PERSONAL AND SOCIAL.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 19278, 16 September 1924, Page 5

PERSONAL AND SOCIAL.

Mrs 11. Raine, of Mornington, left yesterday on a visit to Suva. • • • Mrs C. E. Shallcrass, of Timaru, is paying a short visit to Dunedin. Miss Doris Wheatland has returned to Dunedin after spending several weeks at Mrs M'Kinlay’s, Tuapeka Mouth. * * * Dr and Mrs M'Kellar and Miss Blomfield have returned from a short visit to Timaru. * ■* * Mrs Macbeth, of St. Clair, has returned from a visit to Christchurch. » » ♦ Mrs H. Dodgson has gone north in order to compete in the ladies’ golf championship meeting at Hamilton. j Mrs Davies left Dunedin yesterday to spend a holiday at Mrs M’Kinlay’s, Tnapeka Mouth. The following officers and delegates of the Dunedin W.C.T.U. have left by train for Oamaru, where the Otago District Convention of the union is to be held;—Mrs Hiett, district president; Mrs Macartney, district treasurer; Mesdamcs Huttor, Duncan, Malcolm, and Twose, Misses Powell and Begg, delegates. •* i • The engagement is announced of Bsme Gilbert Martin, daughter of the late Mr and Mrs James Martin, of Parnell, Auckland, to Dr James I. It. Gray, son of Mr and Mrs James Gray, of Port Chalmers. • • • The engagement is announced of Miss Vera Scott, third daughter of Mr and Mrs ,T. Scott, Ilaukapuka, Geraldine, to Mr Colin W. Don, eldest son of Mr G. W. Don and the late Mrs Don, of Carisbrook, Dunedin. • * * The appointment of Mrs S. M. Park by the Government to be a member of the Dunedin High Schools’ Board of Governors constitutes a new departure and represents a singular honour, Mrs Park being the first Otago woman to be granted such a position. • * * Mrs Marshall Macdonald entertained the Misses Shand, of Timaru, at a bridge party on Saturday evening at her residence. High street. The hostess wore a gown of fuchsia-colonrcd georgette prettily beaded, while the Misses Shand -Were dressed in black luce and old rose crepe de chine respectively. The guests present, were Mcsdames G. Maclean, D. Ramsay, G. Callaway, Matheson, and E. Hazlctt, Misses M, Reynolds, Webster (2), and Graham. • • • Miss Ensor, of the Majestic Mansions, St. Clair, gave a bridge afternoon for Mrs Stringer, of Auckland, on Friday. Spring (lowers made pretty decorations. Ensor wore a becoming gown of blue glace silk relieved tvith white, and Mrs Stringer was in black and white with a smart hat to match. The guests other than Mrs Stringer were Mesdamcs Stock, Hilton, Isaacs, Falla, de Clive Lowe, and Marshall Macdonald. * * * The Dunedin Hospital Guild which supplies clothing to the James Parnell Rest Home at Warrington and to the children’s ward of the Public Hospital, will not hold its twelfth and final meeting as was previously decided, as it has filled all the orders required of it, and used up all the material to hand. The year has been an excellent one, 243 garments having been made during the session by an attendance averaging 39. Most of the garments have gone to the inmates of the Rest Home, but others such as dressing gowns, petticoats, and warm underclothing, are in possession of the children at the Hospital, and are proving a great boon. A young-people’s dance of much interest was held last evening at the homo of Mr H. Brasoh, London street, as a finale to the vacations of his two children, Leslie and John. The rooms were gay with the gold and blue of spring flowers, and the happy spirit which prevailed among the dancers was charming to witness. John Brasch and his sister Leslie were host and hostess, the latter being prettily frocked in soft-blue satin. The guests present were Misses Alison and Joan Halsted, Mary Ritchie, Margaret and Betty do Beer, Margaret Cotterell, Isobel Reid, Margaret -Begg, Biddy Laing, Norah and Ruth Phillips, Denise and Yvonne Chamtaloup, Mario Vipan, and Kora Dreavcr, Masters Jim Ritchie, Dick and Stephen Reid, Aleo Begg Peter and Graham Riley, John Dunlop, George Memlow. Dick Phillips, and Jim Gilkison. a • • On Thursday evening the pupils of Miss Noeline Parker gave an entertainment in the Y.W.C.A. Hall, Moray place, in aid of the girls’ department work. The programme provided was a very pleasing one, so that the large audience present was amused and diverted during the whole evening. Misses Nori Davidson, Edna Smeaton, Olive Erridge, Etta Kirkwood, Louie Wneathail, Florence Erridge, Rita Etheridge, Jean Williamson, Gracie Davidson, Jean Pickard, G. R. Driver, Eileen Cohen, Hazel Ness, and Vickie Haig, and Master Ivan Davidson contributed recitations; Misses O. Restieaux and yera White sang solos, and Misses Jean Pickard and Non Davidson a duet, “Saucy Sailor Boy” Other musical items were a piano solo by Miss Flossie Pickard, a song and picture (“Bubbles”) by Misses Jean Kirkham and Joan Pickard; an action song (“Puzzles”) by Misses J. Pickard, Davidson, and Wreathall; and three delightful concerted songs, entitled “A Japanese Proposal,” “Fairy Tales,” and “Jingle Johnnie,” by the junior girls. The histrionic portion of the programme was very capably executed, and as so many of the performers were only children much credit is due to Miss Parker’s training. Misses Etta Kirkwood and Olive Erridge gave a dialogue, “Goblin and Fay” ; Misses G. Driver, E. Smeaton, and J. Williamson contributed the playettc “King and Miller of Mansfield’ ’; and a further playetto, “Peggy’s Joke.” was very well handled by three senior girls. The last item was a scona, “Sandman,” given by the juniors, with Ivan Davidson taking the title part, and was a suitable finish to an evening’s delightful entertainment. • • • Miss Winnie Begg, Timaru, as spending a few days in Invercargill, and is the guest of Mrs jil. Grieve, Sheffield street. On Friday evening Mrs S. Bowman gave an enjoyable young peoples’ dance at her residence, Dunottar. The hall and dining room, where the dancing took place, were decorated with japonica and violets, while red japonica adorned tne tables in the billiard room, where supper was laid. the hostess was gowned in wine-coloured, figured morocain; Miss Bowman looked charming in pale-green figured taffeta, ana Miss Tui Bowman wore apricot taffeta. The guests present were Misses May arid Lilian Haggitt, Margaret Anderson Ella Barron Ena Matheson, Joyce Munro. Nance ’Moody, Agnes Neill Greta Stevenson ami Katlilcen Butler, Masters Watson. Kei'd, Wales (2), Prydc, Anderson, Munro, Matheson, Guthrie, and Moody. • • ♦ Yesterday afternoon, at her residence, Highgalc, Mrs W. Grey gave a joyous little party for her two children, Natalie and John, before their return to school after the vacations. The rooms, decorated with spring flowers and streamers were a dainty setting for the children present, who with their games and dancing, con Hived to loojc like a swarm of human butterflies, with softly-coloured wings. Natalie Grey the hostess, was in pale blue silk The ’names of those present were Misses Margaret Elder, Chrissie and Zoe Hudson Joyce, Worthy, Betty Begg, Mary M Rae, Jessie Neill, Joy Barrett, Dorothy Andersorn Win. Finlayson. Audrey Meek, and Nan Hart, Masters Graham Neill, Bilim Lory, Reg. Hudson, and Carl and Bruce Henderson. # Last week the Christian Union of Otago held its annual camp at Waikouaiti. From Saturday, September 6, to Saturday last the campers had an ideal time, and in perfect weather were able to combine spiritual with bodily recreation in an excellent way. Twenty-six girls were pro sent, from'the Otago and Southland High Schools and from Archerficld and Columba College, and in charge of these were five camp- officers. Misses Moncricff (travelling secretary for the Christian Union), Moody, Miles, Dalrymple, and Turnbull. Mrs John Johnson was camp mother, and her sym-

pathy and understanding combined with her love of fun and laughter made her an ideal mater familias. The days were divided into a regular time-table. In the mornings jafter camp prayer the four Bible Study Circles that had been formed met with their leaders and perused the volume set, Annie Smaill’s Study Book. Memory of those mornings with their eager questioners and sympathetic instructors must live with some of the campers as the most beautiful of all times spent during that happy week. Study finished with noon, and the rest of the day was devoted to amusement. In the afternoon there were picnics, games, and hockey and basket ball matches, or, as on several occasions, long and enjoyable walking tours. In the evening were amateur concerts of all descriptions, when hitherto unrealised talent was iften brought to light. Eeach night closed with camp prayers, and then there was ■ostful sleep in rooms whose quaint and .vierd names were a test of the imaginative powers of their inmates. Such weeks as those have a wonderfully uplifting influence upon our girls. It is a pity that more of them cannot be organised. Ladies contemplating spring decoration should inspect the new and exclusive designs in fadeless silk Madras muslins, nets, and other furnishings, just opened up by C. and W. Hayward (Ltd.), the Art Furnishers.—Advt.