People and Their Doings.

Star (Christchurch), Volume LXIV, Issue 828, 31 July 1933, Page 7

People and Their Doings.

New Zealand Athlete's Romance : An Economist Whose Views are Known to Canterbury College Students : An Impulsive Promise Made to Miss Scriven.

PRIVATE advice has been received in Wellington that Air Wilfred Kalaugher, New Zealand Rhodes scholar, was married last Wednesday to Aliss Eileen Winter, daughter of Air G. G. Winter, of Port Tewfik, Suez Canal. Airs . Kalaugher was formerly a student at St Hilda’s College, Oxford. The wedding ceremony was performed by the Rev Father Ronald at the Church of Corpus Christi. Strand, London. The best man was Air George Gretton, a well-known cross-country champion athlete. Mr and Airs Wilfred Kalaugher left for New Zealand on the Rangitata on July 27. Wilfred Kalaugher was a New Zealand Universityrepresentative and also represented New Zealand at the Amsterdam Olympic Games in 1928. W W “PLAY ON ECONOMICS "—hundreds of students at Canterbury College have had his wisdom dinned into their ears through many a gruelling term. They will read with interest the news that last month the Bank of England, following the resignation of Dr Sprague, appointed Mr HenryClay economic adviser to the Governors. In 1930 the Bank appointed Professor Clay economic adviser to the Securities Alanagement Trust, and last December it sent him, with Sir Otto Niemeyer. to the Argentine. He became Stanley Jevons Professor of Political Economy at Manchester University' in 1922. lie is 50 years old, and the author of “ Economics for the General Reader,” a text book at all New Zealand university colleges. Dr Sprague, whom he succeeds, is an American, and has been appointed executive assistant to Air Woodfn, the United States Secretar)'- of the Treasury. W •i? "MISS PEGGY SCRIVEN, the first Eng- ’ lishwoman to win the French lawn tennis women’s championship, was quite modest in her hour of double triumph triumph over her tennis opponents and over the selectors who had left her out of the official team. Sir Herbert Wilberforcc, of the All-England Club, said, when he met

her at Victoria Station on her return from

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France, “ You will never forgive us for leaving you out, but, believe me, it will never happen again”; and Major D. R. Larcombe, another humbled official of the club, intimated the same thing. Miss Scriven replied simply; “ Oh, it did not matter. There was no reason why you should have sent me.” t But in promising never to leave her out again, the selectors were binding themselves as foolishly to her as thev had probably bound themselves previously to consider someone else when they rejected Miss Scriven. « 9 9 AX READING of the visit to London V of Fcisal Ibn Ilussein. the first King of Iraq, many British ex-Servicemen will recall the fact that they soldiered with him in Palestine. And in this connection Lieut.Col. C. P. Hawkes pays him a tribute. •• Feisal 4 the Fearless ’ shares with Allenby * the Bull and Lawrence of Arabia the epic fame of that great ride northward from the desert to Damascus. lie and his Arab cavalry and camelry on our right flank helped to bring victory by driving the Turk and German out of the ancient city, which, in not dissimilar circumstances, Mu’awivah, first of the Omayvad Kaliphs, had captured for the Arabs twelve centuries before. 44 A Prince of Mecca of the saintliest Arab blood, son of the Sherif Hosain, King of the Il&djaz and once a guardian of the Muslim holy places, he is a soldier and a statesman, yet an intellectual and a poet with a strong vein of mysticism, who has reigned as King in both the historic capi tals of Islam. First in Damascus and now in Bagdad.”

Cruelty to Children is rightly concerned mainly with cases of physical ill-treat-ment, but surely it is time that they took cognisance of what the American divorce courts know as “mental cruelty” (says the “Manchester Guardian”). One form of this sin against the innocent consists in giving the helpless babe a ludicrous name which “dates” the child. Sometimes the infant receives the name of some person famed at the moment of his birth, as Boer War arrivals were called Redvers. That is perhaps pardonable, but the latest freak name—registered across the Atlantic— Franklin Depression lanterrelli, surely approaches the limit. We shall be hearing next of hapless infants crushed under the weight of some such Christian names as Roosevelt Recovery, Dollfuss Adolphus, or, worse still, Body-Line Boycott. W sSf JgIXTY YEARS AGO (from the “Star" of July 31, 1873) : Suburban Public Libraries.—lt is believed the Provincial Government incline to the opinion that, as very handsome provision has been, made for a public library in Christchurch, this ought to be sufficient for persons residing in the city and its suburbs, and that the grant for district libraries should be appropriated to bona fide country districts only. Choral Unions.—At a recent music practice of the choir of St Matthew’s Church. Auckland, the organist of the church asked for the attendance of members at a meeting for the purpose of selecting from among their number one to represent the choristers on a general choir committee, to be established to enable all the choirs in Auckland to unite, so that their services may be more readily available for special or general occasions. The idea seems a good one and might profitably be acted upon in Christchurch.