WOMAN’S WORLD

Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 118, 16 February 1928, Page 4

WOMAN’S WORLD

MATTERS OR INTEREST FROM FAR AND NEAR

Mrs. Neville, of Sydney, is a visitor to Wellington. Mrs. Prior Williams has returned to Auckland after a visit to Wellington. Mrs. J. MeLinden, of Wellington, is the guest of Mrs. A. King in Stratford. Miss Shelton his returned to Stratford from Wellington. Mrs. Batkin, Auckland, is on a holiday in Wellington.

Mt. and Mrs. Sinclair Carruthers, of Wellington, are in Christchurch.

Mrs. Walling-Jones has returned to her home in Dunedin from Palmerston North.

Mr. and Mrs. Royston Campbell, of Pukahu, are on a holiday visit to Wellington.

Mrs. T. W. Lewis, who has been on a visit to Wellington, has returned to Hastings.

Mrs. S. W. Kellv and Miss L. Kelly, of Wellington, returned from Christchurch yesterday.

Miss E. F. Godfray, Havelock North, has beeu the guest of Mrs. Ardell, Wellington.

Miss Kitty Fox-Rogers left Hastings on Monday morning for a holiday with friends in Wellington.

Mrs. Cotton McLean and family, of Hawke’s Bay, have left for Wellington, where they will reside in future.

Mrs. T. Gill and her two children returned this week to Hastings after a few weeks in Wellington.

Dr. Hazel Allison has returned to Christchurch from a visit to the North Island.

Mrs. T. Griffiths, of Island Bay, is the guest of Mrs. G. W. Mills, of Ferguson Street, Palmerston North.

Mrs. V. R. Meredith and Miss June Meredith left Auckland for Marton. Mrs. Meredith intends to also visit Wellington.

Mr. and Mrs. Nathan Smyth arrived from Christchurch yesterday, en route for Cape Colony, where they intend to reside.

Mrs. Eric Millton, Fendalton, has returned to Christchurch after a visit to her mother, Mrs. Bullock, at Wellington.

Mrs. F. Bacon, accompanied by her daughter, has gone to Christchurch to attend the wedding of her son, Mr. C. Bacon, to Miss R. Good.

Mr. and Mrs. Daysh, of Martinborough,, are visiting Wellington. Mrs. Daysh is the guest of her mother, Mrs. Rose, of Vivian Street.

The engagement is announced of Moyra, only daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Whyte, of Hunterville, to William Henry, third son of Mrs. Wright and the late Mr. W. J. Wright, of Hunterville.

Miss Greer, of Linton, is at present spending a brief holiday in Wellington with her brother, Mr. G. N. Greer. They are the guests of Mrs. Masters, of Miramar.

Mrs. Keesing arrived in Wellington yesterday from Palmerston North, and will be the guest of Captain and. Mrs. Ivorv, the Terrace, before returning to her home in Auckland at the end of the week.

Members of the Navy League and their friends are invited by advertisement in to-day’s issue to attend a reception in the Pioneer Chib, next Wednesday, at 8 p.m., in honour of the delegates from all parts of New Zeaalnd attending the annual Navy League Conference, which will open in the board room of the Dominion Farmers’ Institute taht day at 10.30 a.m. 'The accommodation for the reception is limited to 150, and therefore it is essential that those who wish to attend to call at the office for tickets as soon as posible.

Women in general are more than ever interested in the New Year’s honours list, as it contains the names of several well-known women whose devoted public service well merits the recognition thus given (commented an Fnglish society paper). Among them, now created Dantes of the Order of the British Empire, are the Duchess of Bedford and Miss Jane Frances Dove. The Duchess has earned her honour by her work in connection with the hospital for surgical cases which she built some years ago near Woburn, in which she herself helped in the operating theatre and has done all the X-ray work. 'the Duchess, who was educated at Cheltenham College, is a student of natural history, and writes with authority on ornithology. Aliss Dove, now Dame Frances, was one of that distinguished band of pioneers who were the first students of what, from its nucleus in a country house at Hitchin, grew to be Girton College. She had qualities, other than mere scholarship, which made her\ a great headmistress, and two notable schools, St. Leonards aud Wycombe Abbey, owe much to her work.

The monthly meeting of the Citizens’ Day Nursery was held on Monday, when tlie following were present:— Mrs. Gray (president), Mrs. Reid, Mrs. Magnus, Mrs. Clarke, Mrs. W. Luke, Mrs. Brent, Mrs. Kennedy, Mrs. Levy, Mrs. Frazer, Mrs. Murphy, Mrs. Townsend, and Misses Moss and Cable. Apologies were received from Lady Luke and Mrs. Leicester. A vote of sympathy witli Lady Luke in her recent illness was passed. The work goes on steadily, accommodation at tlie nursery being fully taxed on many days. The open play-yard is a boon to the children during iiot weather. The annual meeting of the society will take place at the nursery on Monday at 3 p.m. The Mayor will preside. The following gifts are acknowledged :—Mr. Rod (bones) ; New Zealand Trawling Co. (fish) ; Boston Cake Shop (cakes) ; Mrs. R. C. Kirk (clothes); Miss Betty Ellis (clothes), Mrs. Murphy (apples) ; Mrs. Myers (vegetables) ; Miss Moss (biscuits) ; Mrs. Birth (flowers) ; anonymous (clothes) ; Mrs. Gray (flowers and apples) ; Mrs. Coventry (plums).

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. Mrs. M. Marks, of Sydney, is a visitor to Wellington. She will leave tor Sydney to-morrow. Features of the Melton Hunt ball, one of the most exclusive social functions in England, were the number of long frocks, many reaching to the ankles, and the fact that foxtrots figured in the programme almost to the exclusion of every other measure (an exchange states). Both the Prince of Wales and Prince Henry attended. The scene was one of unusual splendour, the gay hunting costumes of the men contrasting with the brilliant dresses of the women. London’s near countryside provided in Christmas week a good practice ground for the winter sports enthusiast (says an English paper). On the Epsom Downs and over the Chilterns good ski-ing was possible, and many a gay trousered sports suit intended for later wear in some high Swiss resort had its first airing in England, to the amused admiration of the villagers. Getting food supplies for house parties, invited for a week-end and detained for a week by roads impassable to motors, was a difficult problem for many hostesses. Even in London, lorry loads of fresh vegetables were greeted with cheers by the market porters as they came in to Covent Garden.

Kindergarten Revisited. Yesterday morning Miss Mary Richmond was the guest of honour of the Kindergarten Council at the Taranaki Street Kindergarten. Miss Richmond was the founder of the kindergarten movement in Wellington, when in 1905 she called together a band of women to collect money to open a kindergarten as an experiment. The first kindergarten was opened in 1906. Later the Education Department did not see its wav to take over the kindergartens, but granted a capitation fee of £2 for each child, later increased to £2 10s. Miss Richmond remained the president and leader of the council until she left for England in 1912, when Mrs. Gill took the presidency. In welcoming her yesterday Mrs. D. C. Peacock, the present president, said that the movement owed its success to the initiative of Miss Richmond and the good foundations she had laid. Miss Richmond could feel proud of her work, and they hoped she was pleased to see the way it had grown. They now had six kindergartens and not'including Petone 300 children were under their charge. Miss Richmond, in replying, said she was not only pleased and gratified, but astonished to see how the movement had grown. She heartily congratulated all those who had been responsible for the work. Although the remark was still true that the future was with the children, she felt that was true also of young countries, and while New Zealand owed everything to the Mother Country, people here could repay it all with interest by our work in a young country. She thanked the council, and especially Mrs. Peacock, for her welcome, and for givingher the opportunity of seeing the kindergarten. Before tea Miss Richmond had been shown over the kindergarten and she admired the playground and playhouse given to the kindergarten bv the girls of Chilton House School under Miss Isaacs, and the sundial which was placed in the grounds in honour of herself. Morning tea was served upstairs after the children _ had been at work and play, under Miss Scott, and bad sat down to their “lunch.” _ Mrs. Dowsett, Dlrs. Adams, Mrs. Davidson, Miss Cable and Miss Seaton were in charge of the tea, and other members of the council and friends were present. Miss Richmond was accompanied bv her sister, Miss S Richmond, Mrs. Bogle, Miss D. Richmond, and Mrs. Hursthouse.

Women and Politics. In her New Year message, Mrs. Corbett Ashbv, president of the International Alliance for Suffrage and Equal Citizenship, says: “In the Far East we welcomed the grant of eligibility to the women of the Punjab, Mysore, and the Central Provinces. The East is testing the value of women’s co-opera-tion, and recognises its value in a striking fashion by first co-opting Dr. Muthulaskslilii Animal on the Madras Legislative Council, and then electing her as Vice-President. The great awakening of China is showing the gift of quiet leadership in many of her women. Swinging across the world, how eagerlv we watch the great republics of South America, now that Rio Grande do Norte, hi Brazil, and San Juan, in Argentina, have granted suffrage to women, and the first doors towards political equality are open. In Europe, Spain has thirteen women in her National Assembly; in one gesture exceeding the numbers of women in other national Parliaments, with the exception of Germany and Holland. We shall remember 1927 as the year in which the alliance showed its capacity for peace work by the splendid success of its Amsterdam conference. Our success with the League of Nations is shown bv the nine women who sat this year in the Assembly, and in the welcome presence of three women at . the World Economic Conference,. nominated bv the women’s international organisations, and of the fourth, representing her Government. Our Commission on Nationality can be congratulated that nationality laws have been passed improving the position of women in Finland and France, and that a resolution on the question has been adopted by the German Reichstag. One of the objections made when we. urge Governments to send women to international conferences, and to the Assembly, is that they lack experience. This vicious circle is breaking up, since in addition to the British I’nder-Sec-retary for Education, 1927 has seen a Turkish woman, Bcdrie Hanoum, made head of the Bureau of Hygiene; Miss Sillanpaa, the first woman Minister in the Finnish Government; Mrs. Tillinghast, Commissioner of Immigration in the U.S.A. More significant still is the election of Frau Rudel Zeyiiek to the Federal Council of the Austrian Second Chamber, whose first woman chairman she now is.”

LADY WOLSELEY ARRIVES Dominion Special Service. . Auckland. February 11. An arrival bv the Maunganui this morning from Sydney, Lady Wolseley, is making her first visit to the Dominion. Lady Wolseley received such a favourable impression of the attractions of tlie Dominion from her cousin, Lord Knollvs, who was in Auckland two years ago, that she determined to make the trip. The Hon Charlotte Knollys, the constant companion of Queen Alexandra until her death, is Lady Wolseley’s aunt and godmother, and is still living in London. The first Lord Knollys, private secretary to King Edward, and subsequently to King George, was her uncle. The Right Hon. Sir William Knollys, K.C.8., her grandfather was at one time Comptroller of tlie Roval Household. “I certainly think that Englishmen and women, too, should see as much as possible of the Dominions. The ignorance abroad among certain people in regard to this part of the world is appalling,” declared Lady Wolseley, who has no mean record as a globetrotter, though this is her first visit to Australia and New Zealand.

Visitors to Auckland include Mr. and Mrs. E. B. Young, of Wellington. A steam-roller which lias been engaged in the alterations to the roadway in Hastings Street and Shakespeare Road met with a mishap in front of the Government buildings about 5 o’clock (lie other afternoon (says tlie "Hawke’s Hay Herald”). It was proceeding over the newly-laid liot-ni'x wlten tlio heavy weight of file vehicle caused file front roller to suddenly sink into a hollow, occasioned by lite breakage of what is presumed to’ be a drain running below the surface of tlie road Tlie depression was lessened somewhat by removing a small portion of file newly-laid road surface, and I lien, after some considerable difficulty, tlie roller was removed by tlie combined efforts of its own power and that of a motor-tractor, which was also assistiug iu the roadinakiug operations.

Tlie silence of the forest was impressive when Dr. Hill, Director of Kew Gardens, accompanied by the Mayor of Auckland ami a representative party, visited tlie kauri bush at tlie Cascades (says the Auckland “Star’’). The scarcity of New Zealand birds amid what should lie tlio most congenial surroundings was remarked upon by several members of tlie party. Au occasional wild pigeon—a glimpse of green and while—was seen winging away across a deep ravine, and now and again tlie clear, tinted call of tlie tui. and tlio friendly twitter of the pied fantail was heard. Yet: in the old days the pigeon, tui. knka. and makoniako were all plentiful on the Waitakeres. The kaka is now very scarce, and the makouiako, with its glorious bell-like call at dawn and sunset, appears to have vanished. In the past few* years at least two good Australians have made considerable progress. The magm’e haunts the fringes of the forest, while the gaudv rosclla narrot has become plentiful. The latter lias flourished at tlie expense of the gently native pigeon. The rosella lives on the berries of the New Zealand forest trees, and thus the outlook for the natIvo birds is not a verv hopeful one.

Candidates for Hie police in Britain must be at least sft. Sin. in height, with a chest measurement of Join. After passing a simple educational test, conprising reading, writing, dictation, and elementary arithmetic, they commence at a minimum salary of £3 10s. a wees. The largest squared stones ever used for building purposes are those found among Hie wonderful ruins of the Temple of the Sun. at Baalbcc. in Syria. In one of the walls, 19 feet above the ground level, there are three monster blocks, all over 63 feet in length and 15 feet in height.