THE SOCIAL ROUND

Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 48, 26 February 1929, Page 11

THE SOCIAL ROUND

PERSONAL ITEMS. ; Mr?. W. T. Cochrane, of U.S.A.. is a * pue-' a" Braeburn. i • * » » y Mr.-. 1 G. C'oates left by last evening's ' fx:-:ehs for Marton. ( * • • » ( "Mr?. - A. Smith, of Mysore, India, is - Staying at Braeburn. • • » • i Mrs. X. Page, of Christchurch. is stay- j ing at the Star Hotel. " i • • • • Mrs. C. H. Hudson. ot Wellington, is b guest at the Grand Hotel. ' • * • • Mrs, E. A. Leggatt. of Hongkong,, is J fraying at the Grand Hotel. ' • * • • Mrs. N. S. Jones, of Portland. Oregon, ' is a guest at Cargen HoteL * • • « Viis= J. Carterton, of Melbounie. is ' visiting relations in Auckland. i • * € • Mrs. W. H. Trenc-hara Davis, of ' Shanghai, is staying at Cargen Hotel. •» • » * Among the guests at the Grand Hotel is Mrs. G. Christianson. of Chris tchurc-h. * « * » Mr-. S. A. Dupont. of Wellington, is • t present in Auckland, and is at the Grand Hotel. • • . • \K and Mr=. Ernest Craig left by the Aoranzi last night on a trip to Sydney I *nd Melbourne. • « « » A visitor to the Dominion is Mrs. de St. Mars, of Paris, who is staying at the Grand Hotel. • *• • • Mrs. Arthur Townsend and Miss Phyllis Townsend. of Gillies Avenue, returned from Honolulu by the Aorangi. • • • • Mrs. Mclndoe (Miss Mabel Hill > and Miss M. Mclndoe. of Dunedin. are the guests of Mrs. H. Everton, Takapuna. * • • • Mrs. -Tames Harris and Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Shaw .leave by the Limited express to-night for their home in Christ - church. * • • • i Mrs. W. Low. of Devonport, who ias. been on a visit to Dr. and Mrs. Campbell, New Plymouth, returned home I on Saturday. Mrs. G. Heald. Mr-. E. Howard, Mrs. Graham Robertson. Miss Phyllis Maclndoe and Mr. G. Fenton Heald have returned from National Park. • • • • Miss M. Anderson, of the staff of the Korma'l School, and Miss A. Kennedy, of the Training College, who intend making an extended tour of England and Europe, left for Sydney by the Aorangi last night. • » • • The Duchess of York has a new hobby, and one that she will find very pleasant if she cannot hunt much this winter. She has learned to make miniature trees from crystal beads and bugles, and, as •he has deft fingers, I believe tJiat some of those she has already finished' are <jurte lovely, says a writer in an English paper. Now the Queen is hunting for •mall antique china pots in which they may "bloom" happily. • • • • North of Scotland papers to hand •how that the Rev. J. Lamb Harvey and Mrs. Harvey, formerly of St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church, Auckland, have become "happily settled in Dufftown, Banffshire. At a. meeting of welcome given by his new congregation. Mr. Harvey was presented with pulpit robes, and Mrs. Harvey was presented with a wallet tii treasury notes so that the manse might be modernised and equipped with modern conveniences. Amongst those who heartily welcomed Mr. and Mrs. Harvey to Dufftown was the Rev. J. MacNamara, the Episcopal minister, the ancient old town being one of the places in the North of Scotland where Episcopacy has always flourished. Miss May Harvey, who is still in Auckland, leaves on the 15th of next month en, route for Scotland to rejoin her parents in their Highland home. Mr. Clifford Harvey, the younger 3on, is remaining in Auckland for some time to complete his business tr^ning.