PERSONAL NOTES.

Wairarapa Age, 11 March 1922, Page 2

PERSONAL NOTES.

A. R. Hoggard and Miss B. Hoggard (Wellington) are visiting Masterton. Mrs W. Cameron, of To Ore Ore (Masterton), lias taken a house in Park Street for a few weeks. M. Raymond Poincare, Prance, has made a public pronouncement in favour of woman suffrage. Mr and Mrs Maurice Cohen leave Palmerston North at the end of the month on an extended tour of Britain and Europe. Nearly one hundred women in Holland have graduated as engineers since the engineering course was opened to them in 1901. The women of Madras are organising a spirited campaign for the removal of the sex disqualification which prevents their election ae municipal councillors.

Miss Joan Metcalfe, of Palmerston North, has accepted the position of instructress in physical culture to the Palmerston North Girls’ High School.

Sister M. L Cowen, of the Palmerston North Hospital permanent : staff, has been promoted to the posi- I tion of assistant matron owing to the I resignation of Sister Greig. I

Mlle. Eleanors, a young English girl, ie. to attempt Blondin’s famous feat of walking across the Niagara Falls on a rope. The attempt will take place in June.

The name of Annie S. Swann (Mrs Burnett Smith), the well-known novelist, has been mentioned as a probable candidate for the Maryhill Division of Glasgow at the next election.

Mis-s M. Emed, of the Pahiatua District High School, has been elected to represent the Pahiatua branch at the annual conference of the Educational Institute.

The engagement is announced of Miss Ilazel Gelderd, youngest daughter of Mr and Mrs G. F. Gelderd, of Pahiatua, to Mr G. R. Ashbridge, second son of Mr and Mrs Ashbridge, of Wellington.

One of the passengers to New Zealand by the Remuera is Miss B. Macrae, fiancee of Major A. A. Mac Nab, D. 5.0., MX?. (AucMand). Their marriage is take place in the Dominion .shortly after her arrival. During the war Miss Macrae was for a considerable time attached to the New Zealand camp at Hornchurch, so that she already has many friends in the Dominion.

The wedding of Mir Charles Haines, * of Wellington, head of the Haines Advertising Agency, to Miss Maud Eglin, of Roslyn, Dunedin, was solemnised at the home of the bride, I when the Rev. Charles Dallaston (formerly of Wellington) officiated. Mr Walter Eglin (Wellington) gave the bride away, and her sister, Miss Agne s Eglin, was the bridesmaid. Mr Albert Abbott was best man.

The death occurred at Tauranga last week of Mrs R. O. Stewart, aged 81. After leaving Ireland at the age of 20 Mrs Stewart spent six years in the Church Missionary Society’s mission field in Palestine. Later she left for New Zealand, arriving at Auckland in 1870. She went to Tauranga an 1 opened a school for young ladies. Afterwards she took a position on the teaching staff of the Native College at Napier, and remained there until her marriage. After her marriage she continued school work among the natives. Her husband predeceased her.

The marriage of Lady Scott, widow , of the Antarctic explorer, is of interest to New Zealanders. Lady Scott, it will be recalled, was given rank a year after her husband’s death, as the widow of a K.C.B. She herself is an 8/ccomplished woman and a sculptor, two of whose works have been seen by many New Zealand visi- | tors to the Old Country—the monument to Hon. C. H. Rolls, the avia- ' tor whose tragic death at a Bournemouth flying meeting was one of the big losses aviation sustained in early flying days. Another is the war memorial s et up at Dover overlooking the Straits, and the wonderfully beautiful statue o c her husband in Christchurch. Peter, the son of Lady Scott and her hast husband, is now 12 years old. He has been the 1 most uncoddled b<< in London, and 1 he has probably had more fresh air and worn less clothes than any other boy living within the radius. The ft**** Lady Scott has married —Lieut.Com. E. Hlton Young, Financial Secretary to the Admiralty—distinguished himself in the Great War. He was an officer of the Vindictive at Zeebrugge, and later a member of the British Mission to Serbia. He is I a D. 5.0., having been awarded this ■ decoration for his great initiative, ! gallantry and dash when in command of an armoured train during the oper- ’ atioM s in Archangel. Commander r? Un ? ea^ s now more peaceful life of a Treasury Official at White- ’ hall, and in spite of hard service and I his slightly greyed hair, yet retains i a boyish manner.