THE SOCIAL ROUND

Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 161, 10 July 1928, Page 11

THE SOCIAL ROUND

PERSONAL ITEMS. Mrs. A. Tronson, Htmuera, Auckland, is spending a holiday In Wanganui. • • • • Mrs. A. S. Taylor, of Christchurch, was a passenger bjr it* Tofua yesterday. I • t i Mrs. Silk, Grey Street, Wanganui, is v isi ting Auckland amk Kawau Island. • t • • Miss Muriel Wilt«*, of Wellington, is visiting Auckland. # # * » Mr. and Mrs. E. A. Thorne arrived yesterday from Suva by the Tofua. ♦ # • • Miss Allison Hair, of Auckland, is revisiting Wanganui. • • • • Mrs. Eric Johnson arrived in Auckland from Suva by the Tofua. • • • • Mrs. Holm, of Taranaki, is a guest at the Grand Hotel. * • » • » Mr. and Mrs. W. Walker, of Whangarei, are staying at the Central Hotel. • • • • Mr. W. Bowles, accompanied by his (laughter, Miss N. Bowles, returned from a holiday in the Islands by the Tofua. • • « • Miss Jean Lyall, of Invercargill, ha . left for Auckland, where she will reside with her mother. • # • # Mr. and Mrs. Ballin, of Christchurch, w left for Helensville by this morning's ** northern express. • • • • Mr. and Mrs. Earl, of Devonport, returned to Auckland yesterday from Fiji. • • • • Mrs. H. Holdsworth, of Wellington, returned from Suva yesterday by the Tofua. • • • • Quests at Cargen Hotel include Mr. and Mrs. H. Dodgshun, of Dunedin. » • • • Dr. Doris Gordon, of Hawera, was a passenger by the Limited yesterday morning. • • • • Mr. and Mrs. Horace Elliott, of Symonds Street, entertained some of the officers of the Arawa at a bridge party last evening. » • • • Miss Marks, of England, who has been a guest at the Central, left for Wellington last evening. • • • • Mrs. Barker, of Fendalton, Christchurch, is visiting Wanganui, and it the guest of Mrs. Nancarrow, Plymouth Street. • • • • The Misses Ella and Mispah Hutchison, of Bemuera, returned by the Tofua yesterday after a <two months' visit to the Islands. • .# • ■ 4 Miss of New^York Wifi-mwAirvfo' in Auckland by the Tofu* yesterdijrjf is staying at Hotel Cargen. She contemplates a tour through New Zealand. • ; m • • l< Mrs: 6. Cassidy, accompanied by her daughter, arrived by yesterday's express from Wellington. •f■ ■ • m A Government house party, including Lady Fergus son and Mrs. Hayiland, left Wellington on Friday for Kapiti, accompanied by Mr. Field, M.P. The party returned yesterday. • • • • An interesting-looking person is Sureya Agha Aghlan, the only woman barrister practising in Turkey. Beeently she appeared on behalf of a man charged with murder in Angora, and was successful in securing his acquittal. # • • • Nursing has a strong appeal for Princess Arthur of Connaught, and she still continues the fine work she took up during the war. Her gentle personality brings sunshine into many of the London hospitals, in spite of public engagements which monopolise so much of her time. • • • • Miss Marjorie Alexander, of Christchurch, who is only fourteen, has been awarded the gold medal of the Associated Board of the R.A.M. and R.C.M., London, having obtained the highest honours marks in the Intermediate (>rade pianoforte playing in New Zealand, and also on the recommendation of the examiner of the Violet Ward ■rlinl a rah in. a local exhibition.