NOTES FOR WOMEN

New Zealand Times, Volume L, Issue 11658, 24 October 1923, Page 9

NOTES FOR WOMEN

SOCIAL AND PERSONAL

Mrs d© la Mare arrived from Auckland on Monday on a visit to friends in Wellington. Mieses Perry and Carpenter, of England, who have been visiting the South island, have returned to Wellington. Mr and Mrs Scliloss are visiting Christchurch. Mrs D. O'Sullivan is a visitor to the south. The Misses .Groves have gone to the South Island. Mrs J. W. Wallace, who has been stay* ing at Caulfield House, leave's to-mo'rrow for a visit to Nelson. Mrs A. C. Major returned to Masterton yesterday from Wellington. ■ Mrs Frank Wall, of Maryborough, is in Wellington. Mrs W. Lee, of Redcliffs, Canterbury, is visiting Wellington. Miss V. Hutchison, of Masterton, .is visiting Wellington. Mr and Mrs Gerald Stead have returned to the Dominion from Australia. Mrs Kenneth Salmond, who has been visiting Wellington, has returned' to Feilding. Mr and Mrs W. Letham have returned to Napier from Wellington. Mr and Mrs Sievwright and Mr A. B. Sievwright, of Wellington, are at Auckland. Mr and Mrs W. G. Keid, of Wellington. are in the north. Miss Mary Macfarlane, who some years ago left Sydney ae advance agent in Eastern Asia for a touring musical company, was married in Shanghai (China) about four months ago, and Miss Mary Laing-Heason, a Christchurch girl, has taken over some of her work in Shanghai. Mrs and Miss Allen returned to Carterton yesterday from Wellington. Speaking to a representative of the Wanganui "Chronicle," Mr Gordon McB.eth, the well-known pianist of Wanganui, who has just returned from a visit to England and the Continent, said that of New Zealanders in London, few have better prospects than Miss Stella Murray, of Christchurch, She has a very fin© contralto voice, a fine range, and scarcely any perceptible break. Arnold Trowell, who has probably forgotten that he belonged to Wellington, besides having written many important works, is one of the most eminent 'cellists in the world. Lauri Kennedy is also securing excellent engagements. Of recent debutantes, Miss Esther Fisher received wonderful Press notices for her first lecital in London. Her father is Mr F. M. B. Fisher, late of Wellington.

j MiSs Edith M. Hind, M.A., of the Girls’ College, was responsible for the programme supplied at the meeting of the Cercle Francais last week. She had catered liberally for her audience, a most interesting causerie (by herself), a bright comedy, and musical items being provided. Miss Hind has not very long returned from a lengthy period abroad, and some amusing incidents of her travels made her address most entertaining. Jn the comedy ("Je Gronzne-Moi l”) the part of Lucy whs taken by Miss Hind, other roles being filled by Mesdames Wahren and Dechanet-Mo-Intosh, Miss Anna Whyte, Prof. Boyd-Wilgon, and Mr Greenish: Musical numbers were contributed by Miss M. : Clachan and Miss E. Martin. The death of Mrs A. Wilson, at Auckland, removed another link from the fast-diminUliiiur chain of old Aucklanders. Mrs Wilson was the youngest daughter of the late James Carlton Hill. Her parents arrived in Auckland by the Westminster in 1843. She was born in 184 d at Hillsboro'. Mr Hill was a very prominent man in the early days of Auckland, being a member of the JProvircial Council. In the recent planning of Hillsboro', honour was done to this fine old pioneer, by naming the streets after various members of the family. Mrs Wilson had seen Auckland grow from a village to a city, and ’her comparisons of present-day life in the city with the Auckland qi her girlhood were of great interest. Mrs Wilson leaves a femilv of four—Miss Wilson, of the Auckland Telephone Exchange; Miss E. R. Wilson, recently resigned from the service of the Education Board; Mr L. H. Wilson, manager of the Hippodrome Theatre (formerly manager of the Liberty Theatre, Christchurch), and Miss Jvy Wilson.

Mrs C. M. Luke, of Auckland, is visiting her parents, Mr and Mrs Lacoson, Bidwell street.

Mrs J. Burns and Mrs Jamieson, of Auckland, arrived by the lonic yesterday.

Mrs Fitchett, president of the Women’s National Reserve, Aucklaiid, has arrived in Wellington, and is staying with Mlrs Skerrett, Lowry Bay.

The death occurred at Nurse Strang's private hospital, on Sunday of another old Carterton resident. Mrs OlJiver, wafe of the late Mr Abram Olliver, at the age of 85 years. Six daughters and two sons are left to mourn their loss, namely: Mr T. Olliver (Parkvale). Mr A. Olliver (Kaiparoro), Mrs Matson (Carterton), Mrs Coe ( Featherston), Mrs Maguire (Masterton), Mrs Ph.ee (Gladstone), and Mrs Harland (Inglewood). A loss reprehensible system of training the young i s that advocated by Mr Mee in "My Magazine," when he sees a bright vision of at least five thousand children in all nations being taken round the world to broaden their minds, writes "Shirley" in an Auckland exchange. lie proposed that each country should send a_quota until five thousand were obtained. As regards New Zealand, our land is good enough to keep our minds ‘broadened, if we like them that way, up to thirty or forty. Then, when a lot of us aro beginning to stodge and to slump down, we might get that trip which would "do" us, as wo might phrase it, for the rest of our lives. A ship chartered to take away people who are beginning to get stodgy or have reached that stage should be a great success. It would be easily filled. One could put’ a good number of our Legislative Councillors on the top deck. Ministers who are "loyal" to their department instead of to the public that elects them might also be given their passports. AVo -would include, whatever their age, the committee men referred to by the Auckland Civic League the other day who, according to several lady speakers, showed animosity to the idea of women on school committees. These could go. According to the ladies they do notj like "being aroused from sleep, but they could be taken abroad m a slumbrous condition, seeing that is their natural state." With them l would include the man who allegedly tainted in an Auckland tea room the other day because ho saw a lady accept a cigarette. He needs a long sea voyage, as the doctors would put it. These with others who do not know that midViotorianism is dead might travel to England m order to find out.

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MISS STELLA POWER There was a good attendance to greet Miss Stella Power on her first appearance in Wellington at the Town Hall last night, and the audience was most enthusiastic and became a body of Oliver Twists asking for more and more at the end of the concert. Mies Power showed herself a woman of taste as well as a fine singer, in the gown she wore for the occasion This wt 3 a tangerine silk crepe morocain, made very simply, but cut on most elegant lines. The long draperies were slightly swathed below the waist, and caught on one hip, where they finished with a very long fill! fringed tassel. The back drapery finished in ! a pointed train, and the gown was sleeveless. Instead of shivering with cold as most singers do on our draughty platform, Mies Power donned a wrap and a very beautiful one. It fell from the ehouldenrs in three deep points, and was of dark blue and brilliant green crepe de chine shaded into one another in wide stripes. She also wore a wide bandeau of brilliants low on the forehead and carried a single feather fan in black. After her first item she received some beautiful floral tributes.

WELLINGTON GIRLS’ COLLEGE

Parents and others interested are reminded of the gymnastic display and dramatic entertainment to be held in the . Opera House at 8 p.m. to-night. Dainty dances, graceful gymnastics, elocutionary items by leading artists will furnish a good entertainment. Mary Cooley, an ex-pupil of the college, will feoite. His Excellency the GovernorGeneral has consented to attend, and he will present the hookey colours and basket ball shield won in recent tournaments.