SOCIAL AND PERSONAL.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1736, 29 April 1913, Page 2

SOCIAL AND PERSONAL.

Dr. Platts-Mills, who is standing as an Independent candidate for the Hospital and Charitable Aid Board, has interested herself greatly in public matters in Wellington, and lias given much time to the furthering of many good causes in this city. For three years she has been president of the Society for the Health of Women and Children, and has done mncli to make its admirable work known to tlio public. Sho is president of the Moral and Physical Health Society, is a member of the Eugenics Society, and a member of the Council of the Victoria League. Sho is also president of the only Girls' Swimming Club in Wellington," and is known as an able lecturer on any matter directly or indirectly connefcted with her profession. Dr. Platts-Mills is keenly interested in the matter of getting a pure milk supply for the city, and when it is considered how immensely important this is for the infant life, of Wellington her advocacy of such a matter cannot fail to be appreciated.

- Miss Clayton, principal of tho leading girls' schools in Pretoria, is on a visit to Napier. Under the Transvaal regulations teachers are given six months' holiday every five years, and Miss Clayton is spending hers in New Zealand. Miss Clayton is a niece of the late Captain/Bower. A lady,' Mrs. E. Dockrill, has been nominated for a seat on the Taranaki Hospital and Charitable Aid Board. Mrs. S. Allen, who had been visiting her mother, Sirs. N'ewton Kin», Nfe'w Plymouth, has returned to Dunedin. Miss Johnston, of "Winton," ICarori Eoad, is leaving on Friday by the Moeraki to join her brother, Dr. W. H. and Mrs. Johnston, in Sydney en route for England, where she intends spending a prolonged holiday, visiting Scotland and iTelftnd.