THE SOCIAL ROUND.

Sun (Christchurch), Volume V, Issue 1360, 22 June 1918, Page 7

THE SOCIAL ROUND.

Mrs and Miss Fletcher (Weld.) Street) have returned from Duneain. Mrs T. Guthrie Blnkely (Christchurch) is visiting Wellington. Mr and Airs T. G. Russell, of this city, are leaving for a trip to America shortly. The Misses .Price (Norman's Road) are spending the winter months in Auckland. Mr and Mrs Arnaud McKellar returned to Christchurch by the Maori this morning. .Mrs T. 10. Taylor (Cashmere Hills'! returned home to-dav after a trip to the North Island. Mrs A. W. Rutherford, .inn. (Brookdale) ciime into town last evening, and is staying at Warner's. Miss Laura Tahart, who has been visiting Wellington and Wanganui, returned to Christchurch this morning.

Dr am! Mrs i'aterson (ChristehurelD, who are staying in Auckland after a trip to Rotorua, intend going on to the Bav of Islands for a visit to the township of "Russell.

. The weekly meeting of the Avonside Nursing Division was held on Thursday evening, when there was a good attendance. Mrs Rhodes, lady superintendent, was in charge, and members had good practice in bed-making, bandaging, and drill. Airs .1. R. Duncan (Riecarton) entertained a party of friends at a very enjoyable party on Thursday, in honour <if her son's birthday. The function took the form of a gift evening in connection with the Sailors' Christmas Gift Fend, ami a sum of ££ 10'/- resulted. Refreshments were served in the draw ing-room, the decorations being in rod, white, and blue. Games, competitions, and music passed the time quickly and merrilv.

Miss dean A. Gibson, daughter of Dr .7. Gibson, of Hobart, passed through A uck la ml last weed; en route to England, and spent her time in the northern city looking up old friends. Miss (Mbsen is going to Englaoid to be married to an Australian ollicer, and made one of a party of live on the same boat all going to England on a similar mission. Captain and Mrs Leslie Miles are going north to-nighl after a visit lo

relatives down south, followed bv a few iU<\-s in Cliristehurch. ..Miss Florence (irylls, of Byod Sintion, Upper .Miivcliison, Western Australia, loft Auckland a few days ago for England. Miss Grylls, who is on leave 1 from the Scottish Women's Hospital, is to rejoin her unit immediately she arrives. While in Auckland she was the guest of honour at an " At home" given by Mrs Todd-Smith. During the afternoon Miss Grylls gave some vivid wordpictures of that tragic Serbian retreat in which Dr Elsie Inglis ami her helpers played such an heroic part. The horrors of that retreat, she said, no tongue could adequately tell. Mv P. ('. Raphael's eoncerl party gave a bright little entertainment in the Soldiers' Ward at the Hospital yesterday afternoon, items also being given, by kind permission of the, Fuller management, by Miss Maud Courtnev, .Miss Winifred La France, and "Mr (.''." The other artists included such favourites as Mr and Mrs Farquhar Young, .Miss Marie Peaice, .Miss Cicely Audibert, and the promoter of the concert, Mr F. ('. Raphael. Mis 11. Fed; played the •Kcompanimonts in helpful ami sympathetic style. The event was thoroughly enjoyed by the soldiers, who appointed a spokesman to express the feelings of appreciation with which it was viewed. Three cheers for all who had assisted concluded the entertainment.

Nurse Chappell is still Vmsily engaged giving eiluca! ion:>l lectures under the auspices of the Social Hygiene Society, and :is time goes on the attention nn»l interest aroused are becoming;keener and closer—a very encouraging and hopeful sign. Particularly hopeful is the earnest and intelligent interest displayed by the girls of Hie community, for it is to them, largely, that reformers must look iii their efforts to lay a solid foundation for national right living. Nurse Chappell addressed a of girls at the Y.M.C.A. rooms on Tuesday, two meetings at Oxford on Wednesday, a meet in» of mothers at the Hast Belt "Methodist Schoolroom on Thursday, and a meeting at Opawa yesterday. The campaign will finish on July 0, after v.'hieh Nurse Chappell goes north to undertake similar campaigns in Wellington and Auckland. The " Harbour Lights Girls' Club" is the name of a new organisation that has just sprung into being in connection! with the Cashmere Hills Sailors' Guild. The club is composed of girls who are anxious to help with the forthcoming effort of the guild with regard to Christmas gifts for sailors, and as they ai'3 almost all business girls, with no daytime leisure, they are going to give up one evening a week for the purpose. Miss Coombes has kindly given the usof the Henrietta Tea Rooms as a dona tion to the club, and the Mrs! meetingwill be held there at 8 o'clock next Wednesday evening, when the girls will select their own president and other officers. This is the first time a club of this kind has been organised to sew for the sailors, and the Cashmere Ladies' Guild is to be congratulated on having such a useful auxiliary band to further their efforts on behalf of jollv Jack Tar. Dr Jessie Maddison, who has been in England for some IS mouths, doing war work, returned to Chri'stchuivh this morning. She intends resuming her practice in the Dominion. Dr Maddisuii, who was engaged in surgical work at Wharncliffe Military Hospital, was much impressed with the women's work a' Maine, ami thinks that New Zealand women should insist on doing war work in the nature of actually cclieving men. An army of women to do tin' work of the camps could be established as in I'll.gland. The women have their own lines and officers. The VV.A.A.C.'s, who an now everywhere, began as a women's legion, by voluntary enter prise. Having proved their usefulness, the Goveri 'nl took- them over and formed the corps. They are organised on military lines, and, if guilty nl' any misconduct members are taken into custody and sentenced to detention, just a . the soldiers are. So are the " Wrens" (the Women's Naval Service), and even whore there are women in uniform in Kuniand.