NEW PLYMOUTH SOCIAL

Taranaki Daily News, 30 August 1930, Page 6 (Supplement)

NEW PLYMOUTH SOCIAL

Mre. G. S. Millar and family left on Thursday on a motor trip to Rotorua, Taupo, Napier and Wellington.

Mre. G. Home returns from her holiday this week-end; ■ •' ft . : -ft •

Mrs. Grover entertained at bridge on Wednesday evening in honour of Mrs. Addenbrooke. . , .... * , , • • Miss Eileen Blundell returned from-, a yisit.to. Wellington .on .Wednesday.

■Miss Catherine Moyes is' visiting Palea.

Miss Nonine Griffiths and Mise Margaret Fraser arrived home bn Thursday on term vacation from ‘'Marsden,” Wellington. . ; , ■

ft ft # * ' Mrs. Cruickshank and Hiss Elsie Cnucksliank are spending, the holidays at their cottage at Urenui.

# ft ft W Miss Winnie Webster has returned from Auckland for the vacation and is with her mother, Mrs. George Webster.

# ft > ft ft Miss K. Campbell returns to Taupo to-day after spending the holidays' in New Plymouth.

Miss 0. Firth is,visiting Feilding, and is the guest bf Mrs. Redmayne v

■Miss E. Madeley, who has been the guest of Miss Molly Campbell, left yesterday for Masterton. . • 9 9 9' •. #

Miss Kathleen Buekeridge, Hawera, is the guest of Miss Mary. Thompson. " .■# '■ • 9 ■. 9 . 9 ;

Mrs., T. G. Thomson has motored down to Wellington for a few days.

Hostesses at bridge this week were Mrs. R. H. George, Mre. F. S. Grayling, Mrs. T. R. McQuade and Mrs. D. Blackley.

Mrs. Fraser Jones, Kaipara, ■ North Auckland, is the guest of Mrs. C. Waterston.

**. * * Mrs. Addenbrookc left New Plymouth on Thursday for Ngaere, where she has been the guest of Mrs. Gordon Addcn--brooke, before returning to Auckland to-day. . • » • • Miss Molly Harden, Wanganui, is the guest of Mrs. F. 11. Chapman.

Miss Myrtle Whiteside, Wanganui, is the guest of Mrs. Middleton, Waitara. 9 9 * ft

Mrs. Sangster, who has been the guest of Miss E. Hine, has returned to Stratford.

The Misses Margaret and Sheila East entertained at bridge on Wednesday evening. The prizes were won by Miss J, 0. Cameron and Mr. K. Tompkins.

Mrs. S. W. Shaw entertained at tea yesterday afternoon. ■' * * * •

Mrs. C. H. Burgess entertained all those who assisted on Daffodil Day at afternoon tea at the Victoria League yesterday.

Mrs. T. G. Hirst, who has been spending several weeks in Auckland, with her daughter, Mrs.. Hugh Fraser, has returned to New Plymouth,

Miss Read and her guest, Miss P. •Seymour,. have returned 'from a. visit to Mrs. W. Good, Strathmore.

Mrs. 11. P. Thompson, who has been the guest of Mrs. A. R. Thompson for ■several months, has left for Dunedin.

Miss Alice Jeffries is visiting Wellington and is the guest of her sister, Mre. .Sullivan.

Miss Maisie Saunders, Wanganui, is a. visitor hero and is the guest of Mrs. N. B. Bellringer. Mrs. J. M. Stephenson is spending a week in New Plymouth at the home •of her mother, Mrs. Greatbatch. * . # #’ # Miss Lottie Valentine left on a visit to Wellington bn Thursday. «#T # " Miss I. McLean, New Plymouth, is visiting her mother, Mrs. T. B. McLean, Wanganui. * # 4 * The Misses Forbes, who went to Auckland to see their parents, the Hon. and Mrs. G. W- Forbes, off to England, are visiting New. Plymouth before returning to their home at. Cheviot. # # # # ’ and Mrs. W. B. Wilton, New Plymouth, are spending a few days with Air. and Mrs. J. B. Wilton, Palmerston North, on their way home from. Nelson. #»# » # * Aliss Dutton, Dunedin, who was attending the .Free Kindergarten Conference in Wellington, has conic to New Plymouth on a -visit, - * * Mrs. Knight and Miss Lucy Knight, Tataraimaka, are visiting Ilawora. * # * The president (Mrs. 0. H. Burgess) was at home to members of the Victoria League in the club room on Friday afternoon. The room was gaily decor-, ated with abundance of choice spring blossoms. Miss A. Harmer and Miss Molly Trigger, Lower Hutt, who have been staying with Mrs. A. Payne (Puniho), will return on Monday. Alias F. Payno, -Sydney, is the guest of Mrs. A. Payne. Miss Hazel Heckler will return on Monday to Palmerston North after spending several weeks in New Plymouth.

Mrs. and- M!iss\Te'rrott left by motor on Wednesday- for the Waikato, where they expect -to remain about, a fort-

Mrs. T. Cameron, Lower Hutt, is visiting New Plymouth. ® • ft ft Visitors to New Plymouth for the Findlay-Anderson- wedding are Mrs. George Findlay, Auckland, who is the guest of Mre. J. Shepherd; Mrs. Frank Findlay,' Hamilton, the guest of Mrs. J. Findlay, Carrington Road; Mre. Walter Findlay, Gisborne, the guest of Mrs. A, F,. Aldie; Mrs. .Welsh, who is the guest ..of • Airs. Anderson, Brooklands Road. ’ ."' “.‘‘ENGAGEMENT. The engagement is announced of Rita, only daughter of Mr. and Mre. R. T. Cowper, Christchurch, and Wilson, youngest eon of the lato Mr? and Mrs. D. Alexander, New Plymouth. « « * * The engagement is announced of Jean, second daughter of Mr. and- Mrs. J. Clark,' Gray Avenue, Mangere, Auckland,..; to Stuart Chalmers Spence, Whakatane, second son of the late Mr. and Mrs. W. Spence, of Hawera. a *« * # \ The engagement is announced between Mr. Georg© M. Easton, R.A.F., late of New Plymouth,, and Miss Mildred Davies, Heavitree,' Exeter, -says the New Zealand News, ' The engagement is anounccd of Norma, youngest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. R. H. Carey, Marton, to Cyril, youngest son of Mr. and Mrs, F. Hoffman, Stratford. Bare Legs at Wimbledon. Stockingless women players outnumbered those who -wore stockings in the lawn tennis championships at Wimbledon this year, says the Daily Mail. It was tlio exception to see them wearing stocking© on the outside courts—but on the centre court they still lacked sufficient courage to appear with bare legs. The committee recognises that it has no jurisdiction in the stockingissue. It has, however, the power to prevent players from having their matches arranged for the ■ centre court unless a promise is given that stockings will be worn. As it is every woman’s . ambition to appear there, the promise is quickly forthcoming; Great Britain had eight players in the last sixteen in the women’s singles tournament. No More “Ladders.’ ’ An enterprising firm has opened a depot in the West End of London where silk stocking, damaged in the rough and tumble of shopping, can be mended on the spot. The business being done is tremendous, owing to the fashion for wearing th® thinnest of chiffon stockings with heavy shoes. “Ladders” and “runs” are the bugbear of all women who affect the fashionable gossamer stockings, which must be mended im- i mediately any damage is apparent, or they will develop such defects that no restoration is possible. The woman with an invisible mender in the West End is for this reason being kept hard at work all day, and ought to be making a lot I of money. i Mrs. A. P. F. Chapman. 1 In the box at Lords, watching Mr. A. i P. F. Chapman during the Test match, were both Chapman’s father and wife, says the Daily Mail. Mrs. Chapman is fond of joking about her relative ignorance of the game. She is tall and was dressed in black, perhaps in mourning for our hopes. Mr. Chapman, senior,: however, is a tremendous enthusiast and watches every ball. He was the first to applaud Bradman’s second century and the passing of the previous record Test match score of 63G, but like everyone else was glad that we still hold the record—Foster's —for the highest individual score. An Aged R.A.' The oldest Associate of the Royal Academy is Mrs. Anne Swynncrton, aged 8-1 (states an exchange). Her portrait of Dame Millieent Fawcett, the well-known feminist, was purchased recently for the nation by the Chantrey Bequest. Girl Smokers. Moro girls visited the Isle of Man last year than ever before, says an English exchange.. The duty on tobacco exceeded the estimates by nearly £lO,000. These two facts are being linked together, and the inference drawn that the modern miss smokes more than the average youth while on holiday. A well-known tobacco merchant recently expressed the opinion that it was more than an inference —it was a fact. “Many girls who do not smoke at home,” he said, “become cigarettes fiends for the period of their holidays. The non-smoking miss, in quest of holiday thrills, finds a certain amount of novelty in promenading with a cigarette jauntily stuck between her lips'.” Women- Barristers.

The prejudice of solicitors, and still more, the prejudice of litigants, against women barristers was the principal reason given to a London Daily Mail reporter by a jvoman barrister for the fact that only three members of her sex were called to the Bai’ recently. “It is much harder for us to make our way,” she said, “than either a woman solicitor or a woman doctor. In both these cases qualified women can buy practices, but no such facility exists for barristers. A very small fraction of the women called to the Bar ever practise, and of those that do, a still smaller proportion ever get a useful practice of their own. For the most part they have to be content to ‘devil’ for men in whose chambers they are. Women are equally as good as men in advocacy, but prejudice is killing them. Judges show them much too much leniency. If a woman appears in the simplest case, everyone regards her as phenomenally clever, but the people who might employ her not unnaturally say: ‘Well, if it is a feat for her to conduct (let us say) an .-undefended divorce, case, .she is ' hardly the person to- ciuployd’itii that raises any diffietilty.Vl'W l Billy•' we could be regarded'- f ‘ju^t v W : -barristers and not as women, wo’ should da better,”