SOCIAL AND PERSONAL.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 789, 12 April 1910, Page 3

SOCIAL AND PERSONAL.

A Children's Pageant. At a. meeting held yesterday afternoon at the home of Mrs. Coulls, in Kelburne, the first steps were taken to make arrangements for a children's pageant, to be held in three months' time. The following ladies were appointed as a committee for KelburneMrs. Coulls (president), Mrs. Darling (secretary), Mesdames Herdman, Tudor Atkinson, Chaytor, llaiirice. Richmond, Pollock, Baldwin, Kreeft, Sal;mond, Mackenzie, and Misses B. Putnam, Atkinson, lines,' Kelsey, "Whetson, , and Wilson. Miss M. E. : Richmond was. present, and explained that the idea was to have a children's fancy dress ball in the Town Hall, each set to select costumes carrying out one scheme, and all the dresses to be most artistically designed, so that the whole would form a beautiful pageant. Tickets would be sold at varying prices—2s. for a single child, ss. for three in a family, and Is. extra for each additional child—while tickets would also be issued to spectators, the proceeds of the entertainment to go to tho Free. Kindergarten Union. Committees will be formed in different parts of the town, and each committee will arrange for the sets of children coming l from that neighbourhood. After some discussion as to the costumes that should be chosen, it was agreed that all the children should be dressed as flowers, each set carrying but the idea of. some one flower.. The Kelburne Committee promptly decided on a very beautiful costume for the sets it will arrange for, and if all the others are as beautiful, the children's floral pageant should be very well worth seeing. One of the most admired sets at a/charity ball given here some years ago was the daffodil set, and little children dressed as flowers should look even more charming than grown-ups do. It is intended to hold the ball on the last Friday in June or the first Friday in' July.. .

Girls' Realm Guild. ■•;.«; / ■ 'A meeting of the Lady Plvmket Centre of the Girls' Eealm Guild was held yesterday afternoon in a committee room at tHe Town Hall, when Mrs. Wallis, the president, was in the chair. Mrs. Wallis that circulars had been sent to about 70 members of the centre, who had not lately taken any active part, asking them to inform the secretary, whether they wished to. remain members of the guild. Only a small proportion haa re?plied,. and there had been several resignations. It might therefore be taken that the centre had been reduced to between forty and fifty members, which, was a very good working number, and it was to be hoped that these members would as a .guild undertake some special useful work. Tho .concerts that the girls gave from tfnie to time in , homes arid institutions were a source of great.pleasure to the inmates, and there were other kinds of work that could be taken up. The following members of committee were elected:—Misses Jenkyns, Myers, Dirnant, Mueller, Pollock, and Moss; treasurer, Mies Hurley. A new secretary has yet to be appointed ' in. place, of Miss Pearl Hamilton, who was recently elected general secretary for the guild. It waa decided that the centre should meet on the second Monday in each month at 5.15 f p.m. . ■ ■ , ' '.-..■. , Sale of Work at (3.F.5. |, \ A good sum yas'realised by 'the sale of, work held at : the Girls' Friendly Society Hostel on Saturday in'aid of the Maori and Melanesian missions. . : The ;following ! were the stallholders: Art stall, Miss Greenwood and the Misses - Turner; fanoy stall, Misses ' Walker, : Blackwood, and Brownlie; book stall, Miss Jones and Miss Blackey; produce stall, Misses Holloway, Mill, Price, and Halliburton! sweet stall, Misses Wright,- Eobinson;. and Schnltz;, .tea room, Misses D. Walker MueUer, v bran\tpbiMiss Mestayer. i- . ; , '~ ,V. ". i. V : , ■ . The.Christchurch lady eolfers will play at Trentham on Thursday!'and'at"Mfrai mar on Friday. ■: :■■-.■•; ■•>■-.•■ v, ; The Eev. V. B. Paris, late of Inver■cargill.iwho :was for two years stationed - at' the * Otaki Methodist Church, was on Tuesday last married to Miss V. E. Clark, of Oamaru, the ceremony being performed by the Eev.-T. , N. Griffin.-Mr. and Mrs. Paris have, been-spending'two or three days at Otaki on the way. to Mahurangi, in the north of Auckland, where Mr. Paris's new charge is situated. The committee of the Levin Memorial Home'wish to acknowledge with thanks gifts received during'the month of March from the following ladies:—Mrs. Archibald;. Mrs. and Miss Young, Mrs, Wardell (clothes and shoes), Miss Morrah, and Miss Badden (vegetables and jam).

■A quiet wedding was celebrated at St. Mary's Church, • Otaki, on last, when Mr. William Wilson was married to Miss Maud Fitzgerald, sister to Mrs. O'Reilly. The ceremony was performed by the Bey. Father Cosnet. Mr. and Mrs.' Wilson"will take up their residence at Otaki.. ' •'.