SOCIAL AND PERSONAL

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 213, 3 June 1919, Page 2

SOCIAL AND PERSONAL

Mrs. H. Wood (Whakatane) and Mrs. J. Eyre havo returned to Masterton from a visit lo Wellington. Miss Jessie Mnno (Masterton) is visiting Mrs. P. Cameron, Hastings. Brigadier-General H., W. Grimwade and Mrs. Grimwade were passengers on the Niagara for' Australia. The Hon. G. Fowlds and Mrs. Fowlds, accompanied J>.y their daughter, Mrs. Bailey, and their son.-Captain W. F. Fowlds, M.C., liavo left for Auckland. Tho wedding took placo last week at St. Mark's Church, of Sergeant-Major A. W. Ledbrook, second son of Mr. W. 11. Ledbrook, late of Lower Hutt, and Miss L. Leadbcater, only daughter of Mrs. D. Cleaver, of Gisborno (lato of Yorkshire, England). Misses H. Robinson and Inna Parsons wore bridesmaids, and. SergeantMajor M'Millan, of the Buckle Street Staff, was best man, tho groomsman being Private W. Lead.beater, like tho bridegroom, a returned soldier. Mrs', and Miss Hosking and Mr. John Hosking arrived in Auckland from England by the Niagara. Trentham Scholarships Art Union. Women's assistance is required on June 6 to provide the wherewithal to educate the children of the men "who have gone West." There are 2135 fatherless children to bo educated, and on Friday next a bie effort is being put forth to push the sale of art union tickets. All vamen willing to assist are invited by advertisement to attend the meeting called for 3 o'clock on Wednesday afternoon at 3D Johnston Street, at the secretary's .office.

j| Entertainment of Sailors. S .Yesterday afternoon Mrs. C. Earlo awl | Mrs. Coleridge met the Sydney Street jj Soldiers' .Club holders of blue tickets at S a meeting held in, the gymnasium ol' the | late club building to' discuss matters in | connection with tlie entertainment of the !> men of the battleship New on. jj its forthcoming , visit to \H*ington wators. There was a largo attend,nice of ;i members. js Mrs. Earle, before dealing with the ji business in ha,nd, referred to the sudden | stopping of the activities carried on at S the Soldiers' Club through the epidemic, 8 and expressed the regret that was felt '« that tliey had not been able to niako jj some formal recognition of thn way in >1 ; uMiich the blue ticket holders had r i assisted tho work of the corn- | mittee. However, tho ivar had ended 1 7 and that was matter enough for rejoicing. Now that so many patriotic activities were'coming to an end, Mrs. Earle considered that tho present time oli'erwl a good opportunity ior devoting energies to the furtherance of a cause' chat must always be with us, that of tho interests i of tho Navy League, since it was to the "Navy that tho British Empire must always look. For this reason it would be I a good thing to form a Girls' Branch of tho Navy League Ladies' Auxiliary, tho I branch to be~ a permanent organisation with a yearly subscription of halt' a crown. One form of its activities would

lie in the direction of assisting with tho entertainment of the men of the battleship Now Zealand, which was cxpeclul to arrive in Wellington some iime in June or July. It was proposed lo hold a series ot danccs .in the. Town Hall (which for tne tiiue being would be turned into a kind of sailors' club), at which the brancu members would be invited to assist. Dances and other forms of entertainment which might be, organised for visiting squadrons would not 1.0 the only activities in which they would engage. There would be useful work us well in. which thoy would be expected lo hplp. ; . r All present nt the meeting joined the Girls' Branch of tho league, aiid showed much enthusiasm in the prospect which lay ahead of them. Women and Honours, Among New Zealand 'women who have been included in the various classes of tho Order. o{ the British Empire is Mrs. Kolleston (third class or "Commander" of tho Order, C.8.E.). Mrs. Kolleston, who is already an M.8.E., did pood.worl;' in connection with the Taumaru Hospi-, to}, over since its inception, a period of about three years. .Tho. hospital, itwill be remembered, was closed'a short time ago, and the patients removed to 1 rentham and Miramar Hospitals. Hiss Ethel Burnett is also included in this class for work which cannot be praised too highly. From 1915 onwards Miss Burnett. worked for New Zealand soldiers in London, first, of all in connection with the "Dug-out", canteen established by tho Misses Williams in Victoria Street, and later at a canteen near tho New Zealand Headquarter*, Mrs. Burnett end her daughter, Mrs. Atkinson, assisting as well. In Aufcust, 1916, tho "War Contingent Association established a Sol.liercs' Club in Kussell Square, and it was in connection with the club, canteen that .diss Burnett worked until she left for N'ew Zealand, The canteen was kept open . ; ny and night, only being closed two hoars in tho tiventy-four for clconiiig. Over .a thousand meols a day were served sometimes, and 'lie helpers had to work in four shifts, three in tho day time and oiio at night. Miss Burnett, with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. J.-Burnett, and jisr sister, Mrs. Atkinson, returned to New Zealand about a fortnight ago. Mrs. A. M. Myers is made a member of tho fourth class or "Officer of the Order" (0.8. E.), and in tho fifth class ('''Member" of the Order, M.3.U.), are _';irs. L. Blundell, who aa.s worked for the Liverpool and Ked Cress organisations ever since they wero started, jlist L. Clark, who has done u great deal of valuable work in connection with the Liverpool organisation and other patriotic causes, and Miss E. M. Cooper, who, with Miss Kita Moss, gavo valuable assistance lo Red Cross work first by flower sales onil later 1)v work in' connection with tins. Red Cross shop. Mrs. Edith do Castro is also made an. M.8.E., and soldiers who benefited by nor work in Kgypt, and thero nro very many who did, will not think her .services have been at all over-estimated. Her work olone at the, Soldiers Club in the Kskebieh Gardens was verv strenuous, and it did not stop there,"for Mrs. <le Castro weut where few women would have cared to follow, and did what many women would have shrunk from doing. Misa Ilarcourt also appears in this list. In tho fifth.class are placed Miss Mina Macdonald, of the New Zealand Con-, valescent Camp, Ismoilia, Egypt, and Miss Mysic M'Donnell, of the'Aotea Convalescent Home, Heliopolis, Cairo, both of whom did strenuous work in caring for convalescent soldiers in Egynt, work, one would venture to think, that was far harder than any dono in New Zealand where everything to help has been at hand and no hardships suffered .as has been the case with the women workinz in Egypt. .