PERSONAL NOTES.

Wairarapa Age, 24 December 1920, Page 2

PERSONAL NOTES.

Miss Lewis, of Renal! street, lias returned from Dunedin. .Mr ami Mrs Ij. Denton, of Hastings, are spending Christmas' in Mas- | terton. i i ! .Mr ami .Mrs li. Danioil (Koxton) j are staying with the .Misses Daniel!, til .Masterton. .Mr and .Mrs J. li. Henry, of Wellington, are leaving this 'week for a visit to the Franz Josef Glacier. A London cable message annotm- | ees the death of Lady Boborts, widow of the Into Lord Roberts. Madame Emma Calve is said to he leaving the operatic and , concert stage to found a school for voicetraining in Paris. On Thursday evening a special welcome was given to Miss Amy Evans and her husband, -Air .Frasor (binge, by t.he Welsh Society, of Wellington. \'aiu man supposes himself indispensable to women. So in a sense lie is. But does he often realise what she thinks of him and his in-ili.-pensability? Wry charmingly and catididlv, a High School gh'k quoted by Mr' McCurdy (British Food Controller) recently, lias defined it —and man —in an essay: ''Man is what a woman has to marry. That is all. That is quite, enough. She would do better if she could; as she can't, she lias to accept this tiresome monkey - iiko creature who smokes, drinks, and never goes to church." Now, we know. "We thought she was in love with us. Instead she is making lite best of a had job. She recognises, sorrowfully, that there, is nothing bettor going. She marries man simply because she has to,' A .Maori ohioftainoss, !'nv,ca. has died at Rata at the ago of •">•"> years. Born at Turakina, she was a daughter of the late Meie Kingi. who was a son of Mete Kingi Pnetihi, the leading chief of the Wangnuiti tribe, and who was the first, .Maori member of Parliament. lie was' one of those who, in the days \Cnru light in;; was frequent, was leader of friendly natives fighting for the British against the Hauhaus. Me held a commission and was prepensed uiih a sword by Queen Victoria, and waknown as General Mote Kingi. The deceased's mother was ih.e daughter of Kawini Hunia, of Parewanui, one of the most prominent- chief;-! of die Xgntiapa tribe, who wii := in Mr tun en tal in effeeling the sale of the K.mgitikei block in the 'Crov.'ii. "Rawej married Mr T. C. Marumani, <,f Parcwanui, a chief ot the N.'j.;i ti.ipas, and well known in sporting circles, "iome years later he died, and later she became the wife <M' :\[r K. Sutherland, who died a year or two ago. Deceased had been ailing for some six mouths, but her death was quite unexpected. One of her proudest possessions was a valuable sporting trophy won it) Wungmui in 1894 with the horse 'l'uhiwai, ridden by Mr Jas. Bull, the veteran iiuiicervillo sportsman. The following concerning bush nurses in Australia will be of interest, as a nursing service for liio ■-onntry is under consideration here just now:—Some remarkable ligures '■vera given at the wont central council nieetjpg of the Bush Nursing Association by Miss Crocker, secretary of the R.V.T.X.A. ft seems that only -1(52 nurses are on the association register, who have qualified .or both general and midwifery nursing; and even these are not: available for the pursing service, ft was pointed out that if, roughly, the. population of Victoria was a million and a half, there would he but one fully qualified uiir.se to every threo <jv four thousand people. Xo wonder, in bis ijnxiety to improve tin's state of affairs, Wir James Barrett advocated the nursing eowrse not exceeding three years, six montii* of which to be spout in a midwifery training .school. The difficulties in obtaining trained nurses are dreadful, and the private hospitals experience this as well as ordinary individuals . Here is not n bad story of the Prince of Wales. Tt goes back to the days of the war, hut has only just emerged in a chatty book, "With the Walnuts and the Wine." recently published. A staff car had pulled upon the roadside, and while the chauffeur was looking for some engine trouble a young officer descended to stretch his legs. Presently fi motor bike conveying an air pilot en route to an aerodrome eatfSo along, and the rider dismounted to see* if he could do anything in help. Offer declined with thanks. "Bighto!" fiiiid the Samaritan. "i seem to know your face, though who are you?" "I'm the Pringso of Wales," said the other. "And you?" The other fellow grinned, "Oh," said he airly, "fm your pater, the King." Then he mounted his bike and rode off. A few days later the Prince officially , visited a certain aerodrome, and the first man he saw inside the mess-room was bis funny friend of the motor bike. Instantly the Prince smiled at him, ! held out his hand and said: "Hullo, dad!"