PERSONAL NOTES FROM LONDON.

Auckland Star, Volume LV, Issue 219, 15 September 1924, Page 7

PERSONAL NOTES FROM LONDON.

NOTABLE SOCIAL SEASON. TREK TO THE NORTH (From Our Own Corrcsoondent.) LONDON, August 17. The season of 1024 was of a coruscating brilliance not seen for many a Jong day. London tight-packed with overseas Dominion ' visitors yet contrived to admit more royalties, more of these being officially and regnlly enterItained than since King Edward's short, reijrn. With Empire balls and Empire functions the social calendar was simply impossible of achievement for one human lioinjr, and the pace could only l>e survived by selection from a plethora of attractions. This is all a thing of the past. London is, allegedly empty, a fact hardly tobe discovered by the naked eye, nor to be confirmed by the queues of tourists in Palace yard waiting admission to the Houses of Parliament, or the equally Ion? queues in the Exhibition. "Society,"' bowever, has fled North, and the trek to the Highlands was at its height last week. Now that the yearly sacrifice is being offered up on the grouse moors, everybody who is anybody is in Scotland. Sir James and Lady Allen, Miss Allen and Miss Rona arc away on a holiday tour by motor. They were in the West 'of England last week, and are now in Wales. Mr. and Mrs. .T. T. Gill, of Auckland, are now in Lanes, at the populai seaside resort of Southport. On their arrival they spent six glorious weeks in Ixmdon, and during that time were amongst the guests a (. r fi lP j r Majesties' Garden Party, at Buckingham Palace, on July 2G. Their present arrangements comprise a visit to Ireland towards the end of this month, then a tour of -Scotland, North Wales, and the Isle of Man, during September. They finally leave England on October 5 for a week's tour of the battlefields of France, after which they go on to Switzerland, Italy and make a short stay in Kome, Naples and so on to Marseilles where they join the "Mongolia" on October 31, arriving in Auckland about the first week in December. The Misses Gardner, of Auckland, who left on May 13 from Auckland spent twelve days at Honolulu en route for San Francisco. They visited Del Monte, Santa Barbara, Los Angeles to the Grand Canyon of Arizona, then Chicago, Niagara, New York, Washington and Boston. They sailed from Canada by the 'Montroyal for Liverpool. Mrs. and Miss Baker, of Auckland, are now in England. Mrs. Baker is remaining in London 'but Miss Baker has gone, to Sussex to learn farming. Mr, Baker is in California at Catalina. Mr. I. A. Thompson, of Auckland, is on a visit to hie son who is a missionary in India. He will tour both India and Ceylon while there, and his son will accompany him. Mr. and Mrs. George Burns, of Auckland, after spending a few weeks in England, will go on to Scotland. They intend visiting France, Italy and Switzerland also. Mr. E. S. Pees, late of "Raranga," Auckland, with his wife and five sons, has only recently arrived in England, and they intend to 3tay here for a few years in order to educate the boys in a good English public school. Mr. W. If. Bridges, of Auckland, has just returned to London from Brighton where he attends the Brighton races. He arrived in England on July 30 by the s.s. Rotorua, and will be leaving for New Zealand via the Sues Canal about the end of October. Mr. Bridges U on a pleasure trip and intends tour ing through England and Scotland by motor car and will also be taking a trip through France and Belgium. Mr. and Mrs. S. Robson, of Hamilton, travelled home by the Suez route. They are at present motoring around the North of England and Scotland. After that they intend going to Paris and the battlefieids. Miss E. Fleming, of Auckland, who has been over for some time, leaves for New Zealand again on the 30th of this month. Mrs. H. -T. Taylor, of Auckland, is in London just now staying at 10, Parkliurst Road, Holloway.