PERSONAL NOTES

Wairarapa Age, 23 March 1920, Page 2

PERSONAL NOTES

Mrs Etl Williams, who has been visiting Mount Cook, has returned to Lowry Bay.

Mrs S. Tankersley, of Matahiwi, has been spending a few days at Mauriceville West,

Miss B. Vallance, of Masterton, is at present staying with Mrs Rishworth, at Plimmerton.

Miss Vallance, of Masterton, it at present visiting Mount Egraont, and will later visit Wanganui.

Mißs Hilma Andersen, of Mauriceville West, is at present spending a few weeks' holiday with friends ftt Kaihu, Dargaville.

The Misses Card, of Featherston, were in Wellington io farewell their brother, Mr J. W. "Card, who sailed for England by the Megantic on Saturday,,.

The New Zealand branch of the Victoria League has been advised that the PrinceSof Wales has been made a member of the League before leaving England on his trip to New Zealand and Australia.

Mr Robert Hooker, of Palmerston North, who some years ago was a wellknown carrier and farmer in Carter-, ton, was married at Palmerston North recently to Miss Martha Hook, of Levin. Mr and Mrs Hooker sailed by the Megantic for London via New York, and propose spending a lengthy holiday.

The officers of the New Zealand Forces have presented Mrs Cuaninghatne, of Craigends, with a beautiful, shield, bearing the badges of the New Zealand Regiments as a token of their appreciation of the interest shown by %er in providing a club for them in 'London during the war.

The death took place iin Auckland last week of Margaret (Lady) Makgill, of WaiukUi widow .of the late Captain Sir John Makgill, late of Hendricks, Fifeshire., The deceased lady was 70 •years of 'age. She was a sister of Lord Haldane, late Lord Chancellor, formerly Secretary for War, and founder of the Army scheme. Lady Makgill is mother of Dr. R. H. Makgill, Chief , Health Officer for the Auckland district, and Acting Inspector-General of Hospitals.

At a jpint picnic held by two angineerlrig firms in Duncdin last the feature of the day was x uflique "married women and chillren "race inaugurated by Mr. J. McD. iltevensbV The ( ladies were handi-" tapped! according to the mumber of ihildren each possessed, one yard for >ach child. There were 75 competitors, ■©presenting 250 children, and every itarftr reached the winning post. The wizos took the form of coal in quantifies of from one bag to one ton, and ivory one ©f the 75 starters became tho sossessor of an unexpected delivery \£ coal. A more happy or acceptable via from the housewifcs' pbiht of /iew could not have been thought of.

According to the British Australasian there is a general feeling that the nest Governor-General should be Lord 'Strathspey, New Zealand's one and only lord, who was born in the Dominion, and has always been keenly interested in its development. The atle came to Lord Strathspey's famJy when his father was in' New Zealand. Baron Strathspey himself .was oorn at Oamaru, and is the second 3on of the tenth Earl of Seafield, He was educated at Waitaki High School and St. John's College. Ho married a daughter of the late Mr T, M. lardy-Johnston, M.1.C.E., Lond., of Christchurch, and there is a son and daughter by the marriage. Jhe opinion is generally, expressed that no couple would be more heartily welcomed to Government House than Lord and Lady Strathspey.

Cambridge has- deplored the death of a w6man scholar of wide fame in Mrs Margaret Dunlop Gibson, who, with her sister, Mrs Agnes Lewis, had resided at Cambridge for many years, and shown much interest in literary and religious work. Mrs Gibson and Mrs Lewis achieved fame through their Syrian, MSS. discoveries, and in 1896 brought to England the first leaf of the Hebrew Ecclesiasticus. Mrs Gibson was an Hdn. D.D. of Heidelberg, an LL.B. of St. Andrews (she was the daughter of an Ayrshire solicitor), and Hon. LittD. of Dublin. The twin sisters were founders of Westminster College, Cambridge, for which they gave the site and part of the endowment. .The St. Andrewß doctor's cap and hood were placed on the coffin at the funeral. *

- Tnere was some straight speaking 4>y Mr W. L. George, the well-known pblicist at a League of Ypnth meet* ing recently, states a London exchange. Speaking on morals and the New .World, he said the best definition of morality was that it was the quest of the most agreeable. "People do not like lying, cheating, or forging." Crime went in waves: the more crime there was, the more there would be. "Theft," he added, "is largely a'matter of example, and is it result of conditions bounds up in the capitalist State. There isjfevery evi- ■ dence to-day that if you want money, you do not earn it. You have to "bag" it. It doesn't" matter whether it is done with "jemmies" or with shares. It is absolutely futile to go on treating murderers and thieves as we do. We have tried everything, from branding with hot irons to breaking on the wheel, but it still goes on. All punishment is buncombe. We must not look at it as a" question of good and evil, but of sick and well." Speaking on the sex question, Mr George said there was no increase in irregular unions nor in prostitution in the New World. There was simply more exposure and more shamelessneßS. At the time the last medical officer's report was issued there were 20,005 people in London living five in a room. The living-in system was also responsible, and the centre of the whole question was in wages.

Mrs H. C. Petersen, of Maurioeville West, is visiting her daughter at Waitara. In dull, windy weather, afl aviation school for women was opened recently by the Eastbourne Aviation Company, states a London exchange. Many applications for instruction had been received, and a number of pupils took their first flights. The instructors are Major F. B. Fowler, A.F.C., and Lieutenant A. G. Loton, , both of whom saw considerable service in the R.A.F. during the war, and passed the Gosport course for instrudtbrs. The tuition for women is to consist of a preliminary training to qualify for the Air Ministry private pilot certificate, and advanced instruction to qualify for the Air Ministry pilot's flying certificate. v