THE SOCIAL ROUND

Auckland Star, Volume LVIII, Issue 156, 5 July 1927, Page 11

THE SOCIAL ROUND

PERSONAL ITEMS. Mrs. Jervois, of Wellington, i< the gaest; of Mrs. Edward Anderson. Remuera. i ' * * * * Miss X. Colbeck and the Misses Horton, who have been on a visit to Kotorua nave returned to Auckland. * * * « v2fti S " ? f D , Xeville and the *eville, of Blenheim, are guests at the Commercial Hotel. * * .* • * Mrs. A. J. Pitt and her daughter. Mr* L. Collins, both of New Plymouth, left by the Aorangi to-day for a trip to Honolulu. * • * * Miss Soumi Tcheng, LL.D. (Paris) China's first woman barrister, has been made by the Nationalists chief judge inthe Shanghai District Court. ' * ' - a « „ Miss Persia Campbell, M.A., an Australian delegate to the conference convened at Honolulu by the Institute of Pacific Relations, passed through Auckland by the Aorangi. j * * * * 1 Miss M. Roden, matron of the Government .Hospital at Fort Jameson, Southern Rhodesia, is on holiday in New Zealand and is staying with her sister. Mrs. T. D. Collins, Epsom Avenue. Mrs. Maud Sherwood, the well known New Zealand painter, who is holding an exhibition of her pictures in Paris, sved as a very young girl in Patea, where her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Kimbell resided for a number of years and afterwards

in Wellington, where she was trained. At I a very early period of her life she gave ) evidence of that artistic taste which so j fully developed as the years went by and which has made her" quite famous. She has a charming personality and i* never so happy as when doing kind deeds to ' others. &■»*■ 9 r Mrs! Box, sister of Dame Nellie Melba, , and Mrs. Frank Johnston, of Mossvale, > New South Wales, who have been the guests of Mrs. G. Purchas, Victoria > Avenue, sailed by the Aorangi to-day, on i their way to England. * * * •» Lord Latkom has wonderful eyes, » states a writer in "The Daily. Mail." 7 At every other turn he introduces some- • thing that is new and pretty, The latest ? novelty at his shop is the individual mattress seat —or snail I call them cushions?—for use on lawns and in boate. Those I saw were of sealing wax-red and emerald green shiny American cloth. Both were piped with white American cloth. * « * * Mrs. M. Scott-Yoong, who, with her husband and' two small daughters, is on • a> visit to the North Island, is one of the t many New Zealanders who have made • good abroad. As a writer of short , stories and bright sketches Mrs. Scottt Vouhg, who before her marriage was i Miss Ida Macpherson, of. Dunedin, has • contributed regularly to majry journals j in Australia and in the United States. ■ She left Dunedin some years ago, and - had her first story of 1000 words ac-1 . cepted by the "Bystander." It is gratij fying to hear of the success, in different > spheres, of so many New Zealanders, ; though most of them have left their , native land to achieve recognition. Mrs. ', Scott-Young is featured m Jite June , issue of the "Wentworth "Magazine," her r contribution - being a sketch entitled I "The Frivolous Wife."