SOCIAL AND PERSONAL

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2568, 16 September 1915, Page 2

SOCIAL AND PERSONAL

L.evin Home. Tlio monthly meeting of tlio committee of the Levin Home was held at the Jiiomo on Tuesday;. Miss Greenwood presided. The matron reported that the children wei'o all well; On August 21 they were, at the Kinemacolour pictures by invitation of the management. Mesdames Badllam, Samuel, Miss M'Dougall, and several members of committee gave, a day's sewing at tlio home. oil August 2-1. One child was admitted during , the month. The following gifts were received with tlianlcs: --Mrs. Phelp, two shirts; Union Clothing Co., straw hats; Island Bay Reservo (per Major Wells), 2 loads of wood; Sirs. ' Knowles, cakes; Miss Young, piece of .material; Hiss T. Greenwood, knitting and crotchet cotton, hooks,, needles, etc.; "Anonymous," four'vests. The annual gift tea is to bo held on Thursday,. September 30.

Hutt Ladies! Coif Club. The senior championship of tlie Hutt Ladies' Golf Club was won, for the second time, by Miss E. Matthews, with Miss Gambrill as runner-up; The junior championship was won by Miss M. Harris, Mrs. Whitcombe being runner-up. Tho L.G.W. silver trieclal has been won by Miss Gambrill, and the bronze medal by Miss Harris. Munitions and a Contrast, At Erith a scheme has been started for training women of independent means as munition workers, that they iilay relievo- the regular workers at the week-ends, istates the London correspondent of the, Sydney "Telegraph." An important residence near the factory litis been arranged as an hotel for them during their training, and they aro asked to pay their wage of 15s. '6d. a week into a common fund for the necessary expenses of. tho establishment. The : sclieme 's a good one, except that it seems, likely to be run on a scale far exceeding los. 6d. a iveek. However, if the volunteers defray the cost themselves, I suppose that is 110 one's business except their own. A lynx-eyed social critic draws a contrast, which would be comical if it were not ghastly, between tlife scale of living . considered necessary by these "lady munition workers" and that of the "women" of a Midlands factory, where the workers nlake munitions from 7 a.m. to 8 p.m., with half an hour allowed for breakfast and half an hour for dinner, and no time at all. for tea. No meals are provided, and for their 73} hours' work the women receive on an average between los. and 16s. In other factories where.tile weekis ;shortei- the wage is much less. It is riot pleasant to look beiieath the surface in England.

Mrs. Halso (Grey-town), wlio .has been spending tlio past three months iu. Sydney, returned to New Zealand early this week by tile TJlimaroa. At the opening of the I[utt Flower Show yesterday afternodii, Lady "\Vard was presented with a bouquet of very ldvely flowers by Miss Loi-na Chapman. Tlio bouquet was made by Mrs. Knight. The sale of flowers and home-made sweets from stalls placed at either end of the Drill Hall materially assisted in swelling the proceeds''of the show, which are to go towards the Wounded Soldiers' Funds. A patriotic dance was held by a committee of Public Servants in the Railway Social Hall oh Saturday last, when the sum of £5 os. was > cleared for the purpose of. providing necessities for our -wounded soldiers. Tlie committee consisted of: Mrs. Masters, Misses Caddick, Q. M'lnerney, and Messrs. A. C; Thomson, H. L. Andrews, aiid J. A. Simpson. _ This is the third evening held by this committee, and a dance and card party will take place on October 9.

The progressive euchre party and dance' 1 to be held in Itirkcaldio and Staiiis's.tea rooms on Friday, September 17, in aid o{ the Volunteer Sisters promises to be as successful as previous entertainments; Mr. Bloxam Las undertaken to again act as hon. (secretary. Tickets, of which there is only a limited mimbei-j may b6 had oil application at the tea-rooms.

. .CrraylingwelTHospital, where -soma of the New Zealan.d soldiers have been accommodated, together with wounded from the Flanders front, is a very- fine institution. 11l A letter received by Mrs. Glanville, of Gisborne, from lier' sister at Bognor, the writer states the hospital is fitted up to receive *800 wounded. It is a huge place, the park and gardens being very beautiful. The wounded men all wear a hospital uniform of bright royal blue wool, with red stripes for corporals, sergeants, etc. Like Boy Scouts, they also wear red knotted scarves round their necks, and so look very cheerfully dressed.