SOCIAL NEWS

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21403, 30 January 1933, Page 12

SOCIAL NEWS

Sirs. Barbara Agmen-Smith is visiting Wellington.

Mrs. F. C. Cart or, of Te Aroha, is at tho Central Hotel.

Mrs. D. 11. Haiulley. of I'almerstoii North, is at (lie Hole! Cargen.

Mrs. M. Markuick, of Northcote, left oil Saturday on a visit to Rotorua.

Miss L. Trcmain, of Northeote, has ic turned from a visit to Milford Sound's.

Mrs. Cutlih.ert. MeCaw and her two daughters are visiting relatives in Invercargill.

Mr. and Mrs. R. Waters, of I'almerston North, are the guests of Mrs. Soniers, Heme Bay.

Miss May Whifing has returned from Sydney and is visiting her parents at Opawa, Christ church.

Mr. Justice Ostler and Mrs. Ostler will return to Wellington early this week from a fishing holiday at Tokaanu.

Dame Sybil Thorudiko will be the guest of the Lyceum Club at a n.orning tea to bo held on Friday, February 10.

Mrs. A. R. Merrington has returned to Wanganui after a, six weeks' motoring tour in th(j Auckland and Mercury Bay districts.

Sir Alexander Ilerdman and Lady Herdman and Miss Joyce Herdman motored to Auckland from Lake Rotoiti during the week-epd.

Miss Ruth Small field, who has been staying with her brother, the Rev. W. M. Smallfield, of Claudelands, has returned to Auckland.

Mrs. E. A. Lepper, of Northcote, left by motor-car yesterday for a fortnight's visit to Raglan, whore she will be the guest of her sister, Mrs. E. A. Bernard.

Mrs. C. C. Jackson, Dominion president of the Women's Division of the Farmers' Union, has returned to Masterton after a visit to Christchurch, following tho Dominion executive's meeting at Timaru.

Overseas visitors at the Hotel Cargen include Mrs. S. Scougall, of Sydney, Miss' D. Bradford and Mrs. E. Clarke, of Melbourne, Miss Burstall, of North Queensland, and Miss Edna Reynolds, of Sydney.

Mrs. F. N. McKenna, of Middle Brighton, Melbourne, Victoria, who has been visiting her mother, Mrs. W. F. Brooking, at Northcote, returns to Australia by the Monterey, which leaves Auclvland to-day.

Miss Connie Lepper, who has been assistant at the Northcote post office since the opening of the new public building over three years ago, and for seven years previously when the postal business was conducted from private premises by her mother, Mrs. E. A. Lepper, has resigned from the Post an<3 Telegraph Department. This step has been taken in view of her approaching marriage, and she leaves the service to-morrow.

The home markets which have been established by somo of the branches of tho Women's Division of the Farmers' Union, at which produce from the country is sold in the towns, aro increasing in importance and during the past year they have been particularly successful in Invercargill, Gore and Timaru. By the sale of eggs, jams, preserves and dressed poultry, many country women have provided themselves with clothes, household goods and pocket-money.

For the first time in the history of rowing in the Dominion a ladies' rowing club will participate to-day at a regatta. Three pair-oar crews from the Auckland Ladies' Kovving Club will race this afternoon at the Hamilton Anniversary Day regatta and, judging by the interest in Hamilton, this contest may do much to help foster a ladies' branch of the sport there. The race is over a half-mile course and the crews will be: —Miss F. Jackson, Miss E. Waters; Miss V. .Brant, Miss I. Waters; Miss E. Speel, Miss P. MacLcan.

When visiting Pahiatua last week ner Excellency the Ladv Bledisloe was presented with a handworked cushion from the Bush Group of Women's Institutes. The design of a Welsh dragon had been made in a number of colours on the black silk ponlin of the cushion which was accompanied by a card bearing the Welsh inscription: " Eich presenolbcb yu icu plith a rydd i ni aurhydedd,—ninnau a rhown i clnvi gyvvir gyfarchiad." The English interpretation is: "Wo are honoured by your presence, and we give to you greetings."

In some parts of Canada the school goes to' the children (stales a correspondent). There arc districts where it is impossible to set up fixed schools, since the population is so widely scattered and the problem of educating children has been a perplexing one. A solution has been found in several ingenious ways. First of all lessons are given by correspondence. Parents must teach their children to read and write, but once they can do this the lessons come by post. Written work is sent to the teacher and comes back with corrections and advice. Then lessons for children are sent out from many of the big broadcasting stations in Canada. Most, effective of all is the travelling school. This is a big naloon carriage with desks and a blackboard, which is attached to the end of a train, taken to the destination and shunted inlo a siding. Tt stays there for a fortnight at a time, and children are brought to it in buggies, motor-cars, and sometimes by rail trolleys.