SOCIAL AND PERSONAL

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2429, 7 April 1915, Page 2

SOCIAL AND PERSONAL

Wedding at St. James's Church. A very pretty wedding took place at St. James's Presbyterian Church on Easter.Monday afternoon. The bride was Miss Nellie Hunt, 8.A., second daughter of Mr. Frederick Hunt, builder and contractor, Wellington, and the bridegroom Mr. Horace Brooker, of the firm of Thompson' Bros., and eldest son of Mr. John Brooker, Postal Department, G.P.0., Wellington. The Rev. W. Shiror officiated. The bride, who was given away by her .father, wore a gown of duchess satin trimmed with blonde lace, and a veil and orange blossoms. Sho carried a Louquet of white cactus dahlias. Two bridesmaids attended her —Miss Jean Hunt (sister of the bride) and Miss Edna Brooker (sister of the bridegroom). They wore whito embroidered voile and red velvet hats, and carried bouquets of red cactus dahlias. Mr. T. Jamieson was best man, and Mr. P. Martin groomsman. The service was choral, both bride and bridegroom being members of the choir, and tho, church was decorated by the girl friends of the bride. Mr. Cecil Armstrong played the Wedding March as the bride entered tho church, and guests and clioir joined in singing the bridal hymn. Mr. Armstrong again officiated at the organ as the bride and bridegroom left the vestry. After tho ceremony Mr. and Mrs. Hunt held a reception at the Now Century Hall, where some eighty guests had gathered. The health of the bride and bridegroom was proposed by the Rev. Mr. Shirer; the toast of the bridesmaids by Mr. J. Paterson, Mr. Jamieson replying. Mrs. Hunt, mother of the bride, tfore brown silk tafrctas and black velvet hat with ostrich feathers. Mrs. Brooker, mother of the bridegroom, was in a brown costume and black velvet bat with osprey. The bridegroom's present to this bride was a silver manicure set, while the bridesmaids received gold bangles. Among tho numerous gifts wore a silver hot water jug. from the choir, a silver breadboard and knife from the Junior Endeavour Society, and a silver-mounted salad bowl from teachers and scholars of the Sunday School. Mr. and Mrs. Hunt gave a very enjoyable dance in the evening. The honeymoon is being spent'in the South Island. The bride's going-away costume was navy blue serge, her hat vieux rose velour finished with black ostricli feather. Among those present were Mr. Billens (Palmerston North), _ Miss Menzies (Christchurch), and_ Miss E. Sinclair and Mr. Olrig Sinclair (Christchurch;. For Service Abroad. It is taking a long time for tho. realisation to bo brought home to people in New Zealand that on the other side of tlie world the British nation is fighting for its'very existence. We have no flying fugitives, no tortured women and children, no ruined cities and towns and blackened homesteads to bring its horrors homo to us. It is out of their plenitude of prosperity people have contributed to tho relief of a stricken nation of whoso terrible plight they can have no conception, for imagination is not the strongest point of a prosperous and happily placed people. In spite of the thousands of men who havo left for the war, we have had no casualty list, practically speakings and so with nothing to constantly remind us of what is going on, as only the sight of th'e wounded and the stricken can, it is perhaps hardly surprising' that we go so gaily ■upon a way that is remote from the alarms and tumults of war.

There has been something, however, to bring the struggle of the nations a little closer to \is within the last day or two, and that is the sight of the scarlet and gray clad figures of the nurses who have'been gathering in Wellington prior to their departure for service abroad. Eager as many of the New Zealand men have been to offer their services for their country, the nurses have been no whit behind them in their keenness for taking up what they consider their >share of the burden, and there is not one nurse who is leaving who is riot the object of the deepest envy on the part of her less fortunate sisters who remain, at any rate for the present, behind in New Zealand.'Where they are to be sent, or what they will have to face few can tell, but of this one can be perfectly sure, that they will play their part in this great world tragedy wheil it comes to them with as nigh a courage, with as much abnegation of self, as those others to whom such things come naturally, because they are the traditions of the race and are as much a part of them as the flesh of their bodies. Mdlle. Godrat, of Cbristchurch, is visiting' Wellington, and is staying with Jliss Coates. Staying at the Windsor Hotel are the following nurses Misses Sutherland, Commons. Walton, Speedy, Foote, Williams, Calders, and Young. Mrs. Ernest Hadlield invited a number of ladies to meet Miss Spinney at an afternoon tea which she gave at her residence in Hill Street yesterday. Among the visitors who are staying at the Hotel Windsor are Mrs. Jacobs (Auckland), Mrs. G. L. Crawford (Gisbone), tho Misses Hughes (Pahiatua), Mr. and Mrs. Outfield (Dannevirke), Mrs. and Jliss Guthrie (Feilding), and Mrs. Calders (Wanganui) The "British Australasian" states that on January 7 Mr. James Hogarth, R.N.R., Acting Paymaster H.M.A.S. Encounter, was married to Miss Beatrix Palmer-Clark, of Toorak, Melbourne, and Diuiedin (N.Z.). Four bundles of books have been received at The Dominion office from an anonymous donor for the Camp Library at Trentham. The substantial sum of £45 Bs. will be added to tho Belgian Fund as the result of the art union for the embroidered tablecloth worked by Mrs. de Castro. The drawing took place in the Mayor's room yesterday afternoon, when the cloth was won by Mrs. Rotherliam, with ticket No. 103. Mts. de Castro desires to thank the Bristol Piano Company, Messrs. John and Ernest Bhmdell, and those ladies and gentlemen who sold tickcts, for the assistance given in tho project. For Face Massage, Shampooing, all Han Treatmerts, and Electrolysis, Mrs Rolleaton's is recommended, bpacious Private Jlooms, Qualified Assistants, and Poreonal Attention. Switches and Transformations of every shade a speciality. Hair guaranteed to keep its colour. 2oG Lambton Quay *

Nurses for the Front. Following are the names of tlie Now Zealand trained nurses who are going to the front in Europe under arrangement with the War Office: —Misses Bertha .Nurse, Frances Price, Fanny Speedy, Edna Pengelly, Vida Maclean, F. Wilson, Elizabeth Nixon, Isabella Scott, Kate Wright. May Chalmer, Annie Buckley, Matilda Fricker, Carrie Young, Cora Anderson, Emma Harris, Louisa Bird, Kathleen Davies, Emily Curties, Daphne Commons, Grace Calder, Jean Cormack, Marie Wilkie, Janet Moore, Jean Dodds, Christina Lowe, Mary M'Beth, Elizabeth Sniailes, Mary Sutherland, Maud Mitchell, Sarah Clarke, Emilv Nutsey, Ilia Bennett, Mabel Crook, Ethel Taylor, Isla Stewart, Florence Siddells, Rose Fanning, Alicia lnglis, Eva Livesey, Edith Harris, Theresa Butler, Ivy Foote, Marga.rot Samson, Alice Searcll, Christina. Gibbon, Jane Miller. Kate Barnitt, Jean Ingram, Agnes Williams, Lily Burke. The following tiro on active service with the Australian Nursing Service:— Misses Elizabeth White, Alice Fraser, Ethel Dement, Grace Gutlirie, Helen Brown, Cora Turnbull, Jessie Verpy, Hilda Steele, Elsie Cooke, Nora Fitzgibbon, Dorothy Rose, Emily Scott. Our Napier correspondent writes that the wedding took place at Napier yesterday in St. Patrick's Church of Mr. John Coo, son of Mr. Edward Coe, of Napier, to Miss Mary Crombie, daughter of the late Mr. Crombie, of Wellington. The bride was given away by Dr. Leahy. Among the visitors who were staying at Bcllevuc Gardens for Easter were: — Mr. and Mrs. J. It Gray and child (Wellington), Mrs. Ross and child (Wellington), Mrs. Banks and child (Wellington), Mrs. Homewood and family (Wellington), Mr. and Mrs._ Bowdon, Mr. and Mrs. Cawte (Blenheim), Mr. Simpson (Nelson), Mr. Toxley (Tronthani). Mrs. Owen (Auckland) has come to Wellington to seo her sister, Miss Williams. of . Gisborne, who leaves with the New Zealand nurses for service abroad. Miss Godfrey, matron of the Gisborne Hospital, is also in Wellington for the samo purpose, and both are staying at the Hotel Windsor. Miss J. Mackay (New Plymouth) is visiting Wellington., Amongst the visitors at the Terrace Hotel, Lako Taupo, are Colonel Blennerhassett (England), Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Nelson, tlio Misses. Nelson (2), (Hawke's Bay), Mr. C. B. Morison (Wellington), Captain and Mrs. Kennedy (Auckland), Miss J. Riitherfurd (Auckland), Mr. and Mrs. Russoll Duncan (Napier), Dr. and Mrs. Henley. (Napier). Mr. and Mrs. T. R. Moore, of Pal-' merston North, arc staying at tlio Royal Oak Hotel. Mrs. Ernest Hobcn (Christchurch) has come to Wellington to say farewell to Miss Williams, of Gisborne, who is one of tlio New Zealand nurses,who are leaving this weclc for service abroad. Mrs. Hob.qn is-staying at the Royal Oak Hotel tilP Thursday, when she returns to the south. Miss M. A. Wilson, the dairy instructress' at the Boys' Training Farm, Wereroa, with her .sister (Miss Ethel Wilson, of Wellington), intends visiting Nelson and its surroundng district, and 'eaves this evening by the Pateena for Nelson. t Miss V. Clark returned to Wellington yesterday from a visit to Blenheim. Mr. and Mrs. W. Dalziell (Manawa, Tenui) are visiting Wellington. The marriage is announced in the "British Australasian" of February 18 of Mr. Herbert L. Benjamin, of Grosvenor Mansions, Oxford Street, AY., to Miss Irene Rose Barr, daughter of the late John Alexander Barr, barrister-at-law, Dunedin (Now Zealand). Mrs. H'ulme (Blenheim) is visiting Wellington. The following nurses who are leaving for Europe are staying at the Nurses' Club' in Kensington Street: —Nurses Harris, Fanning, Livesay, of Christchurch ; Nurses Dodds, Foote, and Calder, of Dunedin; Nurses Gibbons and Bird, of Wanganui; Nurse Siddells, Taihape; Sister Isla Stewart, Masterton; Sister Edith Taylor, Nelson; Nurse Samson, Auckland; and Nurse Cormack. Yesterday afternoon Miss Payne, matron of the Wellington Hospital, gave an afternoon tea for the nurses who are leaving to go abroad. The pretty drawingroom was gay with flowers, and the guests of honour in their dark-grey i uniforms, made distinctive with the New Zealand badge, looked very trim and ! workmanlike. In addition to the nurses there were present Dr. Young, president of the Welliugton Branch of the New Zealand Trained Nurses' Association, and Mrs. Young, Miss Coates,' Mrs. Kendall, Mrs. Hoben (Christchurch),. Miss Thurston (matron of the Christchurch Hospital), Mdlle. Gadrat (Christ- ; church), Miss Poland, and Miss Hebden. ! Two little girls, the Misses Rita M'Gee and Marjorie Morton, are organ. ' ising a benefit concert for Miss Flora [ Shaw, who is leaving for Timaru towards the end of the month. The concert will be under the patronage of the i Mayor. Mrs. W. S. Percy, who came. ! from England for her little daughter Joan, wlio was left at school in"' Dun--1 edin, returns by the Rotorua on Thursday to rejoin Mr. Percy in London. A Face—to face this strenuouß life, J whether yon bo young or old, Miss 11 ileom will teach you bow to keep the face free from wrinkles, smooth, youthful, na- , tural and healthy. Use "Cultene" Skm 1 Food (3/-) nightly. Moraines—Wash with > Milsom's Herbal Soap (1/-), then apply • Hygienic Faco Powder, 2/6 and 4/6 a > box (skin food in powder form), de- > lightful to use; shades, pink, buff, white, [ cream; cleans the faco and leaves it rested with that soft velvet-like appear--1 ance. 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