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New Zealand Times, Volume LII, Issue 12198, 24 July 1925, Page 9

Mrs M. Jackson has gone to Auckland for a visit. Mrs Johnson is awav in the Wairarapa. Mrs McLean, who has been in the South Island for some time, is home again. The Dunedin Orphans’ Club entertained their ladies a few nights ago with great hospitality. Each guest cn arrival was presented with the orphans’ ode and a box of chocolates, as well as a charming souvenir programme. At a return golf match between Shannon and Levin the Levin players were Victorious in both men’s and women’s sections. Mr and Mrs Rutherford and Miss Rutherford, who have been in Taranaki, are hack in Masterton again. Mra Eric Bayley has gone to Auckland for a visit. Miss D. Brown is awav in Christchurch for .a week .or two. At the House yesterday afternoon each member had a buttonhole of fragrant pinjc daphne, and a sprig on his desk awaited each absentee, so there was a more cheerful air about the House. Education was the topic, and economics came in for a good deal of attention, and there was praise for the W.E.A., one speaker asserting that grown-upe needed a good deal of education. There seems ■to be a good deal of argument going on in Blenheim over furnishing the new nurses’ home. One member of the board objected- bitterly to the extravagance, and of the people in charge, and referred to certain “gold taps.” He disapproved of the idea that the matron and another official should go to Wellington _ to buy” curtains, etc., as everything should he bought, locally. Then. a lady member of the committee interjected that he had sent away for his own piano. This he admitted, hut was still agsinst the board- sending to Wellington for what they required. At the .monthly meeting of the Alexandra Home Committee feeling reference Was made to the death of Mrs Walter Nathan one of; the home’s kindest friends for many years, and a vote of sympathy with the members of the late Mrs Nathan’s family was passed.