SOCIAL NEWS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20629, 30 July 1930, Page 4

SOCIAL NEWS.

Mrs. D. G. Wlntwoll, of Auckland, is visiting Wellington. Miss R. Turvey has returned to Wanganui from a visit lo Auckland. Lady Mvers leturncd to Wellington last week from o visit to Auckland. Mrs. Ewart, of Invercargill, is visiting Auckland, and is staying at Hotel Cargen. Mrs. Instone, of Kaimata, who has been visiting Karon, Wellington, is now in Auckland. Mrs. C. A. Whitney, of Victoria Avenue, Rcmuera, left by the Niagara yesterday for a visit to Honolulu. Mrs. 7Ycntham C. Webster and M : ss A. C. Webster, of Sarsfield Street, Ilerne Bay, left by Llie Niagara, yesterday on an extensive tour of England, Europe and America. Mrs. M. Taylor,* of Wellington, left yesterday by the Niagara for Canada to visit her daughter, Miss Lyra Taylor, who is an oilicer of the Family Welfare Association in Montreal. Miss Taylor was formerly a solicitor in Wellington. Pupils of Mir,s Mary Pulman, of Buckland, who wore successful at the examinations conducted on behalf of the Trinity College of Music at Pukekohe on Monday by Dr. Borland were Nora Jamioson (higher local), Jean Moselen (interimdiate), and Doris McLean (preparatory ).

A feature of (ho opening of tlie Gen eral Assembly of the Newfoundland Legislature recently was the appearance of the first woman member of the Newfound land Parliament. She was Lady Squires, tho wifo of tho Prime Minister, Sir R. A, Squires. The first contribution amounting to £IO.OOO foi tho Warsaw Nursing School, which was roeently opened, was donated by an American nurse, Mr= Simon Jamaica. It is intended that the school shall carry American nursing methods into all parts of Poland. Appealed to by a group of Chinese farmers for help in the war of extennina tion 011 locusts, Kuo Fengming, an ardent Chinese feminist, has now turned her attention to this menace to the farm life of her country. After travelling in runny districts studying possible cure 3, Miss Kuo has ca'hered statistics relating to the pest, and has started a preventative paignA gathering of special interest to all primary, secondary arid technical school teachers in Auckland will bo held in the Seddon Memorial Technical College Hall on Friday, August 2, at 7.30 p.m. when the first meeting of the Federation of Teachers in Auckland will ho held. An address will be given by Professor A. B. Fitt. professo* of education at tho Auckland University, and there will also be musical items A social evening was held on Monday by tho Auckland Navy League at tho rooms in Simich Buildings. A most enjoyable programme was contributed by the Grafton Shakespeare and Dramatic Club, whose members, under the direction of Mrs. Stratlon, gave a selection of dialogues, musical sketches and recitations, which were very highly appreciated by those present. Ready recognition of her talents as an artist lias been received by Miss Jean Spong, who leit Tasmania for a visit to England early in the year. Miss Spong has been mado a member of tho British Empire Academy, and has had a picture hung at tho exhibition held in the Burlington Gallery. This painting was not sent througli any society, but was accepted entirely on its own merits.

Miss M. 0. Stoddart, the Christchurch artist, has two of her paintings hung this year in the Salon des Artistes Fiancais, Paris, according to advico reccn lv received. The two pictures arc "Goat Creek, Otira," and "The Stocking Glacier, Mount Cook." This is the eighteenth occasion on which Miss Stoddart's pictures have been exhibited at the Salon, and for the last six years two have been accepted each year. Two women have been chosen by Gov ernor Franklin D. Roosevelt to represent New York State on the Hoover Illiteracy Committee, whose duties it will be to study tho problems of illiteracy in the United States Mrs. Charles J. Reeder, president of the New York State Federa tion of Women's Clubs, is one, and Mrs. L. L. S evenson, a prominent club woman identified with the New York Stale Parent Teachers' Association, is tho other. Miss Eleanor Monro, of Melbourne, delegate to tho conference at Honolulu, was tho guest of honour at an afternoon tea given for her by the local branch of the Women's International l.eague for Peace and Freedom in the Tudor Tearooms on Monday. Another guest was Mrs. L. E. Rowlett, a foundation member, who is on a visit to Auckland from Sydney. About twenty guests were present. Miss Moore is tho secretary of the league in Melbourne, and is nn enthusiastic worker in its interests. News has been received that Miss Beryl Hickerto'i, of Christchurch, who left New Zealand to continue her studies at the Architectural Association School in London, his passe the intermediate ex animation witli honourable mention She also, in a class of about 70 students, gained the pr'ze foi the best mensuivd drawing. Mis- Bickerton matriculated fit the Christchurch Girls' High School, and ther. studied at Canterbury College and the Schoc of Art. She intends to visit France i■. the vacation and will study the stylo of buildings and the art galleries. Very interesting information comes from faraway Tibet, says a London daily. A woman diplomatist has recently arrived in I.hi'Sa, the capital, as an agent of tho Nanking Government which is trying to reassert Chinese suzerainty over Tibet. Slio is of mixed Chinese-Tibetan birth, her father belonging to the formei race She was educated in a Christian mission on the Sino-Tibetan frontier, and then took a medical degree She speaks English. Tibetan and Chinese, and is highly cul lured She has wop tho sympathies of many of iho high officials m Lhasa. wh-> have never had dealings with a woman diplomatist before. She is also practising her profession of medicine, and thus gain ing influonco among the masses.

Miss Elsie Andrews, who is leaving as a delegate to the Women's Pan-Pacific Conference, was the guest of honour at an afternoon tea given for her in tho Teachers' Institute on Monday by (he members of the Auckland branch of the Women Teachers' Association. Speeches were made bv Miss Newton, on behalf of her colleagues now retired, and who had worked with tier tri previous years, Miss E. Wilson, who spoke also on past shared experiences, Miss Poarce, secretary of the local branch of the association, and Miss Taylor, president. Miss Andrews replied to the speeches and referred to the importance of parts of the present education report which was to come before Parliament shortly Afternoot, tea brought a very pleasant gathering to a close, tho guest of honour receiving many good wishes to speed her on her way.