WOMAN’S WORLD.

Taranaki Daily News, 1 July 1922, Page 6

WOMAN’S WORLD.

PERSONAL. Mrs. H. Collier ha? returned from a short visit to Wanganui. • • • • Mrs. Alfred Perry (Gisborne), who has been visiting Auckland and Rotorua, is at present the guest of Mrs. James Perry. Miss M. Fookes (Ashburton) is the guest of Mrs. T. C. Fookes. Mrs. Devore and Miss Blanche Devore (Auckland) arrived from Wellington on Thursday to stay with Mrs. A. C. H. Collins.

Mrs. Jardine (Gisborne) is now staying with Mrs. V. Elliott. • • • • Mrs. K. Allen, of Feilding, is spending a few days here. Mrs. T. A. Milroy and Mrs. G. Fraser have returned from a short visit to Hawera. a • • • Mrs. Geo. Home was hostess at a jazz party for the younger set last night. • • • • Miss Ir. R. Baker has returned from a visit to Hawke’s Bay. Miss Willis (Cambridge) is the guest of her sister. Mrs. F. G. Harvie. 4> • • • Mrs. Hobbs returned to Pukearuhe to-day. Mrs. Hugh Good, who has been the guest of Mrs. Faber Fookes, has returned to Stratford. i Miss D. Roy leaves Wellington for ; Sydney by the Manuka on July 6. Miss Roy will be accompanied by her father and brother. Mrs. Howarth returned from Wanganui this week and spent a day or two with her sister (Miss F. Wood) before returning to her home in Atfffkland. The Rev. F. G. Harvie and Mrs. Harvie leave by the . rav/a next week for a trip to the Old Country . j The Winter Club held another of j their jolly dances last Tuesday. This time the table decorations were pink stocks, and looked very dainty. On Monday night the nurses of the New Plymouth Hospital gave a dance in the Assembly Hall for the matron, Miss B. A. Campbell, who leaves New Plymouth next Wednesday for Colombo. It was a most delightful dance and the sitting rooms with their cosy fires and comfy chairs added greatly to the comfort and enjoyment of the guests. Autumn tinted foliage and hydrangeas made an effective decoration in the difi ferent rooms while spring bulbs and autumn leaves formed the decorations of the supper tables, which were ladened with sumptuous dishes. Mrs. George’s jazz orchestra helped to make the dance the success it was.

What promises to be an interesting exhibition of paintings and of art jewellery will be onened at the Victoria League rooms on Wednesday next, for a few days. Mrs. Spicer, of Auckland, and Miss W. Dudley, formerly of Auckland.. and now of Wellington, are showing a number of charming water sketches and paintings of New Zealand and English scenery. Miss Anne, Darby, whose enamels and beaten silver and copper work are becoming very well known in the Dominion, is sending some attractive jewellery, etc.

Mrs. Catherine Cassidy, an old resident of Auckland, who celebrated her 80th birthday last week, has many interesting recollections of the early days of the city’s history. Her father, she told a Star representative, came to Auckland when Governor Hobson founded the city. He was at Russell during Hone Heke’s raid. He arrived there in 1840, and she was born in Auckland in 1842. Iler father, Mr. John Nolan, was at the first land sale in Auckland, and bought a section for £75 —worth now about ElOOO a foot. Speaking of the Waikato war days, she remarked that her father and mother stayed on their farm until the Maoris killed a Mr. Hamlin and tomahawked a boy. He was left for dead, but afterwards recovered. After that they left for Auckland. It used to be funny when the alarm was given for the volunteers and militia to muster in Auckland. Men had to stop whatever they were working at, get their muskets and run to the appointed meeting place for each section of the town. Mrs. Cassidy also remembers the first post office in Princes street. For the past five years .her sight has left her, but her mem.ory and hearing are unimpaired. The Girls’ Friendly Society are very busy preparing for a novel entertainment in the form of a cobweb dance, to be held in the Hempton Hall, Okato. < n July 11. There will be about 200 strings to the cobweb, each being sold for the small sum of Is, and at the end of every string will be found a valuable parcel. All branches of the society are working hard to make this dance a huge success. A SILVER CRADLE. GIFT TO MAYGR AND MAYORESS. A very pleasing function took place yesterday afternoon at Messrs. May and Arrowsmith’s, when the members of the borough council, together with the heads of the departments, and their wives, entertained the Mayor and Mayoress (Mr. and Mrs. F. E. Wilson) at afternoon tea, and also presented them with a silver cradle m commemoration of the birth of a son during their term of office. Cr. J. Kibby, the deputy-Mayor presided. and after tea had been dispensed and the usual loyal toast honored, he made the presentation, which consists of a beautiful solid silver cradle on an oak stand, bearing a shield, with the inscription: “Presented by New Plymouth Borough Council to F. E. Wilson, Esq., on the occasion of the birth of a son during his term of office as Mayor of New Plymouth, April 5, 1922.” He jwnaxked that at one of the council he

had nothing but good to say of the Mayor, to whoso ability and tact he paid a. graceful tribute. Cr. Bro.wn also spoke on similar lines, and expressed the hope that the baby they were that day honoring would live to occupy the position his father held. Cr. T. N. Blackball also added appreciation of the valuable services rhe Mayor had rendered the town, pointing out that ho showed good generalship in always, taking the council into his confidence. Cr. V. Griffiths hoped that the cradle would prove an incentive to the child to follow in the footsteps of his father. He also touched on the tremendous sacrifice made by the Mayoress and councillors wives. The toast was then honored with musical honors.

The Mayor, in acknowledging the flattering remarks made by the councillors, said that he would appreciate the presentation as tangible evidence of the very good will that he felt existed between those who carried on the business of the borough and himself. He believed all were actuated in working in the best interests of the citizens, and he had never sat on a council where there was such good will and unanimity. The Mayoress and himself would treasure the beautiful gift, and he hoped that it would be an incentive to the boy when he grew up to do—what the speaker preached was the duty of every one — something for the good of his fellows. The Mayor and Mayoress were then given musical honors, after which the gathering was photographed.

The cradle will be on view at Dalgliesh’s for a few days, so that any one interested can see it.