WOMAN'S WORLD.

Taranaki Daily News, 25 May 1918, Page 6

WOMAN'S WORLD.

PESSOJUL. Miss Brewster is the guest of Mrs. Jack Glenn, Waitotara. • . . » Mrs. C. McAUum, who has been on a short visit to Wellington, has returned. • * » • Miss Barr, principal of the New Plymouth Girls' High School, has returned, after her short visit to liotorua. ! Nurse Farley, of the New Plymouth Hospital staff, has returned from spending her holidays in Auckland. Miss Renaud, who has been on a visit to Waverley, has returned. * * * * • "X i. Mrs. J. Paul has gone on a visit to Wellington. • • * * Miss Nolan (Auckland) is the guest of Mrs. L. Nolan, Fitzroy. I * « • Mrs. Stanley Smith has gone on a visit to Auckland. < » • • Nurses Corkill and Greatbatcb, of the New- Plymouth Hospital staff, who have been visiting Blenheim and Wellington, have returned to New Plymouth. • • • • Miss Banwell, who has been on a visit to Auckland, has returned. # ♦ ♦ * Mrs. S. Teed has gone on a visit to Auckland. • » * * Misß Giblin, who has been spending the term holidays with relatives in Wanganui, has returned to New Plymouth. # • • • Mrs. A. E. Grant, who has been on a visit to Wellington and Christchurch, has returned. • • • *

Mrs. F. P. Corkill, who has been the guest of Mrs. Horax, Motueka, Nelson, has returned. * » * •

Mrs. and W!k« Simpson, who have been on a short visit to Wellington, have returned. • • * • Mrs. Percy Webster, who is at present the guest of Mrs. Clem Webster, Feilding, returns to New Plymouth tonight. « * * * Mrs. Daniell, who went to Wellington to meet her husband, has returned with him to Waverley. » * * * Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Moyes, who have been spending the term holidays at Rere kapa, have returned. r « • • • Mrs. W. Rankin (Wanganui) arrives in New Plymouth on Monday, and during her visit will stay at Chatsworth House. » • • • Mrs. G. Kyngdon, who'has been visiting her daughter, Mrs Truby King, Stratford, has returned. • * • * Miss Winfield is the guest of her sister, Mrs. Eric Shaw (Inglewood). » • • • Mrs. G. Cumming (Hawera), who has been the guest of Mrs. A. Webster, has returned. * « * • Mrs. V. Elliott, who has been on a visit to Auckland, has returned. » * * • Miss R. Whitton has gone on a short visit to Inglewood. • • • • Visitors at Chatsworth House include: Mesdames Rose (Dunedin), O*OBlXOll (Inglewood), Hansard (Wellington), and Miss Read (Napier). t » • • Misses Clarke and Fairbrother, _ who have been spending the term holidays with their people at Dunedin and Palmerston North respectively, return to New Plymouth to-night, by the mail train. * * * * Mr. and Mrs. G. F. Robinson, who went ( to Wellington to meet their son, have : returned. • * • • Mrs. L. Hansen, who has been the guest of her mother, Mrs. G. F. Robinson, has returned, with her husband, to Christchurch. * • • *

Miss Oona Wotkina leaves for the Wai- , rarapa on Monday. . • * * * Mrs. Sholto Douglas, who is at present the guest of Mrs. W. Douglas (Vogelftown), leaves on Monday for Napier. | • • • • Miss Dempsey, of Dunedin, is at present on a visit to New Plymouth. j WEDDING. | DROMGOOL—KELLY. i At St. Joseph's Church, Hawera, on April 25th, a pretty wedding was celebrated, when Miss Lucy Kelly, daughter of Mr and Mrs M. Kelly, of Te Roti, was married to Mr A. W. Dromgool, of Auckland. The Very Rev. Dean Power officiated. The bride, who was given away by her father, was prettily dressed in a creme crepe de chine, and wore a veil and wreath of .orange blossoms, and also a gold pendant set with pearls and blue aquamarines, and carried a pretty shower bouquet. Miss Teresa Kelly (sister of the bride), who wore a neat garbardine costume with black velor hat, attended the bride, while Mr Francis Dromgool (brother of the bridegroom) acted as best man. After the ceremony the relatives of the bride and bridegroom were entertained at a breakfast, held at the residence of the bride's parents, and in the afternoon the happy couple left for a tour of the South Island, prior to making their home on the West Coast, the bride being neatly attired in a travelling costume of grey corded gaberdine, with black and white velour hat. — Star.

GENERAL, Some time near the end of June the members of the local Plunket Society intend holding a fair, in the Good Templar Hall, and to make the doll stall doubly attractive there is to be an open doll-dreßging competition (best dressed boy and girl doll), to which are added some very handsome prizes. The resnlts of an 'interesting investigation into the success which has attended the work of women on the land in the West of England has recently been made public, though unofficially, and is worth noting, says an English writer. It is stated that in a. purely agricultural county some two hundred girls signed on last April for the duration of the war, and that of these about sixty-six, or roughly one-third, lia.ve been unable to fulfil their agreement. Hie reasons for their defection are divided evenly Cjetween inability to ind the hard conditions of the life, 1 unsatisfactory conduct, and permission granted to cancel the contract for some ■■ilafairfiiii in Brimli fMifliL iSDiwal.

which marriage comes an easy first. That one-ninth of the whole should have been jOirsirally unable to continue was a disappointment to many, as well as that the samo proportion should have proved unsatisfactory in conduct, but it must be remembered that the scheme was launched in the pleasant spring-time, and also with an attractive appeal, which doubtless influcuc?d some patriotic girls to take up the training which their tetter judgment told them they v-ere unequal to. Indeed, the applicants crowded iu, and little sorting out was possible, providing present health and references were satisfactory. Those who have remained at the work have uniformly improved physically, and the steady progress made in their work, as well as in their satisfaction iu it, had been very marked Experience lias proved that the better type of working girls are most suited to agricultural work, while those beneath them, such as the ordinary factory hands or laundry girls, have failed. At the other end of the scale, girls of good education, and often of literary ability, have done well, this particular district counting a profesisonal pianist amongst its most successful woi-Kers. All o£ which proves tnat women, if of the right type, are able to do yeoman service in what has aptly been called 311 r second line of defence. The Public Service Commissioners recently appointed to the respsnsible position of head of the Christehurch office of the Lands and Deeds Department a lady who has been in the Department's service for seventeen years. This appointment has, it is said, caused a great deal of dissatisfaction among the male employees througluut the D»minion, as it is suggested tliat under these conditions men of far greater knowledge and experience have to take their orders from her.

Tile Public Service Commissioner, who is responsible for the appointment, was questioned toy a representative of the Lyttelton Times, and replied that the position was advertised as vacant, a number of applications were considered, and the lady in question being found suitaible, and also being the senior on the classification list, was appointed. The procedure was strictly in accordance with the provisions of the Public Service Act, and the Commissioner has no doubt regarding the qualifications of the successful applicant, who was appointed strictly on lv?r merits. "If there are employees who consider they have a just grievance" lie added, "the remedy is for them to appeal."