DOMINION GOSSIP

Waikato Independent, Volume XXXIV, Issue 3236, 22 November 1934, Page 6

DOMINION GOSSIP

WHAT OTHER N.Z. WOMEN ARE TALKING ABOUT. Dr Merton Hodge’s piny, ‘‘The Wind and the Rain,” was read by the Hawke’s Bay Little Theatre Society at Hastings last week. Among the audience was Miss Hodge, of Patea, an aunt of the author of the play, who is; of course, a * New Zealander. * # •

When her clothing was stolen from the beach at New Brighton while she was bathing the other evening, a young woman visitor had to borrow a pair of beach pyjamas and a coat to go home in. Three pairs of stockings belonging to other members of the party were also stolen.

A Royal Humane Society award has been made to two Masterton girls, Misses Z. and D. Pickering (now Mrs Iv. Ingley), in recognition of their gallant though unsuccessful attempt to rescue Mr Montague Tocker, who was drowned at Lake Ferry on March. 30 last. * * * Specimens of Spode earthenware and china form a special exhibit at the Canterbury Museum. They are typical of the production of the ,Spode factory at Stoke-on-Trent, founded in 1770. The willow pattern, imitated •from the Chinese design, pale blue printing and floral decoration are well illustrated. The examples are of the .Spode “Felspar” china, the highest grade produced by the factory. Spode mixed natural felspar with china clay and bone ash for this body, and his products became famous. * * * . A Maori' woman, according to a story told recently by Bishop Bennett, walked 14 miles, to attend a confirmation service. When, he met her just before she reached the church, the Bishop noticed that she was carrying her boots. She explained that if the boots wore out she would have no money to buy more, but whereas if her feet wore out they would grow again. The ladies of the Taieri Women’s Association which holds its meetings in the Masonic Hall, Mosgiel, are wondering why a goat that coolly strolled into their midst one afternoon last week appeared to be so familiar with ' its Masonic surroundings. Freemasons ns a class of course indignantly repudiate the suggestion that riding the goat forms part of the ceremonial at a Masonic initiation.