SOCIAL NEWS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20218, 1 April 1929, Page 5

SOCIAL NEWS.

Mrs. J. Sarsen, of Auckland, is visiting Wanganui. Mrs. K. V. Sutherland is spending Easter at Cambridge. Miss K. Treacy, of Taumarunui, is slaying at tho itotel Cargen. Mrs. C. L. Thomson has returned to Dannevirke from a, visit to Auckland. Miss Treacy, of Feilding. is visiting Auckland and is staying at the Hotel Cargen. Miss Winifred Wotton, of Wanganui, is visiting Auckland and is staying at Braeburn. The Misses P. and X. McDonald, of Wellington, are staving at the Grand Hotel. Miss C. Gerraghly, of Malamafa, late of London, and Miss J>. Egan aro visitors to Auckland. Miss 13. Morgan, of Wellington, is visiting Auckland and is staying at Takapuna. Mrs. M. Mathcwson, of Napier, who is visiting Auckland, is staying at tho Hotel Cargen. Mrs. S. Campbell, of Gisborno, is visiting Auckland and is staying at the Hotel Cargen. Miss P. Hodgson, of Wellington, is visiting Auckland and is staying at the Hotel Cargen. Mrs. Eric Stevens, of Nelson, is visiting Auckland and is staying at tho Grand Hotel. Mrs. Donald Broad, of Western Australia, is visiting Auckland and is staying at tho Grand Hotel. Miss 11.I 1 . Uiirlev, of Western .Australia, is visiting Auckland and is staying at tho Grand Hotel. The usual monthly meeting of tho Glen Afton and Pukemiro Women's Instituto was held in the Glen Afton Hall last week, with Mrs. Cairns, president, occupying the chair. The evening was a most enjoyablo ono. Mrs. Pears gave an instructive lectuio on homo-nursing", and a pon-painting demonstration was given bv Miss Wilcox. Supper was served by the hostesses, Mrs Learning and Mrs. Lawson. Tho first woman to bo granted a lifeboat certificate by tho British Board of Irado is Miss Blanche Tucker, chief cashier of the French restaurant on the White Star liner Majestic, wlio passed tho examinations recently with flying colours. Miss Tucker thought it her duty to undergo tho test, and, despite a certain amount of chaff from other feminine members of tho crew, she set about proving that certificates for lifeboat efficiency need not necessarily be confined to officers and male members of the crew. The examination Miss Tucker passed included a practical test in which she was placed in a lifeboat with a number of seamen and lowered to (lie water, 70ft. below. As soon as the boat was waterborne, sho had to take entire charge, disengago tho falls, so it could bo got away from tho ship's side, and then take her place with tho others at the heavy oars. Miss Tucker's early years in Devon, when she sailed a boat every day, gave her a knowledge of navigation which stood her in good stead in the tests, both written and practical. Miss Tucker alsc has tho distinction of being the only woman in England to have gone down tc a wreck in a diver's suit.