WOMAN'S WORLD

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 2976, 13 January 1917, Page 5

WOMAN'S WORLD

(Continued from Pago 4.),

VEW zeAlAnders at home London; November 9. Chaplain W. M'Lean, of the 2nd 0.1.8., has been in London on leavo from the Somme, and has now gone back to his old trench work.

Colonel A. Plugge,, of Auckland, who lias been in London on leave from France,, returned to the front last Friday. Mrs. Arthur Plugge, who came to England by the Panama route, was in London to meet her husband, and intends spending the next few months in a round of visits to Guernsey (0.1,), Yorkshire, and France. Major E. Puttick (Oamaru), N.Z. R. 8., has returned to France after ton days' leave, during which time he visited friends Leicester and in Sussex. Lady Henniker Heaton has given Sir Jqseph Ward one of her late husband's walking sticks, gold-mounted, and with "T. Henniker Heaton" inscribed on it, in memory of his services to Imperial Postal Reform. She said that she was

sure her husband would have wished him to have some personal momento of their long association in postal reform.

Sir Thomas Mackenzie attended tlj'e Empire Parliamentary Association luncheon at the House of Commons on Wednesday, the Bth instant, to meet the Minister of Financo for Canada. On Wednesday evening he attended a dinner given by the Imperial Air Fleet Committee to Sir Joseph Ward, at the Bath Club.

Lady Ward has been very busy during the past week visiting the New Zealand wounded soldiers. Her son is in London from school, spending a few days' holiday with his father and mother.

Sir Joseph Ward was welcomed last night (Wednesday) at the dinner given by Mr. E. Marshall Fox at the Bath Club to meet the president of the Imperial Air Fleet (Lord Desborough). Sir Joseph himself is the vice-president.

London, November 16.

Sister J. E. Peter (N.Z.), has come to England on sick leave from Egypt, and is at present staying at Cheyneconrt, Chelsea. Lady Ward has been visiting friends in London during the past week, and yesterday'attended the royal wedding at St. James's.

Mr. and Mrs. 0. H. Stephens, of

Wellington, who arrived m England by the Reniuera, are at present in London, but shortly go to Liverpool, where Mr. Stephens will do war worli. Mr. and Mrs. Massey and Miss Massey saw the Lord . Mayor's Show from the High Commissioner's Officc. Yesterday (Wednesday) Mr._ Massey was made a Freeman of the City of York. • Sir Thomas Mackenzie and Miss Mackenzie were among the guests at the marriage of his Serene Highness Prince George of Battenberg and Countess Nada Torby, yesterday, at St. James's Palace. Major P. do Bathe Brandon, assist-ant-paymaster at tho N.Z. Headquarters, in London, is the cousin of Captain Brandon, D.5.0., the famous Zeppelin strafer. He is an old South African campaigner, and was wounded at Gallipoli. .Captain Brandon's ancestors* lived for many generations in London before migrating to N.Z., and his grandfather was a London judge in the courts.

Mrs. and Miss Massey, in the midst of a round of public functions, are putting in every spare moment in visiting Now Zealanders here in hospital.

Mr. Victor Toomey (West Coast), who left Now Zealand before the wai broke out to visit relatives in Ireland, spent nine months there, and later accepted a good position in England. Ho attested under Lord Derby's scheme, but has been rejected.

■ Captain D. Mackay r -R.A.M.G\, ■ who returned' from France"'tin~'thb 'expira..tioa.of.his 12 months!.,contract, in order to undergo an operation"on-his ;throat, has been on a trip to Scotland, and intends going to a seaside - resort in order to recuperate. He hopes to tako up his military duties again 'soon and in the meantime is attending clijiics at tho Central Throat Hospital. Captain Mackey was house surgeon in Dunedin Hospital before coming to England in December, 1915.

Mr. Massey, who was accompanied by Mrs. Massey, presided at the 23rd annual meeting of tho social, side of the Salvation Army's work last week, and among others on tho platform wore Lady Hardwicke, Sir Thomas Mackenzie, and Sir James Carroll. Mrs. Booth and Commissioner Adelaide Cox doscribed the various activities of the Salvation Army in connection with women. Mrs. Booth thanked the New Zealand Government for its monetary support of Salvation Army work. Mr. Massey told of his pleasure in having officially laid the foundation stone and opened the fine Salvation Army Collego in Wellington. Sir Joseph Ward, who

was to have been present, was prevented from attending by pressure of tho Imperial business on which, as Finance Minister, he has come to London.

London, November 30.

Mrs. Patrick, of Wellington has gone to stay with her son, Dr. ,W. M. U. Patrick, at Rugby.

Colonel Findlay, C.M.R., and Lioufc. Gibba, 0.M.R., havo been in London on leave.

Sir Joseph and Lady Ward returned to' London on Saturday last, after having visited Edinburgh, Glasgow, Bel-, fast, and Dublin.

..The Prime Minister and Mrs. Massey are expeotad to return to_ London from their tour in Ireland this evening or to-morrow, Friday. Sir Thomas and Lady Mackenzie, having given up their house at Walton, are* finding it extremely difficult to obtain a suitable liouso in town.

Cbnplain Captain Guy Thornton, N.Z.E.F., has written "The Wowser," a story of tho Now Zealand Bush, which has been published by Mr. 11. R. Allenson.

To Mr. Cecil Wray is duo the first thought of providing muslo actually in tho hospital wards. He did an enormous amount of entertaining of this kind last winter, and is now as busy as ever Ho is greatly appreciated as an entertainer, and recently gave a concert to a number of wounded just before they left for New Zealand.

Mr. James Colin Self, ■ Auckland Mounted Rifles, who was lately decorated for services at Gallipoli, left Norfolk eleven years -ago to join his brother in New Zealand. Both brothers enlisted in the A.M.R. in 191-1, and Mr. Richard Self was seriously wounded early in the Gallipoli campaign. Their cousin, Mr. Anthony Thomas Fryer, went to New. Zealand with Mr. ,T. C. Self, and was killed in action at Gallipoli in August, 1915. Mr. Sydney Stichbury, of Wellington, who is in the N.Z. Army Transport' Service, has been over on leavo from France for a few days.

Mr. R. D. M'Lean, the well-known Hawke's Bay sheep-farmer, has most generously sent the treasurer of the Australasian War Club for Women a cheque to provide a- Christmas treat and Christinas tree for over 100 poor London children, relatives of mem Dors of tlie War Club. The fathers of the children are either serving at the front or have been killed in battle. It will bo remembered that Mr. M'Lean and Sir Thomas Mackenzie headed the committee of New Zealanders who arranged tho recent reception to the Prime Minister and Sir Joseph Ward. Mr. M'Lean, from its inception, lias prominently identified himself with the work of the N.Z.W.C.A., and lias subscribed most liberally to all war charities in England, particularly so with tho British naval charities, for ho is a member of tho Navy Ltague.