NOTES FOR WOMEN

New Zealand Times, Volume XLIX, Issue 11159, 15 March 1922, Page 9

NOTES FOR WOMEN

SOCIAL AND PERSONAL. Miss Ella Shields and her "ompany are going to Trentham on Friday afternoon, and will give an entertainment to the men there. At the Red Cross meeting yesterday it was agreed to find the motors to take them out. The monthly meeting of the Seatonn Blanch of the W.N.R. v as held on Tuesday at the residence of Mrs Black, when there was a very srood attendance Many matters of interest to the branch were discussed, and the loaders of the sewing circle were elected, namely.—Miss Freeman, Mrs Mackie, Miss Ferry, and Mrs Stewart. . % • Mrs Porter, organiser for the Women’s National Bieserve, left on Monday to visit other branches on the reserve’s business. Miss B. Putnam has returned from a visit to Sydney. * At the Bed Cross meeting yesterday'it Was stated by Mr L. Q. H. Tripp that at present the sum of ‘.£33,000 per year was being spent on comforts for exsoldiers in hospitals, an average of £1 Ss 6d per man per week. This expenditure was between Red Cross, Y.M.C.A., and Salvation Army. He pointed out that the expenditure was out of all proportion fo the needs of the men, and a halt would have to be called somewhere The matron of the W.N.R. Residential Nursery, 137, Owen street, desires to thank very heartily the following donors: —Karori Branch of the W.N.R., Mrs E. T. Taylor, Captain Grant, Mts Roberts, Lower Hutt Branch W.N.R-., Miss Peaely. Mrs McGiU-Nutt, Mr Townsend, Mrs Wra. Ferguson; Mr Johnstone, Mr, Vince, Miss Bennett, Wadestown Branch W.N.R., Mrs Bennett, Mrs Salt, Mrs Johnstone, Mrs Harris. Mrs McArthur, Mrs Bear, Mrs Staples, Mrs BradneyWilliams. Jdiss Mantell. Mr and Mrs Bowater, of Wellington, are visiting Auckland. Mr and Mrs A. W. Dynes, of this city, are visiting Christchurch.

There are now 127 military patients and 20 civilians in the Pukeora Sanatorium, according to the statement made by the secretary at the Red Cross meeting yesterday. A wedding was celebrated recently at St. Mary’s Church, Addington, Christchurch, by the Rev. Canon Bean, when Miss Doris May Simpson, elder daughter of Mrs K. Simpson and the late T. ASimpson, of Sydenham, was married to Mr Jack Forsey, younger son of .Mr and the late Mrs R. W. Forsoy, of Christchurch.

Mrs Wilford is at present in Christchurch. / Mrs Undo Ferguson, of Dunedin, is leaving shortly for Australia and Japan. She was farewelled last week by the Otago Women’s Club, of which she is the president.

Mrs Holford (Sydney), who has been the guest Of Mrs E. P. Webster, in New Plymouth, is now in Wellington. Miss M. Dell, of New Plymouth, is visiting Wellington.-

Mrs G'.'.B.’ Bullock is. on a visit to .Christchurch.

" Mr and Mrs Macarthy-Reid and Mr and Mrs W. Blundell are staying at Warner's, Christchurch.

The engagement is announced by an exchange of Mr H. G. Roy Mac Kay, only son of Mts H. Mac Kay, of Wellington, to Miss G.„I. Boyce, eldest daughter of Mr and Mrs W. J. Boyce, of Papanui.

Mrs W. McKenzie, of Cartorton. leaves shortly on a holiday visit to Sydney. Many old friendsjwill learn with regret of the passing away■"SF’HSfTS Parr, Coote road, a resident of Napier for forty-seven years (says the Napier “Telegraph”). She arrived in New Zealand by the ship Queen of the North in the year 1874. The deepest sympathy will be felt for her family in their sad bereavement. . She leaves four surviving children, Mrs K. Cameron (Napier). Mrs Barton (Wellington), and the Misses Alice and Celia Parr.

Recent arrivals at Christchurch in- ! elude Mrs and Miss Gawith (Mastertbn), j Miss M. Perry- (Mastertbn), and Miss Perry (Wellington). - - To celebrate the anniversary of George Washington’s birthday, on February 22nd, whioh is a general holiday in the United States, the English-Speaking Union held a hall on that date at the Hyde,Park Hotel, London. . Lady Cynthia Mosley was the hon. secretary of the i-ball committee, and among the general committee were the Duchess of Atholl, the Duchess of, Rutland, the Duchess of Sutherland, Marchioness Curzon, Countess Haig, Viscountess Birkenhead, Viscountess Gladstone, Dame Margaret Lloyd George, Mrs Asquith, ahd Mrs George Harvey, the wife of the American Ambassador, .1 Sir Edward Elgar, O.M - ., gave away bis daughter, Miss Carica Irene Elgar, at. her wedding to Mr Samuel Henry Blake, at St. James’s Church, Spanish place, London; on January 16th, at which barely a dozen people were present. The Rev. Father Valentin officiated at the simple service, id which no special music was included, and the bride wore her travelling costume of blue serge, with a brown satin hat covered by a hrr.-yn lace veil.

Miss A. W. Spence, who is retiring from the teaching profession after fortysix yeaW service, thirty-five years of which has been spent on the staff of the Richmond school, is leaving behind her a record which must stand unique in the history of the Dominion teaching profession, says the "Lyttelton Times. - ’ During her long term of service Miss Spence has never been absent from her duties one single day on account of illness. She is a woman of high ideals, possessing all the traits that make for a successful teacher. She has left her imprint upon the lives and characters of her pupils. The inspectors’ reports received year by year have all testified to the skilful and capable manner in which she has always carried out ter duties. As a mark of esteem the householders and old scholars are uniting to express their admiration of Miss Spence’s i work.

The marriage of Esme Sidey, eldest daughter of Mr Arthur M. Sidey, Dunedin, to Howard Moore Glazebrook, of . Clive, Hawke’s Bay, was celebrated in First Church, Dunedin, the-Rev. Gra- ■ ham Balfour officiating (says the Dunedin "Star”). The bride entered by the aisle on hey father’s arm, the organist (Mr Galway) playing Parry’s bridal march , She was attended by the following bridesj maids Miss Lorna Sidey (sialer), Miss I Milly Glazebrook (sister to the bride- •! groom), and Miss Dorothy Maeandrew (of Wellington), and Lorraine Sidev and , Edna Hobbs (cousin of the bride) as traini bearers. Mr Howard Glazebrook, with : Air David Dunotfn 1 (of Hawke's Bay), Mr Arthur Adam (cousin of the bride), and Mr Norman, attended the bridegroom.

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RED CROSS WORK. MEETING OF WELLINGTON EXECUTIVE. Hr T. Hunt presided at the monthlymeeting of the Wellington Red Cross executive, held in the Had Gross rooms yesterday morning. Others present were ■Lady, Luke, Hesdames Adams, Blundell, Moorhouse, and W. Nathan, Hon. Dr Collins, Messrs Tripp, Barnett, Shirtcliffe, and Wright, Apologies were received from Mrs J. P. Firth, Mr Moorho.use, and Mr Veitch. A letter was read from Dr Nansen making an appeal for the Russian famine fund, and asking if the Now Zealand Red Cross would not follow the lead of the Australian body and donate at least £2OOO to this fund.

The chairman stated they had replied eaying the matter was under consideration. Dr Collins stated that the matter had come before the Dominion executive, which had recommended that the Red Cross in each centre ask the Mayor to call a public meeting. If this was done and a public appeal made, the Red Cross members could assist. It was pointed out in ihe letter that the mitigation of suffering was one of the foremost plank© in the peace programme of the Red Cross.—lt was resolved that’ the chairman approach the Mayor and ask him to call a public meeting. A letter from the secretary of the Waipukurau Red Cross was read regarding the bowling green at Pukeora Sanatorium. About JB4OO had been spent on making this, partly Red Cross money and partly private subscription, and the green was now unfit for play.—lt was resolved that the chairman and Mr Shirtcliffe go into the matter. A letter of thanks was read from the secretary of the Wanganui Nursing League, which had been given the motorcar provided by the Red Cross for the hospital there.. This being no longer needed, the car had been sold,- and <S93 15a 6d had resulted for the Nursing Lcttgtus A letter was read from the. secretary of the Soldiers' Restroom at Waipukurau, asking for a grant to carry on, also giving details of expenditure. <■ Members questioned whether the expenditure was justified, as only a few men used the room, and plenty of recreation wao provided at the sanatorium. Mr Tripp pointed out that thd expenditure on comforts and entertainment of soldiers was so great that a halt had. to be called and economy effected somewhere, and if there were only a 'few men receiving benefit from these rooms they were not justified in granting the amount required—some £l4O. Mr Shirtcliffa_agreed that only great use of the rooms justified the expenditure. —On the motion of Mrs Nathan - it was resdlved to ask for details of the members using the rooms and the amounts expended. The views of the Waipukurau sub-centre should also be obtained; ' A return by the treasurer, Mr Wright, showed a statem'ent pf apaouhts spent during eleven month’s, from April, 1921, to February. 1922, inclusive, which amounted, to £6330 Bs. The hospitals supplied had been Trentham, Pukeora Sanatorium, Mental Hospital, Porirua, Red Cross, Waipukurau, and Cook Hospital, v Gisborne. The chairman read a letter from the Customs Department stating that, according to the request of the Red Cross, lantern slides would be admitted free of duty. A letter, from the .Department of Put>. lie Health - i.tbfS Trtntham. Military Hospital would be taken over by the civil authorities on th* first of next month, and asked if the Red Cross would hand over the equipment -provided by the society there, as had been done in other hospitals.—This was agreed to. ... It was decided that the two billiard table* in the Red Cross Club at Trentham be re-covered. It was also decided to have the ceiling whitewashed. The question of the Red Crbss peacetime collectors’ work wa§ disqussed.and. details settled. Tho amount collected from March 81st, 1921, to January 30th, 1922, was .£7ll 5s 9d. A resolution from the Dominion executive, that no further issues of clothing be made to soldiers leaving hospitals except in special cases of recommendation by the matron or doctor, was read by the chairmail afid endorsed by the meeting. ” ’

WELLINGTON BOYS’ INSTITUTE. The ordinary monthly and annual general meetings of the - ladies’ auxiliary, of the Wellington Boys’ Institute and S. A. Rhodes’ Home for Bovs were held on Monday afternoon at the institute building, Tasman street,- Wellington. There were present— Mesdames Hislop (president) in the chair, Moorhouse (hon. president). Bell Ahon. treasurer), Wilson. Hamilton, Brown, Niven, Troup, McGowan, Christie, and Parton (hon. secretary), and Miss Gilchrist. Apologies. Wore received from MeSdames Meier, Moor, and Stanton, and Miss McLeod. The matron reported that there tiro, at present thirty boys in residence at the boarding establishment who are all in good nealtli. The director's report and statement " sliowb that the boarding establishment does not pay its way by any means, and it is confidently anticipated'that if this fact is known by the benevolent public a further measure of support will bo forthcoming for this deserving object, the upkeep of Which so much depends on gratuitous support. Any assistance at all will be welcomed by the ladies’ auxiliary and managementContributions in cash and kind are gratefully acknowledged from Mr EL G. Brown and Mesdames MacDonald (Fentherston), Carr, Christie, Meier, Me. Gowan, Moorhouse, Troup, iWilsou, Hamilton, Hislop, and Parton. Votes of thanks were accorded the newspapers for their kind consideration in publishing reports of meetings, etc., which helps so much to keep before the public the doings of the institute. At the annual general meeting the following officers were elected for the ensuing year, viz. .—Hon. president, Mrs W. H. S. Moorhouse; president, Mrs J. Hislop: vice-presidents. Mesdames McKerroy, Hamilton, and Christie; hon. secretary, Mrs W. A. Parton; hon. treasurer, Mrs Geo. T. Bell; committee, Mesdames Troup, Moore, Campbell, Remington, Brown. Cotton, Wilson, Meier, McGowan. Stanton, Watkins, and Niven, and Misses Gilchrist and McLeod. The annual general meeting of the institute will be held at the insitute building, Tasman street, on. Tuesday. March 21st. at 8 o’clock p.m., and a hearty invitation to be present is extended to all sympathisers. The rooms will be, open for publio inspection from 7 to‘B p.m., when demonstrations of the work done for the boys of the city will be given.

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CHILDREN’S PLAY CENTRE. WOMEN’S LETTER TO CITY COUNCIL. The following letter, signed by N. E. Coad (president) and R. Magill (lion, secretary), from the Women’s National Council, has been sent to the chairman of the reserves committee of the City Council :■—• Sir, —The Women’s National Council is strongly of opinion that the time is long overdue for the establishment of a children’s play-centre in the congested areas of the city. Large numbers of children- from these areas attended the play centre which was organised by the Women’s National Council for the holidays, and the experiment showed convincingly that there is a crying need for a play-centre in this particular district.

Again, the Women’s Council would point out that the City Council spends a great deal on sports grounds for adults —a very wise expediture too—but it maintains that the needs of the children are entitled to equal consideration. After all that has been said on this subject, there is no need to labour the reasons as to the value of such play-centres. In the large cities of the world they are recognise] institutions, and our own. Auckland possesses a particularly fine one. It is claimed for these playcentres that they tend to reduce juvenile delinquency, and the Wellington probation officers testified to that effect when discussing rhe Wellington experiment. The Women's Council, therefore,. requests the City Council that the site ou Adelaide road, on which the old tramshods once stood, he equipped by tlie City Council as a permanent chikllon’s play-centre. ' This site serves the congested areas, and the children in the district can reach it without paying tram fares.

For details, re equipment and cost we refer to the excellent report of Mr J. G. McKenzie (director of reserves). The better the equipment, the better the play-centre of course, but, as times are hard, the full amount need not be purchased at once. An outlay of £3OO would provide nearly everything that is necessary. But there must be .permanent expert supervision, for without that the centre would lose much of its value A paid supervisor is more important than expensive equipment. Hoping that your committee can see its way to advocate this play-centre.

ST. JOHN AMBULANCE BRIGADE. The annual picnic of the Wellington corps took place last Saturday at Worser Bay, Seatoun, when a large number of members and friends gathered together to enjoy the day. The Worser Bay Swimming Club placed their dressing* rooms at the disposal of the brigade, which enabled many of the company to enjoy a dip, and. thanks are due to them- for this kindness. After an excellent repast, Mr H. H. Seed, assistant-commissioner, welcomed all present. Mrs K. Preston, lady superintendent of Wellington South Nursing Division, spoke a few words. On Monday evening the first meeting of tho corps for this year was held,, a'nd a large number of members attended.' Before the business cyimmenced Mr H. H. -Seed announced that he had -received acknowledgment of. the honour awarded to Miss M. L. Rpbie'sdh, lady. superintendent . Wellington Nursing D ivision, who, .is now honorary serving, .’sister. ofthe Order of StV John, and also - to Mr J. P. Hislop, superintendent of Wellington 'Ambulance Division, who is now non. serving brother of the Order, and he had great pleasure in handing these decorations to the recipients. First aid in squads’ was then proceeded with, and great keenness and smartness during the work showed that the members “had not forgotten anything during the short vacation from practices, and it is the hope and wish of the officers that this efficiency will be maintained-, during the whole season.’ r - - - - •

The’ next meeting of the corps takes place at Petone, when improvisation in street accidents will be the work of the evening. -The need for this important work is only too apparent every day. YOUTH AND AVIATION.

People who auestion the nearness of the time when flying will be a commonplace of everyday, life ought to be forcibly taken to a ichildren’z lecture on some aspect or other of aviation, says the “Westminster Gazette.” They., would soon cease to be doubting Thomases. Judging only by the audience at *he annual juvenile lecture of the Royal Aeronautical Society, it is very apparent that the younger generation nre outstripping their elders ‘in their attitude to the new, swift and safe means of transit. Girls form 30 per cent, of such, audiences,. and they, as well as the boys, are eager to examine models and ask questions when the lecture is over. Tt is. surprising, too, the number of questions whioh show the mind of the rising generation to be in the-direction of civil rather than military aviation. To visit overseas relatives is the motive behind so manv of the questions put to the lecturer in confidence when the children swarm round him at the close of the formal proceedings. It is much the same with prison audiences. Yes, lectures are permitted in prisons, nowadays, and no one can hope for a more, eager and interested audience than one lecturer on flying had in Wandsworth and Wormwood Scrubs Prisons. There the inmates are mostly first offenders, boys and youths whose minds nre bright and alert. One boy by his questions showed that he know more about the helicopter, tile type of soaring machine not yet perfected, than did the lecturer! He wanted a pair of wings qt his owfi. not to travel as a passenger in an aeroplane built for twenty.

A WOMAN COMPOSER HONOURED. Dr. Ethel Smyth, the English composer, was oreated a Durne of the British JSmpire at the New Year. “The most musical human being except Wagnor, that lie had ever met,” was an abbreviated appreciation of Dr. Ethel Smyth, given a year or two ago by ope of the foremost exponents of modern music.

Dr. Smyth has for some time been recognised as, without doubt, our leading woman composer, and the honour which siho has now accepted is but'a tardy recognition of talents of no usual order, says an English writer. It was no le«3 a master than Tschiakow.skv. whom she met in, the days before she uad given, to the world some of the foremost music of her time, who wrote prophetically of tho young student of the Leipzig Conservatoire, that Ethel Smyth )vas “one of the few. -womparntively few, women composers who may bo seriously reckoned among the workers in (he sphere of music.” She also had the good fortune in these days to enlist the sympathies of tho groat Brahms himself. Reverting, to her musical output, Dr. Smyth has tho distinction of being the first woman to compose a grand opera. This was “The Wreckers,” produced under brilliant auspices before King Edward VII. at His Majesty's Theatre, after it had been hailed as a work of merit in Leipzig and Prague, and won considerable praise from the musical critics. But before she gave “The Wreckers” to an expectant world, an opera fantasia had been composed and Performed in Waimar, and a second “Dor'Wald,” in'.Berlin, the later winning recognition in five other Gorman cities before it was presented to her compatriots in" London. - As n writer Dr. Smvth lias demonstrated that it is not onlv in the world of music that she has shone. In a book of Ininrcssions. published In the early part of last year, she told in a humour- - our, vivid and exuberant manner of her experiences in meeting with eminent people with whom she rubbed shoulders at Court—notably the Empress Eugenie.