SOCIAL AND PERSONAL

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 204, 24 May 1920, Page 2

SOCIAL AND PERSONAL

Th marriage took place in • St. Andrews Church, Auckland, on Wednesday, of Miss Jessie Geddes, youngest daughter of the late IMr. John M'Kail Geddes, nnd Mrs. Geddos, of Wynvard Street, Auckland, to Mr. Archibald M'Cosh Clark, oldest son of' the late Mr. M'Cosh' Clark and Mrs. Clark, of Waii marie, Itemuera. The gsrvice, which was fully choral, was conducted by the'Eov A. A. Murray. Tho bride, who waa given away by her brother, wore a gown carried out in white and golden chrysanthemum brocade: From the shoulder'hung - a train of gold tissue veiled with ninon, and her tulle veil was held in place by a oirclot of orange blossoms. : She carried a sheath of white roses. Miss Mary Geddes and Miss Mavis Clark verfl bridesmaids, both wearing pale golden coloured satin frocks, made, like the bride's frock, with' panniered effect over the hips, MUght up with clusters of • autumn fruit. Their hats wero of golden 'coloured panne, wreathed with told- tis6ues, and they carried a sheaf of Virginia creeper with golden, brown dirysnjithe- < mums. Little Allison George was also in attendance, her frock 'being 'of not', of tho Bame shade as the briuesmnids ( . with a small cap of the earne- ma« . terittl. Mr, Roy. Binnoy was best.mani and the groomsman' Mr. Gore Foote. .

There is something piquant in the combination of modern dancing and classical musio (states a. writer in "Tho Queen"). Maurice, now taking dancing London by storm, has declared that the jazz band» and ragtimes for music we had taken to our hearts are "all wrong," So tho. cnango to Tschaikowsky and Krcislcr, Dvorak,'and Chopin, may be just what is needed. Anyhow, it lias the piquancy of contrast. A' series of Chopin ilancea is being arranged by Mr. Eric Mice for the benefit of the Children's Hospital City, and Lady Birkenhead lids lent hrf. house for the' first, to take! place on March' 20, when one can ! foxtrot to Brahmß and put Chopin's vaises to tersichorean test, j

, "Mr. and Mrs. Jolin Hcsseyv returned to Mas'erton lust week from/ a sisit to England. • • < J < Miss Morrison has returned to Masterton from a visit to the So!uth Island. Mr. and Mrs. B. J. Dqlan (Napier) were passengers by the for Sydney en routo for England* ■ A.militai7 ball organised, "by B Com< puny, 9th (1t.8.) Regiment, iwas held in Nupier last week in 1 the .Drill Hall in slid of tlio company's funds for thoprovision of prizes for its shooting competitions. The decorations were elaborately carried out, and the ball was thoroughly successful., The Regimental Band, under Bandmaster M'Connell,' provided tlio music for the dancing. In charge of tho seueral arrangements were: Captain E. Morgan, Lieutenants. T. H. Bowie arid Hart, Sergeant-Major' Tong, Sergeant# Rowncy and T. Hannah, Corporals Tvirlcpatrick and Bothenvay, Privates E. Anderson, II; Symonds, B. Dru.nmond, Brooke-Taylor, C. Dixon, M. A; Clark, W. Laing; Sutcliffe,' Litboler, W.- Weat, B. Scott, T. Hunt, L. Laing, and H. Leipst, while assisting with'the supper were: The Mayoress (Mrs. George Ebbettji Mesdamea Holdorness, T. M. Lawlor, H, I'aunin, Grigor, J. Jlislop,' M. Tuoliy, Roulstou, E. Morgan Oandy, A. A. George, IFCaw, W. Wart, Michaelsen. Rosenheim, W. T. A. Hill (secretary), and Misses Neill, Zita Wellwood, Mackersey, Kershaw, Leonard. Foster, George, Lawlor, and Murfltt (2). The joint secretaries were Sergeant H. C. Lawlor and Private F. H. Sfretton.

At the opening session of the Red Cross Conference at Geneva, General Sir David Henderson gave on interesting speech on the activities of the Red Cross, and.'ho was'followed by.General Pali, who has not long retiirned from his mission- -to Australia ' and ■ New . Zealand (states tho '"British Australasian" of March 25),' The opening day was devoted chiefly to formal reception of delegates, and two commissions were appointed, one to take charge of medical questions, and the other to consider organisation. The delegates met in the salle do I'Alabama, an historio room, for in it was signed the first oorivention of Geneva in 18M, and there the decision in the Alabama case between Great Britain and the United States was announced. It was 57 years last month since five citizens'cf Geneva, founded a 'committee to render first aid to wounded soldiers. .

Mrs, Harold Pockley, who' has been visiting Mrs. J. Petirt in Wanganui, has returned to Wellington.