SOCIAL NEWS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19417, 27 August 1926, Page 7

SOCIAL NEWS.

Miss Eileen Parkes has returned from a visit to Wellington. Miss Boylan, of Remuera, is the guest of Miss, Beadle, Dunedin. Mrs. G. Morris is leaving at the weekend on a visit to Helensville. Mrs. A. R. Ryder, of Auckland, is the guest of Mrs. J. R. Cruickshank, New Plymouth. Mrs. A. M. Allen and Miss Allen, who have been staying at tho Grand Hotel have returned to Morrinsville. Mrs. Vernon Reed, Bay of Islands, Miss Harman Reeves, Dunedin, Miss Wyn Williams, Christchurch, and Miss Connell, England, are among the visitors staying at tho Grand Hotel. Mrs. E. M. New, of Heme Bay, accompanied by her son, Mr. Leo W. New, is leaving by the Niagara on Tuesday next for Vancouver en route for Southern California, where they intend to reside. Archbishop Averill and Mrs. Averill will leave Auckland on ,*>>nday evening on a visit to Napier to ll \e wedding of their son. Mr. Selwvn Averi:! and Miss M. Lusk. Miss Averill will leave on Sunday evening. News from Nelson outlines a scheme to promote a Women's Club, and 'tho quick response from "tho community and numerous inquiries from tho country are said to show tho need of such an institution. These clubs are proving a boon to women, not so much from the social point of view as for tho convenience they afford, particularly to the women from the country. v Among the Auckland visitors recently staying at the Hermitage, Mount Cook were Commander and Mrs. Peters, Professor and Mrs. R. M. Algie, Mrs, 11. Napier and the Misses Napier, Hallidav, Wilson, Bray, Foley (2), Biss, R. I). Heather, Braithwaite, Reid. Johnston, JCddowes and Ewen, Messrs. Grigg, Colliding, Coles, A. R. Hellabv and I>. H. Eggleston. Another woman who has invaded man s domain successfully is Mrs. Hammer, an Englishwoman. She is the pioneer of women in the electrical profession, and has just been elected vice-chairman of the Electricity Committee of Hackney Borough Council. Strangely enough she took iip this work after her marriage, for she was trained as a teacher. Three years ago at Scarborough she gave her first speech in front of hundreds of men engineers from all over the country, stressing the need for electricity in the home. Fashion has; altered iu the sphere of christening presents as in everything else, it seems, and the silver mug is no longer inevitable on such occasions. Princess Elizabeth- received a number of charming pieces of jewellery in commemoration of her baptism. Those from her royal grandmother included a dainty pendant set with pale sapphires, a brooch of pale pitilc enamel and pearls and a caso of gold safety pins of varying sizes, each set with n pearl-in the centre. Princess Mary gave her small niece a tiny bow brooch of diamond' and platinum, while the Duchess of York's father gave a lovely little cross of peai'ls and diamonds set in a most original way. After a fixed, dato all. Chinese women under 30 whose feet, are still bound will be taxed a sum equal to three dollars a month. This is an effort on the part of two Chinese militarists, not only to add to the country's revenue, but to abolish the vicious custom which has from time immemorial in China, in spite of many comparatively modern attempts to create feeling against it and so ill tinio do away with it. Legend lists it that the custom started in early times to prevent wnrnen from running away to seek ad-, ventures; It recently been estimated ' that there are still 70,000,000 pairs of deformed feet in China, and that in the coming generation there'will probably be more.