WOMAN'S WORLD.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18678, 7 April 1924, Page 14

WOMAN'S WORLD.

I SOCIAL NEWS.

Mr. and Mrs. Henry Gilfillan we on » ISBsit to ChristcSiurch. Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Couper, of Hawke's Jay, are visiting Auckland. * Mrs. Ewen Alison returned on Saturday from a short visit to Rotorua. Mm, Owen Mahon has returned to [Auckland after a visit to Wellington. Mr*. W. A. Home is returning to {Aacklund shortly by the R.M.S. Makura. Mrs. W. Alexander and Miss P. Alexander are on a short, visit to New Plyynouth. Mr. and Mrs. Hoy Towle, Remuera, left on Friday by the Marama on a visit lo Melbourne and Sydney. Mr. and Mrs. G. R. Bloomfield and Miss P. Bloomfield returned to town from the Waikato on Saturday. Mr. and Mrs. A. Johns have taken up their residence at Cargen, after an absence of 12 mouths spent abroad. The engagement is announced of Terence, eldest son of Mr. and the late Mrs. Ted Connolly, of Onehunga, to Clara Rose, eldest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. G. Biack, of Rotorua. A luncheon talk on the " Welfare of Animals," will be given at the Lyceum Club on Thursday. On Friday an open literary evening is to be held, when Mr. A. Stuart Boyd will speak on '"Literary People I Have Met." A pleasing function took place at the Mangapiko School, when Miss H. A. Harper, who is leaving, was presented by the pupils with a handsome manicure set and trinkets. On Tuesday evening the residents made Miss Harper the recipient of a leather suitcase, travelling rug, and hand mirror as a mark of esteem. Miss M. • Lawn, who has been associated with the Thames Valley Electric Power Board practically from the time of its inception, has resigned in view of her approaching marriage. At the last meeting of the board the chairman, Mr. F. TT CI ton, and the ex-chairman, Mi-. F. M. Strange, both bore the testimony to the efficiency and the whole-hearted-mess of the service rendered by Miss Lawn. The board placed on record its appreciation of her work. Later in the week, Miss Lawn was the recipient of a handsome present from the office staff.

The Duchess of York attended, as president of t'he women's section of the British Empire Exhibition, her first general meeting at the Board of Trade, states an exchange. Princess Arthur of Connaught, Princess Helena Victoria, Princess Hade Louis;;, and Lady Patricia Ramsay were also present. Offers of hospitality to overseas visitors were reaching the offices of the section every day, it was stated. 1 Receptions and luncheon parties will be given to overseas guests by many well-known society women. Many clubs have written stating that they will welcome overseas visitors during the exhibition j' months. The arrangements for [Women's Week were discussed. There will* be a week of conferences and receptions of special interest to Women held in July. Each of the Dominions will have a special day for its own visitors.

■T. In a forest of young trees at Wembley old-fashioned craftsmen, to whom modern building methods are a mystery, are erecting a boose that will withstand the lavages of 600 years (states & London exchange). This half-timbered 15th century homestead is one of the hundreds of buildings which,. although dwarfed by (the scores of huge buildings of the British l&npire Exhibition, are exhibitions on fffear own. In it wad around it will be specimens of ever* rag that can be made from British-grown woods. The men employed have devoted their lives to work on old mansions, guild-halls, and copies of ancient . homes to the order of American millionaires and others. Instead of nails they use octagonal pins made of intensely bard oak. The oak beams weigh one ton each and are so wonderfully fashioned that one can easily cut a finger on any part of any edge, while the tiles have been carefully saved from old buildings " that have disappeared 'at the demand, of modern progress. "