SOCIAL AND PERSONAL

New Zealand Times, Volume LII, Issue 12197, 23 July 1925, Page 9

SOCIAL AND PERSONAL

Miss Sally Williams (Hawke’s Bay) is in Wellington for a visit. At present she is staying with her aunt, Miss Cooper, at Karon. Mr and Mrs lan Johnston (Waverley), who have been here for some months, hare returned home again. Miss Coull, Kelburn, returned to Christchurch with Mrs Leslie Biss, and is at present staying with her. Miss Anderson is back again, after a round of visits in the Manawatu district.

Miss Marion Lowry (Hawke’s Bay) and Miss Marion MacfarlanC (Auckland) are at present at Mount Cook. Mrs Whitcomb (Auckland) is visiting Christchurch. »

Mrs Macarthur and Miss Margaret Macarthur (Canterbury) leave for England quite soon,

Miss Thompson (Dannevirke). is making a stay in Auckland, on her way home from Honolulu. • Dr. and Mrs Drew have returned to Canterbury after some years’ absence, and intend to settle in Christchurch. Miss Horton (Auckland) has just passed through on her Way to Christchurch.

Mr and Mrs Arthur Willey, Hamilton, are now on route to Los Angeles. 'TBejMeft Wellington by the Tahiti on Tuesday.

*: -Mrs Gould (Balclutha) has gone to Daiihevitke.' for a visit to her mother, Mr 4 ' Rope, Miss Olga Gloy, of the Home Science department, Otago University, now studying at Columbia University, New York, is to be congratulated on gaining her, M,A. in chemistry and nutri'tiou. Miss Gloy lias recently been visiting Canada, and in Toronto she was joined by her mother, who has gone Ur the States for a holiday,. , Miss- Q. Wells has returned to Wellington, after being Some' months,! on -the staff of the Masterton Hospital. - .Miss ;. M. Turkingtoa, Dannevifke, Jett- on Monday en route to Los Angeles, California, where she is to be married to Mr V. Ford, formerly of the Dannevirke Post Office, who is studying for Holy Orders. - Miss Xurkington for many years has been an active member of the. Dannevirke Methodist Church, and before leaving Was presented with tng ny. -tbs congregation -to?mark the - esteem in which she ft held,

, An enjoyable evening was spent recently at the residence of Mr and Mrs W. 9. Manshlp to celebrate the coming-of-age of Miss Gladys Black, of Annat. (Die. dining-room was gaily decorated with mauve and lemon streamers and Mloonar, and .a beautifully iced cake, with 21 candles, was a pleasing feature of the table; The guest of the evening wan-presented with a huge gold .key, kf-tor which all joined l in with singing “I’m Twfnty-one To-day.’’ She was the recipient of many beautiful presents.

An incident hitherto unrecorded, revealing that human touch which has endeared the Prince of Wales to unnumbered thousands of South Africans occurred at Capetown. The Prince was inspecting a children’s parade and noticed one little girl wearing medals. “Whose medals?” he asked. “Daddy’s,” replied the mite. “Where is daddy?” the Prince queried. “Daddy was killed in the war.” said the child proudly. The Prince straightaway bent down and lifted up the wee lass and gave her a warm kiss. . , . Mr and 'Mrs L; ; G. . Wood -and family (Ha warden), Canterbury, arrive in Wellington next week. Mrs Wood and the children will join the lonic for Soiithampton. Mrs Wood, who is M. 8., A.B;, of Edinburgh University, is to take , a further course- in diseases of women and children in Edinburgh before returning by the Athenic in December.

At the Bantings Women’s Community Club on Saturday evening) there was an exhibition of many rare and interesting relics of far away years and a curious and varied array of-personal mementoes of famous men and women whose names are half-for-gotten. Old hooks, old. china, the slippers of one famous personage) the rbawl of another, snuff boxes of great ege, which conjured up pictures of splhndid old Englishmen, from , the tune of Elizabeth to the reign of the Georges, with visions of flowered satin knee-breeches, crinolines and curtsies, all combined to’ attract an excitt ed interest from' .the little .crowd.., of visitors. • The Exhibit .whieh^brought to the imagination, most realistically of all, a picture of Englandlong ago, was a copy of the London “Times* of October'3rd, '1798; four shisU in size. At the top of the advertising columns was the following advertiser ment: Grand *'Gtala m hdn r our of lord Nelson's glorious victory'!, over the Frenelt Fleet at-the Mouth of the Nile,’’ etc. There ware many quaint a ridtato resting advertisements in the paper. ' In connection with the resignation of the hon. secretaryship of 'the" Junior Bed Cross, the following appreciation has been published in -the journal:— Senior members .will., remember ..the days of the beginning of the Bed Cross in New Zealand in , 1913, and the amount of work undertaken then by Mißs Nathan, who acted; from the beginning ;aa t honorary secretary, and will also recall the fact that she was one of the New Zealand delegates to the' second meeting of- the Council of the league. of Bed Cross Societies in Geneva in 1922. ,lt was on her return from that conference that she, with a.' clear ■understanding of the work and purpose .of . the. league, and inspired by the vision ofthe illimitable bilities in such a’ work, devoted herself wholeheartedly to the building up of the New Zealand Junior Red Cross. Both juniors and seniors alike will be pleased *to know that, although Miss Nathan* has officially resigned, she will continue to maintain that interest which, in the past, constituted, so, great a factor in the inception, development, and progress of the Red Cross m New Zealand. Miss Nathan has been appointed an honorary life member or the Junior Red Cross. Miss Nathan and the Hon. -Or. W. E. Collins, C.M.G.. M.L.C., are the only persons yet holding honorary life memberships of the New Zealand Junior Red Ctosb. Miss Thelma E. Lissington is the new secretary of the New Zealand Junior Red Cross.