ELTHAM ITEMS

Taranaki Daily News, 23 August 1930, Page 22 (Supplement)

ELTHAM ITEMS

Lady Carncross is visiting Auckland and is staying with her daughter, Mre. Beech y. # -ft * ft Miss A. Blennerhassett, Aucklgn-K : ‘ 9 spending the spring vacation with her mother. .#. # ft . *. Mias Buckleton. Wellington, is the guest of Mre. J. R. M. Gray,. Kapongi. ° ® ft Mrs. W. Wilson is spending a. few days in ILawera and is the guest cf the Misses Buchanan. # « • # Mrs. Hardwieke Smith han returned from her holiday in Auckland. ft * # * Miss Trixie Carter is spending her college vacation . with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Carter, Hunter Road. ft # ft * Mesdames A. Tiplady, D. McCready, J. L. Weir and E. L. Egarr won prizes as the result of competitions held during an afternoon at the residence of Mrs. Peacock in aid of the Eltham Croquet Club's/.funds. Musical items were contributed during the afternoon. # * * * Mrs. G. H. P. Fitzgerald waa hostess at bridge on Tuesday evening. I'hose present were Mrs. Cooper, Mrs. Weir, Mrs. Murray Page (Hawera), Mrs. McLean (Blenheim), Mrs. Jansen wera), Miss Wilson and Miss H. Wilson, # * # # The committee ladies of the Elthim Croquet Club held a very enjoyable afternoon on Wednesday at the residence of Mrs. Peacock. About fifty members were present. Several amusin<r competitions were held, the prizes benig won by Mrs. Weir sour., Mrs. Tiplady 0 and Mi's. McCready.

No Nationality! Princess Ple C: ■ once Aliss Daisy Coinwallis West, j...s no nationality, says an exchange. She obtained a decree nisi against her husband as a German, but before the- decree was made absolute he had become a Pole. She could not get a German passport, as the Germans insisted that she was a Pole, while the Poles, on the other hand, maintained that she was a German at th© time of the divorce. Since she was married to a German (or a Pole), Britain would not allow her to keep her English nationality. Some reformers are hoping that some day there u ill be only “European nationality. ’ J his is the only nationality some women can already claim. A Woman Mayor. Aladame Alarie Eisenberg has recently been elected Alayor of the Cobia Commune, near Targovistc. She is the third woman Alayor in Rumania. A New Door. Since the war, when large numbeis of women were engaged by banks to replace the men who had joined the Army, the number of women so employed has been steadily decreasing, says a London writer. Now, howevei, a new door has been opened to them, and probably the experience of Lloyds Bank, London, where about one-eighth of the staff are women, can be matched by most of the important banking houses. The reason is the rapid mechanisation of bookkeeping, girls ■ being found . quick at, mastering-4hc ■ mew. machines. .