SOCIAL JOTTINGS.

Auckland Star, Volume LVIII, Issue 45, 23 February 1927, Page 23

SOCIAL JOTTINGS.

Mrs. J. Corry returned from Feilding to her home in Takapuna last week. • « * •

Mrs. Holmes and Miss Holmes, of Masterton, are visiting Auckland, and staying at the Hotel Cargen. • • • •

Mr. and Mrs. Snodgrass, Mrs. and Miss Connor and Miss Porter are amongst the guests at Beach House, Milford. • » • •

Mrs. A. Kidd leaves Auckland on Friday for Christchurch, where she will take part iu the Hospital Board's conference.. « * • *

Mrs. Plummer, who has been staying •t Takapuna for the summer holidays, returned to town last Monday. • • * •

Mrs. E. R. A. Howarth, of Auckland, is the guest of her sister, Miss Wood, New Plymouth. • • • *

The president of the National Council of Women, Mrs. John Cook, is leaving for Chrischurch, to preside at conference.

Mr. and Mrs. R. Thorpe, of Napier, are on a visit to Auckland, and are the guest? of Mr. and Mrs. F. Howard, Selvja Road, Epsom.

Miss Alice Basten, Dominion secretary of the National Council of Women, leaves at the end of the week to attend the council's conference at Christchurch.

Mr. and Mrs. G. Dransfield and their daughter, of Victoria Avenue, have returned from a motoring trip, in which they toured the Rotorua and Taupo districts.

Miss Nellie Seanlon, of the literary staff of the "Free Lance," Wellington, is at present in Auckland in connection with the visit of the Duke and Duchess of York. Miss Seanlon accompanies them through the North Island.

A morning tea was given on Monday at the Lyceum Club by Miss Mahon, as a welcome home to Misses Essie, Mabel and Lucy Wilson, of St. Helier's, who have been touring England and the Continent for the last two years.

Mr. and Mrs. McHutchinson (Te Kuitii. Mrs. King, Mr. White, Mrs. Matthews. Mr. McWilliams, Miss West, Dr. and Mrs. Whetter, and Mr. Benning ■re staying at Hotel Mon Desir, Taka-

Mr. and Mrs. Seymour Spencer, of Auckland, are the guests of Miss Hutcheson, Palmerston North. • • • •

Mr. and Mrs. Frank Mills, who have been visiting Auckland, and staying with Mr. and Mrs. Athol Mills, Laurie Avenue, Parnell, have returned to Kaipara Flats.

The Auckland delegates to the National Council this year include: Dr. Emma Buckley-Turkington, Sister Hannah, Mesdames Cadoux, Kidd, Ferner, McNair, Misses Flatt and Carnachan.

The Queen recently paid a private visit to Londonderry House, Park Lane, to inspect embroideries made by partially disabled ex-service men. During the visit the Queen selected and ordered a number of articles.

There are many New Zealanders on the Riviera just now, writes our London correspondent, among them being Mr. and Mrs. Byron, of Auckland, who have taken a flat for the season at Monte Carlo; Mr. and Mrs. Moss Davis and Miss Blanche Moss Ross Davis, who are at the Hotel Metropole; Mrs. and Miss Meadowcroft, of Wellington, who are staying at the Hotel Imperial. Mentone; and Mr. George Gordon, who is staying at the Costabelle Hotel, Hyeres.