ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Patea Mail, Volume XLIX, 16 November 1928, Page 4

ITEMS OF INTEREST.

.Miss Emily Mary Kub-'-y, in:;; r:< n oi llii. 1 Hawera Hospital, has beau appointed wom'an superinlundent oi' the Auckland Hospital in succession to Miss Taylor,, who retires early next month. Miss Mercedes Gleitze, the English Channel swimmer, and victor of the Gibraltar Straits swim, made two unsuccessful attempts last week to swim the Irish Sea. She says that she proposes to swim Cook Strait in Xew Zealand. Princess Marie Louise, who was recently slightly injured in a motor accident, is considered the most ‘‘advanced” holy in the Loyal Family. She smokos, has divoiced her husband, ami for some time had her home in a ladies' club in London. She is also an authoress, her book of impressions gleaned in West Africa being one of the best of its kind dealing with that part of the Empire as yet published. Little known corners of the world have had a strong appeal for her. Princess ■ Marie Louise is a cousin of the King, and is one of the most popular members of the .Royal Family. Had they such a thing in their district as that noble band of women known as the Ladies' Guild, a representative of a -back' blocks parish urns asked at the annual meeting of the Taranaki Archdeaconry Board. “If it were not for the ladies wc would have no district,” was the prompt reply. Miss Gissie Hutchinson, of Willonhali, Staffordshire, was recently chosen Carnival Queen at Bilston. She has golden curls reaching to her waist. She was selected by 700 girls, nearly all bobbed, from eight, candidates. All the other candidates had bobbed hair.

The “Sydney Morning Herald” social columns announce the engagement of Marion, younger (.laughter of Mr. T. Lowry, of Hawke’s Bay, Now Zealand, to Dr. Reginald H. Bettington, of Merriwa, Xew South Wales, who was playing with the Australian eleven on Friday last.