THE SOCIAL WORLD

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Issue 1324, 9 September 1915, Page 26

THE SOCIAL WORLD

Announcements of engagements and contributions of interest relating to weddings and social gatherings should he sent to Dady Editor, “Sporting and Dramatic Review” Office, Auckland. In all oases the writer’s signature and address must be attached (not for publication), photographs of wedding groups will be reproduced by arrangement.

As the result of Daffodil Day in Auckland a sum of nearly £BOO was realised to provide leather waistcoats and other comforts for New Zealand soldiers at the front. An enterprising committee had the matter in hand, and consisted of members of the Auckland branch of the Victoria League, with Mrs. Eliot Davis as president. A profusion of spring flowers was taken to the Town Hall and distributed amongst the voluntary sellers, who were established in various parts of the town. The stalls were most picturesquely designed, yellow and violet being the predominating colour, while, the flower sellers wore frocks to correspond. No one turned a deaf ear to the double appeal from woman and flower, and the only difficulty was to keep up the supply of the daffodils, freesias, violets, etc. The entire stocks of three florists were bought up by Mr. and Mrs. Eliot Davis, and presented to the stall holders, while motor cars were requisitioned to go out into the. country for further supplies. Those in charge of the various stalls were Mrs. W. R. Wilson (who headed the collection list), Mrs. W. R. Holmes, Mrs. George Bloomfield, Mrs. Ernest Bloomfield, Mrs. A. E. Devore, Mrs. Yates, Mrs. O. Nicholson, Mrs. J. B. McFarlane, Mrs. Skipworth, Mrs. E. Firth, Mrs. A. Kinder, Mrs. Dufaur, Mrs. K. Robertson, Mrs. G. M. Newton, Mrs. J. Kenderdine, Mrs. Jervis, Mrs. Von Sturmer, Mrs. MacCormick, Mrs. Edmunds, Mrs. Langwell. Messrs. E. Anderson and E. Bloomfield acted as treasurers.

The. engagement is announced in the Christchurch “Star” of Miss Elsie Wilkes, of Timaru, to Mr. A. J. Marshall, late of the Queensland Insurance Company.

The marriage took place in St. John’s Church, Feilding, on August 25, of the Rev. Aubrey Aston, of the Eltham district, third son of the la*e Mr. Murray Aston, of Dunedin, to Miss Elizabeth Stormont, of Feilding, youngest daughter of Mrs. Stormont, of Wellington. Miss Lange was bridesmaid, and the Rev. C. W. Solomon best man.

A pleasing little incident took place at the residence of Mrs. J. T. Skoglund, Greymouth, when a presentation of a gold wristlet watch was made to Mrs. C. Morrice, also gold brooches to each of her daughters, who are about to leave for Wellington, where, with Dr. Morrice, who has recently been appointed chief medical officer to the Trentham Camp, they will in future reside.

According to a cable message the German authorities threaten stern measures if dressmakers do not adopt fashions requiring less material than in the recent modes.

The engagement is announced in the “Dominion” of Miss Beatrice Seymour, second daughter of Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Seymour, Lower Hutt, Wellington, to Mr. W. R. Bamford, youngest son of Mr. and Mrs. R. N. Bamford, of Upper Hawthorn, Melbourne, Victoria.

Word has been received in Napier of the marriage at San Francisco of Mr. C. H. Cranby and Miss Helen Mary Beatrice Matthews, both of Napier.

The marriage of Mr. James Deanhead Aitken, second son of Mr. James Aitken, 8.A., of Wanganui, and Miss Hilda Smythe, daughter of Mr. R. T. Smythe, of Palmerston. North, took place on August 23 at St. Peter’s Church, Palmerston North. Miss Violet Smythe was bridesmaid and Mr. Sidney Harrison best man. * * * *

The engagement is announced in Christchurch papers of Miss Doris De Renzy, youngest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. De Renzy, of Winchester, to Mr. S. Fothergill, also of Winchester, Canterbury.

Dr. E. D. Aubin, of Auckland, will leave for Egypt about September 20 to act as a surgeon at the New Zealand Hospital.

Miss Maude Peart, well known as Miss Renee Maude, of the Court Cards, is settling in New Plymouth, and intends taking pupils for singing.

Mrs. Hope Lewis has resigned from the presidency of the Red Cross Committee in Auckland, as she will be absent from the Northern City for some time.

Miss Eva Firth has been appointed superintendent of the Epsom Conva lescent Home for Soldiers.

A Women’s Ministering League has been formed in Wellington. At the preliminary meeting Her Excellency the Countess of Liverpool made a short speech. Mr. C. J. Tunks and Mrs. Smith represented Auckland, Mrs. McKinley Christchurch, Captain Fleming Dunedin, Mrs. Grace Neill Manawatu, and Nurse Maude Christchurch.

Mr. T. W. Rowe gave an “At Home” at his residence, Gloucester Street East, Christchurch, in honour of the brilliant young Auckland violinist, Henri Lissack.

“I would put a tax on bachelors,” said Mr. G. Witty (Riccarton), amid laughter and applause in the House of Representatives. “I would put a tax on every bachelor who is fit to goto the war and does not go.”

Mrs. J. B. Macfarlane, of Auckland, gave a most successful bridge party at her home in Epsom in aid of St. James’ Free Kindergarten. Prizes were won by Mrs. R. Neill and Mrs. Colegrove. Mrs. Macfarlane wore a becoming blue charmeuse gown softened with ninon.

Mrs. W. B. Willock, of Gisborne, gave a Red Cross tea the other day that proved most successful.

Mrs. Walter Massey organised a series of evening parties with profitable results for the Wounded Soldiers’ Fund.

Dr. Hogg, of Invercargill, has been appointed to a position at a New Zealand base hospital in Egypt.

The Wellington Technical College Cadets have decided to erect a tablet to the memories of their late officers, Lieuenants L. W. A. Hugo and H. E. Voyce, who have been killed in action at the Dardanelles.

At the Church of the Sacred Heart, Hill Street, Wellington, Lieutenant Charles K. Gascoigne, of the Trentham Regiment (“Earl of Liverpool’s Own”), was married to Miss Jean Watson, third daughter of the late Mr. George G. Watson, of Invercargill.

In St. Joseph’s Church, Wellington, on September 1, the wedding was solemnised of Miss Daphne Haise, second daughter of Mrs. W. Haise, of Hankey Street, Wellington, to Mr. Sydney Jackson, of Levin.

Mr. F. L. Armitage, of Auckland, has received an appointment as bacteriologist to the New Zealand Forces in Egypt.

Mr. John Prouse, who sang the name part in “Elijah” with the Auckland Choral Society, will sing the same music with the Royal Wellington Choral Society at its coming performance of the work.

Miss Boyle has returned to Christchurch after her visit to their Excellencies the Governor and the Countess of Liverpool in Wellington.

Mrs. Gilbert Frankau, better known under her pen-name of “Frank Danby,” has invented a new game for useless wives—“hindermates.”

Nurse Jessie Falconer, recently sister bn the staff of the Coronation Hospital, Cashmere Hills, Christchurch, has been appointed to the staff of the Military Hospital at Hampstead, London, as a member of the Queen Alexandra Nursing Reserve.

An interesting marriage was quietly solemnised at All Saints’ Church, Ponsonby, Auckland, on August 31, when Mr. F. G. Massey, third son of the Prime Minister (Hon. W. F. Massey), was married to Miss Dora Grainger, daughter of the late. Mr. A. H. Grainger, of Auckland. Archdeacon Calder officiated. Miss Isabel Massey was bridesmaid and Mr. Roy Grainger best man.

“In France,” says the “Queen,” “it would seem the exception for women not to be heroic. Only the other day an English girl was seen at a London station on her way back to a French base hospital. She had been at work among the wounded for months, and in taking the wounded away from the trenches she was continually under fire. She has also had experience herself of gas poisoning. Yet she was eager to return to her post.

Miss Colebrook, instructress for shorthand and typewriting at the Napier Technical College, who is leaving to take up an appointment at Auckland, was last week presented by the day girls with volumes of the works of Tennyson and Scott and by the boys with a manicure set.

Says a London fashion writer: — “Silk is to be first favourite fabric till the war is over.” Imagine it — silk more economical than wool! The words make doubt impossible: “The wool is wanted for the uniforms of the men at the front. . . . How much the Government demand has affected the cost of fabrics with wool in them may be judged from the fact that some of the more expensive pure wool stuffs have doubled in price.”