WOMAN’S WORLD.

Dominion, Volume 15, Issue 54, 26 November 1921, Page 4

WOMAN’S WORLD.

MATTERS OF INTEREST FROM FAR AND NEAR.

(By

Imogen. )

SOCIAL AKD PERSONAL Rehearsals are progressing for what promises io be an exceedingly beautiful pageant in connection with the coronation of Miss Mary McEvedy, tho small daughter of Dr. McEvedy, who was the successful candidate in the recent bazaar in aid of St. Mary’s rebuilding fund. Tho coronation ceremony will be followed immediately by a plain and fancy dress ball for children. Tho annual inspection of the Wellington Nursing Division, St. John Ambulance Brigade Overeas, was held this week in the Y.W.C.A. rooms, by the assistant commissioner, Mr. H. 11. Seed, assisted by tho lady district superintendent acting Mrs. W. 11. S. Moorhouse. This was the’first tinio Mrs. Moorhouse had acted in her new capacity in this division, and she was given a. very hearty welcome. The inspection of the members’ uniform and the stores of tho division was followed by a searching examination into the members and officers’ progress in first aid and. roller bandaging, with good results. The passing of the books and papers of ths division was also done. Tho re-examination of tho year’s work by a doctor next weok will complete tho syllabus for 1921. It is hoped there will bo a good attendance at the annual meeting to be held the following week.

A very successful meeting was held at St. Barnabas’s Schoolroom, Khandallah, on Wednesday, when a branch of the British and. Foreign Bible Society was established. The Rev. A. T. Thompson, New Zealand secretary, was the speaker, to whom a very hearty welcome was extended by tho Revs. Hands and Shaw. Another speaker was Miss Cowles, a missionary from India, who spoke of tho valuable services rendered by the society for their work on the field. The room had been prettily decorated, and about fifty ladies were present. Afternoon tea was handed • round, and musical items were given by Mrs. Strong and Miss Clarke. Mrs. Strong was elected president, and Miss Plinimer hon. secretary, while tho following ladies undertook to collect for the funds of the society Mesdames Wright, Munuings, Ffitch, and Daniell, and Misses Dumbell, Atkinson, and Nairn. Miss Miller, assistant organiser, was present and initiated the secretary into her duties.

Mts. Ernest Atkinson, of Dunedin, daughter of the late Sir John MqKenzie, is visiting her sister, Mrs. M. P. Cameron, Ellice Street.

A very interesting display of work done by members of the A.rts and Crafts Circle of the Pioneer Club, of which Lady Gibbes is president, was held in the club yesterday afternoon. The exhibits included basket work, trays, needlework, crochet lace, leather work, etc., and somo really lieautiful articles of their kind were shown. Some of the raffia baskets were most artistic in colouring, and of a very graceful shape; the trays, with a low raffia work border, were of excellent workmanship, and tho leatherwork, which included purses, note-books, a photograph frame, and a tooled leather b~/ was very good indeed. One member showed a beautiful hand-em-broidered linen bed-spread, which must have been the achievement of many months of patient labour, and another the daintiest of garments, as well as washing gloves (leather) which she had made and which equalled in finish anything to be seen in the shops. Both long aiid 4?ie ordinary short gloves were included. Another member showed a very pretty crepe de chine frock sffie had made patterned with designs canned o-ut in French knots that gave the efleet of beading. Altogether Lady Gibbes and the Arts and Crafts Circle are very much to be congratulated upon the varied and artistic work they are doing—useful as well as charming to look at. Paddy’s Market.

A very great attraction at Paddy’s “Market yesterday was the baby show and’ a home-made oako competition. Mrs. Manton was in charge of the baby show, and there wero from 120 to 125 entrants, fine bonny children most of them and apparently as healthy as possible, lhe stage formed the setting for the show, and below it gathered tho mothers, with two or three policemen at hand to keep order Twnetner amongst the babies or the mothers was a matter for speculation). Mrs. Me Vicar was the judge and was assisted by Mrs. Manton, and the task of selecting the finest, healthiest babies for their ago must have been a most bewildering one. Unfortunately some of the prize-winning babies were taken away by their mothers before their names could be taken, so that the list of prize-winners is an incomplete one. These, so fur as the list goes/ are Mildred Dav, Marion Pryer, A. L. Trowon, Pat. AVoolsen, L. O’Meara, Earl Jones, Leonard Martin, Norman Hunt, Every child that was entered for the siiow was presented with a gift, lor tho cake competition there were also many entries, and delicious-looking cakes wero on view, principally sponges and fruit' calces. These were afterwards sold bv auction and brought in very good prices Mrs. AV. G. Reid was in charge of this. Owing to the very generous patronage of the public, the Market is fo be closed down until next week. Tho re-opening will be advertised later.

Mi’s. J. J. Hamilton, of Hautamu (Hawke’s Bay), gave a very pleasant afternoon tea in Kirkcaldie and Stains s teamroonis, to her friends before she returned to her home in Hawke’s Bay. While in AVellington she was tho guest of Mrs. Hunt, Lipman Street.

A meeting of the committee of* the Society for the Protection of Women and Children was held yesterday afternoon. Mr. F. Chapman presided, and there wero also present Mesdames Sprott, J. Kirkoaldie, Line, A. Hoby, 11. Kirkcaldie, Glover, Chatfield, and Miss Kirk. A motion of sympathy with tho relatives of the late Mr. AV. Allan, who was one of tho trustees of the society for twentyfour years, wag passed in silence. It was resolved that a letter urging upon tho Government the necessity for passing amended legislation upon tho age of consent for girls (which at present is fixed at sixteen, and which thousands of women in this country are urging should be raised to eighteen years) is to bo forwarded to the Minister of Justice. Cases were dealt with concerning neglect of children and hardships of families through .neglect of maintenance. Subscriptions were acknowledged with thanks from Ihe following:—Mr. T. AV. Rowley, J!1 Is.; Mrs. Massey, 10s.; New Zealand Milk Vendors, 10s.; C. Smith and Co.. 10s.; Mrs. Fruhauf, 10s.; Mrs. )\. Andrews, 10s.; Miss C. E. Kirk. 10s.; Archdeacon AVatson, ss.;’Miss Melman, 55.; Miss Morice, ss.

Mrs. A. H. Bristed, Christchurch, is visiting AVellington as a delegate to the Plunket Society Conference. Other visitors for tho conference are Mr. and Mrs. Godby, Christchurch, Mrs. Thoomin, Dunedin, and Mi’s. Johnson, Dunedin.

The service to be held at the Y.AV.C.A., Herbert Street, to-morrow at 4.15 p.m. will bo of a specially missionary nature as it is Foreign Department Sunday in connection with tho association. Tho speaker will bo Mr. Burrows, of the Bolivian Indian Mission, and Mrs. D. O. McClay, president of the association, will be in the chair. All visitors and newcomers to AVellington, as well as those specially interested in missions, arc cordially invited to bo present and to stay to the tea and social hour following.

PLUNKET CONFERENCE THE BUSINESS CONCLUDED. Delegates to the Plunket Conference, which opened in Wellington on Wednesday, concluded their business yesterday morning. Mrs. Hosking again presided. The report from the sub-committee which had been set up to go into the matter of fees in connection with Kantane Hospitals and means for enforcing the departure from these hospitals of children who are cured, but whose parents will not remove them, was submitted, and will bo discussed at the next general conference. Mrs. Johnston (president of the Central Council) moved that in the interests of the branches it was most that tue nurses should be chosen for work for the different branches of the society by Miss Patrick, and that advice and suggestions from her with regard to Plunket work should he conformed to by the nurses; also that applicants for subsidies should realise that those must bo made through the Central Council. TMs the meeting agreed to. Some <77scussion ensued as to the position of relieving Plunket nurses, and it was moved and carried’ that wherever there was but one Plunket nurse in a district, that district should not be left without a relieving nurse when holidays were due, and that notice for the forthcoming holiday should be sent to the Central Council six months beforehand. Failure to give the requisite notice will render the branch that omits to send it .liable to forfeiture of the Government subsidy and other concessions for the relieving nurse. It was moved and carried that Mrs. Hosking approach the Minister of Public Health with regard to the matter of having the balance of the Government pamphlet, "Tho Expectant Mother," printed and issued at once. A very hearty vote of thanks was passed by the conference to Mr. Malcolm Fraser and Mr. Cooke for the very great help they had given the society with regard to the distribution- of the pamphlet. A vote of thanks was also passed to Mrs. Hosking for presiding. It was stated at the meeting that all bequests left to tho society were free of death duties.

WOMEN TEACHERS EVENING AT THE PIONEER CLUB. A social evening, arranged by the Wellington branch of the. Women Teachers’ Association, was 'held in the Pioneer Clubrooms last evening. Special interest was added to the occasion by the fact that Miss McCarthy and Miss Cook were to speak of some of the things they had seen in other countries, educational and otherwise. Miss Edwards, president of the association, made a brief speech of welcome, and Miss Coad also made a few remarks, chiefly upon business matters. Miss Cook, who attended, the Teachers Imperial Conference, which was held in Toronto, spoke of many of the matters that were discussed at this conference, at which feacliers and university professors from all parts of tho British Empire were present. Various aspects of Imperialism in regard to education received attention, and Miss Cook spoke of what was bring done in technical education as well as primary and secondary education. Agriculture received n great deal of attention in Canada but whatever was the subject, the ideal was not to make that the end in. itself, but to educate and train the mind of the. lx>v or girl through whatever it was taking up. Vocational work was very much a feature of the Canadian educational system. The socml side of life was not by any means neglected while the conference was sitting, and very pleasant functions and outings were arranged and visits paid as well to outstanding schools and colleges. Miss McCarthy described some of the schools she had visited in Switzerland mid in England, and the special work that some of them were carrying out “We Tn New Zealand," she remarked, "liked to think that we j.rere in the van but facts were against us. Jn Switzerland the child was kept at school until he or she was eighteen years of age and 'the State saw to it that the narvnts did not suffer, if poor, through Fhrir Children bring kept there all that lime. That was one of the pm>'u tiling’s that was to be found m the outthat was made by the very poor TOOple in a country like England against poor that delay in heavier Lmiiw wage-earners added a were combining, and fighting nr many a"’in°scU! government. No knew better than the was needed in e du °^ lo "did the last word ’"n reoplo who knew very Mtle with the peopi® niP . ver were teachers about sc’hoohs, nev themselves, « nd a 0 °“ith them? Children o’! “i as to the Yet they d Si Tn money to bo spen P . u ors seldom the building requirements, had any say about too 1 tea(?her? and yet Who knew them “ Mica Certainly not the J ‘ nt(>rnationa i WoMcCartliy siwke of various worldmen’s Congress, and of jn wide students’ movement existence, I ’ er . s „ P t . into red. g During the with the ' br Mrs. Maysevening songs were 5 g Lp(? gavo mor and Miss Mai , * pleasant “, d .S“£“y handed around. ■

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