WOMAN'S WORLD.

Taranaki Daily News, 3 March 1917, Page 6

WOMAN'S WORLD.

NEW PLYMOUTH SOCIAL NEWS. PERSONAL ITEMS. Miss Aider left on Tuesday evening for Auckland, on an extended tour of Te Aroha, Thames, and Rotorua districts, 'with her uncle, Mr. Chas. Airier. Mr. and Mrs. Austin Bewloy, after touring Rotorua and the AVanganui river, return by the mail train to New Plymouth to-night. Mrs. R. Isaacs (Auckland) is spending a few days here, having come to New Plymouth to bid farewell to her brother, Mr. Erie Kenny, who is leaving with the next Reinforcements. Mrs. Norrtian James and Mrs Morrison, who motored'through to New Plymouth to attend the agricultural show, returned to Masterton on Friday morning. * * * « Archdeacon and Mrs. F. G." Evans, who have been the guests of Mrs. ,T. Scott, Oamaru, return to New Plymouth on Monday. Nurse Farley, of the New Plymouth hospital staff, is spending her holidays with her people at Napier, » * » * Miss M. Wheeler, after spending a few days in New Plymouth, has returned to Auckland. * * « * Mrs. Outfield (Wanganui), who has been spending a few days in New Plymouth, returned to her home this morning. * * * • Miss Lucy Ryan has gone on a holiday to Wellington. » » • Lieut. C. T. Nicholson and Mrs. Nicholson have returned to Wellington after spending a few days in New Plymouth. Dr. and Miss C. Leatham have gone on a tour through Blenheim and Christchurch- districts. , * * » » Mrs. W. 11. Skinner (Christchurch) is the guest of her mother, Mrs. Devcirish. * # # # Mrs. P. Menard has returned to Dannevirke after her lehgthy stay in New Plymouth. She was accompanied by her sister, Miss Keitha Lcatham, who shortly leaves again to join her father and sister, Dr. and Miss 0. Leatham, on their Southern tour. * # * # Miss Morrison (Duncdin) is the guest of Mrs. D. K. Morrison. * # » # Mrs. Churchward (Blenheim) is visiting Mrs. Matthews, Fitzroy. Mrs. McLean and Miss R. Williams (Napier) are at present in New 'Plymouth, * • » * Miss Marjorie Wilson is holidaymaking in Wellington. Miss McKellar has retur -1 from lier stay at the Mountain House. Mesdames A. H. Colvile, Dodgshun, Rubino (Cliristchurch), Simpson, and Miss Morrison (Dunc-diu) A paid a short visit to the Mountain 'House this week. Mrs. Cooke, Opunake, is holiday-mak-ing in New Plymouth. Mrs. Hogg, Palmerston North, is on a visit here. Mrs. "Watson, who has been visiting New Plymouth, has returned to Palmerston North. » * * * Mr. and Mrs. Short, Feilding, are at present in New Plymouth. Miss Millington, who ha 9 been on a visit to Now Plymouth, has returned to Palmerston North. * * * • Mrs. Sinclair, Wellington, is on a 1 I','sit here. * * # « 1 Mrs. Lancaster, Palmerston North, is ■ on a short visit to New Plymouth. i 'A FAREWELL SOCIAL, 1 Last Monday, in St. Mary's Hall, a . vcrv enjoyable social was held in honor ! of Mr. and Mrs. A. IT. Colvile, who are '. leaving New Plymouth to take up their i abodo in Auckland, Mr. Colvile having E been made Vicar of St. Sepulchre's. : Muiscal items were given by Mrs. Wilkes 3 and Misses Peart and C. Leatham, and ' a most appreciative recitation was given r by the vicar. During the evening, Mr. ,- D. E. Hutton (people's warden), on he- ; half of the parishioners, presented Mr. i Colvile with a purse of sovereigns. ; Speehes were also made by Mr. S. W. Shaw (vicar's warden"), and Revs. C. W. Howard (Stratford] and K. L. Harvic (Inglewood). Those who tastefully decorated the hall were Mr. and Mrs. 3 E. B. Kyngdon, Mrs. Addenhrooke, and Misses " Devcnish- and Percy-Smith. ' Amongst the several old identities present) was Mrs. E. M. Smith, she having 2 been a constant attendant of St. Mary's a Church for sixty-one years. t ; WOMEN AS JUSTICES. An account is given in an exchange of 3 Mrs. J. Nicholls, J.P., of Adelaide/who e has the distinction of being the f-'st s woman justice of the peace in Australia. s Mrs. Nicholls, says the writer, is an v elderly lady of kindly, shrewd temperai ment. She confessed that the granting 1 of honorary jus'Veships to women has 1 so far proved a l"'low compliment. South 3 Australia justices are appointed for the l whole State, not for districts as they 1 are in Victoria. This, at first, sounds ' very imposing. But Mrs. Nicholls states : - that in actual operation it means that the whole world is their parish, but nevertheless they lack a living. If they f enter a court arid send their cards up ) to the presiding magistrate, it is de- - pendent upon his good graces or mo- - mentary whim whether he will invite - them to sit with him on the bench or 1 not, and as a matter of fact the woman J.'P.'s have rarely bean invited to do ■ so. There have been ten women selected for this honor, one of them, a Salvation Army officer, was removed to Melbourne a fortnight ago, and thus there were nine. Mrs. Nicholls states that the women police are doing very fine work indeed. Three of them were selected

from among the probation officer;! of the children's courts, and they naturally were well fitted for their task. They have done much good nf sending young girls away from camps, in watching them at night' and giving them friendly counsel. As a result of recent enquiries here, I have elicited the statement from several who should he well informed that policewomen would be needed solely .'or the sake of the adolescent girl. The girl child is very seldom in trouble. Jvine months elapsed recently without the arrest of a single girl for the children's courts in Melbourne proper, and in the suburbs it is a rare thing for a girl to be on trial. It is the girl in her teens who gets in the habit of being in the streets at night that- constitutes the problem here. If you ask why this .9 so, the same baffling answer is given with monotonous frequency: "Lack of parental control." One speaker said it seemed to him that many parents of the human species were lil.c the lower animals, in their treatment of their offspring. When they are 'helpless the parents are exceedingly kind and ready to sacrifice themsel"es for their little ones, but by and l)lo they feel they have done enough an<l can't be bothreed any longer with them. It waa a 3imila that had its comical aspect, for most of us have seen domestic animals and birds attack their discarded young when they wished to return to the parental nest, and. have prided themselves upon their superiority in that respect!