SOCIAL AND PERSONAL

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2506, 6 July 1915, Page 2

SOCIAL AND PERSONAL

■ ; i Wedding in St. Peter's. < ■ A quiet wedding took, place in St. . Peter's Church recently, when Mr. J. ; Fernandez, eldest son of the la to Mr. ] John Fernandez} of Melbourne, was max- 1 ried to Miss Francossa (Fan) Austin, ! second daughter of the late Mr. Edmund ; Austin, of' Wellington. The ceremony ! was performed by the Rev. Archdeacon Harper. Tho bride wore a travelling ' costume of cream blaidiot cloth and hat ; with lancer plumes. She carried a j shower bouquet of red roses and as- ; paragus fern, with red, white, and blue ; streamers, the gift of Mr. Fisky of , Napier. A Presentation. : '" A meetiiig of the committee of the ■ St. Jolm 1 Ambulance Nursing Guild was held at the residence of the president, , Mrs. Moorliouse, yesterday afternoon. : At the conclusion of the necessary business that bad to be transacted, Mrs. Moorliouse entertained Nurse Macandrew (till, recently; senior district nurso, but who is now leaving to take up nursing in connection with tlio wounded in England) and the committee at afternoon tea, and before the gathering dispersed presented the guest of honour, on behalf of herself and the committee, with a very handsome travelling rug; accompanied witli a letter of warm ■ appreciation of her. work, signed by representative committee members; Mrs. Moorliouse, when making the presentation, paid'a'tribute to the good'work that had been so faithfully performed by Nurse Macandrew, and wished her God-speed and a safe'return. . In thanking the president and the committee for their cordial wishes'and their gift, Nurse Macandrew spoke of the happy feeling that had existed between the committee and herself in all the eight years in which she had been working fop them, and of what a pleasure her work for. that reason had been to her. On her return to New Zealand she hoped to be once more associated with them in ambulaiico work. Nurse Walton, who is now senior district nurse, was among those who were prosent. Nurse Macandrew leaves for London next week by the Remiiera. The Island Bay Surf and Life-Saving Club held a. very pleasant and success-. M euchre party and dance on ' Saturday evening at Cliff House. Mrs! Shaw and Messrs. Hurley and Reeve were the successful winners at euchre, and prizes were presented to them during the I evening.

. - -\. Military Hospital Guild. Miss Sybil Nathan, hon. secretary of the Military Hospital Guild, has received the following gifts:—Mrs. Burnett (Kumeroa), 2 shirts, 3 nightingales; Mrs. Arthur . Young, . 10 wash-cloths; fiom Otan'e, per Mrs. Modrhouse, 6 6 suits pyjamas, 24 pair bed socks, '6 towels, 12 face-cloths,~6 pair day socks, 17 pillow cases, 28 handkerchiefs, 2 nightingales; "Bertille" ,(a little girl), 6 faeocloths ; Mrs. L. M. Neill (Rongotea, Feildihg), 100 mixed bandages; A.W.E., per Mrs. Malcolmson, 2 towels; pupils Rongomaii School Eketahuna, per 0. S. Gordon, 1 pair; bed socks, 2 doz.handkerchiefs Mrs. Chas Luke, 12 pairs hand knitted socks; Well-wisher, 2 pairs bed socks; A J., 1 pair bed socks; Mrs. . I. A. O'Connor, 4 paira slippers; per Mrs. Atkinson, 1 muffler: Mrs. W. Young's sewing party, 12 nightingales; Miss Bertha; Kelly iTokomaru), 2 pairs bed socks; Sirs. Sutton and party (Oamaru), equipment for two beds and patients.; pupils of Normanby Public School, large parcel face washers, 1 pair bed socks, 1 muffler; M.lt. (Levin), 2 balaclavas ; H. C. Hunter, .1 parcel of magazines; Miss Robieson, 5 : pairs bed socks, ,1 oholera belt, 1 ■balaclava, 1 scarf, 1 dressing gown Mrs. ; Hubert Nathan, 3 v balaclavas; Mrs.Maurice Cohen (Palmerston North), 18 pairs socks; -Mrs. P. Nathan (8 Levy, Street), 4 balaclavas; Mrs. T. W. Powles (Oliau), 1 balaclava, 1 pair socks'; Kelburn Presbyterian Ladies'Guild, 12 balaclavas. 1 pair slippers, 4 face-cloths, .2 surgical socks, 1 pair mittens, 1 scarf '; Kenneth Reid (Marahau)^ 1 worked cushion; Gordon Dallas (Ma* rahau, 1 worked cushion; Myrtle Wil* liams (Marahau), ( 1 worked cushion * Mrs. Fred. Nathan (Palmerston North), 2 pairs bed socks; Miss'E. BrocklebanK (Petone), 2 pairs bed socks; ladies of Masterton, per the Mayoress for' sick men at Trentham, -1 case of clothing and bed linen; Mrs. Marsden (Petone), 7 pairs bed socks; Wallaceville Guild, face washers and bed- socks; Mrs. Stanton Harcburt, 1 pair bed socks; D.T.5.,-1 pair .blankets; Mrs. Baker (Forty-mile Bush), 2 pairs bed socks, 4 towels ; Ma* taraua. Red Cross workers (Wanganui)j respirators. 4 ■ —: : Nurse Muir has arrived in Welling, ton from New Plymouth, and .is stay* ing at the Nurses' Club. . "Nurse Hooper, who has been visiting her relatives in Blenheim before leaving witbi the Hospital Ship," is now at " the Nurses' Club till she too leaves with' the Hospital Ship. /(Continued on next page.)\ , '

liTho Whlta Ship. ■ Even the greatest stranger to iWel- ; liugton would have found it 'an' easy ■ task to tuid out where tho Hospital : fehip was berthed yesterday- by the •r constant streams of. peoplo, one going ... - and the other: returning, from tho King's Wharf, where, on the smoothest ■ and glassiest of green seas lay: lira white' -Hospital Ship, ' with its Red 1 , . Cross flag,, symbolic - of the morciful work on which it will bo engaged, flying from its masthead. ; '.White from ■ stem • ,/lo' stern, with-a green band . paintedround her sides, intersected -by ■large' red Geneva sho mado ja: strong personal appeal, to . the thou-. : , sands -ot people who stood in one long queue waiting their turn to go oir board ' juid seo for-'themselves 'tho . provision, that had been made for tho stricken at , tho Dardanelles. Hitherto, Now Zealand has had no esperienco. ni tho .'matter of hospital ships, ; but when one is told, that' this is - one of the most complete of her kind in tho world, it is not ■ difficult to believe it. . ■-. : i| Ward-after wai'd was gone through, | .white throughout, and everywhere was 'noticeable the greatest economy! of .'space ,| -iwlule/to ;tKe' ventilation, had., been.! paid "!:!';v,yery : ;,special attention. Ono, of the ■ Jnost interesting , rooms on board was the sterilising room, just off the oper- ; Wing''. theatre, - where . wonderfully-m-------.teutons machinery had been fitted up !'j?. For. sterilising' bandages,' ancl instruments. -. Of these -the! oue for _the . instruments is tho;'most, ' interesting, : and .by :utilising special ' arrangements. Vj tho iatter leave the : : horizontal; cylinder, in which they, have been placed with.'oat being touched by hand, while adjoining it aro several .boilers for hot V- .water.. ,In the operating '.theatre; there : is hut one table, and: overhead are inV :> numerable, electric lights,' so ; that day/ ~'. or night ' whatever is necessary . .to bo ; done can be done at onco.'. .Tivo.electric lifts that, can hold beds, aiid a. tele- : / phone'room !with about twenty switches connected with nearly eveiy part of the ship are only some of the conveniences . that" have been'. provided—very nece.s-. ■ i sary ones —and' everywhere througnout the whole of the ship are presses and cupboards and drawers,: .while attached :: !i to . the !side of evOry hed, somo of which ■2.r0 stationary with. mgoiiious;. contriv-, "ances for raising and, lowering the pa- • tients as well, are chart trays,, which - can be converted, into shelves for standing food on. ... ' : • . ■ Naturally the quarters assigned to ' the nurses wero a special point of m- .' terest • with many of the women_who -,iwere . visiting the ship. Those of . the - matron' and some of the nurses were ■ ■: an the boat deck, and.,most-ox, them ' provided accommodation for two, while a couch in each .oabin could accommo- ■ : date another. sleeper.. . All • were, fitted up with, wardrobes, and < numbers of ■ fitted-in. drawers. ~ln : tho : matron s ".:'! room., was installed a telephone, . j-l'or tho teii niu'ses who will, remain pn 1 board the ship all the time she is m commission comfortablo quai'tors had. ' fitted np on tho maiu.deck, and; specially up-to-date' electric r ' apparatus .for ironing had ' been . pronged for -.their - «so, a very necessary filing.when it is / remembered that "the. ship will be tneir. - home for a long timo to come. A ; small lounge had »ilso been: placed at; v their, disposal, while close-at. hand was a. steam boiler and' dryer for,' their clothes. The: large inusic-room:.which '.: ,was. so, comfortably furnished i for. the ■ iuse of the: passengers on the Maheno in-its earlier, passenger-carrying .days, "is' retained just as it ■ was for the use 'of the' nurses.' and: doctors, and in, all probability the patients. .. ■ . - ■ - ' • ! The laundry is a wonderful, place, ■' and' is very completo in. its arrangei i vmehts,' which!'ihclude:..: steam-washing < machines, a boiler that can be pro- > vided with a rack fpr- drying and a steam pipo drying-room in which are , - .numberless drying and airing clothes. Adjoining: is.a-maiigung-room,. ' Anth ' complete equipment for ironuig., JAs- a matter of, fact, compactness that ■ yet made for space eeemed to ..be,._the_ ,very essence of the ship, and as & result the Maheno had. left her, little, to ' tomind peoplo of,-her ... bygone . days. ' She is now the .Hospital Ship m which : will be centred for many days to oome •healing aud rest for tho men who have ■ been laid aside while playing their, part, in the world-famed .battle • ground or. nations —famed long centuries, ago, and, still more famous ; iiow, becauso of thoir. unquenchable spirit and valour., ,•■,( , 'A number of nurses who are. leaving ■ ! hv the Hospital Ship amved ,m Wel- . !i-3ingtoii': from Auckland yesterday, andM ■ are staying at the Nurses , K-esidential , Club, ii Kensington Street. Among ■ their number -' Paterson, Fox, Newell, Hawlons, Martin, 'Hawken, and Kittelly. : Nurse Donoghue, who has been visit-, ing relatives in Auckland, has returned rto Wellington,' and is staying with her hunt, Mrs. Willcox, at Kelburn, till the Hospital. Ship leaves.; ■ ', . ' Nurse Jamiesou, who has been visit- < 'ing' relatives in Greymouth, is- , now Staying at the' Nurses' 1 Club, till . she , geaves; with the Hospital Ship.-,.

Countass of Liverpool Fund. Contributions to the Countess of Liverpool Fund received by tho Mayoress's Committee at the Town Hall during the past week are as follow Mrs. Bell, 2 ißalaolavas; Mrs. Nicholson arid Miss I Wadsworth; 4 .Balaclavas and , 2 pairs bed socks; Mrs. Fuller, 3 caps and 2 i pairs bed socks j Mrs. Garland and Mrs. Webb, 6 Balaclavas; Mrs. E. C. Dann, i 5 pairs mittens, 2 face-cloths, 1 Balai clava/1 flannel cape; Mrs. R. B. S., 6 Balaclavas j Mrs. Bayfield, 3 pairs I hand-knitted socks, 7 Balaclavas ; Mrs. I Smallbone, 3 -Balaclavas; Miss Hargreave, 2 BnJaolavas, 1 cholera belt ; Miss Coffey, 3 Balaclavas; Mrs. . Murphy, 1 'Balaclava;.'Mrs.:,Sanderson, 2 Balaclavas ; Adeline Forbes, 1 Balaclava; Mrs. J. W. A. Marchant, 4 Balaclavas; no name, parcel of 'mittens; Mrs. Hardwick Smith, 2 Balaclavas, 15 handkerchiefs; Lady Ward, 1 scarf, 1 pair ■ socks;, Mrs. lleid, 2 Balaclavas; !'A; Friend," 4 Balaclava's; Mrs. Chegwin, 3 pairs socks; Miss Fancourt, 2 Balaclavas ; Mrs.; E. C. Howan, 2 Balaclavas ;, Weilesley ;Club,' magazines for Trentham ; Eastbourne Ladies' Committee, 9 pairs-socks, 1 pair mittens, .60 Balaclavas; "Anon," pork for Camp; Miss Ivy Gallichaii, 3 cholera belts; I Mrs. Troelbve, 20 Balaclavas, 1 pair pyjamas; -Mrs! Seifert, 6 Balaclavas;. Mrs. Neill (Feilding), box of 100 band-, ! ages>; Mrs. M'Gregor, 2 Balaclavas; Mrs. Joy, 1 Balaclava; Working Bee, 5 pairs slippers; "A Soldier's Mother,' 1 I pair. socks; Mrs! C. G. Teschemafcjr, 1 [ Balaclava ; Miss Boocock, I Balaclava; Mrs. Griffiths, 2 Balaclavas, 1 , pair socks;.Mrs.'G.; Christie, 2 .Balaclavas;-. Mrs. " A. L. Warburton,. 1 muffler, 14 face cloths: Mrs.. Mestayer, 3 Balar clavas;Mrs. Archibald, 2 Balaclavas; Mrs. W. Ferguson and party, 7 Balaclavas; Mrs! Rutherford, 1 Balaclava; Mrs. Black, 1 Balaclava; Mrs. Robinson. 3 Balaclavas; Mrs. Barker, papers | for Trentham; by post, 1 Balaclava, 1 pair mittens; Mrs. P. Wilder, 1 pair mittens; Mrs. H. Rawson, .2 Balaclavas; Mrs.. Dykes, 2 Balaclavas; M.8., 3 Balaclavas, 1 pair mittens; J. Miller, 1 pair hand-knitted socks; Mrs. Hunt, 4 Balaclavas: Mrs. Berensen, 4 Balaclavas ;' S.'E. Folden, 2 Balacalvas; Miss Watson, 2 Balaclavas; Mrs. _Orr, 1 pair socks: Mrs; Lawless,; 1 pair mittens; Miss Smallbone,: 1; pair socks; Mrs: F. M. BV Fisher, 3 Balaclavas; Miss Mildenhall. 3 Balaclavas; .Mrs.- Mcldrum, 7 Balaclavas; Miss ;Strachan, 4 Balaclavas, 1 pair socks; Miss Richter, 2 Balaclavas, 1 cholera belt; Mrs. .N. Matthew's, 3 pairs socks, . ! Balaclava'; Mrs. Flint, 11 Balaclavas, 1 pair socks; Mrs. Sidey, 3 Balaclavas; R. M. Sidey, 3 Balaclava's ; Miss K. D. Anderson, 2 Balaclavas; Miss Pike, 3 pairs mittens; Mrs!' G. M'Namara, 3 Balaclavas, - ; Miss Blyth. 3 Balaclavas; Mrs. J. B. Maxton, 1 Balaclava; Miss 'Allen, '1 pair socks: Mrs. Routley .(Lower Hutt), 6 Balaclavas. 4 pairs mittens; Te Aro. School! 4 'Balaclavas; Dorothy Roberts, 1' scarf ; Mrs. Holdsworth,' -8 , Balaclavas. 1 undervest; from Johnsoijville, 3 Balaclavas, 1, pair sleeping socks ; Mrs. Souper, 1 pair socks; Mrs. Beaglehole!' 3 Balaclavas; Wallacevillo Guild, 5 Balaclavas, 1 scarf, 1 pair bed socks, 8 face ■ cloths; Mrs. Mackenzie, 8 Balaclavas: Mrs. G. B. Davoy, 10 clavas; Mrs. J. W. Holdsworth, 4 Balaclavas ; Mrs. 1 G. Kirton, 1' scarf,' 7 Balaclavas. 3 woven belts, 1 undershirt; Mrs. Wilder, 1 Bala'clava, -1 pair socks, 1. pilir.- initt'eiis;: .Wallingford School Children. 2 hand-knitted coats; Mrs,. Jack Ormoud, 4 Balaclavas; .4 pairs mit> tens; Taum'arunui Women's Patriotiq League, .■6B - pairs - socks; Misses M'Lauchlan and Mrs. D. Parsons,4 mufflers,, 1 Balaclava; Mrs. P. Moeller, 4 pairs slippers; Palmerston. North Ladies' • Knitting ..Club, per Mrs. .F. H. Cooke. 25 Balaclavas, 40 pairs socks, 1 belt. The mohtMv«--meeting>of j the Welling: ton District W.C!T.XI. was held in their ■rooms. Constable' Street, on Thursdayi Mrs. Por.vinan presided. .There was a good attendance, and; three bers were initiated, i . ..-."•!; ■ Mesdames Fathers, Douglas, J. Dar'Ymg, and O. Earle, -Misses Bolton, Nun-' neley! and . Fitchett,; members of a knitting ciix;le, ; have forwarded forty-sis balaclavas to the Mayoress's Committee of. the Countess .of - Liverpool Fund- at the' Town Hall. •' • It does not .- 7 seem '; tobe generally .known .that' for a long time past the, Victoria • Laundry has - repaired ' all socks:that havo.been sent in from tlie Trentham Laundry for washing. ■ Perj sistent' rumours have been: in for .isome. time to 'the effect .that there - lias been a great wastage of speks'owing to non-repair, but . rumour, in this - as iu many :other' matters is hot "George Washington." A new. Army Order makes provision for the keeping of soldiers' wills by the officer in charge, of records. Wills will he: taken -from;- the :pay-books, and in the-case of those who die will be forwarded to tho 1 War Office.* By means of'the particulars given in the pay-book any mistakes or :oinissions in the wills can be rectiiied. i