SOCIAL NEWS

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 22045, 27 February 1935, Page 4

SOCIAL NEWS

Mrs. K. D. Orr, Pukekawa, is at tlio Central Hotel.

Mrs. F. F. M. Ferguson, Wellington, is at the Grand Hotel.

Mrs. Aubrey Hollingworth has returned to Whangarei after spending a few days in Auckland.

Auckland guests recently at the Chateau include: —Mrs. Gy W. Thomson, Mrs. E. B. Bain, Miss B. Goldie and Miss E. L. Ostler.

Miss Delia Clapham, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. F. H. Clapham, of Hamilton, will leave shortly for Sydney, where her marriage is to take place.

Miss Doris Field Porter and Miss Madge Graham, of Remuera, will leave this morning for Kerikeri, where they will bo the guests of Mrs. B. H. Edkins.

At the Station Hotel are: —Mrs. W. R. Hunter, Gisborno; Miss D. Cocks, Wanganui; Miss Joan Myers, Palmerston North; and Miss Blake, Wellington.

Miss Marion Macfarlane, of Epsom, and Miss Eileen Culling, Remuera, will leave by car to-day for Kerikeri, where they will stay with Mrs. B. H. Edkins.

Mrs. Alfred Suter and the Misses Suter, Portland Road, Remuera, will return home to-morrow after spending a month's holiday at Thome's Bay, Takapuna.

It is now 15 3*ears since the first Finnish woman acquired the degree of Doctor of Chemistry. She was Dr. Hanna Lappalainen, who at present runs a dispensary in Finland's capital. Recently another woman, Dr. Stina Gripenberg, obtained the same degree by successfully defending at the University of Helsinki her thesis, "A Study of the Sediments of the North Baltic and Adjoining Seas." Dr. Gripenberg is attached to the Oceanographic Institute at Helsinki.

Mrs. J. W. Walsh has the unique distinction of being the only woman railway president in the world. Mrs. Walsh is the president and general manager of the Rook Island Southern Railway. This line runs a distance of approximately 100 miles out of Davenport, lowa., U.S.A., so the duties falling to the lot of the general manager are no sinecure. Mrs. Walsh has two pretty daughters, Jeanne and Mary, but whether they will also adopt the career their mother has chosen remains to be seen.

Miss Mary Coleridge Davis, 8.A., is secretary to three important bodies — the Women Graduates' Association of New South Wales, the New South Wales Board of Social Studies and the Child Guidance Clinic. With Miss Ailcen Fitzpatrick she started in 1929 the first Board of Social Studies in Australia. This board trains men and women for social work. Before they are eligible for training the social workers to be must first pass a personality test devised by Dr. A. H. Martin, of the Institute of Industrial Psychology, as well as have their leaving certificate. This year 22 women are in training.

Miss Marjorie Leigh is a young Australian who has recently returned to her native land after spending six years abroad, during which time she became a member of the Imperial Society of Teachers of Dancing, in London. She travelled to Africa, and also to India, where she took the leading part of an Egyptian princess in an "Egyptian Fantasy," which was filmed there. This talkie was produced in Hindustani and English, and Miss Leigh coached the Goanese girls who took part in the production. She is the only Australian girl to have' been selected for such a task. She found the Goanese girls very apt at learning dancing and extremely lissome.

Miss Carrie Tennant, some years ago, with her little Community Theatre, was one of the pioneers of the Little Theatre movement; in Sydney. She is still interested in the theatre, but her main work nowadays is in connection with the problem of the Australian aborigine. She has just returned from an expedition to an aboriginal reserve in Queensland, where she studied their vanishing legends and regulations under the auspices of the Department of Anthropology at Sydney University. During her time at the reserve Miss Tennant wore a khaki uniform, for she said that it was very important to keep up, by. correct dress, the prestige of the whites. She found the aborigines very satisfactory from, the point of view of industry, cleanliness, trustworthiness and companionship.