SOCIAL AND PERSONAL

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 103, 25 January 1919, Page 4

SOCIAL AND PERSONAL

Y.W.C.A, National Secretary for Australia.

During her short stay in America, en route to take up her appointment in Australia as Y.W.C.A. national secretary for Australasia, Miss Snelson was one of the helpers in a united war campaign for the. welfare of soldiers and girl workers. The campaigners included the Y.M.C.A., the Y.W.C.Ar, Jews, Roman Catholics, and other organisations, who all worked side by side in this common cause. ' Miss Snelson has been engaged in England during the war in opening up clubs for girls in some of the largest towns. •There, are now established Y.W.C.A. clubs for business girls, bank clerks, munition girls, etc., who come together when occasion calls, in a great Y.W.C.A. membership. Most of the clubs are self-governing, though some of the leading women help to fonn the comtnittees. The dub rooms everywhere are comfortably furnished, and artistic colour schemes have been worked out in the rooms and lounges. The munition girl ill England has been invested with an almost visible halo, but other girls who are not often written about have beeji doing equally fine work, and it Is for these, as well at. the munition girls, that the Y.W.C.A. has been working.

The Rev. J. H. Sykes will give an address at the Y.W.C.A. on Sunday afternoon. All young women *and girls • will be welcome to attend the short, bright service at 4.15, and to stay afterwards to the tea and social hour. Young women who are strangers in the city will be specially welcomed.

Mrs. Mackay .and Mr. Page will be among the performers at the Y.W.C.A. social to-night. Soldiers and the men friends of tha members will be welcome to attend this social at Fowlds' Buildings, Herbert Street.

Mr. and- Mrs. H. M. Field, of Nelson, are going to England, via San Francisco, by • the Moana.

Miss B. Christie is. visiting Christchurch. =

Mrs. M. C. Keane, of Christchurch, is visiting Wellington.

Mrs. H. T. D. Acland, who went to Auckland to meet her husband, Lieu-tenant-Colonel H. T. D. Acland, has returned to Canterbury. She and her husband have gone to Peel Forest.

Mrs. R. E. Earle left yesterday to spend a holiday in Carterton.

The Rev. A. M. Johnson and Mrs. Johnson are spending a holiday in visiting the Waitomo Caves and the Wartganui River.

The Misses Daniels, of Masterton, have taken Mr. Percy Dentou's house in Oriental Bay for a fortnight.

Dr. and Mrs. Deck, of Motueka, arrived in Wellington from Sydney .this week.

The engagement is announced from London of Captnin C. le F. Young, N.Z. Maori Battalion, to Miss S. G. BryanBrown, sister of the late Rev. G. S. Bryan-Brown, Chaplain ,to Christ College, Christchurch. Lieutenant Young is now instructing at the 3rd Army Infantry School in France.

On November 25, at Christ Church, Lancaster Gate, the wedding took place of Major Keith R. Park, M.C., R.A.F., son of Professor J. L. Park, of Aberdeen and New Zealand, and Miss Dorothy Margarita Parish, daughter of Major and Mrs. Woodbine Parish, of 2 Stanhope Street, Hyde Park. Tho ceremony was performed by the Bishop of Hull, assisted by the Rev. H. N. Bate, ,vicar of the parish. Tho bride, who was given away by her father, was in a. dress of white charmeuse, with an embroidered tulle veil and a train sewn, with pearls.

Mrs. A. P. Moore lias returned to Wellington from Sydney oil account of tho death of her son, Sergeant V. Moore.