SOCIAL AND PERSONAL

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 221, 6 June 1918, Page 2

SOCIAL AND PERSONAL

Feilding Notes. Mrs. iii\ggut has gone k> Mustertun. AU'S. .UUIKJHU 15 till! gUliijl of ill*. liowsuelu. kins \\ urnel'oi'd, who has hi un elayiug willi Airs. Koilfers, Jiivs gouu to Wellington. JIM. .T. Hagffitt is visitiiiß .Mrg. G. JltiSßit. iirs. Perry has returned from AVclliimLun. In spile of tho bad weather quite it numuer of FeiUling people motored to \, angiinui to the races last week. Among thoso who went were:— jMcsdumes HasRitt, Murray, hlaxall, Hvovn, Hell, CiraJinni, Yoiini;, iiisses Shannon, Voung, Bailey, and ninny othera. lire. Ougiey has gone to Oaniani. Mrs. 1). ij, Uuihrio ia spauding a. short holiiliiy ju Jiotorun.

Tiiero was ic crowded hoiuso to wolcouio Misi Ai!)> lietivo on Thursday liiglifc. Among tho audience were ■Mesiliinies Walker, , Shannon, Miles, AVayinouth, Brond, Gortoiij Jl'Queen, Graliam, I'rasor, iVliller, Mason,' Bull, Pitzherbert, Brown, Mahoney, and many others. Several farewell teas have been givon lately in. honour of Miss Wyatt, who is leaving for Hamilton shortly.

Staff-Nurse Muuroo has been transfeiTcd to Trent'hani M.C. afi from Juno 4.

Tho committee of. the Patriotic Cake lioom thanks the following donors of cakes, sulbficriptions, etc.:—Mcsdainee Meek, Holmefl, Gavin, G. Pulton, Urucs, Mirame, "Auonynieiifi," and the Musses Gambrill, Didsbury, M'Kellar, ]litson, Hkliardson, Wilson, M'Clure, Wylie, Kirkcaldie, Macintosh, Hall (2), Brlen, M'Eldowney.

A protest meeting called by tho Society for tho Protection of Women and Children is to be held in the Concert Chamber of tho Town Hull on Saturday afternoon at half past two. All women aro urged to attend, particularly mothers of daughters, young women earning their livine, members of women's societies, church guilds, etc. Proposals for the.' more effective legislation, safeguarding women aro to be brought forward, and the xpoakers will be. Lady Stout, Mrs. Harverson, Mrs. Donaldson, and.others. It is felt that Tecent events make it imperative that women should bestir themeelves in regard to the laws affecting ivomon.

The wedding took place in tho Roman Catholic Cathedral, Christchurch, of Miss Kathleen M'Cormaok, daughter of Mr. T. J M'G'ormack, to Corporal Walter Seott Hindmarsh, formerly of Timaru, but now of Dimedin. Miss Alice M'Connack mid Miss Eileen Twoomey. of Lyttelton, were bridesmaids. The best man was Sergeant Charles Tames, and the groomsman Privatn Harold Gripsby. Bridegroom, best: man, and groomsman are all returned soldiers, the first two being comrades in anns from Oallipoli days. All three were in uniform. The Rev. Dr. Kennedy performed tho ceremony.

The wedding took place in Christchureh on Saturday of Mies Elsio Afilliceut Beckwitli, younger daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Beckwith, and Mr. Arthur Theodoro Wright, of the Fourth Reinforcements.

Tho Gisbornc' branch of the Women's National Reserve has done very lino work for tho Kcil Triangle effort. It was the ambition of the W.N.Ii. to raise ,1:1000, but the latest report states that it has raised'JCls49 3s. Sd., with expenses nil.

Captnin and Sirs. Beethnm (Master ton) aro visiting Christchurch.

The appeal made Ijy the Navy League Committee for bottles of every kind is meeting with much success, and already considerable supplies havo been received. The children belonging to' thfi various schools have been interesting themselves in the matter, and have materially assisted the effort.

Tho weekly dance held at the Sydney Street Soldiers' Club last evening was an usuul very successful. ' The hall wus just comfortably filled with dancers and a keen night added zest to the dancing. Mrs. Shirlcliffe and Miss Coates were- the hostesses ,aud othjr- arrangements were carried orit as usual.

The Terraces will hold o Rod Cross day at tho shop 'on Jb'riday next. Preparations have heeu made for a successful day, and there will bo much to buy for those who would help on Red Cross work for our New Zealand soldiers. Homemade cakes, sweets,' flowers, jama, etc., will bo ottered at fair and reasonable prices; there will also be rome children's dainty hand-mndo underclothing for sale.

A meeting of Hie Wellington. Nursing Division, St. John Ambulance Brigade Overseas, was held on Monday evening;, Mrs. W. H. S. Moorhoiwe being in the chair. The members first sung "God Savo the King," and then went through squad drill and a good practice in roller bandaging. The president, lady fupprintendent, and nursing sisters Rave a very hearty welcome to tho members of (lie Wellington North Nursing Division, who are amalgamating with the Wellington Nursing Division.

Very muny friends will have been saddened ljy tlie news of t>lo dentil of Jlrs. William ■ Langhimlrj Seoll, of Herbert, which occurred on Saturday morning lust, after an illue/s lasting little more than a week, stales the Duncdin "Star." A. woman of rare chnrin, of high intellectual gifts, and possessed of wide sympathies,- sihe easily rnadu tvuu friends, and kept them. 'His daughler of a distinguished mathematician, she herself had a brilliant, career both at school ami at the university. She. was <lux of one of the largest girls' schools in Edinburgh, and took a leading place in her classes at the university, which, at thut tihic, did not grant degrees to women. After leaving collide, she was Iranliing in a girls' school in Glasgow, when she. was chosen by tlio lato Sir Francis Dillon Bell, on behalf of thu Board of Governors, as mathematical mistress and vicewincipal of Iho Otnjfo Girls' High School. Mi*s Jlackean, as slm was then known, did magniiicfint work in the school, as hosts of former pupils can testify. She was always a firm boiiever in Hid jeausu of the higher education of women.' She was a born teacher, and exercised a woudorful influence for good over her pupils, the great majority of whom remained tier life-ions Montis. A mom; \\or former pupils are Dr. Sindeberg and l)r. Balh-

"•■itP; Dr. Platts-llills. of Wellington: Or. UmctalinnlcH, of Wellington; Miss dniickshanks, principal oV Waiijmiiii Girls' College: Mhs Barbara "Walt pvin('ii)iil of Hie Girls' High School. Timarir Miss Gollatly, of the Otn.go Girts' Hipli School; ami Miss Marjjaret Smyth, of Xt Andrew's College, Duncdin. J[,. S- <3(, o {{ iT'iivos her husband, a son, and two daughters.