THE SOCIAL ROUND

Auckland Star, Volume LVIII, Issue 143, 20 June 1927, Page 11

THE SOCIAL ROUND

PERSONAL ITEMS. Mrs. Robert Frater is at present staviag with Mrs. -T. Frater. City Road. •*• " » Mr. and Mrs. M. E. Vincent. Wellington, are visitors to Auckland. • • • • Mr*. S. Weston and Miss Ward left for Wellington by last evening's express. Mrs. and Misses V. D. Page arrived from Honolulu last evening." and are staying at Cargen. 5 S- * * Mrs. and Mi** Hitchison arrived in Auckland from Suva by the Aoransi last evening. "* * * * Mi** Erma Andrew*, who has been vi«iting Auckland, has returned to Hokianga. Mis* S. Payton ha* returned to Rotorua after an enjoyable holidav in \ucklan.L * * » -s .Miss Guy. of Palmerston North, is a •vi.-itor to our citv. and is with Mr*. J. Macky. St. Helier's Bay. Arrivals from Vancouver last evening are: Mr. and Mrs. E. Quillian. Mr. and Mrs. W. Picken. Mr. and Mrs. Butcher. - * .3. Mrs. J. Raynes (Buenos Aires) i*. a new arrival in Auckland, and is staying at Stonehurst, Svmonds Street * •" * " *e Mrs. Caddy and Miss Caddy, of Canada, are am-ong the guest* at the Grand Hotel. * * * # Mr. and Mrs. Grant Fallow* leave bv the Aorangi this evening to spend the winter in Australia. ♦ • * * Captain the Hon. Mrs. Tahu Rhode* and family leave on Tuesday from Wellington bv the Rotorua for England. • • » • Miss Pauline Murphy, of Gisborne, is ▼isiting Auckland, and is the guest of Mrs. Robert Burns, "Doune." Remuera Koad. Mrs. Russell Grace returned to her home in Wanganui by Friday evening's express, after an extended "holiday in Auckland. ♦ * # • Mrs. Woodley and her daughter, who nave been staying with Mrs. Selwyn Eobinson, of Mountain Road. Epsom, returns to Svdney bv the Aorangi tonight. • • •• • Miss Hilda L. Smith, of Papatoetoe. travelled to via Australia and •Suez. This is her first visit for many vears. and she is visiting relations and friends. 5- $ £» "J, Mrs Nevin Tait (Bess Xorrisi has had a picture hung this year in the Royal Academy, called "Maternity." Mrs. Tait's own portrait, painted" by Mr. Myers Alston, also is hung in this years Academv.

Sir James and Lady Gunson have been the .attests ot" the Dean of Windsor and. Mr. Hector Bolitho, formerly ot Auckland, who makes his home with the Dean, at the Deanery. Windsor Castle.

Miss French, of Epsom. Auckland Miss Berthe Selby, of Invercargill, and Miss Ethel W. B." Davis. »f Green Lane. Auckland, are travelling together, writes ©ur London correspondent. Thev had a most enjoyable trip, for at all the Australian ports of call as well as Colombo. Marseilles, and Algiers they had sufficient time for sightseeing. "

Mr. Cranleigh Barton, the New Zealand artist, has recently been touring in Northern Italy, where he visited many places off the usual tourist track. It was purely a sketching tour, and some of the fruits of it were seen at the exhibition, he held at the Graham Gallery. New Bond Street, from May 30 to June 10. Hγ. Barton had a picture hung at the Spring Exhibition of the New English Art Club at Spring Gardens Callery. The picture was called "Bakehouse Close—Edinburgh." and was a tranquil study in greys.

Miss Olive Aiekin, of Auckland, writes our London correspondent, stayed in Liverpool for hsr first four months in this country. After Christmas she crossed to Ireland, and visited relations a t Craigavad, returning to. England before going on to the Italian" Riviera. There she shared a fiat with four friends for some time, and then moved on to Florence and Venice and back to Ensland, via Paris, where they stayed a fortnight. Miss Aiekin has gone to Brittany, where she will stav ■with relations, and perhaps tonr the Sooth of France. She will return to London after visiting France. but her plans after that are unsettled, and the 'late ot* her return to New Zealand is not vet decided.