The Social Round

Southland Times, Issue 23024, 19 October 1936, Page 9

The Social Round

The Lady Editor will bo pleased to receive for publication In '‘The Social Round" each day items oi social or personal news. Such items should be sent In promptly and should be fully authenticated. Engagement notices must bear the signatures of both parties. Correspondence is invited on any matters affecting, os of interest to. women.

Mr and Mrs J. W. Smith, Hollywood Terrace, Miss Daphne Smith and Mrs Robert Collingwood have returned from a holiday in the lakes district. Miss Frances Edie, post mistress at the Edievale office, has received an appointment as assistant in the children’s convalescent home, Dunedin, and has left to take up her new position.

Mrs Gordon Charters, Glenlapa Station, Wendonside, who was the guest of Mrs B. W. Hewat, Russell street, for the week-end, left by the express last evening for Christchurch to attend the Rangi Ruru sports. Mrs W. E. Saunders, Lower Hutt, and her daughter, Mrs L. V. Phillips, who are attending the annual conference of the Methodist Women’s Missionary Union of New Zealand at Ashburton, will visit Dunedin, Queenstown, and Invercargill before returning home. Miss C. M. McLay, Dominion Youth organizer of the Women’s Christian Temperance Union, who has spent several weeks in temperance educational work among the Maoris in the Bay of Plenty and Rotorua districts, is now staying in Te Awamutu fol' the district convention of the union.

Miss Norah C. Chinnery-Brown, who left Auckland for England in 1916, has been appointed lady superintendent of The Florence Nightingale Hospital for Gentlewomen, 18 Lisson Grove, London. She began her duties last May. Miss Chinnery-Brown is the seventh from Miss Florence Nightingale, who resigned in October 1854 to go out to Sentari, in the Crimea. Mrs W. Handyside, Hollywood Terrace, Mrs F. G. Hall-Jones, Lennel, Mrs J. D. Speirs, Dee street, Miss P. B. Pilcher, Spey street, Miss M. Stout, Filleul street, and Miss C. Smith, Princes street, are members of the Invercargill Ladies’ Golf Club who leave today for Dunedin for the New Zealand women’s golf championships which will be played at Balmacewan from next Thursday until October 29.

The annual ball of the Edievale Rifle Club took place in the Crookston Hall. The president, Mr W. Graham, was responsible for the lighting effects, the different coloured lights and blue and gold streamers making the hall very attractive. A large number of visitors

and local residents danced to music provided by Gordon’s dance band (Roxburgh). Mr K. Kydd was master of ceremonies. The lucky spot waltz was won by Miss M. Kempthom and Mr M. Dunbar. After supper Mr Graham thanked all who had assisted to make the ball a success especially the women supporters of the club. The trophies won during the year were presented. The Edie Cup went to Mr P. Finlayson and the Herbert Cup to Mr A Sim.

Princess Juliana of Holland, whose engagement was announced recently to Prince Bernhard zur Lippe-Biester-feld, is the only woman in Europe who is a direct successor to a reigning monarch, states The London Daily Telegraph. Her husband will receive £26,000 a year from the privy purse of Queen Wilhelmina, and Princess Juliana’s income after her marriage will be £32,000. Prince Bernhard, who is 25, is a nephew of the last reigning Prince of Lippe, a small State of 469 square miles. Since he finished his university education a year ago he has worked with I. G. Farben, the German dye trust. He is a keen sportsman. The House of Lippe ceased to reign in 1918, when the republic came into being in Germany. Hong Kong has an evil all its own, and Miss Edith Picton-Turberville has been sent out by the British Government Commission to investigate, and, if possible, abolish it. Miss Turberville has had much experience in social work in England, and, moreover, was for six years secretary for the Student movement in India, so that the commission considered her fully equipped to tackle the problem of “Mui Tsai.” Its translation, “Little Sister,” sounds innocent enough, but it covers a form of child slavery not to be tolerated, since it has spread from China to British territories in Malaya. Under its system little girls are sold into households, where they work without wages until they are of marriageable age. If, however, the future husband changes his mind, the child either continues indefinitely in slavery, or is turned loose upon the community, according to her worth. The system has led to such evils that the British Government is taking definite steps to eradicate the movement.

Interest in home science as a means of improving the living conditions of India has been shown by the fact that several New Zealand graduates have gone to posts in India, and under the Indian Scholarship Fund two Indian teachers have come to New Zealand to take courses in this subject at the Otago University. The 1936 scholar is Miss Checha Eipe, who has just completed her course in Dunedin, and will leave for India very shortly. Miss Eipe

is vice-president of St. Christopher’s College, Madras, a large missionary training college, which trains teachers for all India. After taking a degree in natural science at the University of Madras, she went to Toronto to study home science, and took her M.A. in that subject. She is now responsible for all science teaching in the college. Miss Eipe has also taken an interest in public affairs, is a J.P., and a member of the Y.W.C.A. board of directors in Madras and has been chairman of the Student Christian movement for India, Burma and Ceylon.

On Saturday evening the Country Club was beautifully decorated with blossom, tulips, narcissi, pot-plants, ferns and native kowhai for the social given by the Invercargill Chamber of Commerce in honour of the overseas delegates who visited Invercargill in the course of a Dominion tour after the congress held in Wellington recently. The chairman of the Invercargill Chamber, Mr J. H. Reed, and Mrs Reed received the guests. Mrs Reed wore a wine-coloured lace frock with a sash of matching velvet ribbon, and a shoulder spray of freesias. During the evening items were given by Mrs B. W. Hewat, Mr Charles Martin and Mr A. Credgington. The visiting delegates were Sir Montague and Lady Burton, Miss M. Fairfoot, Mr and Mrs Granville Gibson and Miss Gibson (Leeds); Mr and Mrs B. Sugden (Yorkshire); Mr and Mrs W. M. Birks (Montreal); Mr and Mrs S. H. Taylor (Tunbridge Wells), the Hon. J. W. Downie and Miss Downie (Rhodesia); Mr and Mrs William Shires, Mrs P. Ainley (Huddersfield); Mr and Mrs W. Mansfield, Miss Wadman (Sussex); Mr and Mrs Hedley Miller, Miss Tollenaar and Mr F. W. Parsons (London); Mrs E. Koning (Southport); Mr and Mrs J. T. Cook (Reading); Mr W. B. Darker and Miss Darker (Brisbane); Mr H. E. Round (Hobart); Mr A. Saunders (Bulawayo) and Mr J. A. Aiton (Derby).