SOCIAL AND PERSONAL

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 126, 14 February 1918, Page 2

SOCIAL AND PERSONAL

Juvenile Branch of the w.N.R. On Monday the junior branch of the Upper Hntt Women's National Reserve held a most successful bazaar for the Soldiers' Gift Fund. The Hon. T. M. VVilford was to have opened it, but was unable to do so, and in his absence Mrs. Corliss (secretary of the Reserve) was invited to perform the ceremony and give an address. An inspiriting address was given by her, and she was presented with a 'bouquet of flowers. • (The girls and boys who had made all the articles offered for sale presided at the stalls and managed the whole sale of work, under the guidance of the older members. So well did they work that the proceeds came to £38 7s. 6d. Everything was given, and there were no expenses. In addition to the money from the sale of work the juvenile branch has arranged and carried out throe concerts (also for the Soldiers' Gift Fund), one bringing in £2 75., another £9 10s., a third £9 15s. The enthusiasm of the young people is owing greatly to the support and help given them by Mr. Angus M'Curdy, who is the animating spirit of the Reserve work at the Upper Hutt.

Sister Winnie Wilson, of Wellington, who was trained in the AVelliugton Hospital, leaves for Europe on military duty at an early date. The members of the Patriotic Cake Room thank the following donors of cakes, subscriptions, etc.: Mesdames Smitton, Meek, Holmes, Richardson, Fulton, Chapman, Isaacs, ■ Gavin, Hurst, "Anonymous," and the Misses Wheeler (2), West, Richardson, M'Clnre, Kirkcaldio, M'Kellar, Seed, Macintosh. Mrs. Lucas Blomfield and Miss Janet Murray (Auckland), representatives at the Red Cross Conference, held in Christchurch last week, left for the north on Monday evening. Cecily Hamilton, whose war book, "Sonlis," was published recently, and who has had a lot of experience in war nursing as a member of the staff of one of the Scottish Women's Hospitals in France, has just gone out there again (states a London correspondent) in command of a nursing unit,- and with a title which is the equivalent of that of colonel in the Army.

Readers of Mr. "VV. B. Yeats, Irish poet and playwright, will be interested to hear of his marriage, which took place in London recently. According to a London correspondent, Mr. feats, who is 52, bad. been given up by even his most fervent feminine admirers as a confirmed bachelor, but, as his fel-low-countryman, Shaw, says: "You never can tell." The picturesque Irish poet was married in London; his bride being Miss Georgia Hyde-Lees, only daughter of the late W. G. Hyde-Lees, of Pickhill Hall, Wrexham, to quote the official announcement. "Up to the timo of writing," states the writer, "I have been unable to learn anything worth chronicling about the personality of the newly-made Mrs. \eats."

The monthly meeting of the committee of tho Lev'jn Memorial Hall was held at the home on Tuesday. Mrs. J. P. Luke was in the chair. The matron reported that the children were well. They had been entertained at Day's Bay by Mrs. Archibald, Mrs. William Christie had taken them for a picnic to Lyall Bay, and Miss G. Wright had taken them to Day's Bay during their holidays. The following gifts wore received with thanks: Jam and clothing, Miss Williams; "A Friend," 24 dozen buttons; Miss Boulcott, books; Mrs. H. Elder, two boxes plums; Mrs. Christie, vegetables.

In referring to the Serbian people, Dr. Bennett, in the course of her' talk at the Pioneer Club last' evening, described them as a very domesticated people, clinging.firmly to their national traditions and vory interesting in many ways. -A great many of them in prowar days had completed their education 'in tho universities arid colleges of other countries, and in so doing lmd gained in breadth of view find knowledge of other peoplo than their own. There wero many Serbian women in the Army, and they wero a wurco cf inspiration and help to the soldiers. In the days of the Serbian enslavement by the Turks, whon every possible step was being taken to crush their nationality, tlie women used to hand down to their children the traditions, the great deeds, and the poetry of the race, and in that way their nationality was kept alive.

At the Red Triangle Day meeting on Monday afternoon a committee of ladies was sot up under the presidency of the. Mayoress (Mrs. J. P. Luke) to help in the organisation of the Y.M.C.A. appeal for funds for war work. This comniittee will meet in tho Concert Chamber of tho Town Hall today at i p.m., and Mrs. Luke invites all ladies present at Monday's meeting, as well as any others interested, to attend this afternoon.