SOCIAL GATHERINGS.

Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 123, 26 May 1928, Page 17

SOCIAL GATHERINGS.

At the quarter night of the Foresters' T,odge (Takapuna), the installation of the new officers took place, also the initiation of four new members, Mrs. •T. W. Williamson (Mayoress), Mrs. H. Matthewman, and the Misses R. and W. Myers. The Immediate Past Chief Ranger, Sister Hawkins, was presented with a framed photograph of those holding office under her. The district executive cam© over from town to perform the ceremony.

Prior to her departure yesterday Miss Maude Royden was taken a short drive by the Mayoress, Mrs. A. D. Campbell, accompanied by Councillors Melville and Basten. A call was made at the Plunket rooms, where the party was received by Mrs. Parkes. Miss Royden was deeply interested in all she saw. After a run to the top of Mount Eden the party ■proceeded to the Zoo, where the Tuatara lizard, to which Miss Royden had referred in one of her lectures and expressed a desire to see, was produced fo rher inspection, as was also the kiwi. The party were afterwards the guests of Miss Royden at luncheon.

Entry into the social world is always an important movement in a young girl's life, and nothing could have been more fitting for such an event than the brilliant Empire Ball which was held on Thursday evening. Several dainty maidens made their debut at this function, their youth and charm being expressed in frocks fashioned on girlish lines. Among the debutantes were Miss Margaret Wright in an ivory taffeta gown glistening with silver and pink rosebtids; Miss Zena Sanders in a white tiifTi'tn, and transparent hem of silver with strut I! bunches of French-worked roses on the skirt: Miss Muriel Sanders in an ivory beaded georgette.

An amazing adventure is related of a Spanish girl, Julia Martinez, who tweiv-a years ago. when she was three years ot »gu, was kidnapped by Arabs mi Morocco. Her mother died of grief, and her father spent a modest fortune in vain efforts to find his child. Seven years after the child's disappearance, a Spanish mason working in an Arab village married a young Arab girl named Aicha Aler, in accordance with the Arab marriage custom. He bought his wife for £20. Children were born of the marTiage. The husband has now ascertained that his supposed Arab wife is really a European, and that she is Julia Martinez, the long-lost daughter of the Martinez family. It was in the course of inquiries as to the whereabouts of other kidnapped European that the husband learned from Arab tribesmen of his wife's real identity.