ENGAGEMENTS

Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 96, 17 January 1935, Page 6

ENGAGEMENTS

WHITE—JACKSON. The engagement is announced of Lilian Elsie, younger daughter of Mr. and Mrs. S. R. Jackson, "Runnymede,” Blenheim, to Basil Keith, fourth son of Mrs. and the late Mr. David White, Devonport, Auckland. * # « BARRINGTON—SMITH. The engagement is announced of Peggy, only daughter of Mrs. A L. Bishop, Campbell Road, Brunswick, Wanganui, and the late F. A. E. Smith, of Suffolk, England, to Francis Raymond, youngest son of Mr. and Mrs J. B. Barrington, Crofton Road, Mar- ’ ton. »> * EG LINTON—MATTHEW S. The engagement is announced of Judith Norma, youngest daughter of Mrs. and Mrs. N. Matthews, “Wharepapa,” Featherston, to Robert Douglas, youngest son of Mr. and Mrs. A. D. Eglinton, Eastbourne. o « « CLARK—CALDE R. The engagement is announced of Marion Duncan, only daughter of the Rev. and Mrs. David Calder, of Kelburn, to Robert Lownie, elder son of Mrs. and the late Mr. R. B Clark, of Lower Hutt. CITY NOISES London’s Quietest Period Peo’ple have been busy collecting impressions of ■the working of the “silence zones” in London, and we may be fairly certain that it will be agreed that the effect of stopping any one kind of noise in a city may be to emphasise others, says a writer to the “Manchester Guardian.” Comparative silence is valuable and must be aimed at, but stopping motor horns and tramcar bells will no more produce absolute silence than the stopping of cab whistles. Was there ever a time when any city was quiet? It would be difficult to find such a period in the history of London or of any of the larger towns. The London of the Middle Ages was a pandemonium of noise with the clatter of hoofs, the shouting of wares by apprentices, the noisy crowds, the drunken brawls, the noisy games played in the streets at holiday times. Later on we hear of night made hideous by mohawks and other bands of roisterers, “Sons of Belial,” and there was the melancholy cry of the watchmen at night and the clangor of innumerable bells. Then came the era of cobble-stones and of iron-tired vehicles, the noise and clatter of the stage and mail coaches, the “London cries” —now surrounded by a halo of romance but horribly noisy in actual fact. It Is just possible that the quietest period in London history was the period round the nineties, when rubber tires and wood .paving were increasing in numbers. But even then quiet was a highly comparative term, as all will remember who can shut their eyes and recall the clop-elopping of hansom horses and the bells of their harness in the small hours of a late Victorian night. The Rev. W. Hayward and Mrs. Hayward, Madras, India, who have been staying at Christchurch, will leave Wellington this week on their return home. Corsage .Sprays or Orchids, Roses, Violets. Debutantes’ Posies.—Miss Murray, 36 Willis St. Phone 40-541.— Advt.