SOCIAL NEWS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18664, 21 March 1924, Page 14

SOCIAL NEWS.

till. ...:■-. : —r-* ' — ■ —-~ .■: Mrs. Clewdon, Thames, is at present visiting her daughter, Mrs. Joyce, Bemuera.

- Miss May Hurley, who left; for England ,by the Niagara, will be in London for about a year.

■Miss Edith Aickin, who has been visiting relatives in Auckland, left for Australia last week.

Mr. and Mrs. Tatley, of Bemuera, left bv the Niagara on Tuesday for England, where they intend to stay for about nine 2nonths.

Mrs. Taylor and Miss Helen Taylor, of Bardowie. Cambridge, are the guests of Mrs. F. Mackey, Dromorne Road. Bemuera.

Mr. and Mrs. Byrne, of Melbourne, accompanied by Miss Byrne, , are at present visiting Auckland, having just completed a tour of New Zealand.

The engagement is announced of Miss Nora Evelyn Lynch, only daughter of Mrs. Lvnch and the late William Lynch, of Auckland, to Vincent, fourth son of Mrs. O'Riordan and the late Michael O'Riordan, of Killarney, Randwick, Sydney, New South Wales.

It will be remembered that the late Earl of Carnarvon,, while conducting the excavations at Luxor, died with tragic suddenness early last year. His widow was married in December to Colonel lan Onslow Dennistoun. The wedding was very quiet, the pair being married at the Register Office. Hanover tkiuarc, London.

The fourth annual meeting of the Mayoress* War Memorial Library Committee will be held in the Council Committee's room on Friday, March 28. at 11 a.m. As the meeting, is being held early in the year to meet the. wishes of members, it is hoped that there will be a full attendance of all those interacted in the work

? .\ There recently arrived at the German port of Eraden from Petrograd a Soviet steamer whose fourth officer is a woman. ' The Germans, sceptical of the ladys qualifications, subjected her to a. technical , examination. from which she Emerged . triumphant. She is entitled, they decided, to .'■ her certificate of sea■WomanshiD.

" .That "the female of the species is Snore -deadly than the male." is well exemplified in the toll which is being taken of the trout in Taupo by fair disciples Of Izaak Walton. Fish up to 17.11b. are being secured'by- the fair sex, one of this weight having been taken by a Sydney Tisit6r. Miss M. Street, during the week, at the mouth of the Tauranga-Taupo. Many other fine specimens up to 171b. have- also been caught at this spot.

>-" That women of Culture and ability can make a success of - farming is shown by .Mrs .C. M. Threlkeld. - the successful . author of several' novels,, published under her maiden name of C. M. Matheson. * She , has been , appointed chief- herdswoman on the Prince of Wales' farm in Cornwall -She has a farm-school in an historic mansion near Watford. Here the farm girls having finished their day's work dine in artistic' evening frocks in a dining room hung with portraits of the Earls of Clarendon and their rfamilies. ,- -

• Mr. Ramsay Mac Donald, is a believer ? 2jn the employment of women, as he has ; .shown practically by employing a woman election agent* and 4 a 'woman secreitary; AThe* latter is- Miss Rosa **TJbsenßerg, and she is a great a friend of "Mr. * Mac Donald's eldest daughter, Miss -Ishbel .Mac Donald. The somewhat unfamiliar ' name lshbel, it may be remarked, is a variant of Elizabeth, and is " said to ■. be common in some pails of Scotland." - Lloyd! >■■'■ George, when likewise employed a lady seeretary ', . Miss Stevenson, who accom;*;lpanted him to most of the important . "European conference. ir -*!i From, Montreal. comes - the news that a -stir has been caused throughout the "province of, Quebec' by-a decree issued by Cardinal Begin, Archbishop of Quebec, the Roman Catholic Primate of Canada, placing dances, including the waltz, the V- fox-trot, and the on&step, under the ban * of the Church. The "decree threatens to ".ban theatres and cinemas 'unless they ; are improved morally, and it also-strongly ..'- condemns the present fashionable attire for women, -which it characterises as im- .' "modest. Describing' the modern woman's 'attijie as. " another form of revived pag- » -anism," the Cardinal declares: "The higher the rank held by a woman, the -'more, 'strict is >her duty not to allow : women" who; visit her to offend her . modesty."