route to England. Miss Constance Williams left yesterday for Wellington, where she will sail by the Eangitiki for England. Mrs H. S. Fenwick is a passenger by the Eangitiki, which leaves Wellington on Tuesday for England via Panama. Mrs Norman Pavitt, of Nelson, with her small daughter, is the guest of Afrs N. Manhire, Cargill street. Mrs Colin Anderson, of Invercargill, is the guest of her mother, Mrs F. E. Shrimpton, St. Clair. Mrs R. M. Passmore, St. Clair, is spending a short holiday in Christchurch. Mr and Mrs G. B. Niven left by Tuesday morning’s express on a holiday visit to the North Island. Miss Sise is visiting her sister, Mrs Charles Reid, Mcrivale Lane, Christchurch. Lady Brucho and her sister-in-law, Miss Olive Brucho, visitors from Australia, are at present touring the Southern Lakes. Mr and Mrs A. D. Macartney will leave about Easter to take up their residence in Napier. Mrs M. Tobias, who has been the guest of Mrs Richard Hudson, Royal Terrace, left this morning on her return to Sydney. Mrs N. Studholme and Miss Studholme, of Waimate, are the guests of Mrs G. R. Ritchie, Heriot Row. Mrs F. Matthews, George street, is spending short holiday with Mrs George Naylor, of Spennymoor, Omakau. Mr and Mrs J. Brown left yesterday to join the Eangitiki at Wellington, en route to Bondon. Mrs A. J. Hastie, of Hawke’s Bay, accompanied her parents to Wellington. The engagement is announced of Howard Alexander, youngest son of Mr and Mrs J. B. Brugh, St. Clair, and Anita May, younger daughter of the late Air T. G. Smith and Airs Smith, of North-east A r alley.

The engagement is announced of Langford Daniel, second son of Air and Airs D. S. Smith, Dunedin, to Mavis Lucy, eldest daughter of Air and Mrs W. E. Aladigan, Dunedin. Air and Airs Sconlar, Matakanui Station, accompanied by their daughter, Airs E. K. Halstead, and by‘Mrs V. S. Jacobs, left to-day by car for the West Coast. On Wednesday next, at Newhaven, near London, the marriage will take place of Dr Denny Brown, a graduate of Otago University, to Miss Sylvia Summer-Hayes, of London. On Tuesday evening Airs C. Wren was hostess at a dinner party given at her homo in High street to farewell Airs Forbes Williams, who is leaving for England shortly. The first meeting of the Psychology Circle of the Otago Women's Club was held on Wednesday afternoon. The chairwoman (Miss Alercer) presided; There was a large attendance of members, the subject of study for the day being ‘ Law of Agreement.’ Aliss Alercer read a most interesting paper

on this subject, and there were several short readings by those present.

Airs Earle Johnson and Aliss Rosemary Johnson will leave early next month to take up their residence in Nelson, Captain Johnson having been transferred there.

The engagement is announced of Jean, third daughter of Air and Mrs W. Logan, North-east Valley, to Waiau, eldest son of Air and Mrs AV. Taylor, Alornington.

Airs AV. Sinclair (J.P.) and her daughter, Joan, of The Aloorings, Vaucleuse, Sydney, are at present staying with Airs Robert Brown, 9 Beaumont road.

The Craigleith branch of the Home Economics Association held its first meeting after the recess on Tuesday, at the home of the president, Airs AVeir. There was a good attendance. The president welcomed old and new members and wished the branch a very successful year. The syllabus for the ensuing year was drawn up, and should prove a most interesting and helpful one to all members. A vote of thanks was accorded Airs AA’oir for the use of her home.

The cast of The Young Idea,’ to be presented by the_ Dunedin Repertory Society next week in His Alajesty’s Theatre includes Aliss Penny Alarshall (Mrs L. F. AV. Hill), who last appeared for the society in the role of Margaret, the dream child in ‘ Dear ißrutus.’ Her acting in this Barrie play is still remembered by playgoers as one of the outstanding individual successes of the many excellent performances given in the repertory plays during the last four years. Miss Alarshall conies back to the society as youthful and charming as ever, and. as Gerda, the young girl in ‘The Young Idea,’ is said. to give a delightful portrayal of irrepressible modern youth. Noel Coward’s witty dialogue should be excellently handled by Aliss Alarshall and the other clever members of the cast.

On Monday evening last tli© Playreading and Musical Circles of St. Philomena’s College Ex-pupils’ 'Association held their opening evening in the college Hall. The president (Mrs P. Walsh) presided, and extended a cordial welcome to the large attendance of members present. The Plavreading Circle presented ‘March Wedding" (Muriel and Sydney llox). which was acted in costume hy the 'following:— Mi*s:es Anne Price; B. Curran,” A. O’Connell, P. Scanlan, G. Toomey. M. Donnelly, and T. Monaghan. Gilbert and Sullivan were the composers taken hy the Musical Circle, a reading on

their lives and works being given by Miss M. Al‘Mahon. A pianoforte solo, ‘ The Pirates of Penzance ’ by Aliss A. O’Connell, vocal solos by Aliss J. Al'Bride, and choruses from ‘ The Gondoliers,’ the ‘ Yeoman of the Guard’ and ‘The Alikado,’ by memmers of the Alusical Circle concluded a very enjoyable evening. Accompanist for tho evening was Aliss I. Tylee. Recent Dunedin visitors to New Zealand House, London, were Air and Mrs C. J. Inder, Alisses S. E. and M. Watkins, Air and Airs H. H. Ferguson, Air C. F. Alitchell, Air Eric G. Bullough, Aliss Elizabeth C. G. AVilsou, Airs Edgar Cone (nee Stevenson), Air and Airs AV. G. AVallis, Air Alaurice Joel, Air R. A. Loraine. A very pleasant evening was spent in the St. John Ambulance rooms on Wednesday evening in honour of Aliss Jessie Douglas, who is to be an Easter bride. Tho evening was spent in games and competitions. Aliss Douglas was the recipient of many useful gifts for her new home, and was wished the best of luck, health, and happiness in her married life.

Miss Wilkie, who was recently appointed principal of the Christchurch Free Kindergartens, was welcomed at a morning tea party arranged in her honour and held at the new kindergarten building at North Limvood. Miss Wilkie spoke of her experience of kindergarten work in other countries. The Ravensbourne branch of the League of Mothers held its opening meeting for 1937 on Thursday afternoon in the Masonic Hall, Mrs Cairney presiding over a good attendance. The meeting opened with the league hymn and prayer, after which the president extended a welcome to all members, new and old. Mrs Hogg, of Opoho, addressed the meeting on mission life in Bolivia, where she had spent five years. The address was most inspiring and descriptive, and made one realise the great work the missionaries are doing in foreign fields. Mrs Cairney moved a vote of thanks to the speaker. Afternoon tea was dispensed, and the meeting closed with the pronouncing of the Benediction. Miss Aleen Isabel Gust, M.R.C.V.S., the first woman veterinary surgeon, has just died at Kingston, Jamaica, where she had gone to escape tho English winter. The pioneer women doctors, it has been said, fought an uphill fight, but they had the consolation of companionship, for they were comparatively numerous; but the pioneer woman veterinary surgeon entered the lists unaided and alone, and it was not until the Sex Disqualification (Removal) .Act was passed that the veterinary profession in Britain opened its doors to female graduates. It was her war service and her connection with the Royal Army Veterinary Corps which enabled the Council of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons to consider favourably, at long last, Miss Gust’s application, as a special case, to sit for the “ practical ” examination only, in which she obtained the marks, with the result that the first diploma was gained by a, woman graduate on December 20, 1922. Since then over 00 women have qualified, and tho number of women students admitted has had to be limited to 50. The Opoho branch of the League of Mothers held its opening meeting on Tuesday, the attendance being affected by the boisterous weather. Mrs Every presided, and after opening the meeting. extended a warm welcome to Mrs G. W. Thomson, first president of the branch, who has just returned from an extended visit abroad. Rev. H. Hogg was the speaker for the afternoon, and his inspiring address was listened to with interest by those present. Taking for bis subject, ‘ The Home,’ he said that no amount of money could buy a

home, but that it was one of the great privileges given to a mother—tho forming of a home. What a catastrophe it would be if home life as w© have known it was to vanish! Mrs Every expressed the thanks of the meeting to Mr Hogg for his very helpful address. During the afternoon items by the branch choir were greatly enjoyed by all present. Mrs R. H. Evatt, who leaves next Saturday to take up residence in Invercargill, has been the guest of honour at many farewell parties. Among her hostesses have been Mesdames Donald Reid, T. G. Secular. E. S. Solomon, and Miss Isobel Reid. This evening Mrs Guy Tapley is giving a small dinner party as a farewell to Mr and Mrs Evatt. This morning in the Somerset Lounge, Mrs Evatt gave a farewell tea party, when the guests included Mesdames Ralph Sleigh, E. S. Solomon, Winston Brinsley, Philip Braham, O. T. Harris, Guy Tapley, Stewart Macpherson, Donald Reid, D. Smeaton, G. R. Dickinson, J. R. Laidlaw, and the Misses Dorothy, Scoular, Isobel Reid, and Joan Hazlewood.

The president and the committee of St. Hilda’s Old Girls’ Association gave a morning tea party to-day in the Otago Women’s Club in honour of the senior girls who left school last year. The party was also a farewell to Miss Lorraine Dawson and Miss Billie Mitchell, who leave shortly for England. In wishing them “ bon voyage,” the president (Mrs A. A. Fairbairn) took the opportunity of presenting them, on behalf of the committee with handbags for use on the voyage. Those present were Mesdames A. A. Fairbairn, A. C. Stephens. F. L. Buttle, Maurice James, and tlie Misses Lorraine Dawson, Billie Mitchell, Stella Fitchett. Margaret Cotton, W. Mondy, E. Blyth, Audrey Meek, Chris Hudson. Barbara Dodgshun, Joan Fitchett, Doreen Pike, and Suzanne Oakden (Gore). A Highland Welcome. Members of. the Otago Women’s Club arranged a unique welcome yesterday afternoon, when they entertained Miss Celia Macdonald, of the Isles, at the club rooms. As the guest of honour entered the lounge, escorted by members of the executive, she was preceded by a piper playing ‘ Tho Road to the Isles,’ a true Highland welcome and one that made a deep appeal to the Scottish guest. She was also presented with a charming posy, tied with her own clan tartan. Lady Hutchison apologised for the absence of the president, and on her behalf and for the members generally welcomed the guest from overseas. She also expressed the gratitude of parents in Dunedin whose sons and daughters had been so hospitably entertained by Lady Frances Ryder and her associates, of whom Miss Macdonald is one. Miss Macdonald made a most gracious little speech in reply expressing her pleasure at being able to offer hospitality to overseas students. She mentioned the case of one host and hostess who had come to personally thank her for bringing such an absorbing new interest into their lives, saying that the students sent to their home from time to time had brought them in contact with the outposts of the Empire in a way that nothing else could have done. ' Mrs Sutherland Ross, in thanking iss Macdonald for her wonderful friendship and sympathy to the young people, asked her to convey the thanks of all present to Lady Francos Ryder on her return to England. Tea was served in the dining room, and members had the pleasure of meeting and chatting with t Miss Macdonald.