SOCIAL AND PERSONAL

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 81, 31 December 1918, Page 2

SOCIAL AND PERSONAL

Women's National Reserve, Mrs. Hope, who represented the Women's National Reserve at the Town Hall during the influenza epidemic, was elected assistant secretary to the W.N.R., Wellington headquarters, at the last executivo meeting. Her-strenuous and able work at the Town Hall was greatly appreciated. Levin Home. The matron of tho Levin Memorial Home acknowledges tlio following additional donations to the Christmas Fund: —"A friend," Jill; Mcsdamcs W. Young and J. P. Luke, £1 Is.; Mrs. H. Hall, ,C 1; Mr. Stowe, *,£1; "A Friend," 10s.; Mrs. Sergeant, Yogcltown, <£1, to be spent on toys and games for the children; and from Several anonymous givers, 17s. (id.; also from Mrs. Nathan, cake; Mrs. Elder, Waikanae, potatoes; Mrs. Howard, eggs and cake; Miss Joseph, cakes; Mr. and Mrs. T. W. Young, sweets; Lady Stout, sweets nnd biscuits; Mr. Luxford', veal. Mrs. J. Earle, sen., is staying at Plimmerton with Mr. and Mrs. Duncan Mackay. Mr. and Mrs. E. K. Kfrkcaldie arc spending the holidays with Mr. and Mrs. John Kirkcaldie at Plimmerton. High praise is given'to Miss Violet Ewart, tlie Australian pianist, by the New York "Herald" in its criticism of her first appearance, in New York. It says: "Australia, which gave Dame Nellie Melba and the incomparable Percy Grainger to the musical world of America, now sends Miss Violet Ewart. One expects from Australians originality both in creative nnd executive work as well as fresh viewpoints. Miss Ewart gives the latter. Endowed with an exceptionally attractive personality, she makes one feel, despite her reserve, that she is no slave of traditron, but. that she approaches a composition in order to discover for herself its meanings and message and to interpret them through her own spirit and personality."

Mrs. Bolitho, organising secretary for' tlio Australian National Women's League, who visited Wellington early in the war as the guest ,of her cousin, Mrs. C. W. Earle, Clermont Terrace, and who will be remembered' by many as a very interesting speaker, has received news that her son has been wounded. Flight-Lieu-tenant S. Bolitho is in the Royal Naval Air Service.. ' Mr. and Mr*. W. A. Midlane, of Wellington, left for London by the Arawa yesterday. Miss Myers, Fitzherbert Terrace, is leaving by the Makura for a holiday in Canada. Mrs. Teapo, of itotorua, is visiting her mother, Mrs. G. W. Russell, Molosivorth Street. Mrs. Scott, of Portland Crescent, and her son, Sergeant Maurice Scott, M.M., left yesterday to Spend • a holiday iii Nelson. Miss Stanford, the newly-appointed headmistress of St. Mary's Diocesan School, Stratford, is spending her holidays at Kilbirnie. The engagement is announced of 'Miss TClsa Phyllis Heckler, third daughter of the lato Mr. J. JL, Heckler and Mrs. Heckler, Forest Downs, Mnngamahoe, and Lieutenant T. C. Evans. N.Z.E.F;, youngest son of Mr. Lyre Evans, Oaiuaru.

Mrs. Dowling, headmistress at the West End School, Mew Plymouth, will retire on superannuation at the end of .Tulv. She has boon over 37 voars in the teachin? profession. Mrs. Dowling is a Bister of Mr. Charles Bnrv. headmaster of the Mount Cook Boys' School, Wellington.