NOTES FOR WOMEN

New Zealand Times, Volume XLVI, Issue 10601, 28 May 1920, Page 9

NOTES FOR WOMEN

SOCIAL AND PERSONAL. The Hon. W. D. S. anil Mrs MacDonald received news hy cable that their Kecend daughter Ella was married yesterday at Singapore tb Mr 11. A. Davison. Miss Yarrall, of Wellington, is visiting Christchurch

Airs C. 11- Sligo, with her infant son, has -returned to Auckland, after a tvo months - visit to her mother (Airs W. Ualsoi in Wellington.

Mr and Mrs Llewellyn Jones will arrive in Sydney shortly, oii route for New Zealand, where they intend to settle. Airs' Ulewcllyn Jones is a sister of Lady Mac-. Connies, and has been abroad for many years.

Miss Stella Aston, who was trained" aa; a nureo. in the. Wellington Hospital, left, for America by the Moann on her last trip. Alias Aston hopes to gain further experience in her profession in the United States, and expects to return to New Zealand in about twelve months* time.

An 'interesting wedding took place at, the Sheffield. Church, Canterbury, last week, when Mies Kate McMillan, niece of Air and. Airs A. Eraser, of Waddington, was married, to Air John Logan Baxter, of AVaddington.

Mrs S. Beck has resigned her position: on the Wellington Hospital and Charitable Aid .Board owing to having taken up duties which will prevent her giving full attention to the work of the board. , The resignation was accepted, with regret at yesterday's meeting ot the board. Mr J. W. AlcEwan statedthat Airs • Beck had shown a marked aptitude for hospital and charitable aid' work, and Mr G. J. Petherick - remarked' that she had evinced. a very live interest in the work of the charitable aid business, which was sorry to lose her cervices;

On’Saturday evening a dance is to be held in Sydnov street (in the houee formerly owned by the late Dr. James), which is in aid of the Upper Huit Orphanage, where betweep 300 and 400 parentless children are being oared for. There will be musical items and a fancy fair, 'and various attractions, including children’s fancy dancing, and prizes for, comical competitions, while ample pre- ‘ parations have been made for dancing. Supper will be served in the large conservatory. Intending patrons should 1 ring phone 2965, arid the promoters hope there will bn many attending, so helping to, swell the funds badly needed for the children.

The . of Sisters Dora Weaver and W. Waite from the staff of the Wellington Hospital were accepted with regret at a meeting of the board held yesterday, and it was resolved that a special letter of thanks be sent to Sister Weaver, who, it was stated, bad carried out her duties as sister in charge of the fever block most satisfactorily. The appointments of -Sister M. Mitchell, as sister in charge of the massage department and masseuse,- and Sistor At. B. Gould, as masseuse, on the staff of tho Wellington Hospital, have been confirmed.

Dunedin is making a public canvass for signatures to a covenant against extravagant purchasing. The movement against the high coat of living is being energetically pushed forward bv the women of. the. southern city. -

It is stated, says the "Daily Mail," that the Wentworth estate, Virginia Water, which is to be sold, may possibly be acquired for tho Prince of Wales., One of the best known estates in Surrey, it practically adjoins Virginia Water and Windsor Park, and extends to over 1800 acres. It was for many years the residence of the late Countess de Morelia, widow of Count de Alorellu, a Spanish field marshal, who also lived there. The items rendered before the 'era farers by Mrs J. W. Carr and party at Tuesday’s concert- at the Sailors’ IT-iond Society were received with much applause and encores freely demanded. The performers were Airs J. W. Carr, tho .Misses Tarqubar, Brown, O'Brien, and Lewis, and Messrs J. W. Carr, Gerald Bell, Twiss, Chisholm, Smythc. Air J. W. Carr was at the piano. Ut Moore spoke on "Sober by Act- of Parliament," and again pledges were taken. .Prizes for the competition came from tho hostess and host, and went to the Port Nicholson. Thanks for gifts came from the Home for Blinded Sailors.

Speaking of tho prospective visit of Aliss Flora Sandes to Australia, tho "British Australasian” says;—"Tho story of Lieutenant Flora Sandos’s work , tor Serbia is an absorbing one. Here is a short outline:—She left London during the first few days of the War with seven other nurses—a private party taken cut by Madame Grovitch. For three months she served ih a hospital, then, at her own expense, having seen what the need was, she returned, and, bv a letter in the Press, raised -iSOOO-. With this ebo bought hospital stores, which she,- with another nurse, Aliss Simmonds, took cut to Serbia. At the request of the Serbian Ked Cross -in Nish she took stores to Valjwo, where she worked through the typhus epidemic till Augukt. 1915. She and Miss Slmmonds were tho only English nurses in tho town during three or four months of this terrible time. Both of them were attacked by typhus. Later, having returned, when railway communication was cut ofi by tbe Bulgarians, she joined a regimental ambulance, end when the retreat . began Miss Sandes joined the 2nd Regiment as a soldier, at the request of the divisional commandant. Her promotion to tho rank of corporal came on January Ist, 1916, at Durazzo. In April she was Made a sergeant, and she went with the regiment to Corfu and Salonika. In Atay she went home, on a doctor's certificate, but in July she was back again in time tor tho start of tho offensive. She fought in every battle until / November, 1916, when she was wounded and left for dead on the field. An officer ’ and ‘ two men rescued her, and for a time she was m hospital. Six mpnths later she rejoined, and fought in the trenches. Having been invalided homo for some weeks, she collected funds for Serbia, and lectured in France. In May, 1918, she was once more bn the battle front, where she remained —with an interlude to have a nineteenth piece of bomb extracted through the victorious offensive. Wnen with the Army of Occupation in Hungary Miss Sandes was promoted to secondlioutcnant, in which capacity she has since June, 1919, been training recruits and doing tho ordinary work of ml officer. To the above may bo added Hie fact that Lieutenant Sandes has written a book containing a most vivid picture of her adventures with the Serbian Army—one of tho moat readanlo books issued on this aspect of the war.

Mrs W. *F. Massey will open a sale, oi work to bo held in the Presbyterian Church, Xelburn, this afiernoon, an L ai r ot the AVomeu’b National .Reserve Residential Nursery.

Mrs Henry AVood (Auckland) and Mrs J. Eyrq are .staying with their mother, Mi’s St. George, Masterton. Aliss Chalmers, of Wellington, is visiting Maslerton.

Mrs linloe, who has been staying with relatives iu Maeterton, lias returned •■to Wellington.

Airs E. AV. Tate has returned to Wellington from a visit to tho AVairarapa. Over 100 Auckland women have now pledged themselves to follow the lean given at a recent meeting of women,, when a number -of -those present signed an undertaking not to purchase ce*’ taul goods- above a stated price. t here has been a’great deal of comment that tho prices have been" fixed too high, x-emarked a well-known leader in women’s civio circles, the other day, but what wo wanted was to get the wealthy women ,to set an example. Wo maintain that if the,top prices come down,, other prices will follow, fur no woman, however fond of dress, is'quite foolish enough not to know something of .relative, values when it comes to the matter of buying.” A very, successful ball was held by the Alasterton Golf Club in the Alumc’.pal ??all on Wednesday evening. Ihe decoration took the form of a largo Pagoda in the centre,' and Japanese lanterns) Afesdames P. Gordon and Guy Williams were responsible. Tho British “Australasian” of March 25th saj's Alany -Australian’ aiid I Now Zealand,, artistes are giving their (services at the concert to add to the funds for tho memorial shrine at Wellington, Now Zealand. Recent large donors to this fund have been Mr lludyard Kipling, .Sir Heath Harrison, Aliss Hutton, and Messrs Scrimgoour.

A wedding of interest was celebrated bv Bov. H. G. Blackburn at St. Peter'si Church, Palmerston North, on Wednesday, whan Air Charles -Fitt, of Fitzhcrbert. West, eldest son of Air J. Fitt. of Palmerston North, was married to Airs G. A. Davis. A largo number, of guests assembled at the residence of Air Fitt, at Pitzherbert, in tho evening, to celebrate the happy occasion, tho customary toasts being proposed arid honoured. IF is worthy of not© that the staff of the Feathersfoh Military Camp raised a, sum'of no less than .£B3 for the : relief; of Mrs C. D. Wiley and family." 1 Tho; late Air Wiley was for some years on the staff at the camp, and was employed, there at the time lie met with tho fatal. train accident. The Foatherston Alilitary Camp staff are entitled to hearty congratulations on the splendid efforts they exerted on behalf of a late comrade’s family, says a Wairarapa. achange. • - A pretty, wedding was solemnised at--the Sxxcred Heart Church, Addington, i Christchurch, on Wednesday, Alay. 19th, : the contracting parties being Miss Nellie S. Dempsey, youngest daughter of Airs B. Dempsey. Wairarapa, North Island, and Air William Benson Pope, third sun of i Air and Airs Pope, Clarence road. Hie- - carton. The Rev. Father O’Connor was!| the officiating priest.

NEW ZEALANDERS AT HOME. LONDON, March 25. Air F. J. 'Fitzgerald, ;of Te Kuitl,- Tins arrived in London.

Aliss Al. McNab, of Blenheim. N.Z., is staying at Hampstead. Alisa Roma Al. Compton, of Dannevirke, is staying at Wandsworth. Mias Mary M. Stephens and Aliss Gilkiso’n have arrived from Christchurch. Mr J. N; Lowry, of Okawa station, Hawke’s Bay, is at Jesus College, Cambridge. Air Shayle Gardner, of Auckland, is appearing in tbe "Sunshine of tho World” at the Empire Theatre. ■ ■ Dr Richards, D. 5.0., who arrived in London via Panama to do post-graduate study at tho Loudon hospitals, expects to bo in England about a couple of years. Mr Alaleonn Fraser. Statistician to the N.Z. Government, has returned from a visit to Paris, during which he inspected various systems in France of tabulating and collating statistics. Airs Fraeer is still in Scotland, where her husband will join her shortly, to visit friends and relatives.

Air Arthur W. Spragg, who was recently discharged flora the New Zealand Expeditionary Force, has joined the staff of the New Zealand Associated ’Picks. 85, Fleet street. Before he went Kv New Zealand he was on the staff of the “Cambridgeshire Times.” ■ Alajor R, F. Fothnrngham; of Dunedin, who was to have taken troops out to, the East early in February, will riot be able to leave before the end of April, for Mombasa, 8.E.A., ns he has bad to undergo operations at the Alillbank Alilitary Hospital. Before going into hospital. Alajor Fotheringhrim was with.the army of occupation .on the Rhino. - Sir Thomas Alnckepzie responded to-tbe toast of the visitors at tho dinner given by tbe Highland Society at the Savoy on Alondnv night. On Tuesday he attended a lunch given by the Governing Body of tbe International Labour Office (arranged by Sir Alfred Alorid on behalf of tho Government) at the Carlton Hotel; and on Wednesday evening bo propos'd the toast of tbe Arcrcantilo Alarine at a dinner at tbe Connaught rooms, liven under tho ausnices ot tho Institute of Naval Architects.