SOCIAL AND PERSONAL

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 45, 17 November 1919, Page 2

SOCIAL AND PERSONAL

Sir Andrew and Lady Eussell aro visiting Christchiii-cli and are staying with Mr. and Mrs. Algar Williams. At the monthly meeting of Hie Women's Civic Group, Christchurch, the ouestion of indentured labour in Samoa was discussed. It was considered that in Fiji (which is under British rule) the system had proved so fearfully disastrous to the moral and physical interests of the Indian women and girls in particular that their white-skinned sisters in this land were in honour bound to protest against the introduction or perpetuation of a Policy which held such possibilities of evil. Mrs. Young and Miss Stead, of the massage staff at. the Rotonia Hospital, h.ivo been transferred to Trentham for duty. Lady Chaytor (Palmerston North) is at present visiting Auckland. Lieutenant Colonel Barclay, 0.8. E., V.D., and Mrs. Barclay aro visiting Auckland. Tlio correspondent of the "Times" at, Paris, under date October 28, reports that the Dowager-Duchess of Sutherland and'Lieutenant-Colonel Dawes, of the Poyal Fusiliers, were married in that city, the strictest nrivacy being observed. Millicent, Dowager-Duchess of Sutherland, has been married twice nreviously. In 18JW, as , Lady Millicent Fanny St. Clair-Erskine. she married the fourth Duke of Sutherland. The duke died in 1913. and the duchess, in 1914. married Colonel P. D. Fitaerald (son of Mr. Nicholas FitzgeraVl), from whom 6ho was recently divorced. The ongngemont is announced of Miss Jessie G»ddes. second daughter of Mrs. J. M'Knil Geddes, tf "ITazolbank," Wynvnrd Street, Auckland, to Mf. Archibald M'f'onh Clark, eldest son of tho lorn Mr. M'Cosh Ok and Mrs. Clark, "Waimarainn," Brighton lioad, Eemuera, states the "Star." Mr. and Mrs. C. J. Reakes loft for Christchurch at tlio end of last week. Mrs. J. Blundell has gone to Auckland to meet her husband, who is returning by the Arawa. Tho marriago took place in St. Mark's Church, Clive (Hawke's Bay), last week of Captain Eric Morgan, youngest son of Mr. and Mrs. T. Morgan, of Hastings, to Miss Margaret Elizabeth Taylor, second daughter of Mfv and Mrs. M. C. Taylor, of Clive. The llev. J. A. Lush, assisted by the Rev. A. F. Hall, performed, the ceremony. The bridesmaids were the Misses Morgan, Evelyn Taylor, and Annie Hildreth, and the best man was Lieutenant T. Crawford, and the groomsman Driver Douglas Hamilton. The bridegroom and his attendants aro all returned soldiers. Miss Myrtle Kelly, who has been a member of' Messrs. Hoadley, Son and Stewart's offico staff. 'Napier, for the last four years, and who is leaving the firm's employ, was presented with « purso of sovereigns and a dress enso by her fellow-employees. Mr. H. N. Stewart made the presentation, mid referred to Miss Kelly's good services while with the firm, and wished her every success in her future career. Sister Conflaucc, who for and a half years has been working in connection with the Kuripuiti Methodist. Church, Masterton has been appointed deaconess to the Palmerston North Methodist Church. She will leave for Palmerston North about the end of the year. Mrs. Pennefather (Napier) was a passenger by, the liiverina for Australia, en routo for Egypt. Women in Medicine. Every fifth doctor of thc*e who have insl com Dieted their training is a woman. Next vear the pvouortion wil" Di-obablv lie larger, for the mimb?r of women ' students has increased steadily throughout the war. In M;.;-. 1918. accovlin-' to the ""RriHsh Med'cal Journal." them were 2*50 in the kingdomn figure '3 per cei't. greircr linn the Votnl for January. 1917, -"id several times lari""- t'"in in 19U. The«e women are mostly from the leisured rV=es. In other" davs thev wouV m-obabiv have am'tse-i thcms"lves until thev "of marned Tt is reckone'.l that a student must V nrei)"red to spend at least J? 1 1C0 on her'medieal Among the woir»n entevinir nneli"" thi<- year a>;e wme who inten-i'lo 1.-" bMv d-tors "i eon.n«et:nn T* f n«t Wei-ipve Cent-es. Tl<" mnio'-itv will, ''-weyer. Veome "eneral nr-MlifJ'W'. Rc-nf-of women inehule-. Jlnns? ph'^icin", T.""(l-' l-Tr--v1,,l- sclip-' "'"''•- nl cir<i>ov h"» s e Dhysif'ar. Rf Arn'-v's HnsniH: ""'--tout medio] ofP"-'-. St. Piincras ?"" fl ' biii'ina"": and p'odieal inspector of Maternity' Homes. T'".vpt. Sale of English Homes. One of the consequences of the world war has been a breaking up of many great English estates, and the sale _of famous London houses, associated with leading aristocratic families, states the London correspondent of the "Australasian" of November 11. Only this week, I/jrd Leverhulmc, of Sunlight soap fume, has purchased Moor Park, an estate of 300!) acres, which has been owned in times past bv such varied personalities as Cardinal 'WoUey, Henry VIII, the Duke of Monmouth, and the Bourbon Princes of France. Lord Leverhulmo is now probably the largest private estate- owner in" the world, his possessions including great tracts in Africa, the entire Isle of Lewis, the Storeton l-'stat" in Cheshire, one of the homes of tiie Stanley family; a portion of the Shrewsbury Estate, in addition to Port Sunlight. But the most surprising of recent sales is the disposal of Devonshire House, Piccadilly, to a syndicate for about ,£750,000. The mansion will be pulled down, and an hotel or block of high-class flats erected instead. Devonshire House has no architectural beauty, but its gardens are remarkable for their size. The art treasures include works by well-known Italian, Freuch, Dutch, and Flemish painters, as well as the famous Gainsborough of Georgiana Duchess of Devonshire. The houso is identified with many notable entertainments, including the liiyiovic fancy-dress bill given in honour of King Edward and Queen Alexandria by the late duchess. There is, however, no likelihood of the Duke of Devonshire being permanently deprived of a London house. Indeed, the duke has retained the Adam chimneypieces the wonderful marble and glass staircase, and other architectural features of Devonshire House for inclusion in the smaller London house which he will build on his return from Canada. Evn (he gmilest Icrrilnrinl grandee cannot afford to have a home like Chalsworth, as well as an historic London house. The Duke of Devonshire is, indeed, only following the example of tho Duke .-..uf Sutherland and other aristocrats. Stafford JJoiihp was recently sold by the Duke of Sutherland to Lord Lcvei-hulme, who presented it to the imlion lor the London Museum. Crewe House has become an hotel. Montague House, in Whitehall, has been evacuated by the Duke and Duchess of Buccltuch, while jlni-ringloii House lias heroine a bank. Lord Salisbury and Lord Warwick liavo rtlso given up their l/indua homes. L'vcn (he great We.sl. End house which Mr Vandcrbilt put. up for his daughter when she married the Duke of Marlborough has been sold. Death duties mid a high income tax make great houses an impossible luxury. Moreover, nnl a few wealthy men have <omc to renli«e I'm un.visdom or flaunling their riches in the fate of hv> Inrlmmro fel-low-countrymen. A motor-car makes the juuruev to a country house, easy. They, therefore, prefei to do the wise and Ihe economical thing by culling down expenses which do not mafei-iail.i- conlri;>iiie to thcii comlort and social importance.