NOTES FOR WOMEN

New Zealand Times, Volume XL, Issue 9045, 17 May 1915, Page 11

NOTES FOR WOMEN

SOCIAL AND PERSONAL.

Miss Stewart, of Dunedin, is the guest of Mrs A. H. Miles, Hobson street.

Miss P. Hulmo, of Christchurch, is visiting Colonel and Mrs Hume, Harbour View, Wellington. Mrs L. A. Line, of Sumner, who is leaving there for Wellington, was tendered a farewell afternoon by the ladies of Sumner last Friday, and was presented with a clock and case of afternoon tea spoons. Miss Molyneaux, who has been visiting her parents in Wellington, has returned to Christchurch. Madame Boefve, who has been staying in Christchurch with Miss Beatrice Day during the Plimmer-Hall season there, returned to Wellington yesterday. ' ■ Mrs Herbert Bridge, of Oriental Bay, is the guest of Mrs W. Westenrain Christchurch. Mr and Mrs A. H. Turnbull, of Christchurch, are spending a few days in Wellington to see their son, Mr J. Turnbull, who is in camp at Trentham.

Mr and Mrs Douglas Cox, of Singapore, are visiting New Zealand! and are at present in' Auckland.

Mr and Mrs Di M. Yeats left Carterton on Friday morning for Wellington. Mr Yeats has been acting-headmaster at the Carterton school during the absence of Major A. Cowles, who was (with the New Zealand Contingent at Samoa.,

The wedding took place at Kaiapoi on Thursday last of Miss E. Broadley, younger daughter of Mr A. Broadley, to Mr G. Dennis, of Heathcote Valley. The . bride was attended by Miss Carmichael and her two little nieces, Rona and Mario McMillan. After the ceremony a reception was held at the Coffee Rooms, Kaiapoi.

The engagement is announced of Miss Nydia England, daughter of Mr and Mrs A. K. England, of Christchurch, to Mr Norman G. Henley, of the Wellington staff of Robert Malcolm, Ltd.,, says a southern paper. Mr and Mrs C. Chapman, of Dunedin,- are visiting Wellington. Miss Hunt, who resigned from the Napier G.rls’ High Scnool to take a position on the stuff of the Wellington Girls’ College, left Napier for Wellington on Friday. Prior to her departure she was entertained by the pupils of the Napier school and was presented with a silver wristlet watch as a mark of the high esteem in which she has been held by her pupils. A successful dance was held in the Drill Hall, Kaikoura, last week, • in aid of the Belgian and Returned Soldiers’ Fund, at which Colonel Chaffey and his staff Were present. • Mrs and Miss _ West, of /Wellington, are visiting Napier. Her- Excellency Lady Liverpool, an indefatigable worker in the direction of procuring l comforts for New Zealand’s expeditionary force, has donated a gift to be disposed of by art union at Greymouth in aid of the sick and wounded. The art specimen is her Ladyship’s own handiwork. His Worship the Mayor (Mr G. E. Perkins) has undertaken to supervise the running of the art union (says a Greymouth paper).

Laeti Wednesday, Miss Edith Gordon Mason, daughter of Mrs Mason, of Wellington, was married to Mr Ernest Robert Jackson. The ceremony was performed by the Rev. Sinclair at the residence of Mrs Peters, Fitzgerald avenue, Christchurch, The bride was given away by her father, and attended by Miss Edna Lisle, and Mr George Jackson, of Dunedin, attended his brother.

The drawing of the raffle of real Brussels applique lace took place on Saturday at 212, Lambton quay, where Sergeant Wade, in the presence of Messrs ,J. J. McGrath, Mr V. Willis, Mr TJ. McKabe, Mr Brookes, and several others, drew the winning number, 3051, Mrs P. B. Anderson,, Paraparaumu, Manawatu line, being the fortunate holder thereof. The net amount obtained by tickets sold is £145, which, with donation of £5 from Mr Maurice O’Connor, makes a total of £l5O. This money has been handed over to the authorities to bo cabled to the refugees for whose benefit the raffle was organised. All expenses in connection with this raffle have been personally defrayed by the 1 organisers. The hon. secretary desires to thank ah 1, who have assisted by the selling ot tickets to make the movement such a success, particular thanks due to Mr Brookes, of the Bristol Plano Company, for his great courtesy in helping the cause in so many ways. Mrs H. H. Loughnan, of Christchurch, is taking up a good idea in the way of knitting a scarf for presentation to Queen Elizabeth of Belgium, It should be in white wool, ornament- j ed with a marigold, which is Belgium’s national flower. The idea is that everyone who will do so should knit a row of the scarf, paying a shilling for the privilege. One such scant made in Australia for Queen Mary brought in £2OO for the fund, and it is thought that the present project may bring in as much for the regimental funds of our boys at the front.

Hairwork is now brought to a pitch of perfection. Miss Milsom and staff of skilled workwomen are engaged in making the latest Transformations Toupees Wigs. Switches, Plaits. Pads (Latest Natural Hair), and Curls. If you reside at a distance, post pattern of hair and describe what you require. Reply and quotation will be immediately sent and advice as to what should be worn A regular supply of hair arrives from London with the newest fashions in hairdressing so that Miss Milsom can now make any woman look smart for the now season’s millinery—whether she has much hair or little. All complexion preparations and toilet requisites stocked. Visitors to Wellington should call on Miss Milsom and see for themselves the latest in boudoir specialities. Miss Milsom. £M Willis street (4 doors above “Evening Post"). Telephone 814. «

Fragrant violets, large supplies arriving daily. Send your friends an artistic posio of violets or one of our popular violet boxes, packed and posted to any address in the Dominion. Obtainable at Miss Murray’s, Vice-Regal Floriste. 86, Willis street. *.

The Huntly Disaster was predicted by fthuriel 8 days before eventuating. Send birth date. Is stamps. Scientific Astrology. Offices, Boulcott Chambers. *

Small boys’ overcoats iu fleece, knapped. or covet cloth*, from 8s 6d to 22s 6d. at Geo. Fowlds, Ltd., Manners street. *

On Friday the teachers of the Masterton District High School gave an afternoon tea to Miss Nellie Hogg, who is to he married shortly. Justice having been done to the refreshments, Mr W. H. Jackson, headmaster, in a highly complimentary speech, presented jx»bs Hogg, on behalf of the teaching staff, to which she has been for years attached, with a silver tea. service, oak tray, and Indian hand-worked tray cloth, in making the presentation, ho remarked that Miss Hogg’s connection with the school had extended from childhood, for she had received her early education there, and she had become one of the most useful and strongest teachers on his staff. With her fellow-teachers and pupils alike she had always made herself most popular. They were all sorry to loso her, and the. presentation was accompanied with their best wishes for her future. Miss Hogg feelingly expressed her thanks. The remainder ot the afternoon .was pleasantly spent in a variety of competitions.

Of widespread interest was a golddn wedding celebrated at Geraldine on Tuesdav afternoon, when Mr and Mrs F. W. Stubbs, of that centre, completed the fiftieth year of their life (says a Christchurch exchange). Some 200 gUests attended to offer their congratulations, amongst them being five out of the six sons born to Mr and Mrs Stubbs, and both their daughters, together with Mrs W. Stubbs, whose husband was unable to be present, and two of their grandchildren. Mr Crawley, of Dunedin, brother of Mrs Stubbs, from whose house the wedding took place in 1865, was also present, Mr R. L. M. Kitto, who lias been manager in Napier of the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, has .been transferred to Christchurch. Mrs Kitto has been the head of the Liverpool fund in Napier, and speaking of her work the “Hawke’s Bay Herald” says:—“Mr Kitto's removal will create another void which will ho also regretted on all sides, namely, the departure of Mrs Kitto, whose self-sacrificing and successful labours in connection with the soldiers’ equipment has won for her not only the esteem and admiration ot all sections of the community but the unbounded gratitude of the many men who have left N apier to, join the colours.” •

The weddinw of Lieutenant-Colonel Davidson, formerly of Nelson, but now of the Peruvian Army, and Miss Florence Mackay, of Nelson, took place at St. Luke’s Church, Rotorua, last month.

An Auckland correspondent says what are known as “Red Cross Teas’ ’J have been started in Auckland for the purpose of helping the Victoria League Red Cross fund. A hostess invites as many people as she! likes; each guest is asked to'bring a shilling with her, and also to give a tea of her own; in this way a large number of teas are given and consequently many shillings collected.

COLLEGE CHRISTIAN UNION

■ At the fortnightly meeting of the Victoria University: College Christian Union, held in the. University gymnasium on Saturday evening. Miss I. Wilson, M.A., travelling secretary for ■ the student movement in New Zealand, addressed a representative audience on the subject of the work of the/worldwide student Christian movement in the present crisis, and if the responsibilities which lie .before it in the near future. The movement had grown up, she pointed out, to supply that type ot leader which the normal university training did not in itself produce—the leader inspired, not merely with military or political ideals, but with the higher Christian ideals. In twenty-five years considerable progress had been made; and the great World Conference held at Lake Mohonk, U.S.A., two years ago, at which 40 different nations were represented, had expressed the opinion (in reviewing these years) that here at last was a movement that spread wider than national boundaries, and went deeper than national differences, and would ere long make a large contribution towards the solution of the great internationaT problem. Now, war had cut across these hopes, and all that the movement had stood for seems to be negatived. Yet the movement was finding a place and filling a need in the new situation, and perhaps would be the only international organisation to survive the conflict. On the Continent, the various movements were keeping up communication with their members at the frint, supplying them with necessities and comforts, and by the circulation of suitable literature were keeping before the men the ideals for which the movement stands. Even in Germany, where 45,000 students were actually in the firing-line, weekly communication was being kept up with them, and copies of their pamphlets arriving in England through neutral States, indicate the thoroughness with which, the situation has been met. In Switzerland, help is being rendered to hundreds of destitute students who are stranded there as the result ot the war; while France was takingthe lead in developing the work- in hoys’ schools, and so providing for the perpetuation of the work in the next student generation. Our own corner at’ home Pad done nobly, both m the numbers it had , sent to the front—leaders as well as members—also in the invaluable assistance it had been rendering in innumerable practical ways.

Miss Wilson concluded her address with an appeal for thought for the future work of the movement. After the war, she said, a great deal of social reconstruction would have to be carried out, and in this way the members could render valuable help. Gurney, action for dissolution of part-