SOCIAL NEWS

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21938, 23 October 1934, Page 3

SOCIAL NEWS

Mrs. J. M. Becker, Dunedin, is at the Grand Hotel. Mrs. J. Lawrence. Canterbury, is visiting Auckland. Mrs. Vernon Reed, Paihia, Bay of ' Islands, is staying at Glenalvon. Mrs. R. A. Finlayson. Clonbern Road, Remuera, is risking Wellington. Mrs. Kay, Whangarei. and Miss E. Pike. Rotorua. are at the Station Hotel. Mr. and Mrs. Harry Kinder, Arney Road, Remuera, have returned from a visit to Rotorua. Miss Dorothy Shera. Remuera. is the guest of her aunt, Mrs. Ferrier Watson. Lower Hmt. Mrs. L. J. Bayfield, Rotorua, is visiting Hannier Springs and will leave for Christchnrch this week. Mrs. David Smith, Wellington. Mrs. J. C. Warren and Mrs. G. W. Warren, Te Ante, are at the Hotel Cargen. Mrs. G. S. Mitchell. Dargaville, has left for Australia and will visit Melbourne for the Centenary celebrations. Mrs. J. B. MacEwan, Wellington, who has been visiting England, is a passenger by the Rangitiki which is due at Auckland to-morrow. Mrs. Selwyn Upton and Miss Joan Upton, Victoria Avenue, who have been visiting Christclmrch for several weeks, are spending a Tew days in Wanganui and Marton before returning to Auckland. Delegates from Auckland to the Dominion Annual Conference ot the Methodist Women's Missionary I nion, which will open in Wellington today, include Mesdames White, Armitage, C. Binet, Misses Pearce. Buttle, Roget, Soraerville and Adlington.. When King Edward 11. had removed from Balmoral the tartan carpets, curtains and covers in th> Royal Stuart tartan "invented", by the Price Consort, it did not seem likely that the fashion for this especial tartan would return. However, the Duchess of York approves of the brilliant reds, greens and yellows of this Royal tartan, and has had curtains of it made up at -a factory near Glamis !or use at Royal : Lodge' in rooms panelled with stripped pine. | Miss -Jane Addams, who has devoted her life to the cause of peace, and for 20 years has headed the Women's ; International League of Peace and Freedom, is the first American woman to receive the Nobel Prize. Miss Addams is the founder of Hull House, a social settlement in a poor quarter of Chicago, situated in a neighbourhood teeming with people of many nationalities. The institution has for its ideal '"the fostering of cosmopolitan relationships among the nations. The fancy dress ball arranged by the Tauranga Women's Institute and held in the local hall was a most successful function. The judging of the fancy cos- j iumes was carried out by the merpbers j of the orchestra and the awards were, as follows: —Best fancy dresses. Mrs. A. Hay ward (harem lady), and Mr. S. Standring (sheik): most onginal_fancy costumes. Miss Speight (scarecrow) and Mrs. A. S. McCiuSough. The comic awards went to the "Hayseed family, ' j Miss K. Quinn (father). Miss J. Snell ; (mother) and Mr. L. Cubitt (Sarah), j Shortlv after his arrival at Ooldea | from Kalgoorlie the Duke of Gloucester i rbatted with Mrs. Daisy Bates, whose j life-long association with the blacks is j well known, states an Australian ex- j chance. Mrs. Bates prorklly wore on her | simple black frock the order of 0.8. E. j The Royal visitor and others on the | train were the first white persons Mrs. j Bates had seen since the Prince of ; Wales was at Cook's Suling. Ihe Duke j had learned of her work among the ; blacks, and expressed his pleasure' at •> meeting her. Mrs. Bates lives in a camp s about a mile out of Ooldea. and has j been camped there since 1919 Lu her labour of love among the blacks, and especially those who are sick and need attention. The Waipu Presbyterian Church held a successful bazaar in aid of the funds of the church. Included among the winners of the many competitions were Mesdames R. F. McKay. 51. McMillan. H. T. Bowmar and Messrs. R. Laing, J. Laing and F. Mackwood. A feature of the bazaar was a children's S fancy dress parade* led by the Waipu j Pipe Band, which created great interest among the audience. costumes were judged bj* Mrs. H. knelling and Mr. ('. A. Lindsay, of Maungaturoto. who awarded the following j prizes to the children: —National dress, Don Russell (Highland laddie), 1; Jessie McKenzie (Japanese girl). 2; character study, boys, J. Gardner (tramp), 1? girls. K. Fmlayson (grandmother of ISth century), 1. As a result of the function the church funds will benefit to the extent of about £oU. The distance that Turkey has travelled in the past twelve years is indicated by the position woman now holds there. The president, of the Commercial Court of Istanbul (formerly Constantinople) is Beyhan Hanem, a young . Turkish girl, and when a commission , was appointed to inquire into a dispute ; between British and French syndicates j concerning concessions in the De-ad. Sea , territorv. .Miss Hanem presided at the . special Court. Woman's emancipation in Turkev was amazing in its rapidity, j In 1920 a woman there was a chattel, j with no voice in her own affairs, but with the reconstitution in 1922 of the empire and the subsequent election to the Presidency of Kemal Pasha, women were given equal voice with men in the government of the country. Today there are more than 40 women occupying important municipal positions in Turkey.