THE SOCIAL ROUND

Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 104, 4 May 1929, Page 14

THE SOCIAL ROUND

PERSONAL ITEMS. Dr. Edith Mayo is revisiting Luncdin after an absence of five years. *- flr » Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Wilson, of Auckland, are visiting Christchurch. & * * * .'Mrs. W. H. Honey,.who has been visiting. Auckland, has returned to Wellington. , # * # * 'Mrs. A. Martin, of Auckland, is the of Mrs. J. W. Foreman, New Plymouth. * * * * 'Miss»Yorke, Auckland, is the guest of Mrs.*"TT'R. Allen, St. John's Hill, Mr. and Mrs. Bredow, of Auckland, are the guests of Mrs. Elliot, Durie Hill, WanganuL ■* * * « Miss A. Home, of Auckland, is staying ivith her airat/ Mrs. Kowland; Oroad, of Ballance. ' .j ■ T: « * ■ * Mrs. B. Burk, of Romuera, returned to Auckland on Tuesday;'from a visit to Kclburn, Wellington. '" . * „ rfTfi * * Mrs. 'of Stanley Bay, has returned to Auckland from a holiday in the Wairarapa and Wellington. * * * * Her Excellency Lady Alice Eergusson •will be the guest of honour at a reception in the Lyceum Club on May 24. * * * Miss A. W. Carmicliael, of Epsom, has returned from Wellington to take up duty at the Grey Lynn Dental Clinic. **i * * Mrs 1 . Avery and Miss Avery have returned to Wanganui after a long holiday in Auckland, Rotorua • and Whangarei. v'i'.S'M*-' ° .. • A. " * » »: ' v . » Mr. and Mrs. A. Dclmonte, of Wellington, who are the guests of Mrs. W. J. 'Fletcher, Lucerne Boad, Bcmuera, leave by the Aorangi on Tuesday for a visit to the Old Country. * « * • Mrs. J. L. Webster, of Marsden Avenue, Dominion Boad, who intends spelling the winter in Australia, left for Wellington <in T~hursday -night to join the Saturday. Mrs. 11. A. Parkinson has arrived from Wellington to attend the wedding of her son, Lieutenant Maxwell Richmond, Boyal Navy, to Miss Jessie Craig, which, takes place on Monday.

Miss Pocock, of Rhodesia, who has been visiting her brother and sister-in-law, Professor and Mrs. L. G. Pocock, Brown's Road, Christchurch, is at present in Auckland. Sho will leave in a fortnight's time to make a trip to England, before her return to Rhodesia, i . * « * ■ In many ways Princess Juliana, whose father, Prince Henry, has been in London and who herself is the heir apparent to the throne of the Netherlands;: ing with the the House of" Orange, of "Which her mother, Queen Wilhelmina, is the head. She is the first of that house to take up lawn tennis. She not only plays" this game with her university friends with enthusiasm, hut; is also very much interested in the technical side of it. Daily prayer is offered every day on tie battleships of the fleet, said Mrs. ■Swabey, when speaking before the National Council of Women yesterday afternoon at the Y.W.G.A., and it was to this that she attributed .much of the good feeling and fine 'sehse of duty by which the English, v navy lis-*" distinguished, as the:result''?pf , tiis /constant sense of power of pray .Prayer bad been offered on our : battleships ever since the year she felt, a very fine thing hble' to say of any fleet. It engendered- good feeling and self-control,; thg:f;charac.teristics so much needed in life.