SOCIAL NEWS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20303, 10 July 1929, Page 17

SOCIAL NEWS.

Mrs. Cecil Trevitluck is Icaxing this vJek on » visi| l " America. Mis (I. (;■ >^<'itl<;iuin. ol Kclbui n, Well iuglou, has 1 lt iu'iii'il tiuiu ii visit to Am k kind. Mrs. M. AI -tt, of Sydney, 0 visiting _\in klaiitl ami is vt.:\ ill-- ,il I lie Grand J lot el. Miss "i l '' A w .'iinul u, I ins ],,(( with hi I I'alhcr 'lit .11! extended visit ),i Au^tial :.i• Mis. P.rvce ii.iS I ii a|>!mii ii I oit secretary jn ihi' Soeietv l".M' tlic IVoieclioii ''l W omen •1,1,1 Children Mis. ('■ Weeks, of ilockv ille, I'.S. A.. j, \i-iiiii" All. IJainl ami is .-laying al (he Cram! Hotel Mii. 11,."1 id Si 111 >ln • 1.1 let ill! n-» 1t" Maia jnata "Ii Sal 11 rt ay ilom a two months' i : .jl to Auckland. Mi s. 11l i'' Sal "1 I'-l '■ "i'i. A ii' 1.1.mi1, i, spending a I'.'W 11 a\ s Willi her sister, Mm. Allen M'Caiiu, <jl" Fencoiii!, Cam bridge". Mrs. I.eon \Y'ih"ii, "l Marlon, )■- >i-inl |ir ill. winter in Auckland ami i.s the guest oi Mrs. C. F. Ilootl, of Kipling Avenue, Lpsoin. Miss Tanner of Wellington. who lias l.i.fii on a us it to the Islands, retunieil t , Auckland by tiie Tol'tia ua Monday ti nll is staying a I Arundel Mi. ami Mis. A. I'-. Mo-sman ami fainilv. ol Otorohanga, at e visit ini; Auckl.iiid and are the guests ol' Mrs. L\. Moss.man, of Arney l!oad, IJuitueia. Miss Margaret teddy and Miss Laura 'Voddy, of t Hianpo, v. lio have been visiting their uncle and aunt, Mr, and Mrs. '.McGrath, of b'oyal Oak, have Ml, the former to visit. Taupiri mid the latter lo visit Tliamos, prior to their return home, Advice has been received 'hat Miss Ins ZMartiu, daughter of Mr. W. Lee Martin. MP., "f Matangi, has topped the list oi yew Zealand nurses who passed at the jirenl Stato examinations. Miss Martin i, a member of the staff of the Wellingjoti Hospital. Tlio appointment, of Miss Agnes MeJntyre to organise the Melbourne Hospital jilmonders marks a step toward the delinite adoption in Victoria of a system of hospital social service, which has been extensively adopted in Great Britain and Amorica, says an Australian paper.

A remarkable feat was performed by ■Mrs. I'.ruee in Paris when sin: drove a oar single-handed for 24 hours continuously. She crivoiL'd 2200 miles, averaging a speed of 90 miles an hour. This is an unprecedented feat for a woman and breaks two other reci'i'd-H created by men.

Miss 0. Evans, of Pargaville, is making her English headcpiartei s at .Scarborough, but she will travel as mucli as possible in England and Scotland, and later on she hopes to visit Franco Early in August she will leave for Bombay on jier way back to New Zealand, where slitexpects to arrive in November.

Australia lias pained a good sportsvoman in Mrs. Evans, wife of llcar-Ad-infiral Evans. Commandei' of the Royal Australian Navy, says an Australian paper. A Norwegian by birth, .she is said to be an expert swimmer, yachtswoman, and tennis player, while as a ski-er she ranked high among the women devotees of that sport in Norway.

Two enterprising New Zcalanders, Miss Skipper and -Miss Newman, took over a small banana farm :it Samsonvale. (Queensland, about a year ago and are making a success of their ten-acre holding. Labour is engaged only for work beyond their strength and they do their own chipping, working in male attire to ensure freedom of movement.

The National Federation of Women's Institutes, which held its annual meeting in London this month, was attended by 2700 delegates, some of whon had never been to London before. Included among them were tho wives and daughters of village blacksmiths, local squires, fanners, farm labourers, butchers and bakers, doctors and ploughmen, dentists and mill workers.

International questions nowadays engage the attention of Dame Edith Lyttelton, the British substitute delegate to the League of Nations Assembly. She is one of (he best-l'nown women in England, having been for many years in the forefront of women's affairs there, ller interests are wide ai d varied, as she is both an author and a playwright, among her works being a book dealing with tho subject of psychical research.

.Mrs E. M Sturtivnnt and l.er daughter, of Auckland, reached England in the middle of April, having como via Australia. They have been staying with triends in the .Midlands and now are leaving for a. Continental toui of six weeks' duration, states our London correspondent on May 23. Later they hope to make a general lour of the United Kingdom and Ireland. The return to New Zealand will bo by the United States and Canada.

To propel herself across Europe in her cripple's chair i.s the ambition of Miss Mary Joyce West, of Leicester, England, v.lio recently started off on the first lap ot her remarkable project, says a London paper. She propels, her chair by hand, and thinks nothing of doing 25 to 50 miles a day. She hopes to make the lour pay for itself by selling a number of handworked fancy articles which she does her-S'-li, and for which there is a great demand in her home town.

Mr. and .Mrs A. T. Kohlull. ot Well- . liiivf gone tri tlio ('ontinent willi 'lif! iutt'iiti'ii; of touring in I'elgiuin, Switv.frlii n'l, Italy ami France, states our J.'Hidrin c(.i respondent, v. riling on May On lln'ii return to London at I 110 '■'"l 01 .1 uIIP llipy will remain ill (lie -Mclropolis I'm' a few weeks, and tlirn JiH'VO to iho Mo of Man. A general tour will In.; made fit England and Scotland. Jll| d at the end of October the return J'>uinoy to New Zealand will In; begun

An miiovalion in chili life in London "Hi- I hat has been organised by Miss K. Iliitwhistli- for cbildre:i under seven. Me.s 1 »ijt u lii.-.tl»j noticed that children, Ikti they (iist attend school, arc often v eiy harl.v.aid in the lnatler ot playing names, and to remedy this she thought ot founding a games club for the little ''ins. || i( . | ]lll, wiJI meet weekly in Hyde 'ink, and the members will learn to play guiifs together. Each will have a mem hersliip card and wear a lmdgo reproi,,,|l|i' 1 M a plavful lamb.

Mrs. ,lolin Jone;, who has returned with '"'i; husband K,,gland after 25 years' •resilience in Australia, took a very active part in public life, especially iu regard to

■women s affairs. With her husband she *""k a great interest in mission work, and '''lined the H branches of the women's •luxiliury || l(! Australian Hoard oi •Missions in Sydney. She was also tiie first <hairman of tJie girls' department, of the ' \\.( .A. lor Australia and New Zealand, *md was keenly and actively interested in V"litkal affaiis. The fact that so far | ; "' p no women in Parliament in Aus#ndui is one of her chief disappointments.