SOCIAL NEWS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20249, 8 May 1929, Page 7

SOCIAL NEWS.

Mrs. \V. H. Parkes left yesterday for Wellington. Mrs. A. W. Webster, of Devonport, is visiting New Plymouth. Mrs. J. W. Jobson left yesterday for Vancouver, en route for England. Miss C. Lord has returned to Auckland from a visit to Wellington and tho South Island. Miss M. Seamond, of Sydney, is visiting Auckland, and is staying at the Hotel Cargeu. Mr. and Mrs. Ashton Bruce left yesterday by tho Aorangi for Canada, en route for England. Mr. and Mrs. A. Buchanan, of Remuera, left yesterday by the Aorangi, for an overseas trip. Mrs. Creagmile, who has been visiting her sister in New Plymouth, has returned to Auckland. Mrs- J. B. Parkinson and Miss Ida Parkinson left yesterday by the Aorangi on an overseas tour. Miss E. M. Riley, of Minehead, England, is a visitor to Auckland and is stay, ing at tho Hotel Slonehurst. Captain A. L. Rowllings, Mrs. Rowllings and Miss Rowllings, left yesterday by tho Aorangi for Vancouver. Miss Sybil Lewis arrived from Wellington yesterday and is the guest of Mrs. M. Mitchell, Bracken Avenue, Epsom. Mrs. Robert Sanders, of Laurie Avenue, Parnell, left by the Aorangi for America yesterday, accompanied by her two sons. The A l . Home which the Alpine Sports Club had arranged to hold on Thursday, May 23. in the Lewis Eady Hall, will instead be held on Tuesday, May 21. Misr. Abbott, who has been spending some months in Auckland visiting her brother, Mr. H. C. Abbott, and Mrs. ,T. W Tattersfield, left yesterday on her return to Paris, via Vancouver. Miss L. Scaalan was a guest at a dinner party given by Mrs. Humphries Wilson at the Central' Hotel on Monday evening. There were present.: Mr. and Mrs. Norman Wade, Mrs. Miller, Mr. and Mis. Humphries Wilson and Mr. Maxwell.

Mr. and Mrs. Lamb, of Te Aroha, who have been the guests of Mr. and Mrs. M. C. Wright, of Golf Road, Epsom, left last evening for Wellington en route for England by the Tainui, via Panama. It. is their intention to return via Suez after touring Great Britain and the Continent.

Miss Vivienne Kernot, of Auckland and Wellington, has been spending the winter in Home, and has been studying at the British Academy of Art. On her return to London, via Florence, she will renew her studies at the Royal College in London, states our London correspondent.

Miss Anne Morrow, who is engaged to America's popular hero, Colonel Charles Lindbergh, is described as a studious, diffident girl of twenty-two. She is interested in modern literary and artistic movements, and is a graduate of Smith College, the famous American women s college in Massachusetts, where she obtained many prizes for literary work.

The appointment of Miss Edith Rita Lowenstcrn to the position of senior lecturer in mathematics at the Unveisity of Tasmania was announced recently in a Svdnev paper. Miss Lowenstern graduated B \ "in 1925, taking second class final honours in the School of Mathematics, and sharing' the TDinon and Wyselaskie scholarships. Sho gained her diploma of education in 1926, and was awarded the Professor Wilson prize for an original memoir on some subject affecting pure or applied mathematics.

Another record in the list of modern women's achievements has been created by Senorita Pilar Careaga, a twenty-year-, oid Student at the Technical School for Industrial Engineers in Madrid, who ran the Madrid-Gijon express two days running on time. The distance between tie two towns is about 350 miles, and the country covered includes level plains and very high mountains, among which there are very dangerous curves and gradients. The senorita has the honour of being the world's first woman railway engineer.

Miss llQJia M. Smeeton, of Remuera, arrived by"the Mooltan,- having como via Suez, states our London correspondent on April 5. She will remain in England for about five weeks to visit friends and relatives Miss Smeeton had recently visited Rideelands Bible College, Wimbledon, where she had previously received two vears' training for missionary work. On April 25 Miss Smeeton will leave Southampton by the Princess Juliana (Norland Line) for Algeria, where she "ill take up work-under the auspices of the Algiers Mission Band, an interdenominational mission, founded some foity Jaero by the late Miss Lilhas liott-ei. the ~ l r k 'is entirely among the Moslem people of that country, and Arabic is the language used

The members of the Mothers' Thought Guild held their monthly homo of the president. Mis. Cha les Hemus Belvedere Street, Epsom, yestcidav afternoon. Mrs. Hemus, in a short introductory address read nn inlerestmg article on education from ". leaflet wiittev by the originator of the guild, Mrs. Waghorn after which she introduced to the members Miss B. Carnachan who also aave a short talk on the education of young children. The guild, which now has a membership of over 29001 in the Dominion, is steadily growing, 98 new- members having been enrolled during the last vear. At the conclusion of the addresses afternoon ttsa was served and the purposes and ideals of the guild discussed informally by those present.