THE SOCIAL ROUND

Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 77, 31 March 1928, Page 18

THE SOCIAL ROUND

PERSONAL ITEMS. Mrs. imes Begg is stu,, •< at Curgen. * * • * Mrs. J. M. Ilott, of Wellington, left for a visit to Tiiup" * * ♦ • Dr. Grace S'evenson has returned from Wharigurel and is at Arundc . * * » • Mrs. («. Lawson, of Wellington, is spending a holiday in Auckland. • » • • Mr. and Mrs. George Andrews, of Hokianga, are at the Star Hotel. • • • » Mi-8 B. Cowey has returned to Auckland after a trip to New York. • • • • Mr. and P. L. L.rrmvpr, of Wellington, arc staying at the Central Hotel. • » » • Mrs. Nilsson and family, of Edendale, are leaving to join Captain Nilsson in Wellington. * • • • Miss Joan Frost, has returned to Auckland from Wellington, where she spent a number of months.

Miss Eileen Partridge, who intends to spend a holiday in Dunedin, leaves Auckland 011 Sunday evening for the South.

Mrs. W. A. Evans, of Wellington, reached Auckland this morninpr. and is the guest of Mrs. Judson, Williamson Street, Epsom. • • • *

Mr. nrwl Mrs. H. G. Johnston have left Auckland to take up their residence in Motueka. Mrs. Johnston spent a few days in Wellington on their way. # «■ # *

Mr. and Mrs. W. ««\ Grove, Mrs. Grove niid Miss Grove,'of Auckland, left Christ-cl-urcli on Thursday morning en route to Blenheim.

Mrs. and Miss Wright, of Auckland, who were in Christ hiiivh for a few days, left on Wednesday morning en route for j-ioton.

A Melbourne paper says that the new Commander of the liner Malcja (Captain B. J. Ohlson) first visited Melbourne Under sail 37 years ago. He was a personal friend of thd late Miss Elsie MackAy, who was lost in the Atlantic flight. "Miss Muckay will be a great loss to the Empire and to the company," Said Captain OhlsOh. "The P. and 0. ships will not be the same without her remarkable talent and charming personality. Sho wa« well liked by every ttlem* l>er of oftice staffs and ships' crews. She Jiad tho brains of her father (Lord Inch -pe), and never relaxed in her work Of improving the decorations of passenger snips. These vessels were always inspected by her on arrival at, And before departure from, London."