PERSONAL NOTES

Wairarapa Age, 6 April 1920, Page 2

PERSONAL NOTES

Mrs. Alan Balfour, o£ Greytown, has returned from a via : „t to Sydney.

Mr. and Mrs. George Pain, of Martinborough, have returned from it visit to Wangnnui. The Missos Robieson and Cameron, of Masterton, left on Friday last on a tour of the South Island. Mrs. John Martin, Miss Martin, and Miss Dymes, of "Waiura," Martinborough, have returned from a visit to Chr.[stchurch. Mrs. Milne, of Masterton, spent tho Easter holidays with her sister, Mrs. F. Cameron, of Hastings. The death is announced from Palmerston of Mrs. B. Sorensen, an early Norwegian settler, at the ago of seventy-three years. Miss Vera A. Julian has been appointed acting town clerk, borough treasurer, and returning officer lor the borough of Eltham. The death occurred in London on January 31 of Mrs. Frances Fletcher, relict of tho late Mr. Robert Fletcher, M.P. for Wellington Central. Miss Vogel, daughter of tho lato Sir Julius Vogel, has arrived in New Zealand, and is the guest of Lady Johnston, in Wellington. Mr. and Mrs. G. A. Greenwood and family returned to Masterton yesterday from a protracted visit to Australia. Miss Phoebe Martin, who has been on the staff of the Kaxitane-Harris Hospital at Dunedin for somo time, has returned to "Otaraia," Lower Valley. Miss Ireno O'Brien, formerly of Palmers ton North (where sho was a pupil of the Convent School), elder daughter of Dr. and Mrs. J. W. O'Brien, recently returned to Sydney from Europe, where she has been studying singing in various places, including England and Italy.

The marriage look place in St. Matthew 's Church last week of Miss Helen Rolston Richmond, only daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. Richmond, Hastings, and Mr. Ernest Donald Couper, son of Mr. and Mrs. W. A. X. Couper, of Haveloclc North. The Rev. J. B. Brocklehurst performed tho ceremony.

A quiot wedding took place at Knox Church, Masterton, on Good Friday, when Miss Eflie Rayner, second daughter of Mr and Mrs B. R. Rayner, of Lansdowne, was married to Mr Archie V. Dixon, youngest son of Mr and Mrs C. Dixon, of Alu sk-i----ton. Tiie officiating clergyman was the Rot. L. Thompson, M.A. Mr and Mrs Dixon left later in the day for Wellington, en route to tho South, where the honeymoon will be spent.

Tho Prcsbytorian Church, Carterton, was prettily decorated for the marriage on Wednesday, March 31, of Miss Margaret Sutherland Grant, eldest daughter of Mr. A. S. Grant, of "Farnliam," Carterton, who is well known throughout the Wairarapa, to Mr. Francis Edward Beaufort, son of Mrs. Beaufort, of Pahiatua, and tho late Mr. J. W. Beaufort, C.E. The Kev. E. J. Tipler performed the ceremony, many friends from Gladstone and Carterton being present. Mrs. A. Pliollpotts played appropriate music. The bride, who was given away by her father, wore a frock of cream crepe de chine and georgette, with an embroidered veil and orange blossoms, and carried a bouquet of chrysanthemums, roses, and maidenhair fern. The bridesmaids were the Misses Janet Grant (sister of the bride) and Margaret Stevenson (cousin), of Kaitawa, both wearing frocks of shell pink crepo de chine and ninon trimmed with biscuit-coloured suede cloth, with feather trimming and touches of shell pink. Their bouquets were of pink chrysanthemums and asters. Mr. Hector McGuilken( Pahiatua) wa3 best man, and the groomsman Mr. Hector Adams, also of Pahiatua. After the ceremony Mr. Grant, assisted by Miss Steel, of Wellington (aunt of the bride), entertained the guests at "Faraham."

Regarding policewomen, the London Spectator says: —"It is extremely difficult to make a„ general statement of the present position of policewomen. Not only is much of their work necessarily confidential, but their appointment rests with local authorities, each of whom is free to lay down its own conditions of service for the women appointed, or, on the other hand, not to appoint the women at all. It is, however, extremely important to the future of policewomen that their position and needs should bo understood by the thinking public at the present time, when their admission to a full and, adequate status still awaits Government action.'-' The work of policewomen patrols is then dealt with and described in detail, which forms very interesting reading both to those who are in favour of such work being carried out by women, as it shows the scope and the long hours on duty, and to those who are not, as it gives a vista of usefulness, which has been commented favourably upon from practically all quarters of experience. Regarding tho "unsworn policewomen" the writer remarks: "She as indeed in an impossible positionimpossible as regards pay, status, and prospects. The paid patrol has freedom of action; tho woman constable has authority, coupled with admission to the heart of tho police force, where her work lies; tho policewoman has neither tho one nor the other. She is hedged about with restrictions which rightly encircle the police, but she has no standing and no responsibility."