NOTES FOR WOMEN

New Zealand Times, Volume XLVI, Issue 10541, 18 March 1920, Page 9

NOTES FOR WOMEN

SOCIAL AND PERSONAL. Mr and Mrs W. Crowe have returned from a holiday in the south. Mrs Bucholz leaves next -week for a visit to Australia. Miss Lukin will be a passenger by the same boat. Dr and' Mrs Shand have gone south for a trip.

Miss Gertrude Efetolle Roberts, A.T. C.L., only daughter of Mr and Mrs W. J. Roberts, of Bournemouth (late of Christchurch, N.Z.), has recently been successful in passinc the metropolitan examination held at the Royal Academy of Music. London, and has obtained the diploma as a lincentiato (L.R.A.M.} in pianoforte. Mrs Beauchamp, of Wellington, is visiting friends in Masterton. Mrs Elizabeth Johnston, who passed away at her residence, School road, Yaldhurst, on Wednesday, was, with her husband, the oldest resident of the distriot, having- lived there for over fifty-three years. Mrs Johnston, with her parents, arrived in Lyttelton bv the ship Glentannor in October, 1857. She was married to Mr William Johnston in May, 1868, and they celebrated their golden wedding two years ago.

Mr and Mrs Guy Williams, of "To Parae," returned to' Masterton on Tuesday night from. Wellington.

Mr and Mrs D. W. Duthie are visiting the West Coast. The members of the W.C.T.TT: Convention will make a deputation to the Minister for Justice asking that women police be appointed, as they are convinced of the necessity for these. The seafarers' concerts, that are given bi-weeklv retain a great popularity at the Sailors' Friend Society, Tuesday s being an extremely enjoyable one, under the guidance of Mies Troon. The performers were the Madames Mueller and Vare. the Misses Esau, Feo Smyth, Mueller, Troon, and-Messrs Boyd, Troon, Price, Clark. Cranev (Orari), Doyle. Mrs Vare was at the piano. "Out of Joint" was the title of Mr Moore's temperance address. Yet again the sailors became members of the temperance society. A fireman sent the prize for tho competition as a thank offering for happy evenings spent in the mission, it went to a fellow sailor. Light refreshments were provided by the hostess. At the meeting of .the committee of the Wellington Automobile Club, at the request of Mrs Gray it was decided to take the Taranaki street branch of the kindergarten school for a motor drive on .the. 20th instant. Members desiring to give assistance" to this outing please communicate with the secretary, Mr H. J. Stott.

Mr and Mrs William Wesley, of Auckland, celebrated their diamond wedding a few days ago. Mr Wesley, who is 83 years of age, was formerly foreman of works in the Railway Department.

The wedding was solemnised by the Rev. W. Shirer. at St. James's Church. Newtown, on Thursday last, of Miss Catherine Elizabeth (Lily) Francis, second daughter of Mr and Mrs John Francis, of Adelaide road, to Mr Robert Harry Perrett, eldest son of Mr and Mrs H. Perrett, of Newtown. The best man was Mr Ernest Perrett. Miss Dora Francis was the bridesmaid. After the wedding a reception was held at Dustin's rooms, Cuba street, -where many old friends were gathered together. Both the bridegroom and best man are return- <-<\ soldiers, the former being a Main J'odv man, and having earned a commission on the field. Later .that... evening Mr and Mrs R. H. Perrett left for a trip to the Waitomo Caves and Wanganui river.

Miss Margaret Cody, the first woman journalist in the Press .Gallery of the House 'of Commons, has many athletic records to her credit. • She swims, boxes, rows, plays hockey and .tennis, practises ju-jitsu, and enjoys flyinc Five years ago she swam across Belfast Lough, a distance of six and a half miles, only one man having previously accomplished the same feat. "Get there first," is her motto. A Girton girl, she took, various honours, and then decided to go in for the rough and tumble of journalism. To-day she competes -with the liveliest men 'in Fleet street, and very often gets there first! -. Mr and Mrs H. S. Malcolm left Wellington recently to take up their residence at Auckland. Mrs Malcolm 'will be remembered as a solo dancer of special «rraoe and charm, who assisted at many Wellington patriotic functions. MrsCF. Vaillance, "KJahumingi," MJasterton, has returned from Day's Bay. Mr and Mrs Downie, Vho have been the guests of Mrs\ A. R. Bunny, of terton, returned to Wellington on Monday.

Miss Blair Hislop, who is on the nursing staff of the Wellington Hospital, arrived in Napier on leave by the mail train on Saturday evening.

Tho death occurred in Duntroon Private Hospital, Leichhardt, New South Wales, recently, of Flora Graupner, whom old playgoers will remember with affection. Speaking of her, the "Sydney Telegraph" says:—Miss Graupner, who was in her fiftieth year, was one of the most popular of the Williamson group during the period when Ida Osborne, Violet Varley, Florence Young, William Elton, Charles Ryley, Howard Vernon, Knight Aston, and Henry Bracey first delighted Australian audiences. In the i-riginal production of "The Gondoliers," in Melbourne, she appeared as Gianetta. Maggie Moore was the Duchess and Elton the" Duke of Plaza Toro. Then she was seen as Ejlsie Maynard in "The Yeoman of the Guard," with Violet Varley as Phoebe and George Lauri as Jack Point. Phyllis in "lolanthe" and the j cantiniere in ."The Old Guard" gave her [further opportunities. She maintained her hold on the theatre-going public for many years. The Royal Comic Opera Company, with which Miss Graupner was first associated, played a record season of thirty-seven weeks in Melbourne, staging in that time, among other operas, "Dorothy," "The Mikado," "La Mascotte." "Marjorie," "Pirates of .Penzance," "Princess Ida," and "Pepita." Clara Melville, Frances Saville, and Elsie Cameron were also in that notable gallery. Miss Graupner was a daughter of the late Mr Hermann Graupner, of. Melbourne. Some of the prosent-day light opera and musical comedy artists could learn much from the "school" to which she belonged.

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