CHIROPODY.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1690, 5 March 1913, Page 2

CHIROPODY.

Mrs. Haybittlc,. Xo. iGS Lambton Quay, over Orr, chemist, after many years' experience,' undertakes to cure corn?, ingrowing nails, bunion?, etc. Kelief from these distressing complaints.is guaranteed immediately. 'Phone 1951.—Advt.

Reception at the Pioneer Club. Miss Hodge ami Hiss Newcombo were guests of honour at a reception held by' members of tho Pioneer Club at their rooms 011 tho Quay lust evening. ' The fact that these Indies were to speak upon tlie women's suffrage movement in Great Britain created much interest among members, and their.anticipations of a pleasant evening were justified. The visitors who arrived at tho club with Lady Stout were welcomed by tho president,,, Jliss Richmond, and tho members of the committee and most of those present were presented to the guests of tho evening. Hiss .Richmond, in introducing Mis« Hodge, suggested that there was much yet to be done by women in New Zealand, and probably the fact that women's lives were so comfortable accounted partly for their apathy concerning public mntters. Jliss Hodge stated that, for the first time in the world, women of all classes had joined together to fight for the cause of their sisters, and also for the well-being of their country. They were fighting to gain a living wage for the sweated women of Britain, upon whose labour so much of tho revenue was built—labour that was so badly paid that many of them found it impossible to live, and so, unless they preferred death, wero forced to live in the worst possible of all ways. Sho told of the big firms in London, whose employees wero so .badly paid that they wero expected to supplement their wages in this way,' and who were given latchkeys as a hint that no questions would bo asked as to how they spent their off hours. It was tho windows of these firms that supplied the latchkeys that wero broken by the suffragettes when tho Conciliation-Biil was dropped. Broken certainly they were, but not so that the contents, could bo looted—a very different performance to that of Mr. John Burns and his East End followers, because he was not allowed to hold a meeting. Then windows wero completely smashed, and shops utterly looted,, and. yet Mr. Burns called tho women's act one of "scoundrelly blackguardism.' His memory was short. It was to put an end to this exploiting of women that they were fighting for. .It was for morality, and for the welfare of the generations ,to come that, these women wero throwing all that they held dear to tho winds. How could the race retain its vigour when so many children came into tho world in the midst of awful conditions? Women had agitated for a Pure Milk. Supply Bill, so that tho infants born in congested city slums might have a chance of life, but. that had been defeated because it would affect the farmers' interests. They had fought for tho segregation of the mentally defective, and that had been defeated. Every reform that had come to pass had been fought for, and so it would be with tho cause of women's suffhage in Britain. Jliss Newcombo made a very brief speech. She pointed out tho different treatment that was accorded the Australian and New Zealand women and tho women who wero fighting for the cause in England. They were smiled upon by tho policemen, aiul treated with respect at meetings, and there'had even been a casd when a man • w-as arrested because 1 ho threw a cabbage ht'-iii."Australian-woman speaker. Many' English women/had had the same treatment, but such pleasantries had been allowed to pass without, notico by. tho police. Miss Newcombo hoped that at the International Conference of-Women, to bo held in Budapest in June, 1914, New Zealand would have her woman representative. She would receive an ■ enthusiastic welcome from'the Hungarian women. After a hearty vote of thanks had been passed to tho speakers, supper was served in tho strangers' room, and .an interesting evening was concluded.

Colonol Underwood, Mrs. and - Miss Underwood, arrived in Wellington yesterday'by the Rualiine from- England; They are touring tho Dominion.

Mrs. A.. Riddiford was a passenger for [Wellington.by the Rualiine,. which -arrived here yesterday from England. , .

An interesting croquet match, ■unfortuV nately one that did not reach its conclusion, was. played yesterday afternoon, at Ifarori between teams representing the Karori and Hutt Ladies' Clubs. Some excellent play was witnessed, and a very pleasant afternoon was passed. .

Subscribers to the District Nursing Guild of St. John will be sorry to learn that Jlrs.' J. P. Luke] who has represented them since its inception, has resigned from the ooipmittoe. The work of the district nurses has been one in which Jlrs. Luke has been greatly interested, and sho has helped very considerably to place it on its present successful financial foot-i-ag.

Mrs. H. W. Preston, vrlio represented the Wellington Nursing Division 'for.iten years on the, .District Xursinc .Guild 'of St. John, has resigned in order to take up a position on the Wellington .South JNiirsing Division. Dr. and Mrs. Beetlie, Kimbolton, who' have been in England for the last year, returned to tho Dominion on Saturday last. Mr. and Mrs. Howdcn Drake-Brockmann and their children left Masterton on Monday for Auckland and Eotorua. They leave tho former place on March 14 for their home "Cornnna Downes," in North-West Australia. .