NOTES FOR WOMEN

New Zealand Times, Volume XLVIII, Issue 11046, 1 November 1921, Page 9

NOTES FOR WOMEN

SOCIAL AND PERSONAL. | . Mrs K, C. Hoare left for Christchurch on Saturday. Professor and Mrs Hunter are also visitors to the South Island. Mr and Mrs J. Gamble, of NewBrighton, are staying at the Empire Hotel. Professor and Mrs Adamson went to Christohuroh at the week-end. Mrs and Miss Beat, of Wanganui, are staying at the Midland Hotel. Miss M. G. Pratt, who is engaged to Mr Benjamin Bradley, of Mayfield, Sussex, England, returned to her home in Christchurch, after a delightful trip. She has spent the last two years in Ceylon, France~and England with her cousin, Mrs ft. O. Fowler. Miss Eileen Clifford, after playing during the past week with the Amateur Operatic Company in Wellington, has left to join Miss Rosemary Rees’s company tonring New Zealand in “The Mollusc.’’ At the Roman Catholic Church at Bannevirke last week the marriage of Miss Annie Ivy May Gibbs, of Te Rehunga, to Mr Albert Kreft, of Milton, took place. The bride was given away by her father. Miss Kathleen Gibbs attended her sister-as bridesmaid. Mr T. Horan, of Xiongburn, was best man. Mrs J. F. Atkinson, • formerly of Auckland, and now. of Mortlake road, Kew, England, has been entertaining her friend, Miss Rita Vaux, of Wellington, who has been making Quain Mansions, Queen’s Club Gardens, her Lon- , don residence during her tour of the United Kingdom and Europe, which will probably continue till November. Miss M, Heywood, of Selwyn House, Mount St. John, Auckland, is staying at the Halcyon Chib, in London. Mrs Bucihanan-Young, of Auckland, who has been staying at Owym-y-Slo, Carnarvon, North Wales, will he over in England until May of next year. Miss Gladys M. Fathers, of Kdlbirnie, Wellington, who was actively engaged with a number of war organisations in the Dominion, is on a visit to Woodland, Harrogate, and will be in England till December Ist. Mr and Mrs G. E. Leighton axe visiting Christchurch. The Rev. George Bowen and . Mrs Bowen, who have been visiting friends and relatives in Christchurch and Canterbury, will , return to England next month. Mr ,Bowen is a son of the late Sir Charles and Lady Bowen, and has many friends and relatives in Canterbury. . Mr and Mrs J. H. Chapman, of Wellington, arrived in England by the Arawa, and are staying in Gordon sqattre. Mr Chapman is an officer of the Customs Department, and is going to Geneva to take up a position on the staff <*f the League of Nations. / Miss Valerie' Scott,- of Herne /Bay, Auckland, who has had professional experience as a dancer in Australasia and India, is now in London continuing the study of- Russian dancing methods under Madame Seraphine Astafieva, _ a famous dancer and mime of the Russian ballet, says the “British Australasian.’’ Miss Scott has toured the Far East as a solo dahoar under Monsieur and Madame Kuxylo, the former having in the Czariat times been Imperial ballet master' at Warsaw. She has met in London Miss Thirha Rogers, a Wellington girl, who iaajso studying with Madame Astafieva, and who has got on- so well that she made a recent appearance in a Colisseum ballet with Karsavina. Mr and Mrs A. Duncan, who are at the Hotel Rembrandt, Thurloe place, London, sail for .. Wellington on December Ist. Hie engagement is announced of Mr J. C. Mac Lean. son of Mr and Mrs Mac Lean, of Dannevirkre, and Miss Emily Hardinge, eldest daughter of Mr and Mrs Cecil Hardings, of Greytown. After completing her engagement I with the "Walter Johnson Revue Company in New Zealand, and under the Fuller management, Daphne Leigh is to become the wife of Captafh Clipper, of Delagoa Bay, East Africa. Lidxt week will be celebrated the 80th birthday of the twin sisters the Dowager Counters of I/ytton and the Dowager Lady Loch, whose close resemblance which the late Lard Lytton declared greatly embarrassed his courtship, still exists, says an English paper of September loth. Lord Lytton was Viceroy of India from 1876-80, the late Lord Loch—then, Sir Henry Loch.—was Governor of Victoria, 1884-89. In Australia Lady Loch took a great interest in philanthropic schemes and used' often to visit the hospitals, generally without formality. One Sunday afternoon she arrived at the Alfred Hospital, unattended-and unannounced, and introduced herself to a rather startled who happened to be in the entrance hall, “How do you doP My name is Looh.” The wedding of Miss Hilda Pinckney, eldest daughter of Mr and Mrs G. Pinckney, of Glenary, Southland, to Mr Maxwell Deans, youngest son of the late Mr John Deans and Mrs Deans, of Riooaiton, took place in St. Thomas’s Church, Woodbury, on Wednesday. Hie bridesmaids were the Masses Phyllis and Hope Pinckney and Miss Meuraith, cousin of the bridegroom, who were followed by three uttfe fiuten of the 'brido as flower girls. Hie best man was Mr Colin Deane, Mr Roger Johnson and Mr A. H. Hope acting am groomsmen. , The ceremony was performed by the Rev. Dean HarP®t, great-unde of the -bride,- assisted by. the Rev. Harold Purchas, and Mrs Eric Thatcher played the organ. The reception was held at Oran Gorge, the old home which belonged to the bride’s grandfather, the late Mr C. G Tnpp, since 1855. Members of the Women’s National Reserve Association are undertaking a campaign with the object of'' raising funds to purchase flower-stands for sob diere’ graves. It is proposed to secure a uniform clam of flower-stand, and an endeavour is to be made to raise the money required by subscriptions of one shilling.

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CANDIDATES FOR PARLIAMENT. While the women of England still honour those among them whose life work was the obtaining of the suffrage for women, they have not been content to iest on their laurels and not press for further equalisation of civil rights between the sexes. It will be remembered that directly after the extension of the franchise to women several women candidates stood, for Parliament with a view to testing the validity of the law which was said to allow of their election. They found, as was expected, that their candidature was not allowed by the returning officers, and a fresh bill was urged and passed making it possible for women to become candidates - for Parliament. Immediately there was an election several -women stood, though only one. Lady Astor, was elected. The result was not unexpected by the women, for at that time Lady Astor was almost the only one with any hope of election, the fact that she stood for her husband’s late constituency and as a strong support or of the Coalition, as well as her position, giving her a great advantage over any other candidate. However, the women were not discouraged over their defeat at the polls, but immediately began to take steps to secure further women candidates for Parliamentary honours, and in this matter Lady Astor has been a pillar of strength, supporting the movement by every means, not merely by verbal encouragement, but in a monetary way as well as lending ber house with its large reception rooms for meetings, etc. In this connection two committees have been formed, one being a selection committee which is to choose candidates, the other being a finance committee. that is to say, it aims at collecting money for the candidature of •women and is ready to push the candidature of any woman member irrespective of party, monav being used for the purpose for which.it is given; that is to say, subscribers may earmark funds for 1 a particular candidate or pa rty, although the committee or council for which it stands takes no sides. From these committees represent between them the National Council for Equal Citizenship, numbering over three million women among their members, and the joint secretary is Miss Helen Fraser, who is herself a coming candidate for Parliamentary honours. Mass Fraser was a writer of no mean ability, and during the war she was engaged in piqpaganda work in AmericaShe is a forceful speaker, tall and of a striking appearance, and, should . she succeed inner candidature, will be a decided acquisition to the House of Commons. Presiding over the joint committees, we have Mrs Ogilvie-Gordon, J.P., D.S.C., one of the cleverest women in England, thoroughly scholarly- and a brilliant and witty conversationalist. Mrs Ogilvie-Gordon, who was president of the National Council of Women in England, a position she recently resigned (Lady Selbourne now holding it), is a vice-president of the International Council (of which the Countess of Aberdeen is president), and president of the National Council for Equal Citizenship. Mrs OgilvieGordon is a very clever philologist, and. some years ago the University of Jena bestowed an honorary degree upon her for a philosophical treatise prepared by her. She takes a very keen interest in the overseas Dominions, and is wonderfully well versed oil matters of'.public, interest in her own land, so that she would be well fitted to take ber place among the legislators of her country. ' Mrs Ogilyie-Gordon’s activities do not stop at Parliamentary action. As president of the National Council she was concerned not only with the fight for civil and Parliamentary rights for women, but with other work in which women are rightly most seriously concerned, the welfare of' children. The Women’s National Counoil includes among its activities, infant welfare and from the council nos been formed the Child Welfare Exhibition* Committee, which, is instrumental in running a large exhibition for the Child Welfare Conference in conjunction with, the Association of Infant Welfare and Maternity Centres and members representing the National Baby Week Council. Of this joint committee Mrs Ogilvie-Gordon was president for jhe exhibition held in London this year in connection with Baby Week. It was a very large exhibition, embracing feeding, preparing food, treatment of children’s ailments, blind institutes, ailments of ears, nose, throat, physically defective and mentally .defective children, maternity training, mothercraft centres, dav nurseries, and even kindergartens. Lectures were given in the .exhibition on these and many other subjects, and all this quite apart from the conference on infant welfare, which was carried on in the main hall of/ the large Central Hall at Westminster. To stand at the head of such an organisation should give any woman the right to assist in the making of laws .which affect all', these departments. Mrs Ogilvie-Gordon was one of the re-cently-created Justices of the Peace in •London, and increasing work in this direction, also her Parliamentary aspirations, probably made it necessary ter her to resign her position on the National Council of Women, from which she will be greatly missed. HOME OF COMPASSION. CAMPAIGN FOR FUNDS. Over thirty. members of the committee who are raising funds for ..Mother Aubert’s Home of Compassion at Island Bay attended a meeting held ! at, the rooms, 10,, Woodward street, yesterday. Mr J. J. McGrath presided, and reported that all funds that had been received were being deposited with the Public Trustee, who had generously agreed to acoept them, at call, free of charge, and allowing current rates of interest. Mrs Richard Dwyer donated a mag. nificent oolletion of art needlework, which will be exhibited at the Bristol Piano Company’s window,, and ' the proceeds of which will greatly enhance the fund. • ’ . .- Arrangements were completed for a monster jumble sale, to be held at Mrs Curry’s shop, Upper Tory street, all day Saturday , next, where those attending, in addition to* helping the great cause, will be able to purchase