SOCIAL NEWS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20219, 2 April 1929, Page 5

SOCIAL NEWS.

Mrs. Harden, of Auckland, is visiting Wellington. Sirs. J. Francis, of Remuera, is visiting her parents in Christ church. Miss F. Penny, of Wellington, is visiting Auckland and is staying at Hotel Cargen. Miss G. Stevenson, of Napier, is visiting Auckland and is staying at the Hotel Stonehurst. Mrs. E. C- Barnard, of Napier, is a visitor to Auckland and is staying at the Hotel Stonehurst. Mrs. Arthur Fleming, of Otorohanga, is visiting Auckland and is (he guest of Mrs. O'Halloran, of Takapuna. Mrs. Andrew Fairbairn and her daughter, of Christchurch, who have been visiting the United Kingdom and Europe, returned by the Port Napier. Mrs. C. Z. Clayton and Miss Clayton, of Ellerslie, who have been on a visit to the United Kingdom and Europe, arrived from London by the Port Napier.

Serbia had a close practical link with Britain during the war in Flora Sandes (siste> of a well-known Australian journalist), who went out from London as a Red Cross nurse, and gradually "drifted"—to use nei own words—into the Serbian Army, where she served from 1916 to 1919. Woman soldiers wore not uncommon in the Balkans, but the troops were greatly delighted with "Nashi Engleskinja"—"our Englishwoman." She fought w'th great courago, and. after being severely wounded was decorated by Prince (now King) Alexander with the Kara George Star, the most coveted distinction in tho army. Later she rose to bo a vodnik, or lieutenant, and was finally gazetted captain two years ago.