NOTES FOR WOMAN

New Zealand Times, Volume XLIV, Issue 10297, 4 June 1919, Page 9

NOTES FOR WOMAN

. SOCIAL AND PERSONAL. Mrs. W. D. S. MacDonald is visiting Christchurch with tho Hon. W. D. S. MacDonald. Mrs M. L. Heading, of Christchurch, who has been spending a fortnight in Napier, returned, home at the -week-end. Air and Mrs Warren Knight, of Wellington, are staying in Auckland. Mr and Mrs E. A. Blundell, of Wellington, are at tho Royal Hotel. Auckland.

airs George, of Kelburn, is visitinß Auckland to attend the wedding of her son. Lieutenant Douglas George, 8.F.C., there to-day. Quite a number of dances are coming off in the near future, as well as some of the bis balls which were a feature of the season in pre-war days. An impromptu dance .of Government deportments will take place in the new Defence building this week, and later in the month the staffs of the combined banks are to hold a dance inl the Concert Chamber.

A London correspondent writes under date April 11th:—The Eoyal Red Cross, Ist Class, has been awarded to Miss Fanny Wilson, matron. No. 3 N.Z. General Hospital, Walton-on-Thames. The following in the N.Z.A.N.S. receive the Royal ...Red- Cross, 2nd Class:—Miss Grace Isabella Calder, night superintendent. No. 2 N.Z. General Hospital, YVal-ton-on-Thames: Miss Amelia Catherine Douglas and Miss Janet Annie Moore, Sisters, No. 1, N.Z. General Hospital, Brockenhurst; Miss Annie Johanna Mackay, Sister, N.Z. Convalescent Hospital, Hornchurch; Miss Elizabeth Annie Porteous. Sister. No. 3 ; New Zealand General Hospital, Codford. Aloo thb following v.A.D. members of the .New Zealand Red Cross:—Miss Dorothy Bowden. Mrs Julia Kemp, Miss Jean Shaw .Wilson.

Among the military contingent wmch returned by the transport Tofua was Sister Lewis, of the New Zealand Medical Corps, an Otaki lady, who has received five decorations, British and foreign, and also wears the distinction rare among such non-coinbatuuts, of a gold wound stripe. In the Serbian campaign she experienced the horrors of the retreat over the Albanian mountains, and was for a time a. prisoner. Subsequently she volunteered for the New Zealand Medical Corps, and joined it on' the "eve of" the 'great German thrust of last year, again seeing arduous service. Sister. Lewis is suffering from a wound in the back of the neck, ! received in Serbia, and she is threatened with total blindness, which may supervene in the course of a few months. She is, nevertheless, of the cheeriest disposition, and contemplates the future with complete equanimity. A social and dance to celebrate the 21st birthday and engagement of Miss Grace Robinson to. Mr. Ernest G. Gandell was given by her aunt, Mrs Jim McLean, of 118, Ghuznee street, on Monday night in Ponsonby Hall. A very pleasant evening was spent by the guests. The marriage took '■ place yesterday at the Kent terrace Presbyterian Church, of Mr William Henry Edlund, only son of Mr W. Bdlund, to Miss Daisy Clinton Keay, onlx daughter of Mr and Mrs Keay, of Wellington. The Kev. I>r Kennedy Elliott officiated.

Mile. Antonia Dolores attended the service at St. Mary'sjChurchf-rChristchnrch;, on Sunday and sang Mr R. H. Rossiter's composition, "A Salutaris Hostia," which was dedicated to her by the oompo.-'or some time ago. She had.promised to &"ng it in Christchurch at the first opportunity. A children's homo has been opened at Anderson Bay, Dunedin, to provide temporarily for the children 1 of parents *'ho are ill. Mr and Mrs H. M. Cole, of Maaterton, left on Monday on'a; visit to the Auckland district. They' will 'be away for about two months. Sister Ella Childe, who has seen service with the forces in France, left Hastings this week for Nelson and Christchurch, after a short stay with Mr rnd Mrs T. Lawlor, of Hastings. The marriage was celebrated in Auckland on May 17th, of Mr, Walter Davideon, lately returned from . active service, eon of Mr and Mrs W. Davidson, wellknown Featherston ' residents, and Miss Daphne Cooper, also of" Featherston. Miss V\ M. Gregg, M.A., principal of the« Napier .Girls' High School, who luis bjeen on a visit ■to America, returned to Napier on Saturday. A very pretty wedding was solemnised at the Norsewood Methodist Churchy en Wednesday, May 28th. the contracting parties being Miss Eva Mary Adrian, youngest daughter of Mr and Mrs F. Adrian, Norsewood, to Charles Edward, third Bon of Mr and Mrs. J. Veale, cf Ngamoko. The ceremony.was performed by the Bev." Mr Mercer, and the ohurch | was very- prettily decorated by friends of the bride, who was given aw.y by her father. She was attended by her sister. Miss Johanna Adrian, as bridesmaid. Mr A. Adrian, brother of the bride, supoorted the bridegroom. The engagement is announced of Miss Madge Allen, eldest daughter of Mrs M. Allen, late of Christchuich, to Mr Goorge A. Wynns, eldest eon of Mr H. J. Wynne, of Kelburn,. Wellington, says an exchange. ■■■■.■-.,.'. 1 Miss Dorothy Gardner, the talented yqvmg Dunedin entertainer, who a few years ago appeared in the Wellington Town Hall Concert Chamber, and subsequently figured in vaudeville in company with Mr Cuthbert Rose, is touring South Africa with the'Steele-Payne Bellringers. The Johannesburg "Daily Mail" savs —"It call be said at once that a good deal of the company's 'success was due to the ability of the leading lady, Miss Dorothy Gardner. She is a New, Zealander and is something of a find. She has a charming presence, an unusual sense of humour, a very pleasing voice, and plenty of brains, with the result that h"r performance is a long way abovethe ordinary." Mr Cuthbert Hose, who is in the saiiie company, also receives n most favourable notice in the "Mail." Mr and Mrs W. Deans, of Christchurch, have gone to Hastings to visit Sir Andrew Russell.

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Sister A. Dickinson and bister M.L. Brown (Auckland), who returned to New Zealand recent)..- from nursing abroad, are visiting Christchurch. For the first time women have been returned to the Surrey County Council. Mrs Grace Ethel Skeats, president of the Parley Women's Municipal Association, and Mrs Henrietta Frances Le Personne, of Caterhani, are the new pioneers.

Many a tourist who has known Venice In the past and returns there in Ihe now era will probably regret the wideawake commercial development of tnat onca dreamy and romantic city of gondolas. Saved from invasion, the war transformed Venice into an active navaJ port, and now, with the revival of commercial activity throughout Italy, Venice has become ambitious to be again a great centre of trade with the Orient. Much ot the, pictureogueness that has delighted tourists is gone.- and much that is bustling and businesslike is taking its place. But in looking forward, Venice is also looking back, The city was once »s bustling, businesslike, and up-to-date according to contemporary ideas, as it is .likely ever to be in the future. The tourist who views the changes in tnat light will feel less regret for the more immediate past, and find many compel sations in the scenes and activities of a Venice seeking to. regain her tormei eminence as a commercial city.

.Following numerous protests as to the character of modern dancing, it is interesting to hear the views of Lady Aluirilackenzie. who is not oniy herself a graceful dancer, but a hostess who has given severai enjoyable dances where the much-discussed oue-steps were periormed (says a lxmuoa paperj. Why do 1 use the present dances? I could give many reasons. Ono great reason is. that they are not tiring, so that it is possible to eniov an evening's dancing even aicer. the long day's work which so mfj»¥ «* us now have. There inav be a healthy physical fatigue, as there would be alter walking or tennis, but there 13 never the iaded weariness which followed the uieamugless gyrations of the tiresoniely repeated waltzes. Then the. movements are full ol variety. An infinity of-steps is possible to a dancer of imagination and inventiveness. And the music is lively, inspiring, demanding movement, so exactly fitted to the steps used. As. these steps are based on natural walK . ins. they are easily ucciuired. 111 thensimplest form, thus making dancing now possible both to the young and to the middle-aged. There may be objectionable dancing, though I have none; but in good circles to-day the tox-trot and one-steps partake more of the nature of a minuet, than a romp, the elfeet being one of easy and graceful movement. Surely at a time like this, when life is full of anxieties, it is well to dance and so gain the health and spirit needed if we are to face bravely whatever' troubles may confront us;' ■_> --... \ At a meeting of the'Aucklnnd.branch of the Women's National Council, Mrs Treby moved that the following resolution be placed before _the Government Vy the Central Council:—"That the Auckland branch of the National Council of Women of New Zealand urgently requests the Government to doclare officially that in exercising its mandate over Samoa it will abolish the system of indentured labour, and refuse absolutely to allow it to be re-introduced. The example oi Fiji shows that-^mofall^•_aad : ;,ecoßon)4o-~ ally the system is an evil. Morally the indentured workers are placed in conditions that must tend to their degradation, especially to that of the women who live in their compounds, and the children who are born from such irregular unions. Economically. a class is created with the lowest standard 0* 'tfe, without consciousness of social responsibilities, and when the indentures terminate the freed men become a moral and ecoilomio menace to.. the country .(o which they migrate. ,;.'New. Zealand,.'hasalready grave moral'and'social problems resulting from the immigraj.ion of erindentured labour. We suggest that ILe solution of the labour problem in Samoa, and the maintenance of exports from the islands can bo obtained by offering sufficient inducement to the Samoans to perform the labour necessary to produce for exportation. This appears to have " bean done in the American portion of the Sainoan group by eradicating the privite trader, tho Government purchasing all copra at a rate sufficient..to give: .the natives tho necessary'. impetus .to~ labour' at its production. We believe that it would far more than outweigh any material loss involved -by such transference, as by this means thero would be developed a native people having a proprietary interest in their land who would cultivate domestic and civic virtues, I whioh are quite impossible to indentured labour."

The Port of London authorities durinjr excavations in conneotion -with dock extensions have been keenly watching for evidences of ancient and prehistoric London''(says the London "Weekly Dispatch). Though the.y did not find so much as they expected, they were gratified with several interesUnß °- iB : ooveries. Distinct traces of a buried forest were found at the bottom of the South Albert Dock, which is probably a part of that of which Pepys speaks in his diarv as havine been found at Blaclfwall. A number of beautiful walkingsticks were made of some of the hard hoc oak found in this buried forest, and visitihe colonial Premiers and other public men were-only too eager to secure them as souvenirs. It became necessary to remove the path known as Manor War. which traversed the lock of the dock, and evidence was found to show that this Was the old Eoman route between Essex and Kent Some Eoman potteries were discovered hereabouts. All these relics of past ages are beinj? collected with a view to establishing either a Port of London Museum, or augmentin* the other public collections in London.

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