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SOCIAL AND PERSONAL

The Blue Cross, Lady Dorrion-Smith, president of t.he Blues Cross Fund in London, writing to Miss Becre in acknowledgment of money sent by the Wollimjton Trustees (Misa Estelle Beero and Sir. Robert Darroch), titiited that subscriptions for that fund wero urgently needed, and however small would be gratefully received, Miss Boere this week received Jil from S. Handley, Komako, Raumai, for this, fund. Any subscriptions sent in to either of tho above trustees by lovers of horses will bo duly acknowledged anil forwarded to headquarters. Their addresses are as follow:—Xliss ]'!. Boere, l(i ILill Street, Wellington ; and Mr. Robert Darroch, headmaster liosoneath School, Wellington. For the Red Gross. Messrs. Stewart Dawson and Co. have given a handsome oak canteen containing oleetroplato spoons and forks and ivoryhandled knives, one dozen and a half of each kind of article, and enough for a dinner party of 18 (141 pieces). That is the first, prize, and there are eleven other prizes, amongst which are a diamond ami ruby ring, a wrist watch, E.P. inkstand, and various articles, any of which one would be very pleased to possess. These twelve prizos are to be raffled for the benefit of the Red Cross. The Hobson Street, tho Terraces, and the Wadestown Bed Cross ladies are all to work together and help to sell the tickets. People can get tickets (price Is. each) on receipt of a stamped envelope from either Stewart Dawson and Co., Lambton Quay, or 30 Hobson Street, or fil Main Road, Wadestown, or from £Mi Tho Terrace (all in Wellington). Tickets are ono shilling each. The raffle will bo drawn on August 1 at the Eed Cross Shop, Loinbton Quay. The prizes are on view at Stewart Dawson's, Lambton Quay. Y.W.C.A. First-aid lectures will begin at. the Y.W.C.A., when five more names are added to tho list, which now consists of : fifteen names. .. There was a large attendance on Thursday eveuing at tho Y.W.C.A., when Miss Birch gavo an address on "The Girl's Individual Responsibility and Equipment for Christian Service. This week a meeting of the Religious Work Committco of the Y.W.C.A. was hold. It was reported that the aggregate attendance at the devotional meetings for tho four Thursdays and four Sundays of the month was 165, the average attendance for tho week being 118. In addition, 71 girls have received definite Bible teaching, and 10 members have been enrolled in the Mission Study Circle. Members and friends under twenty will be specially welcome to join in the service at the Y.W.C.A. to-morrow after-, noon at 4.15 Miss Dora Johnstone will be present to take part in tho service. ; Strangers to Wellington are specially i,nI vited to the service to-morrow. A very large number of newcomers to Wellington have' been present at. tho services during the last fow months, many of them have found friends in consequence. Soldiers will bo welcomo to uttend a social for Y r .W.C.A. members to-night at Fowlds' Buildings. The following is an extract from "The Association Woman," the official organ of the National Board of the Y.W.C.A. of Australasia:—"ln the last i'ssuo of this magazine we read some account of what tne Y.W.C.A. is d<yng to meet new needs created by the war. Many women have gone to France as | cooks, telephone operators, etc., at base hospitals and other places, to liberate men for more active service in the fight-ing-line. Huts are being crected to provide for these girls and women in their times of leisure, and tho. suggestion has como to us that, liko the girls of Canada, tho girls of Australasia might like to have a liut of their own in France. Wo understand that it would cost approximately ,£SOO. Surely this is a thing we could undertake. It is indeed tho trust patriotism to safeguard the women who have unselfishly offered themselves to work which they can do iu order that no men able and willing to serve at tho front may bo held back iu service which women can undertake."

Lieutenant Alison, a returned Anzno, I Slid Mrs. Alison, left Christchurcli tor Wellington on Thursday. Mrs. A. H. Miles bas returned to Wellington from a visit to Invercargill and Christchurcli. Miss Hope-Wood (Christchurcli) is visiting Wellington. '. The monthly meeting of the Countess of Liverpool Fund Committee will not be held this coming Monday, owing to the fact that 1 the president (Mrs. J. P. Luke) will "be visiting Featherston. It will bo held, however, tho following Monday. A very frequent visitor to the Town Hall _is an Australian lady who is in Wellington at tho present time while her husband is engaged with important military and judicial duties. Several of her morning hours aro given over to assisting the work of the Countess of Liverpool Fund, find needless to say these energetic and constant workers greatly appreciate her help. Mrs. M'Govern, of Pukekohe, is visiting Wellington to sea her son, Lieutenant Joseph M'Govern, who is at present in camp. Lieutenant M'Govern was one of the Samoa Expeditionary Force. On returning from Samoa he joined the Eighth Reinforcements, and after seeing considerable servico was sent back to receivo a commission. Another brother is a member of tho Iljiag Corps'. Hostesses for the ooming week at the' Soldiers' Club will be:—Sunday, Mrs. Joseph Joseph; Monday, Mesdames 11. Hall and W. Young; Tuesday, Mesdames Hadfield and A. M. Myers; Wednesday, ladies of St. John Ambulance; Thursday, Mesdames Bucho'z, Wheeler, and Mackersey; Friday, Spinsters' Club; Saturday, Khaudallah ladies.

Red Jersey Appeal. It was very fortunate indeed that the initial effort for the Red Jersey Appeal was favoured with such a beautiful dny as that of yesterday. Everybody who had anything to do with the appeal was hard at work, and everywhere collectors unci sellers of badges were doing their best for tho benefit of a causo which will need our help more and niuie as time, goes on. It only needed the fact to be brought home to people that perhaps tho money which they gave would do something for their boy td unloosen tho purso strings in very many cases, and thero could have bean no inoro eloquent appeal than that made by the sight of returned wounded soldiers driven along the streets 6lowly in a motor-car, collecting for their comrades in the firing lines. Tho stalls organised by tho Press Baby Committee, at which home-made cakes, bread, scones, etc., and flowers and vegetables of all kinds wero sold, did good business, hs did other stalls for the sale of flowers and badges elsewhere in tho city. Tho Wellington Red Cross Committee lias readily and generously consented to forgo- its half-ehare in the proceeds of tho Press Baby'e produce ana flower sale, with the object of helping to give a good start to the Red Cross Jersey efforts, for which great sympathy and approval is felt. Refreshments at thfc Town Hall, of which the Mayor and Mayoress Entertainment Committee were in charge, were greatly appreciated by the workers. A Women's Protest, The monthly meeting of the Wellington District \\'.C.T.U. was presided over by Mrs. Houlder, and Miss Powell led the devotional c-xereises. Meedamee Mounter and Brown, the delegates to convention, gave interesting reports of the -\tork done. A resolution was unanimously passed that the members of the union desire to protest most emphatically against the publication of tho names of the young women arrested in the recent raid on a Kelburn house. The. motion pointed out. tliat in the circumstances mich publication was tantamount to the infliction of n, severe penalty before their guilt is proved, a method of procedure utterly opposed to British justice. Tho union also expressed unqualified disapproval of the injustice perpetrated by tlie publication of names of the women arreeted, while those of the men were withheld and the men themselves escape scot free; and being convinced that to eet up a different standard of morality for men and women renders it impossible to deal effectively with the social evil, they emphatically protest against such differentiation of the eeses. Hoalth of Women and Children.

The monthly meeting of the Royal .New Zealand Society for the Health of Women and Children was held yesterday. There were present: Mrs. Massey (in the chair), Mesdames Harcourt, S. Kirkcaldie, C. Richardson, W. Nathan, Chapman, Ward, Russell, W. Luke, C. M. Luke, Corrigan, lieid, Tripe, Barclay, M'Vicar, Hauan, and Anderson, Misses Cable, lurkcaldic, M'Lean, Inglis, Willis, and Barnett. Apologies were received from Lady Stout, Mesdames Ewen, Ponsonby, llacorthyRuid, and Winder. Tho muse's report was most satisfactory. Mothers' visits to tho rooms numbered CO2, visits to homes 500, new cases fit, babies solely breast-fed 27, partially 0, artificially fed 18. Mothers shown how to prepare humanised niilk 21, expectant mothers 0, letters received 15. A cushion for tho rooms was gratefully received from Mrs. Wilkie, Kelburn. Donations of £1 from Mrs. Knlay and Mrs. Bray, Mrs. Carbury 55., and Mrs. Olliver 2s. 6d.. were acknowledged. Subscriptions are as follow: Mrs. P. R. Chapman, £1 Is.; Mrs. 6. Reid and Mrs. Bthorington, ss. each. To the material fund: £o from the War Relief Association; Mrs. Winder, 20s.j Mrs. Tripe, Mrs. J. 6. Moore, 6s. each) and Mrs. Samuel, 2s. Gd. After tho business of tho meeting Mrs. Massey distributed blocks of votes for the Plunket baby nomination, and appointed a small committee, consisting of the secretary and treasurer. Other matters in connection with the support of No. 1 baby for the Red Cross and Red Jersey Fund were discussed. Mrs. J.' P. Luke has received the sum of £2i from the Forget-Me-Not Club at Lyall Bay (per Mrs. Moran), tho result of tho recent successful fete, to be added to the Baetihi Fire Relief Fund. Mies Quinton also sent £1 for tlie same fund. Mr. and Mrs. John Waters, of 41 Pipitea Street, celebrated tho sixty-first anniversary of their marriage on, Thursday last, when they received many congratulations and good wishes for their health and happiness from members of their family and friends, several members of I their family having come homo to eeo them. Tho old couple aro both well and hearty. Tho matron of Ihe Taumaru Military Hospital, Yxraiy Bay, acknow\edges ttio following gifts:—Mrs. Ward, cake, eggs, scones, each week; Miss Skerrett, cakes; Mrs. Blundell, cake; Mrs. Moorhouse, sweets; Mrs. .Shirtcliffe, cakes; Miss Joseph, cakes; Mrs. Fergusson, ' cakes; Mrs. Turrell, cakes; Mrs. Tawse, papers; St. Augustine Sunday School, Petone, 55.; Mre. Buckley, fruit; Mrs. Lee Lord, jam;, Mrs. Hiley, jam ani coconuts; Mrs.' Hooper, jam; Mrs. Scott, apples; Miss Adams, buns; Mrs. Wilson, shortbread; Miss Shirtclifl'e, cakes and jam; Mr. I'. Sinclair, vegetables; Miss Fraser, walnuts; Mr. Turnbull, papers; Mr. Price, fruit; Mr. Hoare, papers; Mr. Beckett, walnuts; Mrs. Coulls, notbpaper rnd envelopes; Nelson ladies' weekly box of fruit and vegetables; Hutt Patriotic Guild, £'i monthly; also several anonymous gifts of fruit, cakes, ivndegßS and papers. The Commercial "Union. Assurance Co. and Lindsays, Ltd., havo very kindly taken parcels for the hospital and helped in many other ways.

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Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 193, 4 May 1918, Page 4

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SOCIAL AND PERSONAL Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 193, 4 May 1918, Page 4

SOCIAL AND PERSONAL Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 193, 4 May 1918, Page 4

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