SOCIAL NEWS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20528, 1 April 1930, Page 17

SOCIAL NEWS.

Mrs. Woodrow, of Auckland, is visiting Christchurch.

Mrs. K. S. Williams, of Tokomaru Bay, Js staying at the Hotel StonehursL

Miss Reid, of Dunedin, is visiting Auck jand and is staying at tho Grand Hotel.

Miss E. M. Reid, of Newcastle-on-Tyno, England, is staying at tho Hotel StoneJlUl'St.

Lady Winfrey, of Peterborough, England, loft Auckland yesterday for a brief visit io the South.

Mrs. A. F Preston and family left for Christchurch on Sunday evening after an Extended visit to Auckland.

Mr. and Mrs. R. L. Paterson, of St. Stephen s Avenue, Parnell, have returned from a tour of tho Hawke's Bay province.

Mr. and Mrs. T. W. Colledge, of RrisE'liio Queensland, arrived in Auckland yesterday by the Port Napier on their return from a visit to England, Europe and America. r J hey will bo tho guests of Mr. and Mrs. .W. Spencer, of To Awapnitu, for tho next four weeks.

Tho Mount Albert Croquet Club held a vorv successful At Home on their lawns on Thursday afternoon. Many sister clubs wero represented, and a very pleasant timo was spent playing progressive croquet. The. winners were:—A grade, Mrs. Robinson, Mrs. Sinclair, Mrs. Jones and Mrs. Wilkin. B grade, Mrs. Taylor, Mrs. Wann and Mrs. McKenzio.

The Ladior.' Guild of Change Ringers, which was established in England in 1912, still flourishes and has for its sccrotarv Mrs. E. K. Fletcher, of Edmonton. The guild has 500 members, including many girls who ring heavy bells for long periods without admitting fatigue. A girl of 17 on one occasion rang a 24cwt. bell continuously for three hours and twenty minutes. Tho youngest member of the guild is 14.

An appointment of interest in Melbourne educational circles is that of Miss M. D. Ferguson, who has been appointed headmistress of the branch school of the .Methodist Ladies' College which was iecently opened. Miss Ferguson was for eight years in charge of the junior school at tho Methodist Ladies' College, after ■which she was head mistress of Lovell House for five years and of Lowther Hall, Essendon, for four years.

In the presence of the original committee representing Anglican women's organiastions in tho diocese of Melbourne, which founded the Winifred May Lee:) bursary, tho first presentation of tho bursary was made to Miss Leonora Appleby, ' the candidate nominated by the Church Missionary Society. Miss Appleby, who is in training at St. Hilda Training College lege for missionary work overseas, is preparing for mission work in Tanganyika.

A very pleasant afternoon was spent at the Ellerslie Racecourse on Saturday by tho garden makers section of the League of Penwomen. Miss Grace Garden-Mar-tin, the secretary of the. section, who is shortly leaving for England, was the guest of honour and during the tea interval she was presented with a leather travelling bag from the members. Miss Sweet, convener, made the presentation in the absence through indisposition of the League's president,, Mrs. Stuart Boyd.

The first woman to be ordained to the ministry in Australia was the Rev. Winifred Kiek, 8.A., 8.D., who is now in

charge of the Congregational Church at Colonel Light Gardens, a rising workingj class suburb of Adelaide. Her ministry was cordially welcomed by the Ccngrogationalists of Australia, and sho has occupied leading pulpits in Western Australia, Victoria and New South Wales, as well as in her own State of South Australia.

Newly-married couples, as well as prospective brides and bridegrooms, have been invited to visit a new home-making centre- in New York, where an effort is being made by the State Federation of Women's Clubs to teach the art of economical money spending and the furnishing of a home. Mrs. Charles J. Reeder is president >of the federation, and special instructors have been engaged to teach these all-important subjects. The education is given free.

Known to the Sudanese women as "the Great White Mother," Mrs. Chetwynd, wife of Major Chetwynd, who is employed by the Egyptian Government to patrol 3000 miles of Egyptian and Sudanese desert, frequently accompanies her husband on his less dangerous journeys. It is because of the help and advice sho gives the Sudanese women that she was given the name of "the Great White Mother," and her visits are eagerly looked forward to by the women of the desert.

An interesting example of faith and perseverance is afforded by the career of the Rev. Susannah Ellis, 0110 of a large family, whose father was a platelayer on the railway. She contrived, by sheer persistency arid hard work, to obtain three years' study at Bangor University, where sho graduated with honours in history and philosophy, and was the first woman student to take the Welsh 15.D. degree. Miss Ellis is now working under the Papua (Congregational) Mission in Boku-Kapakapa district, New Guinea.

A kitchen evening was given by the Glen Afton and Pukemiro Women's Institute and residents of the district to Miss Margaret Adams in the Glen Afton Hall on Friday. Tho president, Mrs. D. \V. Thomas, on behalf of the institute, presented Miss Adams with a cookery book. Miss Adams also received kitchen and linen ware/ Dancing and games helped to pass a very enjoyable evening, arid a song by Mrs. Green was much appreciated. Music for dancing was supplied by Mrs. F. Milnes, Miss L. Simpson, Mrs. J. Greenhorn, Mr. Phillips Hunter and Mr. .J. Pears.

Tho newly-formed Club of Music Friends field its first meeting -on Saturday afternoon, tho president, -Miss Alico Law, entertaining the members in the lounge, of the Lyceum Club. Miss Law gave a talk upon " Scandinavian Music, illustrated by violin and piano solos, duets iuid songs from the works of Greig, Binding, Sibeliiis, I'almgren and Svcndscn. Miss Amy Stevenson, violinist, and Miss Veda Nelson, vocalist, gave enjoyable items and several piano solos were played by Miss Law, also a piano duet with Miss Mary Xaltran. Afternoon tea concluded ii very successful inaugural meeting of the new club. Miss Eleanor Brownleo has been elected secretary.

Sybil Viscountess Rhondda, accompanied by Misses C. W. and J. D. Haig, Miss C. W. do Haga Conlari,- and Miss ,ti Haig Thomas, arrived at Melbourne on February 19 by the White fetar-Aber-'clti'ii Line steamer Demosthenes. Viscountess Rhondda is the daughter of the .'late George. Augustus Haig, of Pen Itlion, Radnorshire, and widow of Viscount Rhondda, who died in 1918. Sho has 'taken an active interest in public welfare and has presided over the Women's Advisory Committee and the National War Savings Committee. In 1920 the honour of Damo of the British Empire was conferred upon her. Lady Rhondda boarded the Demosthenes at Teneriffe. She is visiting Australia on a brief health tour and will continue her voyage to Svdney, where sho will remain two days before leaving on the return voyage to England by the Orient liner 'Otranto. '