PERSONAL NOTES

Wairarapa Age, 20 March 1920, Page 2

PERSONAL NOTES

The Hon. A. M. and Mrs Myers left for England by the Meguntic on Thursday, Miss Holmes, of Feilding, is at present the guest of Mrs. W. P. James, of Maaterton. The death is reported from Norsewood of Miss Fanny McLees at the great age of 94 years. Mrs Frank Evans, of Gisborne, who has been visiting friends in Masterton, lias returned to her home. Dr. J. A. Cowie and Dr. Helen Cowie, of Masterton, are at present I on a holiday visit to Rotorua. Mrs McKellar, of Wellington, ar- ! rived in Masterton yesterday for the j races, and is staying at "Brooklyn." The marriage was solemnised by the Ven. Archdeacon Johnson, M.A., at St. Paul's Pro-Cathedral, of Mrs Helen Gough, daughter of the lata Mr and Mrs John Ross, Victoria, and grand-daughter of the late Sir Robert Howlett, to Mr John A. Cameron, a son of the late Mr and Mrs Duncaa Cameron, Wairarapa. ', 4 . At Havelock North on March 10 the wedding was - celebrated of Miss Annie Dunbar McHardy, daughter ot Mr and Mrs L. H. MoHardy, of Blackhead, to Mr Leslie Hill Larner, son of Mr and Mrs J. V. Larner, of Remuera, Auckland. The bridesnlaids were the Misses McHardy, Dora Horton, Larner, and P. Larner. The best man was Mr R. B. Mason, and the groomsmen Messrs C. Gifford Moore (Palmerston North), J. Kennedy and D. Kennedy,

A very pretty and interesting wedding took place in Christ Church, Wanganui, on Wednesday. It was almost unique "from the fact that the medical profession was so strongly represented, the bride, one of the bridesmaids, the bridegroom, his father, and best man all being doctors. It was also a khaki wedding, as the bridegroom ia not yet demobilised. The bride was l>r. Elspeth Cameron, second daughter of Mr and Mrs. Allan Cameron, of Marangai, No. 1 Line, and the. bridegroom was Captain R. S. J. Fitzgerald, N.Z.M.C., son of Dr. and Mrs Fitzgerald, of Dunedin.

A special resolution waa passed at the W.C.T.U. Convention deploring the Bteady decrease in the New Zealand birth rate, and pointing out to the Government that at least two considerations would,, if attended to, increase the birth rate to a certain extent; these being the impossibility of getting help at home, and the increased cost of living. The Government was asked to bring forward a scheme for the endowment of motherhood, ind also to deal with the cost of living fairly and efficiently.

Lady Astor was mentioned with high praise at the W.C.T.U. Convention, as being "a thorough woman and the mother of six children" It was considered most gratifying that such a woman should have ; been the first oho sen in England to represent women n Parliament, and a resolution was 3rawn up to be forwarded to her from the convention. This set forth the pleasure felt at her election, and the gratification of a|l W.C.T.U. members that her first speech should have been against the removal of the War [liquor restrictions, and her first vote oast in support of her speech.