SOCIAL NEWS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18895, 18 December 1924, Page 16

SOCIAL NEWS.

Mr. and Airs. Bridson have taken a flat at Courtviile.

Mrs. Lewin, of Takapuna, ha:> gono to Pwotorua for a holiday visit.

Mrs. MacCulloch, of Victoria Avenue, Remuera, has gone for a trip to Sydney.

Mrs. Guy Ghapman, of Remuera, has been visiting her mother ao Christchurch,

Mr. and Mrs. Watson Airey aro at present spending a holiday at Waiwera House, Itotoiua.

Miss Fanny Middleton, Mount Pleasant, Ghristchurch, has left on a two months' visit to Auckland.

Mr. Justice Herdmau and ?Jrs. Herdman have left on a visit to before going to Rotorua for Christmas.

Mr. and Mrs. Merritt are among the guests at Mon Desir. Mrs. Merritt. leaves for England on January 10.

Mrs. G. G. Macindoe, of Remuera, has left for Hastings to accompany her young daughters back from Woodford House.

Mrs. C. E. Thomas, wife of Commander Thomas, of H.M.S. Chatham, and Master D. Thomas, have returned from England, arriving in Wellington by tho Ruahine on Saturday.

The engagement is announced of IMisn Alice E. F. Martin, eldest daughter o:' Mr. and.Mrs. Allan Martin, Fern Glei.-n Whenuakuru, Taranaki, to Mr. Cyril 1. W. Goodreds, only son of Mr. and Mrs. N. Stanton Goodreds, of Wellington, latt of Auckland.

■ What love . gift, will Mr. MacDcnald leave' behind, at 10, Downing Street':' asks a , London correspondent. It has been the custom for departing Premiers in England to add some little souvenir of their term of residence to tho collection at No. 10—usually a piece of furniture or a, picture. The African antlers which decorate the vestibule, for instance, were Mr. Asquith's parting gift..

Several royal residences in London will soon bo shut up for the winter, says an English exchange. Lady Patricia Ramsay is now in sole possession. of -Clarence House, and she is leaving there shortly for the West Indies. Princess Mary and Viscount Lascellcs. do not expect to be at Chesterfield House again, more.than for an occasional few days, until about Whitsuntide; while Princess Beatrice's suite of apartments in Kensington Palace will be vacant when slio departs for South Africa. -White Lodge also will remain closed after the Duke and Duchess of York leave for British East Africa.

Tho Queen is taking a warm interest in the work of Miss Daphne Allen, a young English artist, whose drawings of mystical subjecis, clone when she was a child, caused a considerable sensation in art circles some years ago. Miss Allen has been holding an exhibition of her recent work in St. Paul's Deanery, by permission of her friends, the Dean and Mrs. Inge, and her pictures of child angels, elves, and medieval ladies light up its sombre walls. Four drawings have' b'een bought by the Queen, all of them dealing with mystical and medieval subjects. Miss Allen no longer confines herself to the work in which she originally made her name. She is displaying some charming Welsh landscapes, which show a feeling for colour and a breadth of conception which her inspirational and decorative studies do not allow. The artist has found inspiration in such poems as " The Eve of St, Agnes," and Cornish legends. However., it appears from her landscapes that her future development will lie along more conventional lines.

The London Y.W.C.A. two-days' ba.zaar, which was' held recently at the Central Hall, Westminster, was opened by Ks.therine, Duchess of Westminster, in the absence of the Duchess of Atholi, M.P. It is intended to devote £1000 of the proceeds to the London work of the Y.W.C.A., especially that among the poor, and beyond that the proceeds are to go to the forward movement and provision of a good centre, of which Lady Selby-Bigge is chairman. Lady Allen had'charge of the New Zealand stall, which was well supplied with artistic and attractive needlework and fancy work, all made at her weekly working bee by her committee of New Zealand ladies. New Zealand honey arul jam were also offered for sale. Among "those seen helping at this stall were Lady Liverpool, Lady Myers, Airs. Egerton-Reid, Mrs. F. M. B.' Fisher, Mr. H. L. Friend, Mrs. B. Myers and Miss Stella Murray. Queen Mary sent some gifts to the bazaar, including a linen tray cloth with a beautiful fine crochet border of considerable depth. This was sold at the New Zealand stall very soon after being displayed.

A Thrift Club does no spectacular work —the weekly payment of anything from sixpenco to" ten shillings to a collector and the entering of the said amount 06 a card appears quite an insignificant thing. But when the Y.W.C.A. Thrilt_ Club's paving-out night comes in the middle of December and the depositor can draw her full amount, together with the usual bank interest, and so have money for Christmas or holidays, then the full value of a thrift club is realised. This year there were over 300 members of the club and the total amount of money drawn on December 12 was £12,457. Tho club is appreciated particularly by the industrial girls, who cannot get to a bank in banking hours and who, moreover, would not think it worth while to go with just a shilling or two. Voluntary collector go every week to tho various factories and the girls pay their money to them and receive as receipt tho amount entered 011 their thrift card. The collectors leave their money in the Y.W.C.A, office whence it is paid in weekly to the Auckland Savings Bank. There is unlimited scope for'this club in the city, as most girls would welcome the chance to savo money, but the services of more collectors alO required