NOTES FOR WOMEN

New Zealand Times, Volume LI, Issue 11932, 12 September 1924, Page 5

NOTES FOR WOMEN

80CIAL AND PERSONAL

The Duke ard Duchess of York have just given: a pair of beautiful silver candlesticks to Westminster Abbey in memory of. their marriage. . Miss Ethelwyn Kirk leaves to-day for Sydney. Miss Heaphy has gone to Greymoutli on a visit to her mother. Miss Olive Malcolm has returned from a short holiday to the West Coast. , Miss laohel Robertson, Wellington, is the guest of Mrs Brownlie, Middle Valley, Canterbury. _ Miss Evans, of Wellington, who lias been on a visit to Napier, has returned home. . Mr and Mrs Cher, of Wellington, are on a visit- to Napier. Miss Wilson, of Wellington, who has been making a short stay in Napier, returned home this week. Mrs Aokland is leaving next week on a visit' to America. Mrs W. B. Fisher (Wellington) has been appointed by His Majesty the King to be a Lady of Grace of the Order of St. John of Jerusalem in recognition of her services on behalf of the Bed Cross in England during the Great Wot. ! Mrs Fisher is the fifth New Zealand woman to be so honoured. Captain and Mrs B. S. Park, of Remuera, Auckland, left for England by the e.s. Buaihine. They will be absent from Now Zealand for about two years. , The engagement .is announced of Miss Jean JQntrican, only daughter of Mr 'J. C. Entiican, Stoney Falls, Mount Albert, Auckland, to the Rev. James Baird, of Wellington, son of Mr and Mrs ; J. Baard, Kilkeel, County Down, Ireland. Mias Fussell, of Christchurch, is at present in Wellington. Mf and Mis P. Nathan, .Wellington, axe the guests' of Mrs J. Ballin, in Christchurch. . 1 . . The death of Mrs E. Fortune, for many years-, a resident of New Plymouth, took place on Wednesday morning at the residence of her daughter, Mrs J. Bull, Oroata. The late Mrs Fortune was SO years of age. ■ Mrs Haggilt, of Christchurch, and her daughter are visiting Wellington. Miss Tolmie, of Dunedin, is paying a visit to'. Wellington and . returns south next week. A very pretty and popular wedding was solemnised at St. Matthew’s Church, Masterton. The contracting parties were Mies Olive Alma, King, Jbdngest daughter of Mr and Mrs K. King, of Lansdowne, ana Mr George Henry Murdoch, youngest eon bf.Mr and Mrs J. Murdoch, of Dunedin. The Rev. Bullock officiated. . Mrs Charles ' Bean and Miss Loraa Bean, of , Merivale, Christchurch, are visiting Wellington. Miss Constance Bethune, of Christchurch, has returned home from a visit to her sister, Mrs Cecil Howden, of Heretaunga. Miss Manifold, of Christcharch, who has been visiting her sister, Mrs WL. Morgan, of Wellington, has returned home. Mrs/ Frazer, of _ Portland crescent, gave a pleasant little party yesterday morning in the Pioneer Club rooms in honour of some friends from Dunedin, who are visiting Wellington. Tea was Set in the reception room, the long table being decorated with vases of pink heath. . Mrs Frazer wore a coatfrock of tan colour and small hat, with feathers to match. Among the guests were: Mrs Haggitt (Christchurch), Miss j Haggitt and Miss Tolmie (Dunedin), j Miss Holmes, Mrs White (Dunedin), Mrs Bollard, Mrs - Coleridge, Miss Downie Stewart, Mrs A. Johnson, Miss McGregor, Miss Bunting, and others. A deputation from the conference of the National Council of Women, recently held in Dunedin, waited on the Prime Minister yesterday morning to ask if the Government would not bring down a bill next session providing for the removal-of all sdx disqualifications from women. The deputation was in. troduced by Mir T. K. Sidey, M.P., and consisted of delegates from the conference. Mrs Cadoux (Auckland) spoke of the need for more women patrols, and Miss Basten (Auckland) asked what was the position when a bill which had passed the House of Representatives three times was rejected each time by-the Legislative Council. It was not; ia good example of demo cratic government, and tended to make a laughing-stock of our Legislature. The Prime Minister answered sympathetically to the last speaker’s argument. The consisted of Miss A. Kane, Dominion president, Mrs Forde, Dominion secretary, Lady Luke, Miss England, Mrs Cadoux and Miss Basten. of Auckland. Mrs Cadoux and Miss Basten left afterwards by the I midday train on their return to Auckland. St. Matthew’s Church, Hastings, was the scene of a. pretty wedding last Wednesday afternoon, when Bov. R. T. Hall united in matrimony Mr Leslie Liley, son of Mrs and the late Mr Henry E. Liley, Havelock North, with Miss Alma Masters, youngest daughter of Mr and Mrs A. Masters, Selwood road, Hastings. The bride, Who was given aiway by her father, was charmingly attired in satin, trimmed with silver, with a train lined with shell pink satin, beautifully beaded. She was attended, as bridesmaid, by Miss Ruby Riley (sister of the bridegroom), daintily dressed in heliotrope satin, with hat and shoes to tone, whilst Miss Sybil Red path (niece of the bridegroom) acted as traihbearer, and Miss Molly Burge (niece of the bride) as flower girl. Mr Ralph Liley (brother of the bride groom) discharged the duties of best man Mr L. Fell presided at the organ. At ..the conclusion of the Ceremony, the wedding breakfast was held at the residence of the bride's parents, where upwards of 160 guests were hospitably entertained, and, subsequently, Mr and Mrs Liley left en rente 'fetr Christchurch, on their honeymoon, amidst general congratulations and good wishes, the bride wearing as a going-away dress- a grey serge costume, with hat to tone.

Mrs and Miss McKay have returned from a visit to the Islands. Mrs Howard, of Auckland, passed through Wellington yesterday on her way to Christchurch. The Rod Cross Peace Time Committee intend holding a bazaar in aid of their funds early in December, and a meeting to discuss arrangements is being held in tho rooms next Tuesday afternoon. 1 A Press message from Dunedin I states that at a special meeting of the Otago Hospital Board yesterday Miss Mabel Thurston, matron of the Pukeora Sanatorium, Waipukurau, was appointed matron of the Dunedin Hos&and‘ director of nursing in the district. | In the newly-issued! English Directory of Directors 178 women figure as directors of public companies, which is 33 more than in 1923. They are in all kinds of businesses which have never •been specially' associated with women —engineering and shipping concerns, breweries, collieries, mines, tea and rubber companies. Seventy-five per cent, of the women directors are married, and in some cases they represent family interests. * For the first time in the history of Hereford Cathedral the ceremony of admitting a woman to holy orders was witnessed there in June. Miss Thornton, of Much Wenlock, Shropshire, was presented for ordination as deaconess, and the ceremony was parformjed by the Bishop of Hereford. Herei ford Cathedral dates from the year 676, the see ‘being one- of the oldest in the country. Miss Ellen Melville (states a London borreepondent) has already met some of her legal brethren at fixtures- arranged for the members of the Canadian and the American Bars, and found herself among friends of her own' profession as well as New Zealanders now in London.' Miss Molyillo has since gone to Christiania to a conference of the International Federation of University women, and! on the evening before leaving for the Continent, she was a guest at Lady Aster’s party to leaders of the feminist movement. Miss Melville arrived in London at the very height of the season’s rush of conferences, and has found it impossible to do more than a tithe of tho fixtures to which she was bidden. Lady Astor invited her to lunch to meet some of her legal confreres from across the Atlantic, an opportunity for more satisfying talk than is provided bv public conferences which ' Miss Melville was glad to seize. The. many friends of Mrs Cash ion, of Masterton, will regret to learn of her death which took place on Wednesday evening after a snort illness, Mrs Cashion was born in Limeriok in 1848, and was one of the early pioneers or the West Coast, where her husband was stationed for many years, subsequently being transferred to Masterton in 1891, where she had resided ever since.- Her husband predeceased her about twenty years ago, and a son died in Christchurch during the influenza epidemic in 1918. She is survided by a family of three, Mr A. Cashion, sub-editor of "The Worker,” Sydney; Sister Mary Magdalene, "Sisters of Mission,” Eltham, and - Miss Alice Cashion, of-Masterton, to whom the sympathy of a large circle of friends will he extended. In order to encourage matrimony in France, tho Friendly Society of Parisian Youth has organised a "marriage fair” at Ghatou. Three hundred and twenty-eight young men and women left Paris with a band at their head, went to Chatou, and started the Fiances’ Fair by an al fresco lunch, followed by a hall. Each of them had previously filled up a form, giving deI tails as to their situation and prospects, and making known their ideas regarding their life partner-to-be. In return for these forms each person received a numbered badge. If, at the hall or elsewhere, a young woman was attracted by the- wearer of a certain number she could find out all about ■him by simply quoting his number. Most of the men wanted wives who were “fond of home,” while the principal stipulations made by the girls were that their prospective husbands should have safe jobs and satisfactory incomes. Labour-saving cottages, where nearly everything is done by electricity, have just been erected near East Hoathly, m the heart of peaceful Sussex. They have been designed and built by Mrs Annabel Dott, the energetic. wife of the rector of Barnes, Middlesex. In Grqy Wood, a beautiful estate of. 60 acres, which she bought for that purpose she has erected 17 cottages, which have their own- power-station, electric light, electric laundry, electric washer-up, refrigerating plant, communal bakehouse, electric irons, and electric kettles. Nine of the cottages are in one quadrangle, and these have the advantage of a central hot-water supply. Although the houses have the latest labour-saving devices they havo a delightful old-fashioned appearance, with thatched roofs and panelled rooms. Mrs Dott engaged the carpenters, bricklayers, and other workmen. The Earl of Liverpool, formerly Go-vernor-General of New Zealand, has accepted the office of president for the Lincoln county of the St. John Ambulance Association. . While in New Zealand His Lordship was president of the Wellington centre, und was much interested in ambulance and nursing work. Tho Countess of Liverpool will be remembered as patroness of the District Nursing Guild of St. John, which has done so much for the siok poor of Wellington during the . past twenty years. Both local organisations are in. tegral parts of the historic Order of St. John, whose knights were the guar dians of the mare internum up to 1796, and whose successors created the nv.dem British Red Cross. It is notified in the "Londbn 'Gazette” and also announced by the leading newspapers of the United Kingdom that the King has been graciously pleased to sanction the appointment of Stella Heyward, Mrs N. B. Fisher; as a “Lady of Grace” of the-Order of St. John of Jerusalem (in England). Mrs Fisher, who resides at 198, Tinakori road, Wellington, is the fifth New Zealand woman to he made a Lady of Grace of the English branch of the international Order of St. John, and has won this exclusive distinction for war work in London.