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Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 306, 20 September 1920, Page 3

A Blind Girls' College, A collegiate institution, claimed by the promoters to "be unlike any other in tho ■world, is to be opened in England early ■next,, year. This is a college for the higher education of blind girls, which Sir Arthur Pearson and his colleagues on the Council of the National Institute for tho Blind) are having erected at Chorlcy Wood, Herts, about twenty miles from London. The building is, Bearing completion, and is expected to he readv to receive scholars in January. The collegc is situated in grounds of moro than forty acres, and is to be equipped in a manner that -will bear comparison with the best secondary schools for sighted girls. Miss Phyllis Monk, a lady of high scholastic attainments and experience, hTis been appointed principal. The college is to reoeiva pupils from the age of seveir years. At St. John's Church, Southwick, Crescent, London, on July 21, the wedding took place of Dr. Hichard H. Armstrong, of 28 Wimpole Street, son of Professor 11. E. Armstrong, F.H.S., and Miss Ada Howard Handle, youngest daughter of the late Mt. Howard Handle, of Sling Point, New Zealand, and Mrs' Handle, of 6a Lower Pcrchester Street. The ceremony was performed by the Rev. H. F. S. Adams. Dr. Handle, M.C., gave his sister away. Tho bride was born .it Shag Point, but left for England in 189!) as a very 6niall child, after the death of her father, who was greatly esteemed in the district. She was educated at Kensington High School, where her sister. Miss Tiii linndb, now holds the pcßition of art mistress. Dr. Alan Handle, an old boy of Dunedin High School, had a brilliant career nt the University of London, of which lie is M.D. Durins the war he was captain in the R.A.'M.C., and gained the Military Cross. Ho is now on the staff of the Bermondsey Hospital, and has married since the war. Mrs. Handle, tho bride's mother, will be well remembered in the south by readers of the "Otago Witness" as "Wychelm," and slie contributed to its pages poetry and fiction. A enmpaign is getting under way in Italy aeainst the continued rise cf all prices, nnd the motto "Don't buy" is becoming increasingly popular—in the Press (states the Home correspondent of the London "Mail"). It is said also that one or two large shops have slightly lowered their prices.