THE SOCIAL WORLD

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Issue 1537, 9 October 1919, Page 26

THE SOCIAL WORLD

Announcements of engagements and contributions of interest relating to v.'eddings and social gatherings should be sent to Lady Editor, “Sportbig «tnd Dramatic Review” Office, Auckland. In all cases the writer’s signature and address must be attached (not for publication). Photographs of wedding groups will be reproduced by arrangement.

The Auckland Civic League are making arrangements to hold a fete early in November at the residence of the president (Mrs. Alfred Kidd). Mrs. Malcolm Ross has returned to Wellington after a long stay in England. Miss Joan Quane, Christchurch, has been on a visit to Auckland, where she was the guest of Mrs. T. G. Hunter. Mrs. and Miss Earle, Wellington, are paying a visit to Auckland and are at Cargen. The engagement is announced between Miss Nan Heath, formerly of Napier, to Mr. T. Shailer Weston. Sister Rachael Levien, of Auckland, who has been absent for nearly five years on active service, returned by the Corinthic. » * * * Amongst Thames visitors who have been spending a few days in Auckland were Mrs. Derrick, Mrs. Rudman, Mrs. W. H. Baker, Mrs. G. L. Shaw, Miss Marie Clendon. Mrs. R. J Seddon and Miss Seddon were present at a garden party at Buckingham Palace in July, when they were presented to Their Majesties the King and Queen. • • • • Mr. and Mrs. J. C. E. Kissling, of Gisborne, are taking up residence in Hamilton. Prior to leaving the south Mrs. Kissling was entertained at several social parties. Miss Edith Lyttelton, better known to New Zealanders as G. B. Lancaster, has entered into a contract with the International Film Company for the film rights of her novel, “Jim of the Ranges.” • • • • The appointment of lecturer on botany at the Otago University has been conferred on Miss Winifred Betts, daughter of Mr. A. G. Betts, of Nelson. The engagement is announced of Miss Kitty McLaren, Timaru, third daughter of Mrs. A. McLaren, Invercargill, to Captain D. L. Cameron, N.Z.E.F., of Nokomai, Southland. I • * * * There were 391 more marriages in Auckland for the first nine months of this year than for the corresponding period last year, the figures being 1182 and 791 respectively. The birth rate, however, shows a decline of 190. • • • • The wedding took place recently at “Mangahuia,” Makairo, the residence of Mr. R. C. Ellingham, the bride’s uncle, of Miss Elaine Vannin Banks, of Lindfield, Sydney, to Mr. Philip Charles Hardman, assisting. professor of singing with Mr. Edward Brans.combe, of Christchurch. * • • • 'The engagement is announced of Miss Gertrude Brown, younger daughter of Professor F. R. Brown, to Mr. T. G. Russell, of Knowlescourt, Christchurch. Miss Jobson, of the Australian Army Nursing Service, who has seen some four years’ service at the front in France, is on a visit to her sister, Miss Jobson, principal of Queen Margaret’s College, Wellington. » * • • “I have noticed that in our Parliamentary Buildings there is a room, very nicely furnished, set aside for wives of members of Parliament,” said Mr. J. McCombs in speaking on the Women’s Parliamentary Rights Bill. “I suppose when married women are elected to this House we shall have a room set aside for husbands of members as well.”

A very interesting wedding took place at St. Mark’s Church, Wellington, on September 25, when Miss Jacobina Campbell (Belle) Luke, only daughter of the Mayor of Wellington, Mr. J. P. Luke, C.M.G., and Mrs. Luke, 0.8. E., was married to Mr. .Ellis Hallam Charlesworth, son of Mr. and Mrs. J. Charlesworth, of Wellington. The ceremony was performed by the Rev. Mr. Page, assisted by the Rev. Mr. Sykes. The bride, who was given away by her father, wore a gown of white crepe de chine and charmeuse. A tulle veil embroidered in daisies, was arranged cap fashion on her head, and finished with crossed rows of pearls. She carried a sheaf of pink and white cherry blossom. There were five bridesmaids — Misses Ethel Aiken (cousin of the bride), Myrtle Charlesworth (sister of the bridegroom), and Jean, Gwen and Nancy Luke (nieces of the bride). They formed a group of rainbow colours, wearing crepe de chine frocks respectively of pink, eau de nil, blue, mauve and primrose. Their hats were leghorn, trimmed with flowers and ribbon to tone, and each carried a posy of freesias, violets, and pink or mauve stock. Their gifts from the bridegroom were gold brooches mounted with stones to match their frocks.

The bridegroom was attended by his brother, Mr. Percy Charlesworth, as best man, and Mr. Frank Luke as groomsman. Their Excellencies the Governor-General and Countess of Liverpool were present at the ceremony at the church, attended by Captain Sinclair-Thompson, A.D.C. Among the beautiful presents received was a solid silver entree dish, inscribed to the bride from Admiral Viscount Jellicoe of Scapa, and the captain, wardroom, gunroom, warrant officers and ship’s company of H.M.S. New Zealand. • • 9 » Miss Louie Corrigan, Wellington, daughter of Lieut.-Colonel A. A. Corrigan, was a debutante at the Royal garden party on July 16th, when she was presented to the King by the Lady Chamberlain. Miss Corrigan wore white georgette, embroidered in pearls.

Dr. A. W. Averill, Anglican Bishop of Auckland, is to sail for England in February to attend the Lambeth conference, which is to be held in June next. He will be accompanied by Mrs. Averill. * * * » Mrs. J. H. Wilson, of South Yarra. Melbourne, has been the guest of Mrs. Todds, Hastings, and is now touring the Hot Lakes district. ■ ■ • • Just before the Royal Ascot race meeting, a writer in an English fashion journal said: “The Ascot fashions should be more than ordinarly interesting in view of the present tendency to eccentricity in dress. There is some curiosity as to whether the most daring extravagances of Paris will be followed. These skirts are to the knees only, no sleeves are worn, and bodices are meagre to attenuation. In some cases, stockings are discarded and shoes consist mainly of a toe-cap, an anklestrap and a very high heel. By still more daring spirits, the skirt is worn slashed to the hip, and I am creditably informed, that by comparison with many of these ladies, the average ballet dancer is distinctly overclad.”

Miss Henry, sister of Mrs. L. O. H. Tripp, has returned to Wellington after several years’ residence in England. ■ • • • The King and Queen established a precedent by inviting to a garden party at Buckingham Palace something like 10,000 persons who had been engaged in various forms of war work. The gathering in the grounds was quite remarkable for the variety of uniforms. Tea was served, as at previous parties, in a number of large marquees on the lawn, the King and Queen and other members of the Royal Family having theirs under a gorgeous red canopy r on solid silver poles, which were presented to the King at his coronation by the ruling princes of India. After tea their Majesties, accompanied by the Prince of Wales, Prince Albert, Prince Henry, and Princess Mary, moved about the grounds talking to their guests for more than an hour.

Owing to the heavy rain, Admiral and Lady Jellicoe’s “At Home,” which was to have been given on the battleship last Thursday afternoon, had to be held in the Harbour Board’s big shed, used by the Navy League for the entertainment of petty officers and men during their stay in Auckland. The function was attended by many hundreds of guests, who patiently awaited their turn in long queues and were received by their distinguished host and hostess at the entrance to the inner shed. The building was gaily decorated with flags and nikaus, and rose-shaded electric lights, and tea was served at small tables dotted round the room. Afterwards many of the guests went aboard the New Zealand, the deck of which was covered with awnings lined with flags. Lady Jellicoe wore a simple black taffetas frock with a sable stole and black stretched silk hat with floral touches. * • * • More than ordinary interest was evinced in the marriage of Mr. Clutha N. Mackenzie, youngest son of Sir Thomas Mackenzie (High Commissioner for New Zealand in Britain) and Lady Mackenzie, to Miss Doris Sawyer, younger daughter of Mr. Harcourt Sawyer, of Windsor Forest, England. The wedding took place at St. Mary’s Cathedral, Parnell, Auckland, on Thursday, October 2, in the presence of a crowded assembly, the ceremony being performed by the Rev. Thomas Crick, chaplain to H.M.S. New Zealand, and the Rev. Dr. O’Callaghan. The service was fully choral, girls from the Queen Victoria School for Maori girls augmenting the choir. The bride wore a beautiful frock of white ninon poised on silver embroidered silk, her net veil falling from a cap of rich Brussels lace, an heirloom in the bride’s family. Deft touches of orange blossom added to the effect. She also wore a lovely pearl necklace, the gift of her father, and carried am exquisite bouquet of orchids. Lord Jellicoe gave the bride away, and attending the Admiral was Mr. Kenneth Mackenzie, brother of the bridegroom. .The bridesmaids were little Fiona and Ruth Mackenzie, the bridegroom’s nieces, who made a charming picture in white muslin frocks finished with pink and blue sashes, and pretty hats, while they carried baskets of flowers. Pay-master-Lieutenant E. D. Guinness was best man. After the ceremony a reception was held at the home of Mr. Kenneth Mackenzie, Princes Street, where the newly-married couple on arrival passed between the ranks of a guard of honour arranged by Admiral Jellicoe and formed by officers of H.M.S. New Zealand. The guests-included Lord and Lady Jellicoe, and 25 officers of the New Zealand, on which vessel Mr. Mackenzie journeyed from England to Australia as the guest of Lord Jellicoe. The bride arrived in New Zealand by the Corinthic. A large number of the bridegroom’s friends who had been with him through the war years came up from the south for the ceremony. A sympathetic note is awakened in the fact that he lost his sight through a bomb at Suvla Bay. Romance stepped in when the blinded hero was at St. Dunstan’s Hostel, for it was here that he met his bride when she was ministering to the afflicted. Mr. and Mrs. Clutha Mackenzie are spending their honeymoon in the Waitakerei ranges. • • * « Mrs. Kineton Parkes, who is at present in Auckland, was secretary of the Women’s Emergency Corps, one of the largest war organisations in England, and the first to start activities. Four days after the outbreak of war it embarked upon the two-fold scheme of creating employment for women thrown out of work by the war—such as toy-making—and organising voluntary service. Mrs. Parkes is keenly interested in politics from a woman’s point of view, and her lecture on “Women’s Political Responsibilities,” which she is giving on Monday next under the auspices of the Civic League, should be particularly informative at the present juncture.

Touching upon domestic difficulties Dr. Agnes Bennett, in the course of ,a talk , at the Pioneer Club, Wellington, said that she thought the people who were the most in need of help in this country were the mothers of y.oung families. She considered they were the hardest worked section in the community, and unless help of some kind or another were organised she did not see how they were to bring up large families or even small ones for that matter. * • jt • A wedding of interest to a wide circle took place at St. Mary’s Church, Merivale, Christchurch, on September 27, when Miss Mary Tabart, youngest daughter of the late Mr. F. C. and Mrs. Tabart, of Opawa, was married to Mr. Elliston S. Orbell, Of Dunedin, second son of the late Mr. Henry Orbell, of Waikouaiti. The ceremony was performed by the Ven. Archdeacon P. B. Haggitt. An interesting feature of the ceremony was a “guard of honour” for the bride, composed of workers of the Red Cross Depot, who each carried a lily tied with red, symbolic of the Red Cross colours. The bride was given away by her brother, Mr. J. S. Tabart. She was exquisitely gowned in mauve so.uple satin, veiled with crepe georgette of the same shade, and draped with rose point lace, while her mauve georgette hat was lined with black. She carried a bouquet of pale pink stock. There were three bridesmaids in attendance, Misses Peggy Palmer, Shona Rhodes, and Sybil Baldwin, who were frocked alike -in pale pink crepe georgette with picture hats in tones of bronze and pink, and carried pretty pink bouquets. The best man was Lieutenant Lionel de Latour. After the ceremony the guests were entertained at morning tea at the residence of the Misses Tabart, in Papanui road.