SOCIAL JOTTINGS.

Auckland Star, Volume LVII, Issue 302, 21 December 1926, Page 27

SOCIAL JOTTINGS.

Mrs. A. Falls, of' Napier, is at present in Auckland. • * • • Mr. and Mrs. J. Anthony Carr are spending the Christmas holidays at Paihai, and have left for the North. • * • • Miss Mavis McCulloch, of View Road, Mount Eden, is the guest of Mrs. Kobin Thomson, St. John's, Wanganui. • # • • Miss Margaret Bloomlield, who has been staying in Australia, returned by the Niagara yesterday. • * » ♦ Mrs. M. Brook, of Epsom, and the Misses C. and H. Brook are leaving on Friday by the Maunganui for a holiday trip to Australia. Mj. Justice Ostler. Mrs. Ostler, and family are leaving Wellington this Meek to spend the holidays at Tokaanu. • * • • Mr. and Mrs. George Murray-Aynsley, of Fendalton, Christchurch, are paying a visit to Auckland. • * • ♦ Mr. and Mrs. A. M. Ferguson left Auckland to-day to spend the Christmas holidays at'their farm, North Auckland. • # • « Mme. Sarah Grand is to serve a fourth year as Mayoress of Batb, and the Mayor will again be Alderman Cedric Chivers. a widower. • ♦ • • Mrs. Nat Maddison and Miss Letty Benjamin returned by the Maunganui to-day after a vacation spent in Australia. • * • • Before the advent of the Picturedome, evenings at Milford were always rather a problem. Milford was then a small *dwnship comprising but few shops, and the evenings were lifeless and almost lightless, whereas to-day Milford, especially on picture nights, is agog with life and light, cars and buses lining the Toad, and last Saturday evening was quite a gala night for the township, it being the fourth anniversary of the opening of the Picturedrome. The management put on a special picture beginning at 7.45, followed by a dance till midnight, in which favours were handed out to the dancers, a specialty being the tall hats, of the "dunce cap" variety, of all colours, decorated with streamers and toy lialloons. It was perhaps almost a record attendance, about 700 being pre--Eent. It was voted by all a very enjoyable evening, and all united in wishing it end the "Drome" may happy returns.

' Mrs. V. R. Meredith, with her family, is spending a holiday at Hamurana. * * • ♦ Lady Bailey, -wife of Sir Abe Bailey, and Miss O'Brien, both members of the London Aeroplane Club, have just obtained their certificates of proficiency as aviators. * * # • Mr. and Mrs. E. I\. Garlaud held an enjoyable reception at the Farmers' Union t*ra room yesterday to celebrate the golden anniversary of their wedding. The guests assembled in the social hall, which was bedecked with bunting, and after tea returned, when musical items were enjoyed. A children's party with the attractive name of "a breaking-up" party, arranged by Mr. Henderson, was held in the Foresters' Hall, Takapuna, last Friday, as a forerunner to the large carnival to be held in the hall at a future date. The children were asked to compete with each other in fanqy dresses representing Three Castles cigarette cards, "Children of all Nations." The judges, Mrs. J. Blomfield and Mrs. F. E. N. Gaudin, selected as the most correct in every detail with the corresponding card, Ethel Chandler, first girl, as Poland; Leslie Calder, first boy, as Mexico; Dorothy Wiseman, 2nd girl, as Russia; and Billy Henderson, second boy, as Borneo. Mrs. Gaudin presented the prizes. During the evening Edna Tullett, dressed as Holland, danced a clog dance with very good attention to rhythm, and Mr. Andrews amused the children greatly with a ventriloquist performance. The rest of the evening was spent in dancing and games. * * • * ■ A scheme to train girls in institu tional cooking has been completed by the State Government of Victoria, and was put into operation when the Police Depot, St. Kilda Road, was opened. Hitherto schoolgirls have been trained in purely domestic cooking, and the Government now desires to broaden the field of operations, and make girls competent to accept positions of responsibility in the big institutions and accommodation houses in the city. Arrangements .have been made for the trainees under supervision to take over the depot's kitchens and cook for the police accommodated at the barracks.