SOCIAL AND PERSONAL

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXVII, Issue 8357, 18 February 1913, Page 5

SOCIAL AND PERSONAL

Mrs T. M. Wlford went south last night. Mrs Bateson went south on Saturday night. Mrs do Yere Teschemaker-Shute is tho ffuest of Lady Hector. Miss M. Newton has returned from a holiday trip to Australia. Mrs Seddon returned on Saturday from a visit to the West Coast. Miss Pearl Hamilton has returned from a visit to the Wairarapa. Miss C. Williams, Lyttelton, is spending a few weeks with her sister, Mrs W. Burns, Oriental Bay. Mrs T. E. Taylor, of Christchurch, is the guest of Mi's Hancock, Ellice street, for the Kindergarten Conference, and Miss Langford is staying with Airs Cullom, Drummond street. Yesterday afternoon a meeting of the Women's Social and Political Heform League was held, Mrs E. Hadfield presiding. Some correspondence was read, and several matters informally discussed. At tho next meeting the members will lie addressed by Alias Newcombe and Miss Hodge, representatives of the Australian and New Zealand Women Voters’ Association of Loudon. The delegates to the Dominion Free Kindergarten Conference met at Mrs Grady’s, Wellington terrace, yesterday afternoon, and were entertained to afternoon tea. . The students of the Wellington schools were also present, and several members of the Wellington council, with Aliss Kiley (headmistress), and Afiss Freeman, late headmistress of the Wellington schools. Tea was served in the din-ing-room, where the table was decorated with pink ivy geranium in silver vases, and afterwards the delegates discussed, informally, many points relating to today's conference, especially the syllabus of work proposed for the two years course of study for kindergarten teachers, for which it is hoped to establish a recognised diploma.