SOCIAL AND PERSONAL

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 252, 18 July 1919, Page 2

SOCIAL AND PERSONAL

M.iss. Ella Helmoro has returned to Chiistchurch from a visit to Wellington. For a considerable time -tho' members of the Hawera Br.ineii ef iho Women's National Reserve have entertained all soldiers returning, to Tanm-iki at tho llawew Hail way Station. The stalion lias always been gaily decorated will] flags, and. the Mayor receives tho men. This action is greatly appreciated by the.' soldiers and their relatives, and a very pleasant time is spent. Owing to present train arrangements, a longer timo is now available for these social gatherings. Miss Bathio Howie Stuart, who has been touring through tho Wellington and Hiiwke's Bay districts for the New Zealand Picture Supplies, Ltd., is once moro in Wellington. A conference of domestic scienco. teachers in the Auckland district was held throughout last week. Model cook-: cry lessons were given by the organiser of domestic science, Miss Juniper, and •lectures on chemistry of food, illustrated by. scientific experiments, were conducted by Miss Strack, of Hamilton. In tho course of tho conference visits were paid to various businesses connected with food production. One of -the outcomes of the conference was the formation of a Home Economic Society for the purpose of studying conditions of food supplies, sanitation, and kindred subjects. The membership is not confined to teachers. At a recent meeting of the sectional group affiliated with the Christchurch branch, of the Women's National Council the recent order of the Minister of Education, on tho advice of the Council of Education, that domestic science should be compulsory for all girls in secondary schools, was discussed. In view of tho hardship on girls with other vocational'' aims tho meeting agreed to send a remit to the local branch of the' National Council of Women that girls and their guardians should bo allowed' freo choice of subjects, Mr. and Mrs. S. J. Parsonson, who returned to New Zealand byi the Ruahine, reached DJunedin from the north on Tuesday, states the "Otago Daily Times." Mr. Parsonson has seen three years' ser-. vice as Y.M.C.A. field secretary with tho New Zealand troops, and Mrs. Parsonson, who was at ono timo private secretary to Sir Arthur Yapp, also wears tho service uniform of the Y.M.C.A. They proceeded to Invercargill on a visit to relatives. Later Mr. Parsonson will return north to Mnsterron to .resume charge of the association work in that centre. ... A feature of the big matinee to bo held in .His Majesty's Theatre on Monday next, in aid of the Mothers' Help. Division of the Women's National Reserve, will bo thu sweets stall, in charge of Mcsdames Bayfield. Phillips-Turner, and J. D. Gray. All friends and sympathisers of the movement are asked to contribute. Parcels may bo left with any of tho committee, or care of Mrs.' Gray, Pioneer Club. Hannah's Buildings. Tho council of tho Wellington Trained Nurses' Association is giving an "at home" next Wednesday evening at the Nurses' Club, Kensington Streor, to welcome back all'-military nursing sisters who have been away on active •service.All nurses belonging lo the association, whether they arc engaged 'in private nursing or'in the hospitals, are cordiallv invited lo attend. The council has found it impossible to send individual invitations lo everyone as the nurses aro so scattered. Many peoplo throughout New Zealand ! will be very sorry, to learn that. Miss Edith Howes, wlios'o delightful books for children have found their way into so maiiv homes, their readers numbering as nianv crown-upsas children), is resigning her' nosition on the staff Qf the Welling-: ton Girls' College to take up a position in. Adelaide. Miss Howes: will bo vory. ■greatly missed, not only for her personal dualities, but for the keen interest sue lias always taken iu matters that affected women, and especially in everything that made for the betterment of education and educational ideals. In Adelaide she hopes to be able to give more tunu to writing. The weekly Friday morning salo which is held at the Sydney Street Schoolroom' in eonnectiqn with St. Mary's Homes, KitMii'i. will bo continued until Christmas. Flowers, cakes, and produce are' offered for sale, and are meeting with iv verv ready demand. With the peace colc-bralions at hand, and consequent holidays, stallholders arc anticipating-a. keen demand for their goods. • Contributions will be very gladly accepted. The sum made bv last Friday's sale amounted to £b ss. At the general meeting of the Wellington 'Women Teachers' Association next w«fck Miss M'Lean, of the Wellington Girls' College, will speak of "Education in America." Women's Patriotic League. Tho Mayoress of Auckland (Mrs. J. H. Gunson; lias received Uib lollowmg letter trout Sir James Allen, in reply to the protest sent by the Auckland Women's j'rovmcial Patriotic League ' i gainst the Government's action in refusing our invalided soldiers in hospital to receive payment for basket or any other:work none in their leisure hours:—"The question .raised by your League has already been fully considered. 1 regret that I am unable lo accede to your request that soldiers should be allowed to receive payment for. work done while in hospital. It must be remembered that a soldier in hospital is under special treatment. He is paid by the State, and is not exempt from the usual rule that soldiers cannot receive remuneration for j.iivate employment. He is provided villi educational facilities, and has an opportunity to learn a trade if ho so desires. The aim of the Defence Department is to encourage soldiers to spend r.s much time as their health will permit' in training' themselves for their future as useful citi- ■ zenu. Basket work is valuable for curative purpose.?, but is not considered ns a useful vocational training. It is obvious that if particular soldiers in hospital were allowed to receive remuneration for ono class of work a general permission would require to he given to thorn to earn as much money as possible in addition to their pay. 'Ibis aspect of tho question has been carefully considered by a recent conference of medical men, who, in ; the interests of the soldiers' health, did not. recommend any alteration in the present regulations."—Auckland "Star." Education up to 24. Lord Leverhulme, speaking at the annual prize distribution of the Wigan Mining and Technical College recently, said wo should, have to have on enormous extension of educational facili.ta if we wcra to hold- our own with other nations in the future. We were lot an educated notion as education was understood in the twentieth century, though we were a better educated people to-day than ever we were.- The .man who lwd got all his education from books would never bo tho equal of the man who, while ho had been educating his brain,'had also simujtaneousl.y been educating and training and developing his hand andhis eye to work with his brain. If we wanted the highest type of educated individual then wo must see lo it that facilities were extended so that the man or the woman could be fully educated until the ago of 21, whilo a*t the same time ■ they'we're following their daily nrrtipaliflii for providing what he might call their bread and butter. Lord Leverhulme proceeded to speak in.favour of individualism in industry as against.nationaii.'vi'ioi!, and said under tho present system the colliers had tho freo choice of onipiev'.T. whereas if the mines wore nationalised (here would only bo one employer, and that would be the (jovcrnwhm cither Hie railway workers or (he miners had to gain by nationalisation. H_Wiis slated that the governors of the Wigan College had decided on a scheme of extensions and developments, to cost .X'. r iO,(lfK>. as a war memorial, no fewer than IGOfl students having been enrolled this year, an increase of G"i per cent, over tho corresponding pre-war session,