Women the World Over

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 563, 16 January 1929, Page 4

Women the World Over

A POPULAR AUTHOR

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the plots of their novels during: sleep, yet Miss F. Tennyson Jesse’s “Many Latitudes” was the result of a dream when its author was sailing up the Xile in a dahabeah. With her playwright husband, Mr. 11. M. Harwood, this popular writer spends much of her time in the house they have built at Beauvallon, overlooking the blue waters of the Mediterranean. FROM EGYPT TO THE ARCTIC It seems queer that a princess from Egypt should be a victim of the Spitsbergen Disease, which is said to be an overwhelming desire to return to the Arctic regions once you have been there. Yet sucb is the case of Princess Emiria Mousret, King Fuad's niece, who has paid several visits to Spitsbergen, and is so in love with it that she has decided to build a house there. The princess is a philosopher, for she thinks it worth while to endure the long dark winter “to experience that unexplainable feeling that besets one when, after months of unbroken darkness, the sun comes with the first heralding of spring.” A “BIG SISTER” MOVEMENT The Council of Jewish Women active throughout Australia owes its formation to Dr. Fanny Heading, of Sydney, who is now attaching it to a Big Sister movement. Many Jewish migrants are arriving in Australia and Dr. Reading suggests their “adoption” by local women, just as British boy migrants are adopted by Big Brothers. AT RANGOON Miss Dak Him© Khin. 8.A.. LL.B., assistant registrar of the Rangoon High Court, has been appointed a judge of the High Court. She is the first Indian woman to attain such a position, and no other woman holds a similar post elsewhere in the Empire. Miss Ivhin was heartily congratulated by the women’s associations in Burma and India on having secured such a signal honour. INITIATIVE Three 3'ears ago Miss Vera Simpson, who is not yet thirty, was living the ordinary life of a well-to-do girl in London; then she emigrated to South Africa and spent 15 months in training on a farm. Now she owns and works 200 acres in Orange River Colony and has won the warmest praise front the local Government inspector, who considers her energy and application little short of marvellous. HIGH POSITIONS Women occupy high, positions in the South Australian Education Depart-

1 KING COUNTRY JOTTINGS I

I Mr. and Mrs. H. Gage, of Lower Ketaruke, were the hosts at the first meeting of the King Country Gun Club for 1929, the well-patronised shoot being held on their property. During the day able assistance was given Mrs. Gage in entertaining by Mesdames T. Crocker, G. Bretherton (Raetihi), and Temperton. and the club officially expressed its sincere thanks to the women who had done so much to make the gathering a success. Trophy presentations were made to the winners, and little Misses Lornu Lund and Marie Karam, the club’s two youngest members, were presented with silver drinking cups. • * * * Two Auckland girls. Misses Mawson and Matthews, created a good deal of interest in Taumarunui on setting forth on a tramping expedition through the Ohura district, via Tangarakau Gorge, to the sights of Taranaki. They arrived by train from Auckland, and left their hotel next morning with full packs up, and other impedimenta incidental to camping on "the long road.” They went forth in stockingless le«\s to brave the rigours of the trip, and wore costumes sensibly cut for walking. Nurses D. Batt alid T. Pollington, of the Taumarunui Public Hospital, have been notified that they have succeeded in passing the State nurses’ examination. The unusually cool weather experienced in tliis district for the past few weeks has made it possible for sociid functions, in which dancing played the major part, to be held quite successfully. The ball held by the Kaitieke Cricket Club met with a widespread public patronage, and was a delightful event. The music was given by Miss P. Trevena, Miss N. Karam. Miss X. Holder, and Messrs. W. Trevena, Karam. and A. Gray, and Mr. X. Karam as M.C. was well placed. Miss Rhoda Inverarity and Mr. J. Inverarity won the spot waltz, and Miss Alice Merry and Mr. E. Merry annexed the Monte Carlo. Members of the cricket club dispensed a dainty supper. Mrs. A. Laird, of Wanganui mother of Mr. A. S. Laird, a widely known resident of the Central King Country, recently celebrated her' ninetieth birthday. There was a large gathering of friends and relatives, including three sons and four daughters. The women of St. Paul’s Presbyterian Church waited on Mrs. Laird, and presented her with a beautiful bouquet.