THE SOCIAL ROUND

Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 91, 18 April 1929, Page 11

THE SOCIAL ROUND

PERSONAL ITEMS.

Mr?. ('■ Stewart, of Ellerslie, is pay j D g a vit to W hangarei. • * • m

Miss E. L Haai e, nf London, is amonc the gue-ds at the Star Hotel. °

Mrs. Wil-on and .Miss K. Rakatabi. are visiting Auckland. • * • •

Wilson,

Mow at and Miss Mary Mowat Wangamii. are vi-iting Auckland. * * * *

Mrs. V. Crichton. Auckland, has been staying with Mrs. Robbie at Maeterton. • • • •

Mrs. t. H. Barton, of Taihape, is visiting Aiicklaml and is among the guests at largen. • * • •

Miss D. Ogilvy. of Masterton, is visiting Auckland and is staying at the Star Hotel. * * • •

Mrs. Nelson, of Mount Eden. Auc-k land, is visiting Wangauui and Palmers ton North. • » • •

Mr. and Mrs. Valder reached Auckland yesterday afternoon, and are "uests at the Central Hotel. "" • • t .

Mr. and Mrs. Dunsheath, of Wellington, are visiting Whangarei, and are staying at the Settlers' Hotel.

Mr. and .Mrs. \V. Stirling, of Auckland •re on -a visit to Whangarei, and are among tiie guests at the Settlers' Hotel. • • • •

Mrs. W. M. (Jriffen, of San Francisco, »nd Miss .A. (;. Chafe, of New York' reached Auckland yesterday and are at C'argen.

Mr. and Mrs. M. .J. McGregor, and Mrs. Cross, of Auckland leave hv'the Ulimaroa for Sydney en route to England and the Continent.

Mies K. M. Wilson, who has been in .Auckland in connection with the Girl Guide movement, left on Friday for Australia.

Dr. and Mrs. Leslie Averill. Bealey Avenue, Christchurch, have left for a ten days' holiday vieit to Kaikoura and Blenheim.

Mrs. A. A. Thornton is at present on a vkit to Auckland and is the guest of Mr. and Mrs. F. Cottrell, Cornwall Park Avenue, Epsom.

Mr. and Mrs. S. S. Kussell, who motored through from Morrineville and were the guests of Mr. and Mrs. F. Cottrell, Cornwall Park Avenue, Epsom, have returned home.

Mrs. A. M. Hindmarsh, of Sydney, who has been spending a holiday in the Dominion and has been the guest of Dr. and Mrs. Jameson, of Papatoetoe, will be a passenger by the Ulimaroa for Australia.

Mrs. G. H. Lusk, of Palmerston North, ias returned from a visit to Auckland to farewell her mother, Mrs. Latimer, of Mount Eden, who has left for a trip abroad. Mrs, Lusk and her si6ter, Mies Gwen Latimer, motored back to Palmerston North..

Miss Thelma Willoughby, of Wellington South, who recently gained her L.A.8., has been advised by the local secretary for the Royal Academy of Musie that she has been gTanted a two years' exhibition at the Royal Academy. Mies Willoughby gained many prizes as * pianist at the local competitions, gaining a scholarship when only 13 years of ape, and winning the gold medal in the Schubert centenary competition last year. She was only 15 years of age when she gained her L.A.B. It is Miss Willonghby's intention to take advantage of the exhibition, and will probably leave for London in July or August.

At the half-yearly meeting of the Viftoria League, held in London, Mrs. Amery, wife of the Hon. Amery, who visited Auckland a short time ago, gave 3Ti account of her trip, and paid a high tribute to the work being done by the organisation in all the Empire, specially mentioning the A"- !.!.:nd president. Miss Mowbray, bv name as "a real wonder in Auckland." "Anything in the wide world that can be done to increase the Victoria League and its membership and to encourage it ought to he done," sand Mrs. Amery. "I think ] t is a most wonderful thing. All over Amtralha you have golden-hearted and thp Victoria League going strong in Perth, Melbourne, Sydney, Adelaide and Brisbane. In Brisbane they entertained Lady Goodwin and myself to morning tea. The branch is going ahead tremendously, and Lady Goodwin is a great asset to the league. They are so good to the People who are settling in Queensland and to the girls who go out there."

Miss Pocock, a visitor from South Africa, wa« welcomed by the Canterbury ■Association of the New Zealand Federation of University Women at their last nieetirig. Miss Pocock then spoke of her life for ten years in many parts of South Africa. Miss Pocock is a graduate of Oxford University. She i 6 now. senior mistress of the Girls' High School at Salisbury, Southern Rhodesia, and on leave for a year to study educational systems in secondary schools. The B peaker dealt with the general charm of Africa, and paused to particularise upon Rhodesia. The educational, historical and political questions were most entertainingly dispersed with anecdotes of fxperiencos with native domestics, an insurrection, and of strange and terrible W| M creatures of the veldts. These last seemed the least While deprecating sentimentality, the speaker dwelt on the work of Cecil Rhodes, and outlined the power of a great dream for a young country in the mind of a man '0 public-spirited. During supper members were afforded the pleasure of becoming personally acquainted with Miss Pocock.