NOTES FOR WOMEN

New Zealand Times, Volume XLIV, Issue 10349, 5 August 1919, Page 9

NOTES FOR WOMEN

SOCIAL AND PERSONAL. Miss Beatrice Pye. of Palmerston Nortli, is on a holiday visit in Lower Hutt and is staying with Mr and Mrs H. V. Westbury. of White’s Line. The engagement is announced of Miss Margery Herd, youngest daughter of Mr T. E. Herd. New Zealand Customs Inauirv Agent, London, late of Wellington. to Gunner Ernest Edward Harper, of Christchurch, late 9th Reinforcement. N.Z.E.P. .Further fixtures arranged for during Lord Jellicoo’s visit to Christchurch are a ball, to bo given bv the Christchurch Club, and a conversazione by the Navy league. Various organisations, such ue the Lady Liverpool Fund Committee, the Victoria League, and others are also busily at work making plans for the entertainment of the petty officers and men. The decorations in connection with the citizens’ ball are to be allowed to re. main in the Colosseum all the week, to be used for all the succeeding functions Mr and Mrs A. H. Sewell (Wellington) are visiting Christchurch. Lieut. F. Leslie, of Greymouth, who served with the Wiltshire Regiment, arrived in Auckland bv the Muhiq from Newcastle, accompanied by Mrs Leslie. A social, in the form of - a dance, is shortly to take place in Lower Hutt, organised bv the Lower Hutt branch of the Hibemian-Australasia Catholic Benefit Society, to welcome home their brother members who have returned from the Western front and elsewhere. The Customs and Marine Departments are holding their annual dance in St. Peter’s Hall at the end of this month This is one of the few annual dances which have not been quite suspended during war time.

A naval wedding is to toko place shortly in Lower Hutt. The contracting parties are Miss Flora Parrant, eldest daughter of Mr and Mrs W. E. H. Parrant. of Waterloo road. Lower Hutt, and Sub-Lieutenant J. Aikman. of the E.N.. V.R. Mrs Dimook. Captain and Mrs_ King, and Mr and Mrs Coombs, of Wellington. are paying a visit to Hamilton. The past year has been one of great development and progress for the Auckland Y.W.C.A., which has doubled its membership since last year. The total number now stands nt 2125. The senioi department includes 901 members and the girls’ department 900. .Regular members number 467 and sustaining members 157.. An analysis of religious denominations. given at the annual meeting, showed that in the senior department two-thirds of the girls were church members, the majority being Anglicans. Presbyterians ranked second and Methodists next, while practically every other denomination was represented. One-fifth of the girls lived in boardinghouses and 30 different occupations were represented among them, those of saleswomen and stenographers outnumbering the others. Lieutenant-Colonel W. Marshall Macdonald and Mrs Macdonald have returned to Dunedin from England. Dr. Macdonald and his wife left New Zealand in April. 1915. Ho was engaged with the rank of maibr (attached to the French Army) at hospitals at Solcsme and Le Maas, and Mrs Macdonald took up nursing at an Amerioian hospital in Paris. They returned to Dunedin in 1916. and left again for England in 1917, Lieutenant-Colonel -Macdonald having been appointed to take charge of the neurological department of the New Zealand Expeditionary Force at Brockenhurst Hospital. Later he was appointed consulting physician of the New Zealand Expeditionary Fore©. * He was also a member of the Consultants' Council for Great Britain. Mrs Macdonald again went to Paris, and was engaged at nursing in Dr. Blake’s hospital there. Mr and Mrs C. J. Kerr are visiting Hawke’s Bay. Mrs Sydney Porter, widow of America’s greatest modern short story writer. has become ,a successful story-teller herself, and is in strong demand to-day amongst the magazines. There was a large attendance at Knox Hall. Masterton. on the occasion of a welcome home to the Bev. jßonald Stiller, M.A.. C.F.. and Mrs Miller, and a farewell to Sir and Mrs D. E. Leslie (who are leaving for Wellington) and Sir and Mrs J. Gray (who are leaving for Nanier). The Bev. G. T. Brown occupied the chair, and extended a hearty welcome home to Mr and Mrs • Miller. The former, he said, left as a soldier, end was appointed a Presbterian chaplain while on service. Mr Miller suitably replied. During the proceedings, the Eev. Brown presented Mr and Sira Leslie, on behalf of the congregation, with a set of fish carvers and dessert set, and Mr and Mrs Gray with a sugar, cream and teapot service on a silver stand. The recipients made appropriate replies. After refreshments had been handed round the gathering joined in singing "Auld Lang Syne" and the National Anthem.

Mieses Teuta Tauri and Moringa Eeupena. of Wanganui, are in Wellington and expect to embark with the Chautauqua party bv the Moana. The party expects to bo awav from New Zealand for over twelve months. Mrs Stanley and Mrs Cyril MoKellar spent a few days in New Plymouth last week on their wav from Auckland.

Mrs W. Wilson, of New Brighton, Christchurch, has arrived in Wellington and will spend the week here. The death of Mrs John Brunette, at the advanced age of 82 years, took place m Hawera on Monday last. Mrs Brunette came to New Zealand in 1870 with her husband, the late John Brunette, by the sailing ship Monarch. She a family of four sons and four daughters —Mrs Hall Scott (Queensland), Mrn Myhre (Christchurch). Mrs Perrin (Hnwera), Mrs Phillips (Wellington), Messrs Fred and Herbert (Hawera). Albert (Opunake), and Lieut. Malcolm, recently returned from the front.

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The wedding took place, in the Metho. dist Church. Sanson, on July 23 rd > °» Miss Olca Irene Harris, third daughtei of Mr and Mrs James Hams, Woodlands." Sanson, to Mr Leroy A. J. Henson, third son of the late Mr yCnn and Mrs Henson, of "Beaumont, Mount Stewart. The Kov. B. James officiated. The bridegroom recently returned from active service. The Anglican Churob a t Tamahere wae the scene of a pretty wedding recently, when Mr D. A. Bennett, of Palmerston North, and Miss Doris Bollard, daughter of Mr R. F. Bollard. M.P., were married. Tho ceremony *wa» performed by Canon Williams. At St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church at Carterton on Wednesday, Miss Dolly McDonald, third daughter of Mr and Mrs J. G. McDonald, of Carterton, was married to Trooper Gordon Thomson, ot Auckland, son of Mr and Mrs Thomson. of Aberdeen. Scotland. The bndo was srowned in a satin charmeuse ana ninon dtess and wore the orthodox veil and orancro blossoms. She was attended bv two bridesmaids, tho chief bemgr her sister. Miss Isa daintily tired in a blue crepe de chine dress and black hat. with touches of blue. Miss Mary Scott, of Masterton. was the second bridesmaid, and wore a heliotrope crepe de chine dress and black hat, witn touches of heliotrope. Sergeant-Major Meenken was best man, and Trooper Maxwell, of Masterton, attended as groomsman.

The Wellington Spiritualistic Social held a memorial service for the late Mrs Mary Jewell Cooper, late wife of Mr George Cooper, of the mechanical stall of the "Evening Post," at the New ,4-en tury Hall, on Sunday night, before » large audience. The speakers were Mrs C. Morris, Mr J. Manuel. Kitto, and_Mrs Ada Stenning. Mrs Morris spoke of the late Mrs Cooper’s good qualities, and re ferred to the interest she displayed in helping the soldiers. Mrs KinOton-Parkes leaves for Masterton to-day, and will give_ a lecture there to-night in aid of tho soldiers memorial fund. She will return to-morrow, and will stop at Trentham, where she will address a drawingroom meeting, in tna afternoon.

Last week Miss Janet Murray, the depot manageress of the Auckland Bed Cross, was tho recipient of a gold bangle and bronze iardiniere from, her fellow Bed Cross workers. , . .

A verv pretty wedding was celebrated on Tuesday morning last at St. Patrick s Church Grevmouth, bv the Eev, Father Aubrey, when John, second son of Mr and Mrs P. McGirr, of Greymouth, was married to Elizabeth, sixth daughter of Mr and Mrs Hugh Steel, of Blaketown.The bride was given away by her brother Hugh. She was attired in,a; very simple dress of ivory, crepe de chine and carried . very pretty showery. bouquet. She also wore the -usual wreatE*and yen. She was attended by Miss Stenhouse, of Christchurch, who wore a oreain garbardine costume and pretty black bat, and carried a bouquet of violets and maidenhair fern. Mr Frank McGirr filled the role of beet man. After the ceremony the guests adjourned to the residence of the bride’s sister, Mrs .P. Minohm, and wore entertained at morning tea. Later in the afternoon tho happy couple left (or Hokitika, the bride travelling in a smart soxe costume, with hat to match.

Another of the old hands who were at Gabriel’s Gully, rush died recently in Auckland, aged 89 years, namely. Mrs Dewes. gne arrived with her husband, Mr T. Dewes, in Victoria in the fifties, when Melbourne diggings were in the palmy days. The Gabriel’s Gully rush brought them across to Otago, Mr Dewes had with him a horse and dray in which the oonple journeyed from Dunedin to Waitatuna Gully. THE POINT HALSWELL PRISON. In a resolution passed recently by the National Council of Women it appeared as though the prison buildings at. Point Halswell were considered unsuitable for women prisoners. , A correspondent writes that this is not the case. The objection made to the proposed transference of women to this prison is that the site is wholly un, suitable, not the buildings. The position is so bleak that although it has been a tree-planting camp for a great many years, no trees have ever grown properly, and yet it is proposed to place women there, with the idea of them working at outside work, such as gardenings It is pointed out that the honour system is already being tried in New Zealand with regard to men prisoners, eo why not with women? But in such a case the prisoners must -have something to look forward to. If expected' to do gardening they might be enabled to make the gardens •elfsupporting, and as a reward for good conduct sell the produce and have the money put aside for their use after serving their sentences. Even they might be enabled to live more comfortably, perhaps even In separate huts, always as a reward for so many months" or years’ good oonduot. But to do this it would be necessary that a site be chosen for a prison where the climate is ' sufficiently equable to enable the prisoners to see some result for their labours. At Point Halswell such a system would be impossible, because. the prisoners could not raise gardens of the kind desired, and also the climate would probably develop complaints which would prevent them working at ontside occupations. It must be remembered it Is not the younger women, but women over thirty, probably with constitutions already undermined with crime and disease, whom it Is proposed to place on this wind-swept promontory. The matter certainly needs prompt attention, for the present prison buildings are old and unhealthy. The high wall separating the men from the women prisoners shuts out nearly all mm from the latter’s quarters, Moreover, there are no means at present of segregating first offenders from the old offenders, a very necessary thing. The correspondent holies that all women interested in the . welfare of their fellowwomen will take this matter up and endeavour to help their less fortunate sisters to make a new start in life, by giving them something to look forward

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