PERSONAL AND SOCIAL

Otago Daily Times, Issue 22986, 15 September 1936, Page 15

PERSONAL AND SOCIAL

On Friday evening last Mrs Samson, who has been until recently teaching in the Broad Bay School, was entertained at a farewell social by the children, parents, and friends, and presented with a travelling bag, rug, and other tokens of esteem.

Recent guests at Onslow House include:—Mi B. R. Henderson, Hamilton; Mr and Mrs E. G. Garbutt and Mr and Mrs H. Blake, Christchurch; Mr D. J. Ross. Hillgrove; Mr J. S. StoneWigg, Mrs A. J. Stone-Wigg, and Mr R. L. Hewlett, Winchester; Mr and Mrs Amos M'Kegg and Miss G. Habner, Wanaka: Miss E. Davies, Queenstown: Mr and Mrs F. G. Parsons and Mr and Mrs F. J. Murray, Gore; Mr and Mrs W. Pinckney and Masters Peter and George Pinckney, Waikaia; and Mr F. J. Drake. Wellington.

The Dunedin Business and Professional Women’s Club met in the Tudor Hall last evening to hear Dr Muriel Bell deliver an address on “Education and Housing in Vienna- in 1928.” During the, year 1928, Dr Bell was in Vienna, and spent much of her time investigating educational and domestic conditions. Her talk was very interesting, dealing first with the various enlightened teaching methods she nad noticed in the Viennese schools, and then with kindergarten work which was closely allied with the problem of housing. Her listeners were given descriptions of typical Viennese blocks of flats with their labour and space-sav-ing arrangements, and later, an account of the life of the children looked after in the kindergartens connected with the flats. Miss Kohn, on behalf of the members, thanked Dr Bell for her instructive talk, which, she said, was ideally suited to broadening the outlook of an audience and helping towards international understanding.

The Women Musicians of Otago held a delightful meeting in the Otago Women s Club last evening. Miss Emilie Logie gave an interesting address on “ Folk Song and Dance ” with numerous items to illustrate her points. Miss Florence Sumner sang “ The Oxen Ploughing,” “ The White Pater Noster,” “ My Ain Countrie ” and “My Love is an Arbutus”; Mrs Hai'tley sang “The Well of St. Kean ” and " Come Roger and Nell”; the choir sang a Gaelic cradle song, and a herd maiden’s song, a Welsh folk melody and a Manx spinning wheel song; Miss Nancy Hobson played on the violin unaccompanied Chinese popular songs collected by Dr Koo: “Little Cabbage,” “Purple Bamboo,” “Ten Thousand Years of Happiness” and two laments; Miss Alison Tyrie sang Hungarian folk songs—“ Far Away the Cranes Were Flying,” “Marishka ” and “ Shepherd See Thy Horse’s Foaming Mane"; Miss Stella Bayley played on the violin, unaccompanied, folk dances from different countries—Germany, Denmark, Finland, Scandinavia and England; Mrs A. Wall sang two Hebridean songs—- “ The Island Herd Maiden’s Song ” and “ Kishmul Gully ”; and Mrs H. C. Campbell played an arrangement for the piano by Percy Grainger of the Sussex Mummers’ Christmas Carol. Mrs Raynor Bell. Mrs Blackman, Miss Ida White, Miss M. Martin and Miss Meda * Paine were accompanists. At the close of the programme Miss Jessie Jones proposed a vote of thanks, and Miss Barth thanked all the performers, especially the choir, the members of which had banded together and done excellent work.