SOCIAL AND PERSONAL

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 21, 19 October 1918, Page 4

SOCIAL AND PERSONAL

The many friends of Mrs. Harold Worboys will regret to learn of her death at Hawera on Monday last. The late Mrs. Worboys, who was a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. D. Hyde, of Paraparaumu, was only 20 years of age, and had been married only twelve months.

Dr. Ada Paterson will leave for Nelson on Monday.

Mrs. Gerald Stead has returned to Christchurch from a visit to Sydney.

Mrs. Fitchett, formerly of "Wellington, has taken a furnished house at Remuera (Auckland).

Mrs. Baird and Miss E. Baird (Masterton) are guests of Mrs. F. Moore, Wangaimi.

Mrs. W. Wardell and Mrs. Hunter (Masterton) have been spending a fewdays in Wellington.

Mrs. Norman Beetham has returned to Masterton from a visit to Hawke's Bay.

Mrs. Arthur .Bennett (Queensland), who has been spending some months in New Zealand, left on her return to Australia on Thursday, accompanied by Miss Peat.

Mrs. J. M'Rae (Bowlands, Masterton) has returned from a visit to Australia, accompanied by her sister, Mrs. JJlythman.

Miss Gibbs (Nelson) is the guest of Dr. and Mrs. Gibbs, Willis Street.

The annual meeting of the Society for the Protection of Womon and Children is to be held, in No. 1 committee room of the Town Hall on Tuesday evening, It is hoped that the Hon. T. M. Wilford will preside, and arrangemnts have been made to secure some interesting speakers, one of whom will be Mrs. lvineton Parkes, who will speak of the work of women police.

A meeting of the Wellington branch of the Women's National Council is to be held on Monday evening at the Y.W.C.A., when Miss Riley will give an address on "Kindergartens." .

Hostesses at the Sydney Street Soldiers' Club for the coming week are as follow:—Sunday, Mrs. Jacob Joseph; Monday, House Committee; Tuesday, Mrs. D. Stewart; Wednesday, the Busy Bee Club; Thursday, the ladies of St. Mark's Church; Friday, Mrs. G. W. Russell; Saturday, the Johnsonvillo Women's National Reserve.

W.C.T.U. At the monthly meeting of the Wellington Central Union, held yesterday, Mrs. A. B. Atkinson presided. Donations for the Minc-sweupers , Fund were received from: Mrs. M. B. Clark, £1 Is.; and "A Sailor's Widow," 10s. The' union delegate, Mrs. Evans, gave an interesting account of tho work done at the Mnstortoiv- Convention. In Mrs. Crabbe's presidential address she drew attention to the fact that in May of next year tho whole of the Dominion of Canada would bo under Prohibition. She hoped' New Zealand would accept the recommendation of the National Efficiency Board, and takoa lead in this great reform. She considered the blot of alcohol on our national life would he a great puzzle to coming generations, for they would ask—"Why did thoy do that when the King, the leaders of tho Army, the social reformers, and tho churches all asserted that tho manufacture and sale of intoxicants constituted a greater danger than the guns of the enemy? Why did the Governments not. sweep away the evil thing out- of all the Allied countries?" The W.C.T.U. and other women's societies are eagorly awaiting tho Hon. G. W. Russell's promised amended Health Bill. Sir Douglas Haig's Sister. To those who know Edinburgh in the late 'sixties, the memory of the brilliant Miss Haig, eldest sister of Sir Douglas Haig, cannot te forgotten (writes a correspondent cf tho "Scotsman," in recording , her death). It is no exaggeration to say that as soon as she appeared she was the centre of attraction. Those who were privileged to hear her sing her favourite pieces— "Entreat Me Not to Leave Thee," "Consider the Lilies," "Rest in the Lord," "Che Faro"—got a now interpretation of the best class of music. She married Major (afterwards Colonel) De Pree, a distinguished Indian official, and some years after his death she marreid Mr. John Jameson, St. Marnock's, Ireland. Colonel De Pree left two sons, both of whom are serving in France. Tho elder is BrigadierGeneral Hugo De Preo, R.A., and the younger Colonel Cecil De Pree, who served on Gallipoli.