SOCIAL AND PERSONAL

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 216, 31 May 1918, Page 2

SOCIAL AND PERSONAL

A Presentation. Miss D. Whitbread-Edwards, the infant mistress at tho JCai-ori School, was farowelled by tho school and householders yesterday afternoon, Miss WhitbreadEdwards, who has had charge of the infant division for sonio years, lias been promoted to the position of infant mistress at Te Aro School. There was a good gathering of the householders and School Committee, together with tho school stall' and scholars, assembled in the school grounds. Mr.'A. M'Kcnsiie. the headmaster, on behalf of tho scholars, presented Miss Whitbread-Edwards with a tine camera, and Mr. W. 11. Nimmo, chairman of tho committee, on behalf of the committeo and householders, handed to the guest of honour a handsomo suit-case fully equipped. Both speakers dwelt on tho" serious loss the school and. district had sustained by the removal of so competent a teacher. Short) speeches of eulogy were also delivered by Mr. John Hums, tho committee secretary, and Mr. W. Skegg on behalf of the householders. Miss Whitbread-Edwards feelingly thanked the children and committee, and householders for their valued gifts. She trusted that the school would bo successful in obtaining a teacher who had the interests of the infants at heart. She thanked tho school staff and committeo for tha generous assistance received from them. Miss Whitbread-Edwards is a daughter of jfr. Arthur Minchin Edwards and Mrs. A. M. Whitbread-Edwards, a cousin on the maternal side of tho late Sir George Grey, an ex-Governor of New Zealand. Women's National Reserve, On Tuesday last.a successful meeting was held at Te Awamutu (Waikato), to consider an. extension of the organisation for women's war wqrk by the formation of a branch of the reserve. The proposal was enthusiastically taken up. Mrs. William Taylor presided, and in tho courso of her speech said that apart from the social side of their work they hoped to train women to relieve men .if necessary, and generally stand in readiness to givo organised help in any district • and necessary direction. The speaker thought it a most excellent rule of the reserve that no tickets of any kind are allowed to be sold at any gathering of the - reserve. ?|rs. W. Taylor was elected president; and Mesdames Andrew Kay and Archibald vice-presidents, vith a strong committee.

Welfare Work in America. Welfare work for employees, whicli was outlined by Mr. F. Dalziell in tho courso of his lecture at the Pioneer Club on Wednesday evening, is evidently a feature of industrial life in Aha United States.. according to Mr. A. Wise, manager of the Melbourne "Herald," who was interviewed in Auckland by a representative of the "Star." Questioned as to whether welfare work amongst employees paid, Mr. Wise said all the business men with whom he camo in contact were most emphatic that was financially sound. At the present time, in the States, factories with two or three hundred hands have a hospital a regular nurse always in attendance. For the smallest scratch their employees have to get antiseptic treatment. Where tho work is light tho nurse combines ' the control of a dining-room. Hero meals are served to tho employees at a third of the outside cost—sold at, cost price in fact; At a factory in Detroit which Mr. Wise visited, there were kept two surgeons,' eight physicians, and eighty-five nurses, together with a thoroughly equipped hospital. ' Thero were 30,000 workpeople employed in this particular busi-, ness. The average medical call was fifteen thousand n day,' chiefly mere scratches, for it. was a big machinery shop. The firm, insisted that all havo antiseptic treatment to avoid further; trouble. Practically all the big newspapers right across the States and in Canada are carrying on welfare work amongst their staffs, and <ne and all stated to the visitor from Australia that it was the best money they ever in; vested. They got a contented stall and a.loyal feeling. Mr. Wise also talked to scores of the employees,, who were intensely pleased with what;was being done. Strikes in' tho United States are very small in relation to population. Mr. Wise said that tho opinion was generally oxpressed amongst American men in a large business way that tho employer who did not fully care for his hands was soon down and out. This work increased the output and brought forth bettor articles. In one great business place the employer financed an orchestra amongst the employees, which was so good that H toured the country at intervals. Dance halls were also provided for social recreation. Tho employers found that by treating the employees in this, manner they got moro and better work. ,

Mr. and Mrs. George Hume (Fentherston) iiiid Mrs. W. Hume are visiting Wellington. Mrs. Crewo (Mayoress of Paliiatua) reUirns to-day from n brief visit to Welinigiou. Mrs. Donald Donald (.Vlnstcrton) is spending a lew days in Wellington on her return from a visit to Mount Cook. Mrs. Hogg (Kellnirn) is visiting her son in I'iilmcrsUm North. i Airs, Arthur Bennett (Queensland) is slaying with Mrs. Harold Ivishuortb (Mastorlon). Mrs. T. Mowat (Wanganui) and hei daughter are guests of Mrs. Uosking (MastertOn). , Mrs. M'Mnstcr (Matawliero, Lower Valley) ami her family h-ivo t'dcon up their ve'sidoncc in Masl'orlon. Mr. and Mrs. ft. doom (Mnkuri) motor-r-ii through to Wellington last: week, and iiilcnd spending the winter at Muritni. Mrs. and Miss Tl.iniin (Auckland) arc visiting Mrs. (Inu'ilcr at Takapnu. Miss Smith (Poukawa. ITawke's Hay) is Ihe guest of Mrs. M'Lnughlan, AVelnngtoii. .Mr. and Mr?. 0. Bennett have returned In Mnstorton from a brief visit to Wellington. .Miss B. Vallanci has returned In Mastodon from a visit (o the Loner Vol-', ley. Miss K. Morrison (Mastcrtou) is visit-' ing Wellington. An event which inl"i'csls every lady is now taking■ place.. An expiration lease sale is being lield at f.ces anil Church's, I l:!S Cuba. Street. The variety and value "I this linn's stock is known all over ilie Dominion, and nl these times' (if high prices it will indeed he economy l:> purchase iimr ivi|iiin'nicnls while the :"lection is good.—Advl.

; Dint will i;et into flic Irotup in (ho viniiiierfimo, do wluil one iiin.v. and there ;-, little use one trying lo co'po with the nuisance by iwing u duster. Get a ' Daisy" Vacuum Cleaner, and your troubles will bo reduced to a inininiinn. 'I'li'j Daisy Midi* up t>,- (tusl, ami the. niinulost particles caniioi iwcape Iho «uelian host'. II: is so miihilo Unit u chilo. of 8 or 1) years can operate it. Modorato iu price, lon. flail and have a. demonslralion of their simplicity and cllicioney al Uio depol. o(J Lower Cuba Street. OSCAR lIUWKTT AND CO.-Advl. The lies! cold weather gurnionl for boys is the Woollen Jersey, all shades, polo collar or shnuJder. fastening, ,'ls. (jrf, to 10s. lid., at Geo. Vowlds, Ltd., Manners Street-Advt. Wedding Announcements. — Beautiful roses and the choicest of flowers only aro used when designing wedding bouquets, which I. make a specially of. Packed and forwarded through Up. Dominion, Miss Murray, Vice-Kcsnl l'iorist, 3(J Willie StTeet.-Ad.vt.

N.Z, Red Cross Organisation. In tho courso of an interview with tho London correspondent of tho Christchurch "Press," Colonel R. Iloaton Rhodes, M.P., said he had suggested ihnt a Red Cross organisation should bo established here to look nftur the sick men, and that thn War Contingent Association Bhould conlinuo its activities, hut restrict thoni to the fit men. Tho probability is that for tho duration of ♦ho war tho Red Cross side of the work will bo tho more important, but as soon as peace is declnrod tho balance will tend (ho other way. Thoro will )w, say, 60,000 men in Great Britain and France. Fighting having concluded, the proportion of fit to unfit will rapidly iucreaso until practically the wholo force will be fit men. It will, of course, be desirable to embark them for home as soon as possible, but the most sanguine estimate is lhat it will take at least a year. Tn the meantime, those remaining in England and France will require possibly more ntlontion, comforts, and entertainments than they Jiavo ' required during the busy days of tho war, and this will throw a responsibility on the War Contingent Association notless than it has discharged up to date. "I am quite satisfied _ that tho New Zealand men in Great Britain have been thoroughly well treated," said Colonel Rhodes. "In fact, they havo been remarkably well looked aftor, and the War Contingent Association deserves everj credit for what it hns done, Tho trouble w that wo do not see any specific evidence of the New Zealand lied Cross. It is evidont to everybody in. London that there is an Australian Red Cross and a Canadian Red Cross but you can walk about London for weeks and never seo or hear of the New Zealand Red Cross." Colonel Rhodes has spent a good deal oi his time in visiting the varifius camps, depots, and hospitals throughout tho country. He visited Liverpool with General Richardson, with the special object of seeing one. of the great orthopaedic hospitals there, where several officers of the N.Z.M.C. are undergoing a course of training prior to their return to New Zealand. Near Torquay General Richardson has taken one or two farms, which are being worked by soldiers in the Discharge Depot. This, Colonel Rhodes regards as a most valuable activity, being- partly curative and partly educative. One of the farms is about four miles from Torquay, and the other about twelve miles, and the total area is 300 acres.

The marriage took place in St. Paul's Presbyterian Churoh, Westbourne Grove, England, on April 1, of Engineer-Lieuten-ant Gilbert's. Mitchell, ■ R.N., of 'Wellington, to Miss Victoria Blanche Macdonald, elder daughter of 'Mr. Alexander Macdonald, of Delamove Crescent, London, states a Loudon correspondent. Trior to tho war, Engineer-Lieutenant Mitchell was on the engineer's staff of the New Zealand Government steamors Tutanefcai and Hineinoa. He arrived m London in October, 1915. and the next month was in the* armed merchant cruiser Edinburgh Castle,. lxring transferred after about a year to H.lf.S. Macedonia, i , The marriage toolc place at the Church of the Good Shepherd, Tadworth (England), on April 11, of Miss Erica Rose, daughter of the lato Mr. Henry Eose, of Dunedin, and Mrs. Rose, Christchurch, to Lieutenant J. "\Y. Lawrence Burmcstcr, of tho Northampton. Regiment, eldest son of Mr. J. W. S. Burmcstor, of Sutton. In the course of an interview with the London correspondent of tho Christfhurch "Press," Colonel Rhodes expressed, himself us being greatly pleased with the storage arrangements , of tho Red Cross Committee at Southampton/There everything is kept in stock, and the hospitals requisitions for what they want, and get supplies sent directly. Any surplus supplies are mode available to the British Red Cross. These stores are now in charge of Captain It. E. Greenstrcet.'who recently retired from tho New Zealand Shipping Company. ' Last evening the Citv Council decided that the Kelburn Ladies' Croquet Club be granted the use of the croquet courts at Kelburn Park on the same conditions as last year, Mrs. Standish, who recentlv arrived in England by way of Colon, has beon appointed commandant of the New Zealand War Contingent Association's Club at Hornchurch, and Miss Johnson, of the Aotca-roa &t Codford.

On April 20. at Exeter Cathedral, Li»nlcimnt Leonard Poulter Leary, M.C.. R.F.A., son of' the late Mr. Richard ..Leary, of Prilmerston North, wns mar-, nod' to Margaret Mason Robertso_ii, voungnr daughter of Mr. George Robertson, Kmbleton, 'Northumberland. The eeremony was performed by the Rev. ,T. TT. '[Wood, C.F., assisted by the "Rev. .T. O. Gibbs, C.F., and the Rev. R,. C. B. Llewellyn. Lieiitenaiit Leary was in (.lie ranks 'at Samoa, and by the middle of 1915 he had obfninod a commission in the R.F.A. He has been twice wounded, the second.time in November last, and now is on Ihe iiislructional staff at Topshnm Barracks, Exeter under Liett-leuant-Cnlonel D. C. Snehcer-Rmilh. K.F.A., CO., of the No. 2 Cadet School, R.F.A.

Plans for Ihe Red Cross workroom, to be erected at the hospital annexe in the Auckland Domain, have been approved In- the chairman of the board. Mr. W. Wallace, the medical superintendent, Dr C. E. Maenirt 1 . and the board's nr-■hitr-el;, Mr. G. W. Ailsop, states the "Herald." The Mayor, Mr. .T..JT. Gunson, met those gentlemen on the ground, and it was arranged that the work should proceed forthwith. The workroom will be an addition to Ihe nnnexe, on tho (as! corner, and will contain over 2(100 square feet of floor flpuro. All the necessary conveniences mid appliances are lo be provided by Ihe Red Cross Society. The new workroom will be fitted up to enable wood-carving, timber working, and anything which may engage the activities of the soldicr-patienls, to be carried out.

The cm'iigomrnl is announced of Lientenant Frank llaytcr; of the Manchester TJoaiinrnl. son of the late Commander F. llaytcr, R.N.. and Mrs. Haytcr, of Rollcsbv, Canterbury, and Muriel, only child u'f Mr. and Mrs. ,i. H. Mortimer Srott. of Gloucester Walk. W., and ctamldaiighler of the late Major Mortimer Scott, Royal Fusiliers slates a London correspondent.

Miss Audrey ffnrner, daughter of the Ven. Archdeacon Harper, late of St. 'Peter's, .Wellington, has been 1 n voluntary worker for the nasi year or, two in the orlico of the N.Z.W.C. Association in London. She has now resigned, stales J, London of April I, lo learn motor driving.

Modern scientific Hair-work is always turned out from Miss iMilsom's establishment. No matter what aid. you reiiuire: call or write, and reply will lie sent immediately. Describe in your own wiiv any style of Coiffure you fancy. No diffjcuily to follow you and understand what it is you want. Best hair used, finest weaving, and light as air. Discard Hie old-fashioned pads, they are hot and heavy and have n very injurious effect on lite hair and scalp. A. perfect match guaranteed lo pattern sent. Daily making r't:ii(,\. Switches. Toupees, Transformations, Natural Hair Pads, and Curls. Absolutely life-liltt— detection defied. Every client taught the professional way to I u IhHr arlificial hair true to colour and lustre. All hair preparations for tailing, faded, grey and thin hair; full instructions for home treatment.; also wonderful and beneficial preparations for the face. Miss Milsom (opp. Shortfs Picture Theatre), 91 Willis Street. 'Phone BM,~Advt.