SOCIAL JOTTINGS.

Auckland Star, Volume LVII, Issue 303, 22 December 1926, Page 27

SOCIAL JOTTINGS.

Mrs. Hart (senior), Mr. andMrs.Bryce Hart and family are spending their holiday at Cambridge. * • • • • Mr. and Mrs. Percy Thomson and family, who have been in Sydney for some time, returned to Takapuna on Monday last. • ♦ • • Mrs. W. Pavitt, of Portland Road, Remuera, is spending the Christmas holidays, with her daughter, Mrs. Maurice Sinclair, in Nelson. ••• ■ • Miss Vera Emmanuel, of Auckland, who left for New Zealand on December 17, says the "Sun*," Sydney, was the guest of honour at a farewell party given by Mrs. A. Oppenheim at her home, "Belletty," Bellevue Hill. • * * * Among the guests at Hotel "Mon Desir" are Mr. and Mrs. Maylor (Wellington), Mrs. Leiden Bay (Wellington), Mr. and Mrs. McCoy (Remuera), and Mr. and Mrs. and Miss Scott (Wellington). •.» • • Mr. and Mrs. Wilkins and family, Mtsj Gruar, sen. and Mise Gruar, Mrs P. Gruar and family (Hamilton), Mr. and Mrs. Remmer, Mr. and Mrs. A. Blundell, Misses Wilkinson Smith (2), Mrs. Slaine, Miss Slaine, Mr. and Mrs. Jones, Miss Garnum, Miss Pike, Mr. and Mrs. Laurenson, and Mr. and Mrs. Pacey are staying at Beach House, Milford. • • • • Mrs. Harold J. Baker, formerly of Thames,, who has taken up residence at Hamilton, was entertained at numerous farewell parties before leaving the goldfields town. Mr. H. J. Baker, who has been appointed accountant at the Hamilton branch of the Bank of New Zealand, was presented with handsome gifts from his Thames colleagues. He was also entertained at a smoke concert by representative citizens, and was handed some valuable presents in remembrance of a pleasant association. • * • • A musical evening and reception for their many friends wae given on Saturday evening in the Tower tearooms by Mr. and Mrs. G. W. Alleop, Balfour Road, ParneH. The room was charmingly decorated with streamers and flowers in tones of blue and gold. The guests were received on entrance by Mrs. Alleop, and during the evening musical' items were given by Messrs. A. Warbrick, T. Garland, Wooldridge and* members of the Savage Club choir. Songs were also given by Mrs. Wooldridge, Mies .Nancy Clarke and a recitation by Miss Roma. .Warbrick. Supper was served and dancing coscladed the eTening, „ . !

Mrs. John Burns is staying with Mrs. Stewart Boyd, at Takapuna. • • • '■♦ . ■ Mrs. Macintosh, wife of Surgeon Commander Macintosh, of H.M.S. Diomede, is amongst the gueets staying at Arundel. • * • • Mr. and Mrs. W. R. Laecellee, of Christchurch, have left the south to spend a holiday at Kawau.. • - * • • Mrs. A. Bayley, of Remuera, who has been absent for close on four yeare, returned last week to Aμckland. During thoee years Mrs. Bayley, accompanied by her daughter, visited England, Holland, Germany, Belgium, France, Switzerland and rtaly. Mrs. Bayley expressed great pleasure at-returning home; and in speaking of New Zealand eaid that the great drawback to this country is that it is 6O distant from the centre of the Empire. Is. scenery is wonderful—in fact, one might travel the world and find nothing to surpass the view from Mount Hobson over the harbour. Aβ with many newcomers and those natives who have riot been here for some time, Mrs. Bayley noticed the exceding clarity of the atmosphere and the greenness of everything. She was also very struck with the progress of the city, its roads and system of transit—all innovations since Mrs. departure four years ago. The shops here are quite up-to-date, she said, the main difference being in the cost of articles, things in England being considerably lese in price than here. a The list of scholarships and certificates of the Slade School, which for years has lea the van of modern art, provide an interesting comment on woman's place in art to-day. Of seven Slade Scholarships awarded for the session 1926-27, four have gone to women students and three to men, while only three certificates were awarded for sculpture, once regarded as an exclusively masculine branch of art, and they all went to women students. • * * a" * Conservative Turkey is now'falling in line with European ideas, and many of the old palaces, once so jealously guarded, are being turned into museums. Of these, doubtless one of the most interesting, because hitherto shrouded in mystery, is the celebrated Seraglio, in Stamboul. The apartments, once consecrated to the black slaves of the harem, to the chief of the black slaves, are already open to the public. The Treasury, which contains the wonderful robes and headdresses of the Sultans, is exciting much curiosity, but perhaps- of all the buildings those- most interesting to the layman are those containing the magnificent halls, once tightly closed by huge bronze doors, of the harem, where resided the Sultan's wives, Circassian slaves, female slaves,, and, in fact, all the feminine portion of the Saltan's i household. ".