SOCIAL NOTES.

Waikato Times, Volume 102, Issue 17246, 5 November 1927, Page 15 (Supplement)

SOCIAL NOTES.

Mrs O. R. Farrer has been for a shortrholiday to the Thames coast.

V « 8 ■ Mrs T. F. Jolly is visiting Auckland.

Mrs G. S. Crimp is spending a few days in Rotorua.

Mrs R. E. Rartleet, of Wardville. is spending the week-end in Hamilton.

Miss [J. Williams, who has been the guest of Mrs A. Joseph, is visiting Rotorua.

Miss Ina Bosworth, formerly of Hamilton, will provide a violin obligato to one of Mr Joseph Ilislop’s songs. “O Lord, Most Holy,” at Auckland to-night.

The little dancers in “Henry VIII.," whose work was much admired, were local girls, pupils of Miss Gladys Denz.

Miss N. Bishop, of Marton, who has been tou/ing for six months with the AUlan Wilkie Company, was in Hamilton with them this week.

A flag bridge evening will be held at the Lyceum Club on Wednesday next, when the prizes won at the recent series of bridge evenings will be presented.

Captain Cunningham Reid, M.P., D.F.C., and his wife, are visiting Auckland. Mrs Reid is a sister of Lady Louis Mountbatten, with whom she inherited part of the late Sir Ernest Gassel’s great fortune of £6,000,000. * * «- *

Miss J. G. Jones, who is to be married shortly, has resigned her position in the A.M.P. Society. She received a present of crystal ware from the staff and agents. The district manager, Mr G. A. Wilkes, in making the presentation, referred to the cordial relationship that had existed between Miss Jones and the staff during her six years of service. ■ • * ”

Few, women have a more exacting job than Miss Mary Blythe, 21, of Cook, Nebraska, U.S.A., who owns the local paper, the Weekly Courier. Miss Blythe not only manages the business, but collects the news, writes it, operates the linotype, reads proofs, gathers advertisements, works die press, and prepares copies of the paper for posting. As may be imagined, Miss Blythe frequently works from 5 a.m. till late at night. She learned the business from her father, from whom she purchased the paper when his health became bad.

In the recent examinations of Trinity College (London), Mr Alexander Watson recommended Mrs 'E. B. Lave 11, of Hamilton, for the Fellowehfc of the College. In Auckland, Miss Elfreda Hall and Miss M. McCullough were recommended. These are the first ladies in New Zealand to achieve this distinction. Last year Mrs Lovell was the first Hamilton lady to gain the Licentiate diploma, and this year Miss Doris Osmcrs has succeeded in gaining it.

Lord Trevor, of Brynkinalt, Chirk, near Wrexham, England, was married at St. Peter’s Church, Eaton Square, recently to Miss Phyllis May Sims, a nurse, and the daughter of a plumber. The bride, who is twenty-three years of age, met Lord Trevor, who is sixtythree, after she had been nursing his sister, the. Hon. Leila Hill-Trevor, at a London nursing home. When Miss Hill-Trevor had recovered she invited her nurse to visit Brynkinalt. There she nursed Lord Trevor himself, and there began the romance which led to the marriage. The bride began her nursing career a few years ago at Sheffield Infirmary, and was on the staff of a nursing home in Manchester before going to London. Lord Trevor, who succeeded to the title in 1923, was formerly in the Colonial service in New Zealand. During the war he served with the British Red Cross as an ambulance driver. Later he was attached to the French Red Cross, and won the Croix de Guerre on the battlefield.

Women students are now to be admitted to the Royal Veterinary College (says a London paper), and complete courses of instruction will be given for the diploma of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons (M.R.C.V.S). It is nearly five years since the first woman was admitted a member of the college. Major F. T. G. Hobday, the newly-appointed principal of the college, said to a Daily Mail reporter: “Women, in my opinion, can do excellent work as veterinary surgeons and there is ample scope for them, especially in work among small animals, birds and poultry. Several wnmen students at the provincial colleges have obtained the diploma, and this •|/>ar Miss Ida Lloyd Roberts, a Liverpool graduate, was awarded the Williams Memorial Prize for 1926 by the Royal College for the best student in the final examination—the first lime the prize had been won by a woman.