Notes for Women

New Zealand Times, Volume LIII, Issue 12615, 27 November 1926, Page 10

Notes for Women

SOCIAL AND PERSONAL Miss Bessie Thompson, of Dunedin, is in Wellington for a weelc. Mr and Mrs F. M. Clark have left for the South. Miss L. Lynch, of Wellington, has just arrived in Napier, where she intends to reside in future. Mrs Foote has returned to Auckland after a short visit to Wellington. Mr and Mrs J. Hannan, of Greymoutli, arrived in Wellington from Sydney by the Marama, and proceeded to Greymouth on Thursday. Mrs H. McConnell (Runanga) and Mrs M. Quinlan, of Greymouth, came to Wellington to see their niece. Miss T. Lanigan, off in the Sydney steamer on Thursday. Mr and Mrs R. B. Beal were passengers to Christchurch by the ferry boat from Wellington on Thursday. Mrs Rice, from Boston, Mrs Beal's mother, accompanied them. Mr and Mrs Rankine, of Wellington, are in Christchurch. Mrs Casey, of Wellington, is the guest of Mrs Short, Pakowhai, Hawke’s Bay. Mrs Nicolson-Miller, of Havelock North, has been on a visit to Wellington. Mr and Mrs Crawford Mclntyre have returned to Westport after a visit to Wellington and Christchurch. Mrs W. Gnndell. late of Greymouth, is on a visit to her son in Wellington, after w*hicli she returns to Christchurch to reside. | Lady Allen is expected to arrive in ; Auckland about December Bth. i Miss Salmond, the newly-appointed principal of' the Craighead Diocesan School of Timaru, will arrive by the Remuera towards the end of January. , Mrs Arthur Kilgour. who has been l visiting relatives in Hokitika, Grevj mouth and Ahaura, has returned to Masterton. I Miss T. Meadows, who has been I spending a holiday with Miss IX MeBrearty, in Greymouth, has returned to Wellington. Miss Kitty Chaytor, who was so well known in Wellington, .has lust been married to Captain Eric Gooch, in Durham. The bride is the daughter of Sir Edward Chaytor, late Commandant of the New Zealand Forces and the bridegroom belongs to the Ist and 2nd Life Guards, so that the wedding was quite military. The honey- ; moon is being spent in Paris. ! At-Holy Trinity Church. Avonside, I Christchurch, on 'Wednesday after- : noon, the marriage was celebrated of I Edna, eldest daughter of Mr E. H. Comer and the late Mrs Comer, Rochester street, and Maurice Ernest McCraw, of Dunedin. The ceremony was performed bv the O. FitzGerald, and Mr Lilly presided, at the organ. ! Sfcr Charles and Lady Todhunter (Myiapore, Madras) are arriving in Christchurch next week to visit Sir Charles Todhunter’s mother, Mrs C. F. Todhunter, Naseby street, Merivale. Sir Charles, who is a Fellow of the Royal Historical and Statistical Societies, joined the Indian Civil Service in 1887, and amongst other important positions, has held the chairmanship of the Indian Taxation Committee. He was knighted in 1921. X very pretty wedding was solemnised by the Kev. Father O’Connor, parish priest, at the residence of the bride’s parents, Birkenhead, Auckland, on Wednesday, November 17th, when Ellen Mavis, youngest daughter of Mr and Mrs N. Honeycombe, was married to George Bernard, second son of Mr and Mrs Minns, Northcote. An exceedingly pretty wedding, and one of great interest to Hawke’s Bay people was celebrated at St. Giles’ Cathedral, Edinburgh, on October sth, by the Rev. Joseph Johnston, M.A., St. Andrew’s Church, Frognal, London, and the Rev. Jas. Gillies, D.D., Tesinahagow, Lanark, when Mary Scott, daughter of Mr and Mrs Watherston, of. Wester Coates Gates Garden, Edinburgh, was joined in the holy bonds of matrimony to Mr Edward L. Sutro, M.C., of Poukawa, Hawke’s Bay, and son of Mr and Mrs Leopold Sutro, of 3, Hall road, London. After a short honeymoon, Mr and Mrs E. Sutro leave for New Zealand, where they will settle in Poukawa, Hawke’s Bay. Mrs Edward Sutro is a sister of Mr James Watherston, of Loburn, North Canterbury. A wedding of considerable local interest was solemnised at St. Patrick’s Cathedral, Auckland, on Wednesday, 17th inst., when Mary, elder daughter of Mrs J. O’Sullivan, of Auckland, was married to Leo, youngest son of Mrs E, Casey, of Grey Lynn. The ceremony was performed by the Rev. Dr Buxton, who afterwards celebrated nuptial mass. The bride was given away by her brother, Mr Jack O’Sullivan. The prospect that women soon may be found in the bridge of Atlantic liners looms in sight with the taking of a marine second engineer’s “ticket” by Victoria Drummond, the 28-year-old goddaughter of Queen Victoria. She is the first woman to receive an engineer’s certificate. She joined the Blue Funnel liner Anchises as junior engineer two years ago, and has made six trips to Australia and the East. She is now rejoining the liner for more sea experience before taking the examination for a first engineer’s ticket, which will make her a full-fledged MocAndrew, qualified to perform all the miracles expected from a Scotsman at sea, but content to use language which to him would bo a terrible handicap. Miss Drummond has worked all the usual watches, and, it is pointed out, it would have been much less difficult and unpleasant for her to have qualified for a master’s ticket. Mr and Mrs W. J. Rowe, Bank of New Zealand, Hastings, and their son and daughter, are leaving New Zealand by the tHimaroa on December 17th for a holiday visit to Australia.

On Tuesday next a garden party will be held in Mrs T. Hislop’s garden at 33, Salamanca road, in aid of the Wellington Central Church Primary School. There will be the usual attractions, and Mr R. T. Button and the Rev. Bernard White (organising secretary) will speak on the objects of the fete.

A wedding of muoh local interest was celebrated last Thursday evening at First Church between Gwendolen Jessie, only daughter of Mr and Mrs McPhail, St. Clair, Dunedin, and Gordon, youngest son of Mr and Mrs T. C. Coull, also of Dunedin, the officiating clergyman being the Rev. Allan Watson, says the Dunedin “Star.” Dr. G. S. McPhail acted as best man, and Mr Percy Vallange the groomsman.

Some Wellington people will remember Dr. Rosalie S. Morton, who spent a few days here a few years ago on her way from the Science Congress in Australia to her home in New York. Dr. Morton has recently bee?) •visiting South Africa, and writing to a friend in Wellington says she greatly enjoyed getting into touch with the activities of the National Council of Women there. The various members were very generous in giving time and energy to showing me the charities, corrections, church work, native sort of Y.M.0.A., etc., she says. The Mayor and Mayoress gave a reception in her honour, and the National Council gave her a luncheon at Johannesburg, which is now the. headquarters of the council. % Miss Ina Bayfield, who has been visiting Westport as the guest of the Misses Bayfield, of Wakefield street, has left for Christchurch on a visit to her uncle, Mr Lionel Bayfield, in charge of the Government tourist branch at Christchurch. Mr and Mrs Bernard Wood have taken Mrs Vernon’s house in Kolleston avenue, Christchurch, for a few months Mrs Wood, who has been for some time in Wellington, is leaving about the middle of next week for Christchurch. Mrs George Edgar, the only daughter of the late Mrs Baker (“Alien”), is going to New Zealand to see her relatives, and will be away for six months. She will go first to Auckland, and tlienoe by easy stages to Dunedin. Her son, Mr Geoffrey Edgar, is going with a party from the College of Estates Management to Brockenburst, in the New Forest, to study forestry there and in the vicinity. GIRLS’ FRINEDLY SOCIETY The annual meeting of the Girls’ Friendly Society was held at the hostel, Vivian street, on Wednesday, when his Lordship Bishop Sprott occupied the • chair, and most of the council were present, including Mrs ,Sprott, the diocesan president, and a. large and representative gathering of supporters, including Archdeacon and Mrs Hansell, Canon Sykes, Mrs Hayes, Mrs Stuart. Miss Brandon, and others. Apologies for absence were received from the Rev. and Mrs Fry, Rev. and Mrs Blathwayte, Mrs Johnson, Mrs Porter, Mrs Pearson, Misses Ballinger and Humphries. Before the business of the meeting a portrait of the late Mrs George Shirtcliffe was unveiled b.y the Bishop, and dedicated with prayer. The society recorded the irreparable loss caused by the removal of Mrs Shirtcliffc, who as vice-president of the society and a member of the hostel committee showed in every way her desire to assist the girls of Wellington. Other associates whose death has been mourned have died after being forced by age to give up their activities, but Sirs Shirtcliffe passed away at a time when her place will be hard to fill. The annual report and balance sheet of the society and hostel report were read, and all showed steady progress in work done and doing. The Ven. Archdeacon Hansell, who moved their adoption, emphasised that it was well to look into the past history of any society and see if necessity warranted its continuance. If we looked round to-day we found the needs were more urgent than in the past forty years ago, when the present hostel was opened under the auspices of the Girls’ Friendly Society. The work among immigrants alone demands that the church go forward with the movement of rebuilding the hostel within the next two years, and when the church really concentrates on a scheme to be completed by a certain time we should have faith to say “it shall be done,” said the Archdeacon. He urged that people should take up debentures if these were recommended by the business men who were advising the officers of the society. As to the Girls’ Friendly Society itself, such a society is much needed in the diocese, it gives tlio immigrant girl help and sympathy, helping them to live un to an ideal so necessary in modern life. Canon Sykes seconded the adoption, and pointed out the importance of such work attached to the Church of England in a city, like Wellington. Reading of various branch reports followed and showed the good work being done in country places, especially among the Girl Guides attached to the branches. The new lodge fund is increasing and a, largo donation has been promised from a well-known business man if the whole amount necessary fov rebuilding is raised without the necessity for a. mortgage. Mr Martin Junes was elected treasurer of the fund in place of Miss I.lallinger. who resigned, and an appeal has already been started. The officers reelected for the ensuing year are Mrs Sprott, diocesan president; "Mrs M. Hayes, diocesan secretary; Miss Ida. Morrah. diocesan treasurer. Owing to the death of Mrs Shirtcliffe and resignation of Mrs Webster, two new officers were elected t‘> the hostel committee. namely, Miss Jenkyns and Mrs Martin Innes. Wrinkles banished in one week. Coinan method—not massage-. Call for particulars, or send stamoed and addressed envelope: Mrs Hullen. next to Po«t Office, Onurtena- place, Wellington ''telephone 22-070). Also rf Auckland.—

RICH CHRISTMAS CAKE One pound of butter, one pound of castor sugar, one pound of currants, quarter of a pound of mixed peel, * quarter of a pound of ground almonds, six ounces of cherries, one ounce of almonds, six eggs, one and a quarter pounds of self-raising flour, one dessertspoonful of mixed since, one tablespoonful of vinegar. Cream, butter and sugar together thoroughly, add the eggs one at a time arid beat well. All currants, peel and cherries finely chopped, the almonds thinly sliced, the ground almonds and spice on one side* of the mixing bowl, and the flour separately on the other side. Add the vinegar to a little milk for mixing. Mix all together well. Grease cake tin and line with double thickness of grease-proof par per. Bake in a moderate oveu for four hours. Almond Paste.—Half a pound of sweet ground almonds, quarter of a pound of castor sugar, quarter of a pound of icing sugar, yolks of two eggs, white of one egg. Sieve icing sugar and mix with castor sugar and ground almonds. Make a hole in the centre of the mixture, put fn eggs (not beaten up), work all well together to a stiff paste. Roll out in a thick layer to the size of the cake. Icing Royale.—Half a pound of icing sugar, whites of two eggs, three drops of acetic acid. Beat up the whites of the eggs and gradually add the sugar until it becomes stiff, then add the three drops of acetic acid and mix well. Spread evenly over the cake by dipping a very thin pliable knife in hot water. The fanev piping on a cake which looks so difficult is really very simple, but you must have a. set of icing tubes, which are quite inexpensive. With them you can make all kinds of pretty decoration. The icing should be just thin enough to pass easily through the tube, but firm enough to stand up when squeezed out. After icing the cake it should be stood in a warm, dry place for about 12 hours before decorative icing is put on. LEAGUE OF MOTHERS At the invitation of Mrs James Hislop a number of ladies met at her residence, Wilton road, to discuss the idea of forming a branch of the League of Mothers in Wadestown. Mrs Hislop gave a short address pointing out the objects of the league. A paper, “An Appeal to Mothers” was read, and after some discussion those present formed themselves into a committee, with Mrs Hislop as president and Mrs Johnson as secretary pro tem, to take steps to secure a suitable hall for further meetings. it is hoped to hold the first meeting early in February, due notice of which will be given, and at which officers and committee will be appointed and members will bo enrolled. A dainty afternoon tea was served by the hostess, who was assisted by the Misses Bell, Bennett, and Wilson. Among those present were Mesdames Fearii. Thomson, Paviour-Stnith, Bell, Turner, Wilson, Jaeka, and many others. The tlmnks of those present were accorded to Mrs Hislop for her kind hospitality. DANCE AT TOWN HALL WEI.LIXGTON i’EUNKET SOCIETY. What promises to be one of the most successful popular dances of the year will take place in the big Town Hall on Saturday, December 4th, to augment the funds of the Wellington Blunket Society. So far the demand for tickets has been very encouraging, and the committee wish to announce (o ticket-holders that it is their intention as far as possible to make the programme a “request” one. Any intending patrons who would like the orchestra to render their favourite numbers are asked to communicate without delay with Mr J. H. Mills, P.O. Box 1219. Wellington, or to ’phone 40-490. All requests must ho received not Inter than the 30th inst. Rodney Pankhurst’s popular orchestra of eight performers will then do their best to play all,numbers asked lor. Tickets arc obtainable from the Bristol, or Aitken’s Book Arcade, Courtenay place. An advertisement .appears elsewhere in our amusement column.