PERSONAL NOTES.

Wairarapa Age, 15 March 1922, Page 2

PERSONAL NOTES.

Miss A. Seal (Masterton) leaves today for Hastings. Mrs L. Kendall has returned from a' visit to Auckland and Wellington. Mrs J. Kibblewhite has returned to Hat-uma, H. 8., after visiting her parents, Mr and Mrs A. J. Hathaway, Cole street. Miss Agnes Allan, matron of the Waiapu Hospital, i s on a visit to Masterton and is the guest of Mrs Scholefield. Mrs and Miss Gawith (Mastertonl, Miss Perry (Wellington), and Miss M. Pprry (Masterton) are visiting Christ - church. Mrs 11. T. .Hornshy and her niece. Miss Jean Drummond, Lansdowne, are at present on a visit to Rotorua. Mrs Carlton, formerly of Wellington, whose husband is in charge of the Government private hotel at Apia, Samoa, is a visitor to Wellington. Mr Carlton was formerly manager of the Commercial Travellers’ Club here, and more recently of the Grand Hotel, Rotorua. Allen Doone, the romantic Irish actor, is in Sydney for a brief holiday sojourn, He made such a hit in Africa in the American comedy farce “Broadway Jones” that he has made arrangements to present himself in this daring departure before Sydney audiences. Nurse L. Briggs, of Wellington, who bolds a number of diplomas, and who has been the guest of Mr T. Gore, of Pahiat.ua, has purchased the latter’s house in Wakeman street, and will shortly take up her residence ther * with her daughter. Alcan while she. is leaving on a visit to the Islands. An interesting visitor to Eketahuna at present is Miss Etta Mason, previously . r:. well-known teacher under the Wellington Education Board, and who some years back was relieving at Eketahuna for a period. Miss Mason took up mission work in the Islands about two .years ago and is now enjoying her first furlough, B>e returns to Melanesia next month. She is the guest of Mrs G. T. Allen. Doris Duane, who is at present figuring as Regina in the popular play “Scandal” and is hardly out of he'r teens, has already appeared in good roles on the London and New York stage. Mies Duane was in the original cast of “Scandal” when it was presented at the Palace, London. She was in “Very Good Laddie,” and in New York created the role she is at present playing in “Scandal.” After the New Zealand tour- the play will be taken through South Africa. Although there is still an unsatisfied demand for good domestic workers, a large number of girls and women are out of employment at the present time. A lady who advertised recently for a companion-help, was delug'd with for several days. One effect of the surplus of labour offering for positions as female clerks, shop assistants and ladyhelps has be n that a. number of employers are reducing wages in a eruel manner. In one of the hostels in Chrishchurch are four or five girls paying £1 a week board, whose earnings amount to only 25s a week. . Miss Nora Long, better known to the public as the New' Zealand prim a donna, Nora d’Argel, who has been starring at Covent Garden, made hei first appearance in London at Olympia in “The Tale s of Hoffman,” played by the Beckham Opera Company at His Majesty’s Theatre. She completed her training in Pauns and plaved Marguerite in “Faust” at Nice, and was for a- time at Lyons, spending most of her musical career in France, where she had considerable success as an opera singer. Miss Long first took part in a concert at the age of 13, and gained many New Zealand prizes for singing, theory ol music, and piano playing. After this she continued her studies in Sydnev frequently appearing with success ai the Philharmonic and other recitals Britain’s first woman barrister has received hor first brief, and she received it exactly one week after she was called last November. Miss Kyle the barrister in c rest-on, who won ths Brook scholars!)' at the Irish Bar. was briefed by : Tyrone solicitoi entirely unacquainted with her. 8 c has made her first appearance in the High Court, winning golden opinions from all. In an interview she pays a tribute to the generous welcome from her male colleagues. Miss Kyle wore the traditional wig and gowr in court, thus forming a precedent for the wearing of wigs by women instead of the biretta sometimes advocated—a vexed question which some consider part of a plot to deprive the women cf the English Bar of their prestige.