SOCIAL AND PERSONAL

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 149, 19 March 1919, Page 2

SOCIAL AND PERSONAL

iliis.Vnllniice (Mhetcrtou) is the guest of Miss Druniinond, .Kilbiruiei

. Mrs. Koitli.'Qliyin, who had been stayin,' wit.t her mother Mrs. von Dadelszen has relumed to'Christchiirch. •• •

Mrs. J. Casclbcrg (Mnstwlo.ii) is visiting TV'elliJiKion. '•■''■

Mrs. Maurice Turrell is Visiting Christchurch.

■Mr.' and Mrs. 'J': .Hufcho.'Oii (Oamarn) hav'e'conic to Wellington lo meet their son. who is returning lo .New Zealand byjtiie Athenic, ■. ■ •

Jliss Nance Druniniond (Chrislchiirch) is staying ..with h« sister Miss DrumJliond. Nt Kilbirnhv'. Both returned to Wellington on Monday from n' visit to 'the- Wnirarhpa...

Miss Luckie (Hastings) is visiting Wet liiiKtoii. v ■ •

Mrs. Crowe (Puhiatua) is a visitor to 'Wellington. : '

'.I ho engagement is announced of' Mr. Frederick 'Joseph Wold, late of the Pedenred Malay States .Service, son of the late Sir Frederick Weld, G.0.M.f1., to Mary Josephine; daughter*-of tho' late Walter Weld and Mrs. Weld, of Weld Road. Birkdale, Lancashire. Sir Frederick Weld was" formerly Premier of Ne,v Zealand, and left tho cqlqny in 1809, on appointment as Governor of Western Australia. It was during his term there that: his t.oi; was horn.

Mr. P. E. llutherford.aiul Miss.Rnthorford (Auckland) are visiting the AYest Coast. .'. "

■ 'Mrs. Quintal Donald' (Fcathcrston) is ono of (lie delegates to the Countess of Livei'iiool Fund conference, ivhich meets to-day i!! the Town Mill.

Mrs. Archer Hosking and her children have returned to Masterton from Muritai. .... . ' ■.

As tho result of.a fete.held in Cliristehurcli. onSaturduy for the beuclit of the .Tmined' Nurses' Benevolent Fund, a. sum of Jt3i'3 was realised.

j On Thursday morning the Returned f Soldiers' Club will, again be the centra of hospitality, for soldiers who are arriving by the Ath'onie. from. England, and their next-of-kin. '' Morning tea ..will he provided', and .everything . poasiblo. dojio Ijv the manager,-Mr-'Cftllender, aud assisting ladies to givo the warmest possible welcome to the returning men who should find the club, with its reading and -'write rooms, billiard. room, and; restroom, a very pleasant place in which to while away'the time while waiting for bo-it or .train to convey- them to (heir homes'." -Jt-is-nt such times as these that the value of the club os a distribute iiiK centre makes itself fully felt, and for 'such purposes it will lie needed lur some time yet. ■

The conference of the committees of tlie 'Countess of Liverpool Fund .begins this morning at eleven o'clock in llio Tin-'ii Hull. "Delegates from. Hastings, iMitctertoii, Featherstori. Carterton, I'ahiatia. and soveral other country districts huvo arrived .in the cily, and sevcra matters of interest will be discussed at the meeting.

A laudatory- aiticlo appears in the "Daily Min:or,".,'<loscnbing the work ol wowx street patroh, in which it says: -"Viie first women to olilain recognition from their own .miliary .authorities as street pittro!s"\Vcr<> Nov :/ciiiand-. ers wiio would certainly desire to be, nameless, but who Jiavo (iow become wellknown figures in (lie night world ol London nut' -who "have- accomplished most remarkable work." The ladies in qucsthn nre:-Mr>. Eraser, of Duiiedm; Mrs. M'Hugh, of Auckland; Miss Ballanlyne, ; of Wungaiiui. ■•

From London comes the announcement of the engagement of Mr.- Alton KusseaSmith, lilte'of tho H.A.C., youngest son of Mv. ami Mrs. Kusscll-Suiitti, of Heit.lisirk-. Potter's Bar, Hertfordshire, England, and Ethel Louisa, only/daughter of Hi" Francis and Lady Boys, of Iverna Court. London, and iormerly of Chreteluuvji. ~ 'The marriago is to take on April'.3. '."""''■

A Loudon correspondent states that Dr. Mary Blair (late of Wellington) had returned from Salonika, where she had been serving with the K.A.M.C. For a. considcrnblo time she had teen medical officer at \jaecio, in connection with the, hospital established for .Serbian refugees. A, largo meeting of the Auckland Soldiers' Mothers'; League passed a resolution expressing .strong indignation tnat widows' pensions are being administered through the Charitable Aid. Board, and urged that tlie epidemic widows pensions In administered through the Pensions Department. Captain Steel, of the British Government'steamer War Opal, now in Wellington, .is a cousin of Mrs. A. H. Waters ot Boulcott Street,. Wellington, one of the most active of Bed Cross workers throughout the war period.

•\t St. Columb'a's Church, London, on January i the wrdding took place of Captain Harold S. Sharp, of the 'Fifo and Forfar Yeomanry, second son -of. tho Into •John Sharp and of Mrs. Sharp, of Balmuir, near Dundee, and Alison linn, elder daughter, of Mr. and Mrs. G. S..V. Wenley, Napier.

On New. Year's Day,, at St. James s Church, l'reisfon, the wedding tooic placo of Louis-Bruce Stringer, captain, K.A.I. Medical Service, second son of Mr. Justice Stringer and. Mrs. T. W.. Stringer, Clmstchurch,' to Maud, third daughter of Mr and Mrs. John Grant, Freiston, Boston, Lincolnshire,, states a London correspondent. ...

Miss Zoe Holmes (Rangitikei) is stayi'lis lit Seatbun.

Mrs. Eric Chalmurs (Fernyhurat, Jlaste'rton) ami her daughter are visitm? Wellington.

An important meeting in connection with'tho National Efficiency campaign will bo he'd next Thursday in the Concert .Chamber.' The speakers will be Mrs. Don mid Mrs. Lco-Cowie. Mrs. Hon is well known throughout the Dominion in connection -.wit'li. temperance work, being ono' of the most oft'ectivo platform sneaker.') among tlfo women of New Zealand. Mrs. Loc-Cowie is ..equally effective, and has a very, wide experience to diw npoii. Her old friends wlio knew her as Sirs. Harrison-Leo will bo pleased to hear her again, while those who linvo not will no doubt take advantage of this opportunity which is offering,, nemunoration of Teachers. .Speaking on Monday .afternoon at the opening of the-new St. Mary's Convent, slates the "Lytteltoii Times," Bishop Brndiis made reference to mutters concerning the teaching' profession, in the course of which he said:—"ln a recent Australian magiwino I read mi account of, the Civil Service Commission, and 1 was astonished to find a calm, well-reas-oned sfiii'ohient Hint the lime hnd come when it had to he admitted Dial the Civil Service did not offer the oppovtuiiiies of advancement which present lliomtelvis in other departments of business and public life. lam not: prepared to apply this statement to New Zealand, Int. the., ceremony of to-day indirectly brings up Ike question of (.lie teachers of the schools of our Dominion. The importance- of .their work, llieir far-roach-ili|? influence in the national life of the Dominion,, naturally commend them to us ar, boing strictly on titled to a fair and iith'f.ilat; remuneration proimrtioimto to the value of their'work, and our 'Doniiiiici would bo failing in justice if this prineiplo were not recognised."