SOCIAL NOTES.

Waikato Times, Volume 104, Issue 17493, 29 August 1928, Page 5

SOCIAL NOTES.

Mrs B. Brewer, of Te Kuiti, is visitPfamilton.

* * * * Mrs A. B. Collier is holidaying in Rotorua.

* * * * Mrs Haraes, of Hamilton, is visiting Auckland.

.-»*=» Mrs F. Gray (Dunedin) is at the Hamilton Hotel.

Miss Ofa Wernham, of Auckland, is visiting Hamilton.

* * ♦ * Mrs Gascoigne, of Hamilton, is staying in Auckland.

• # * * Mrs A. Joseph has returned from a short visit to Auckland.

Mrs R. R. Paterson and family are spending a holiday at Raglan. * ¥ * 9

Mrs L. Watkins, who has been staying in Hamilton, returns to Wellington to-night.

• * * * Mesdames R. Finley (Tauranga) and S. F. Bell (Auckland) are at the Empire Hotel.

Hotel Brighton guests include Mrs J. Monk, Mrs Burrell, and Miss E. S. Kugge (Auckland). * * * *

In view of her approaching wedding, Miss R. Hinton, of Te Aroha, was presented with a silver afternoon tea service by her numerous friends.

a * * * The St. George’s Branch of the Mothers’ Union will meet to-morrow, when an admission service will be held in the church at 2.15. Afterwards Nurse Hooker will address the meeting in the Parish Hall.

Mrs Geo. Clark, of Hamilton, was a visitor to Wanganui over the weekend. She has accepted the appointment as organising secretary for the New Zealand Auxiliary of the Zenana Bible and Medical Mission. Having had ten years’ missionary experience in India, she is well fitted for her task of interesting New Zealand women and children in our Indian Empire. The society, which was founded in 1552 by the late Lady Kinnaird, is purely inter-denominational and its work should appeal to every true woman. It is hoped that New Zealand women will give the cause a generous support.

$ 4 ( ♦ A message ' from New "York, dated July 28, published in the Adelaide Observer of August 4, reports an accident to Mrs Keith Miller, well known aviatrix. The message states: “A telegram from San Pedro, California, states that Captain Harry Lyon, navigator on the Southern Cross flight, and Captain W. N. Lancaster, the EnglishAustralia flier, to-day rescued Mrs Keith Miller from drowning. Mrs Mailer, who is Captain Lancaster’s flying companion, and accompanied him from England to Australia, fell from the deck of a yacht into the water, witli such force that she sustained two fractured ribs and was partially stunned. The aviatrix is ordinarily a good swimmer, but she was unable to help herself. Captain Lyon dived first and held Mrs Miller up until Captain Lancaster arrived, when both assisted her back to the yacht.” * * * *

The Mother of Parliaments has undoubtedly found the woman M.P. to her liking. There are now eight of them, and most are married women with young children, or engaged in the serious task of “bringing out” debutante daughters. Lady Iveagh says her dav starts at 8 a.m. and ends at 3 o’clock the following morning. They agree that the House of Commons is distinctly a place of business, and they go there for business, and not to bo ornaments! So they wear dark frocks, navy or black, and day, not evening dresses. Lady Astor wears a hat, but her example was not followed by all her successors. The Duchess of Athol, Miss Susan Lawrence, Miss Ellen Wilkinson, and Miss Margaret Bondflcld never wear hats. Mrs Hilton Philipson sometimes does, and Lady Iveagh always does. Margaret Bondfield was the leader of the “hatless brigade. Her reason was that she. had never been accustomed to work in a hat, and she did not see why she should suddenly adopt the habit of working in the House of Commons in a hatl