SOCIAL & GENERAL

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume I, Issue 147, 7 June 1911, Page 11

SOCIAL & GENERAL

Napier, June 6.

Assembly Dance. The second of Miss Thornton's little assembly dances was held in the Terrace Schoolroom on Tuesday evening, and was a great success. The rooms were prettily decorated with cosmias and autumn foliage. Amongst those present? were: —Miss Thornton, Mrs. Skerman, Miss Aplin, Miss Miss Maclean, Miss Edith Maclean, Miss S. Rutherfurd, Miss Pasley,. Miss Clark, Miss Hansard, Miss S. Dinwiddie, Messrs. Maclean, Gardner, Dinwiddie, Ruddock, Harker,. Callendar, Pasley. Napier High School Old Boys* Dance.

Invitations were issued for thia dance for June 14th, but owing to* the Hospital Ball being held on the* 15th, and the visit of the Lincoln College Football Club on the 10th, the committee have decided to hold their dance on June 9th. Girls’ Friendly Society in Auckland A crowded meeting in aid of the G.F.S. was held in the ballroom at Government House. An address was given by Lady Islington, who candidly confessed at the outset that she was about to make an appeal for money. The G.F.S., Lady Islington continued, w r as an absolute necessity, and did a very real and good work. It held together the young women of the Dominion, and provided a home for girls who came strange and bewildered from the Old Country. She thought i# wonderful that the G.F.S. home should be kept going on the doubtful receipt of £7OO per year. She called that the “Raven System.” “But -suppose one day the raven did not come or had not enough in his beak? Am I going too far and asking a bridge to the moon?” asked her Excellency, “when I say that I should like not only £l6OO ayear to be guaranteed for this home, but that I should like a campaign to be organised that would beg and tease until enough money was procured to provide a home built for the G.F.S., for its use, with a sitting-room and so on. It would be and be a boon. These girls influence other girls, they take thei» influence into their work, into their own homes when they marry, and they are more likely to ba. good wives and mothers.” So by every argument the provision of money for the G.F.S. is a debt of honour to every New Zealander. As the gathering dispersed, Lady Islington stood at the door with, the Hon. Joan Poynder, and personally received’ contributions towards the funds. A sum of £l6s 6/6 was collected. Personal.

Miss Jamison, Glenross, left yesterday for England, via America.

Mrs. and Miss Hunter Brown are visiting Napier. The Bishop of Waiapu and Mrs. Averill have gone to Wellington for the consecration of the new Bishop of Wellington. Bishop Williams and Miss Williams have been spending a few days in Napier on their way to Wellington also. They intended re-, turning to Gisborne after the consecration.

Mrs. Roberts, who has been visiting her daughter, Mrs. Barron, returned to Dunedin last week. Miss Fell has returned from Olrig. Fashions from “ Punch.”

“As a result of new fashions, an., appreciable decrease in the sale of petticoats is, we are told, making* itself felt in the drapery world. Those who were responsible some’ little time since for changing the name of Petticoat Lane to Middlesex Street were evidently possess* ed of no little prophetic instinct. “ It is rumoured that some of the suffragettes intend to take to harem skirts so as to have the power of bargaining. They will then offer to give us back our trousers if we will give them the vote.”