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WOMAN'S WORLD

SOCIAL AND PERSONAL The annua! conference df the Kew Zealand Presbyterian Women's Missionary Society will be held in Wellington this week. It will_continuo till Saturday. Many .matters will "bo acrilt with during r its sittings. The monthly meeting of the Alexand.ro Rome Committee was held last week! ' Mrs. Gill presided. Dills to the amount of J;08 IDs. were passed for.payment. The following donations to the "Greenwood Memorial Fund were reported:—Misses A. and li. Hardy. XX 10s.; Miss Ana Greenwood, £2; Miss Stack, 65.; total, £3 Lis. ' . Miss Geraldine Brood, late matron of tho' llawera Hospital, and now an as- ' sistant inspector of hospitals in tho Public Health Department, alter being attached for some weeks to the, head office, Wellington; is now stationed in Buiicdin. The opening of the first district hostel of the Household Orderlies' Association, is to take place' at the Hostel, 14 Fairvtew Crescent, Kelburn. on Thursday afternoon. The Hon. C. J. Parr, Minister of Public Health, will perform the ceremony. • Miss Archibald presided' at the 'monthl.y'committee meeting of the Levin: Memorial Home. The matron reported that [the ohildren were all woU. Gifts'from the following were gratefully acknowledged :--M is. Sleeman, Mrs. Dohertv, Jhs. West, Mrs. Wnrdcll, Mrs. J. t>. Luke, Mm I'lett, Mr. Young, Luxford and Son, Hurcomue.and Son, Hawte's Bay Fisheries, and a donation of £1 from Mrs. So.huring; also' the following donations since the gift Mea:—Mrs. Arthur Pearce,. Messrs. Meek and von: Hnast, £1 Is. each; Mrs. Moorhouse and Mir. -Ritchie. £1 each; Mrs. H. Evans and Miss Williams, .10s. eacli; Miss- Artis, Mrs. Innis. and Mrs. von Dadolzcu, ss. each; Mrs. Smith, 2s. fid. A '-hearty vote of thanks was passed at this .meeting to all the ladies who kindly assisted the committee at the gift tea, and did eo much to make the afternoon a pleasant a 6 well as a successful one. At the Hataifai schoolroom on Saturday evening many people en-Joved dancing and cards (for non dancers), the gathering being l , arranged to augment the •pme-money fund of:the Ifoifciitai Horticultural Society for iti-i com'ng slimmer show. Proas wore awarded to tho sne- . Mssful players in'the card competition, the lady winiur receiving a jio-fc r>l«nt and tho gentleman a useful garden implement. Tlie "booby" jfriKs saused ft good deal of merriment, tho lady being prcflsnted with <i hunch of radishes and onions and the. gentleman with a hunch fif carrots. Supper was provided bv the ladios comnrttce. The evening' was vota.l a thorough success. ■' Mrs. W. Richmond has returned t) Hawke's Bay from Christchurch. Miss Matis Connop entertained the juvenile members of her dancing clasws and their friends at her studio in' Courtenay Place last week. The decorations had l>een very prettily carried out and the children entered' into the dancing with enthusiasm.' A feature of the eyening was the dancing of lancers by litth) ones of under a years of age.'A Russian kopok was executed by Nital Pointon; Eileen Wiggins gave a toe dance, and in a Ballet du Roy sh.i was the soloist, with the following.taking part:—Nellie Doiill, Eva Scott, Dorothy Ullmer, and Betty Grimstone. Taking part in a classical ballet were Nola Rod, Gwcn. Manthel, Mollii« lieziant, Phyllis Prendaville, 1 Louise Cinunington, Nonie Fuller, Nita Pointon, and Lennie Wright. A classio dance was given by Nbnie Fuller, a Spanish dance by Lennio Wright, "Ye Olde Englishe/' by Thora Jonness, and Rangi ' Jackson, and other dances by Eileen Evans, l)ita Aivcrs,. Joan Carew, and Nellie Jackson, the two later doing a .jazz.

The engagement- is announcrd nf Hiss Joyce "-Dyer, elder daughter of' Mr. and Mrs. 11. B. Dyjer.fpf Jlnsterton,: to Mr. Joliu Andrew, eldest son of .Mrs. Bett, Nekon.

Mrs. Christophers and her sister, Miss Bremner (Wellington) are visiting Auckland.

Miss 'Craip-Hoborton, of Glasgow, who visited Wellington a, few months; ago while on a World tour, and has since been elected' a member.of'the Glasgow Town Council, has been appointed recording secretary for tb« International 'Council of Women for-1925. Miss Craig-Koberton is a distinguished linguist, as she would need to be for the discussions arc. earned on officially in at least three languagesEnglish, French, mid German. •Vnother of Miss Borlase's dances for Young people (largely, college students) was held in the Goring Street Hall on Saturday, and, as usual.l was thoroughly successful. Tbe wet weather was no detS and thc'fact ; that the end of the season sat hand, so'far. as this parhcu- ' m series of dances is concerned, prob- ' ably added a kocner'zest to the evening a caij'oyni'ent. ■ 1 Mrs Corbould-Ellis, a well-known miniature painter from England, w staying with Mrs. ltalph-Bectlmrn, -«> ls, f l » n - Sh« hw just mrrived. from Austral a, ■ wlere she las painted a number Of minia- : n 1897 P Queen Victoria command- « her to paint a miniature for the fcm- ,.„,. „f China in return for his Diamond JSefgU Sl"e has a",, painted many mi iatares of tho Royal lamdy. Mw. Salon, as well n * f'"V^ 1 of S^Aw»^ ? s t0 TCCeiv o comnus3,ons for a m r-^o^ref^n • World effect. .___ next Undevdate.ofOet„ lri l,aT^oneor : respondent vriteSj-A inc.. „ nj( , M matulation was seat l)j coiim , to an elderly veluhvc, M™ Gardiner, of, Kownhn m, noaia (on. who. colabrated hoi 10Mi o rf ««e £*. although bedridden, is still very_bnght. tt is not generally known,; but it is a. proved fact B that the *jm« *eg centre, of the arum lily„>* jjoadu poi S fe£''; ;,°,arnednot to allow Hi«r *,«"" « oat the vc low centre. Children ari the habit of picking out. t.» yell stance and depositing i in henHH a. Tt lins a rather sweet tacto. and once inij have astcdit they uenerally *> for moro. Wntlv Kenneth Lew,. Spil*iry.» infant son of Mr. and Mrs John Sp* burr. Onewhero. succumbed as a lesu't of poisoning. It appears that the. 1 fellow and his aster, aged about three roars ate the stamen of the arum lily. The, children became ill. with the result I'Hint the Child, aged about 22 months, died. ____________

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Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 43, 15 November 1920, Page 2

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WOMAN'S WORLD Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 43, 15 November 1920, Page 2

WOMAN'S WORLD Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 43, 15 November 1920, Page 2

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