WOMAN'S WORLD.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 18080, 3 May 1922, Page 12

WOMAN'S WORLD.

SOCIAL NEWS. Justice and Mrs. Stringer have taken » flat at Courtvillo. ! Mr and Mr*. F. .1. R&yner are at ; present on a visit to Rotoro*. Mrs. T. F. Handyside has taken a house in Victoria Avenue, R«muera. Mr and Mrs. IT. Booth are now residing in Market Road, Rcraucra. Mrs. R. Burns and Miss Ilorton left for Marton by the express last evening. Mrs. H. S. Wright has returned to Auckland after a visit to Christchureh. Mrs. Keith Robinson is on a visit to Christchureh and is staying with Mrs. LHansen. Mrs. Wilfred Rathbono is visiting her daughter, Mrs. Cuthbert l-'reyberg, in Wauganui. Mrs, Farmer, of Marlborough, is at present the guest of Mrs. W. Brown, Upland (Road. Mr. and Miss Hutehiugß. of Stanly Bay, have left Auckland to take up their residence in Wliangarei. Mrs. Vernon Reed from the Bay of Islands is in town, and is staying with Miss Paywn, Remuera. Mrs. T. F. Upfill has returned from a •visit to Napier, where she was the guest of her sister, Mrs. Gould. Miss R. Hawken, who has been the guest of Miss Muriel Kingswell, Golf Road, has returned to Hawera.. Miss V. Munro Wilson accompanied Mr. and Mrs. Sinclair on their return to Sydney by the Manuka on Thursday. Mr. and Mrs. R. Patterson, of Wellington, have taken up their residence in Auckland and are living at Stanley Bay. Mrs. Oldham, who has-been the guest of Mrs. H. G. Towsley, Parnell, has returned to Dunedin. Mr. and Mrs. H. 0. Nolan will shortly reside in Manurewa, where they have taken Mr. David Nathan's house. Sir William Ha'l-Joncs is in Auckland on a visit to his daughter, Mrs. W. Brown, of Upland Road. _ Baroness Furnival, who has spent some time visiting in Canterbury, has returned to Auckland and is staving at the Grand Hotel. Sir E. Mitcholson and Lady Mitch e'son leave for Sydney by the Makura at the end of the week. Mrs. Roy Wilson will iccompany them. Mr. and Mrs. David L. Nathan and family intend spending a year in England and on the Continent and hope to sail by the lonic in June. Commander Walsh, of H.M-S-Philomel, and Mrs. Walsh, are sailing by ... the Makura for Sydney, where they intend .to spend & few weeks. The Hon. Lucy Jellicoe will accompany Major and Mrs. H. Cayzer on their return to England at the end of this month, and will bo absent from the Dominion for about a year. Canon and Mrs. J. Galwey, of Christchurch, are the guests of Mrs. W. H. L. Galwey, St. George's Bay Road. Mr. and Mrs. Galwey are leaving on Friday by. the Makura on a trip to Sydney. On Monday night the National. Reserve Nursin? Division of the St. John Ambulance Brigade held an "emergency night," at which there was a good attendance of members. Bandaging, the reading of clinical thermometers, and the taking of pulses were all practised under the supervision pf the lady superintendent, Mrs. Cannell. •• Dr. Elizabeth Srnd's. whose retirement ■was recently advised from the Education Department, was farewelled by the Hawlce's Bay Education Board. The chairman, Mr. G. F. Roach, said the board ■ • recoenised the excellent work done by the •.. department in providing medical examination of school children. The position of ' i medical inspector in Hawke's Bay had ■; been aVy filled bv Dr. Sands. Ho assured her of the board's regret that she was "leaving, and expressed to her their good 1 ■wishes., _:£ The New York . League of Women's Voters is determined that its . members shall not lack education in matters of citizenship. They issue a series of pamphlets easy to read and understand, which form part of a correspondence course; \ also a weekly summary " without editorial comment, of the action taken during the week in Congress,, the State' Legislature and city governing boards," which should do much to enlizhten the elector- } ate on the behaviour of the elected. Leave to introduce a private Bill to ! extend the suffrage on equal terms to women as to men was carried by a sweeping majority in the English House of V Commons recently. At the present time women have to be 30 years of age before thev cs,n exercise the Parliamentary vote, ■ and if this Bill is carried it wi l ! mean they ca'.i vote at the age of 21 years. Lord Robert Cecil, in moving for leave to introduce the Bill, submitted that none of the evil results originally predicted had happened in practice. On the contrary, •. the experiment had been entirely successful. The old doctrine of " the monstrous regiment of women" had been relegated to homes of progress represented by the ,'. '-city of London and the Scottish universities. ..' Now that the Committee of Privileges at the House of Lords has decided in favour of Lady Rhondda's daim to take • her seat as a peeress in her own right, all other English peeresses in their own right may take their seats without further legal proceedings. There is one stage more, however, before Lady F'hondda Can take her seat, and that is that the House of Lords itself, which is the sole final ." judge in such matters, shall accept the decision of the Committee of Privileges. -.It is, however, inconceivable - that _' the ■ House of Lords should reject the decision, since it is a decision merely interpreting a statute which is now a law of the 'and. There are nearly a score of Enirlisn •peeresses in their own right. As to, Scottish and Irish peeresses, the case is only different as the position ■of Scotch and Irish peers is different. It equally follows from the judgment, when confirmed by the House of Lords, that Scotch and Irish peeresses may take part in the election of • representative peers. ENGAGEMENTS. The engagement is announced of Misa Ilia Jones, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. Ormsby -Jones. Auckland, to Mr. J. O'Halloran, Glentui Station, Oxford, North Canterbury. The engagement is announced of Amy Isabel, elder daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Hill, 0 f Epsom, to Arthur Vere, second son of the late Mr. H. P. Barry, of Cambridge. The engagement is announced of Miss Mary Stcncker. only daughter of Mr. and Mrs Wm. Stencker, of Mount Eden, Auckland, to Mr S. T. Webster, second son of the late Mr. A. P. Webster and -Mrs. Webster, 0 Kelburn, Wellington. The engagement is announced of Mi«* Mma Cardon, youngest daughter of '.Mr and Mrs. H. Madinson Cardon, 0 Parnell Auckand, to Mr. R. Roland Mo . Crystal, eldest son of the late Mr. and Mis, R. McCrystal, of Epsom, Auckland Great "Silk Sale" now on at the J.CL., Queen Street, Startling reductions in .blouses aDd fabrics. See window display* wo