PERSONAL NOTES

Evening Post, Volume CXVII, Issue 23, 27 January 1934, Page 6

PERSONAL NOTES

Mrs. Reginald Birch, Masterton, and her^two daughters, .are visiting Mrs. Birch's mother, Mrs. A. de B. Brandon,1 Hobson Street.

Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Salmon, Parliament Street, and their children returned to Wellington this morning after a holiday visit to the Sounds.

Lady Findlay will leave Wellington on March 3 for a trip to England.

Miss Betty Bowcn, Christchurch, arrived in. Wellington this morning to stay with Miss Agnes Dunean, who is at present at Heretaunga.

Miss Mary McLean, C.8.E., will leave Wellington on March 3 for England, and will be accompanied by Mrs. Sandford Cox, Dunedin.

Mr. and Mrs. E. A. Blundell, Murphy Street, and family, who have boen spending several weeks at Heretaunga, returned to town today.

Miss Greta Clarkson, Christchurch, who N has been visiting England, will return to New Zealand by the lonic, due on February 6.

Mrs. Charles Gray, Pukerua Bay, will leavo New Zealand on March 3 for a trip to England,

Mr. and Mrs. Len J. Grccnberg, of tho V.M.C.A., Mrs.'M. lies, and Miss Beryl Greenberg are spending a holiday at Kaikoura.

Miss Joyce Neilsen will leave Wellington shortly to take up her residence in Auckland.

Mr. and Mrs. Stuart Sidey have arrived in Wellington from tho south, and are -,the guests of Mrs. H. R. Thomas, Kelburn.

Miss Esther Rose, .Christchurch, who has been appointed to the literary staff of the "Now Zealand Referee and Social Tatler," arrived in Wellington this morning. Miss Jessie Evatt, Island Bay, returned to Wellington this morning from tho'Sounds. ' Signor and Mrs. A. P. Truda have returned to Wellington after a month's vacation in the north, when they were the guests of Mr. and Mrs. IL Hume, Mastcrtoji ... .-" -111—. ~ Mrs. Ernest Boulton and Mrs. H. J. Ballin ha.ye. returned to ChrisUhurch' after a brief J.vioit 'to" Wellington/, .' Mr. and Mrs. George Perry, Hokitika, West Coast, are visitors "to1 Wel>' lington. . , Mrs. H. B. Jacobs, Wellington, is the guest of her sister, Mrs. J? R. Cameron, Christchurch. Miss Frances Byrne, Wellington, is the guest of Mrs. Alister Mackenzie, Clayton Station; Fairlie. Child welfare work in Western Australia has taken a step forward with the appointment of Miss F. G. Boneham as female probation officer.' The position ig a- new one in the State, and will entail close association with tBo- work of the Children's Courts at Perth, Fremantle, arid Midland Junction." For the last four years Miss Boneham has been inspector in the Child Welfare Department. Mrs. J. P. McQuilkin has returned to Christchurch after a visit to Wellington. Miss Hambcr, Havelock North, who has been visiting her mother, Mrs. Danvers .Hamber, Ashburton, arrived in Wcllingtqir'this morning on her way north. Miss Imelda Fama, Wellington, is spending a holiday with her sister, Mrs. A. J. McGovcrn, The Mount, Tauranga.

Mr. and Mrs;^ George Wcnsley and their daughter, .who were the guests of Mrs. James Benning, Hataitai, have returned to Marlbprough.

Mr. James Craigie, Timaru, who has been spending.a few* days with his daughter, Mrs. Alison 'Hume, Kclburn, returned south'last evening.

■ Sir Thomas Oliver, a medical specialist, of Newcastle, speaking at tho St. John, School of Music in that city, said that for tbo first time on record stammering was ' becoming prevalent among girls, having , hitherto been mainly confined to boys. The changes in modern life .were possibly responsible, he added.

Two\ women are members of Parliament in Belgium, "where, women are permitted to; aland ■ for JPaJljament but may not yet vote at political elections (states a correspondent)/;B6th belong to the Socialist Party,. Mile. Lueie Dejar.din. occtypyingTa sieat,in,Jthe : Chambre dc^> Deputes,- aS,d" the; other, MadameSpaak, in'the Senate. On >theiproviri-: cial Legislative 'Assemblies women arerepresented; by) four members. number; of women members of municipar councils is 171,-that of women mayors 13. Fourteen women hold office as sheriffs, 16 as town, clerks. ;

Miss Dorothy Canfield, whose new novel, "Bonfire," v has recently been published, comes of a family that went to America in 1636, and has owned1 property in Vermont since 1764' (state's an' overseas writer).' She was born in 1879, when her father was professor at the State University of Kansas. In 1907 she married Mr. John R.. Fisher

and went to live on a farm at Arlington, Vermont. Most of the war years she spent in France in relief work. Her books, "Home Fires .of France " and "Tho Pay of Glory," give poignant pictures of tlie country in'wartime. "Bonfire," is a very long book concerned with, a Vermont village, where everybody knows not only everybody else, but their ancestry.

Mrs. A; Rotton, formerly of Riwaka, Nelson, who has resided in England for some years, is visiting relatives and friends in. tho Northland South Islands.

Mrs. M. M. Armstrong and Mrs. A. Fcnefty (Ghristchurch) aro among the guests at the Midland Hotel.

Misses Crombio (Havelock North) and Miss J. Hosking (Masterton) arc staying at the Royal Oak Hotel.