SOCIAL AND PERSONAL

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 161, 2 April 1919, Page 4

SOCIAL AND PERSONAL

..The Women's. National Reserve is undertaking tho charge of three stalls on the Returned Soldiers' Club Appeal Day. One will be nt Kelburn Avenue, one at the 'Government- Buildings, and the third at tho Railway Station, if possible. Contributions of gifts lor these stalls will be gladly received, and Mrs. Gibbons, one of the organisers, hopes that tho general public will assist, as the task of stocking them is a somewhat largo one even for so energetic and large an association as tlio W.N.K. Gifts may bo left at any of these stalls early on Friday morning. llr. and Mrs. Joseph Flelcher are pasaongers by the Moana fur San Francisco en ronto for Ohio, where they intend to live for the future. .. . Miss Bright, who is leaving the teaching profession, was the guest of honour at n farewell party given by the stall' nnd upper form pupils of Te Ai'o School. Afternoon "leu was served, and I hero was a good programme of songs, llr. Kean, the headmaster, made n presentation Io Miss Bright, and referred to tho excellent work she had done in her calling. A very pleasant occasion ended with cheers and the National Anthem. Mrs. .MaaShane (Auckland), who has . liecn he guostof Mrs. G. Didsbury, the To. <>. fur the past few days, left on Monday for the U'airarapa, whore she is staying with Mrs. A.. Matthew's, "Waiorongoniai." Mrs. F. Cameron and Miss Cameron have returned to Hastings from ii visit to relatives in Mastcrton. The lion, treasurer of the Ladies' Committee of the' Returned Soldiers' Club Appeal acknowledges the following sums; —From.Mrs. Coull (proceeds if dance <it Day's Bay), J!4l Ills.-lid.; for shilling card collection (from Air. Hunt, per Mi's, db Castro), Xh; collected by Mrs. W. Kennedy, .£2 10s.; Mrs. .Hope Lewis, ,£5 '45.: aim. Prestidge, M 55.;-. Mrs. Archibald.' '-X 3; -Njaronm Croquet. Club (by jumble .saic), ,£2i; Hiss Cornish (collected at Seal'oiin), J!23 125.; Mrs. 'i'riggs, «C 1; collected .by Miss liothenberg, Ids.; Miss Eraser (collected), .£2 Is. lid.; Mrs. Murphy, .£3 Bs.; Mrs. Hendry, XI; Mrs. Spotswood, £2 75.; Mrs. Martin, £o 35.; .Miss Marks,; J!.'l lis, lid.; Miss. Joseph, IDs. There are many in Now Zealnud, particularly in Buhcdin and Invercnrgill, who will remember Miss Erie Thomson, of Half-Moon Bay, Stewart Island. Some' ten'years ago Miss Thomson, who possessed a lovely contralto voice, was advised by Madalno Molba to go to Ergland to complete her studies, with a view to taking up voealisln as a jrecession; Acting bu the diva's prompting, ■Miss Thomson' went Home, studied, and for the past eight or nine years she has been on the concert platform in England. Tho war loiind the singer ready to do her part, and, according to latest advice. Miss Thomson was a V.A.D. worker at Walton-qii-Thaiiies, where she was very popular .among tho patients. She hopes to revisit New Zealand in the .near, future. /

.. The marriage of Miss Judith Purdy, elder daughter of Colonel Purdv, D.M.S., of Lower Halt, ami Mr. Wilfred Hurt Astou, youngest son of Mrs. 11. Aston, of Kelburn. and the late Sir. Hurray Astoit, formerly of Surrey, England, will take pluco on April 9, nt St. James's Church, Lower Jtutt. ■ Mr. and Mrs. Wedderspoon, of Oriental liay, returned by the Napier express on Tuesday, after un extended tour of the North Island. The following temporary appointments havo been approml by the Camp Com-, mandant ut Trenthani:—S. Nurse .1. Walker. N.Z.A.N.S., to be fislcr; S,Nurso E. V. Martin, N.Z.A.N.S., to be sister; S.-Nurse .N. Sinter, N.Z.A.N.S., to be sister. ; Mrs. E. M. Ithodes iIF.S.A.) is visiting "Christchurch, aiid' last evening she was to be the guest of the Canterbury Women's Club at un evening held in her honour. Mrs. Sleeman is staying with Mrs. Jameson. Tlmaru. Mr. and Mrs. .11. B. Herrick (Hawke's lh.y) have been visiting Christchnrch, ami on Saturday they left for the Rakaia Gorge on a deer-stalking expedition. Mis 3 .loan Clcghorn left last week for England. Mrs. ; Harold, Stewart (Eeilding) is staying with Mrs. Clcghorn, Mr. and Mrs. 1). Eiddiford are arriving from England this week. Mrs. "Will Dyson, wifo of the wellknown Australian artist and caricaturist, died in London recently of pneu-' monia. Mrs. Dyson was herself a very talented artist. She was known to all Australians interested in art as Miss Kuby Lindsay, a sister of Mr. Norman Lindsay, Mr. Lionel Lindsay, and Mr. I'ofcy Lindsay. Shi had tho general talent of the family for black and white, anil her work appeared in the "Bulletin" very regularly since she left for London with her husband, about eight years ago. She evidently made a. name, too, in London, for Air. lialdane M'Fall, in his ''History of fainting,'' gives her high praise as "the most remarkable woman with the pen-line . now living." Mrs. Dyson was thirty years of age, and leaves one child, a daughter, six years of age.

Dr. Plaits-Mills and Miss M'l.can. M.A.. Principal of the Girls' College, will speak at a meeting to be bold in tlie Town Hall Concert Chamber on Friday evening upon "Women uiid Efficiency." Tho .Mayoress (Mrs. J. P. Luke) will preside. The Northland Ladies" Committee will hold' a stall at Mce's Corner, Lainblon Quay, on Friday, and permission has been given by Mr. Mee for parcels of goods to be left nt his shop. Produce, cakes, flowers, anything saleable at all will bo gladly accepted and those who wish- to liclp the lielurnod Soldiers' Club are asked lo give generously. Women and the Leanue of Nations. In tho course of a brief conversation with Mrs. Kineton Parkes, mention was mado of tlie fact that women may now become delegates to the .League of Nations. "Although that may not look very much in print," said :ms. Parkes, "it, really means a great deal, because the weight of women will be thrown against war. In none of the European countries taking part in this great war hud women the franchise, and I think had matters been otherwise there might have been no war." Mrs. Parkes spoke of the great nnd memorable meeting which was hd'.d in tho Central Hall in Wostminsler, in 1!)1G, at which tho vision of flic League of Nations was first placed before the people. Lord Jlryce was tho chairman, and at the meeting everyone realised that Ihe world's hope of delheranee from the nightmare of war lay in tiro scheme as it was outlined before tliiin that evening. Substantially tlie echemo propounded then was that which wo have been reading about in our newspapers at the present time. "Wonuii generally,'' said Mrs. Parkes, "realised what this League of Nations would mean and what a climax of destruction nnoUier war in the world would mean. They have Htood for the league with enthusiasm, and have followed its conclusions with the keenest interest."

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Women "on the Road." Do women make successful commercial travellers? Scores of managers of businesses in Hie district around St. Paul's Churchyard are able to answer this question to-day. Many of these houses, devoted to supplyin;; woman's need of clothes, and to catering for her 'passion for linery and fail-lals, would have found it almost impossible to carry on during the war, and particularly during tho last two years, but for tho women.' Apparently it had never occurred, to them that to send men all over tho country to sell millinery and corsets and hire collars and camisoles was rather absurd, fancy a list, man, 6ft. ill height, offering a dainty 'line in camisoles! No doubt one of the. reasons for the general liunploymonl.. of men for this work lias hern the idea thai the life of the road and the commercial rwii was unsuitable for women. But in this re-s-poet things have improved very nine)) in the last few years. There are still, it is true, hotels which cater for commercial travellers in which tho women are looked at a little askance, and where, Iho day's work over, I hey nrb expected to sit and twiddle their thumbs by tho fire in a cheerless coffee-room and 50 early to' bod, whilo the men enjoy all. the amenities of a room designed and furnished for their enso and entertainment. But hotel-keepers are learning their lesson, and if ttie woman "commercial" has rr-nlly come to stay, the women's commercial room will come also. Whether she has come to stay or not remains to be seen.. Certainly many of those, who have kept this branch of men's .work going whilo the men have been in the Army have made good. Some are wives who have taken on their husbands' jobs, and"several hav; done more business and earned more money than their husbands did. Perhaps, after all,.going early to bed has had something to do with it— "A.E.H.," in the "Daily' Mail." Secondary School Teachers' Grievance.

Ono of the points.mado by Miss N. E. Ccml, n member of a deputation of secondary school- teachers .lo '.the Minister of Education on Monday, was that (here was a want of proportion in regard to the salaries paid to women teachers in secondary schools.... Whereas ■ women teachers in district high schools would yet ,£220 to XHI), in secondary schools they would get only ,£135, and it.took far lunger to got up to :si sulniy of ,£240 iii SK'onddrv schools than in district high schools. A teacher with n "D" cutificr.te could get ,£2OO . in. tho primary schools in a comparatively short time, but a Rraduufe, who had spent a large amount, of,limn., in training, entered n secondary school at iGinn, and had • m guarantee that she would rise to oven .£220. She urged that it was of no use to increase salaries m primary schools without increasing thow, iii the secondary schools, because' if tho secundiry schools were.starved a great dent of lli'o primary school work would 'bo wasted. Tribute to N.Z. Soldiers.

Warm appreciation of New Zealand is expressed in n leUer received by the relatives of Stair-Sergeant Slater,-of Green Lane. Auckland, i'i-om_ a Belgian girl. The. writer, who lives in Vomers, says:

"'. am very happy, to know somebody there in New Zealand to whom I can express the admiration and .gratitude wi have for your brave soldiers. To see all these young men coming from so far away to fight and die for our liberty lias moved us more than it is possible ta imagine. You will never know how much we are indebted to them, for li--I>crly is what. we love best. prom all the soldiers of different nationality who passed through Verviers since the .'armistice, the New Zealanders are those who are. most sympathetic to us, they soon become friends with the population, and especially with the.children; who love theih.' T hope you will be the interpreter of' nil these feelings to all your friends in New Zealand.- And this opinion is not only my personal opinion, but the general and unanimous one."