THE SOCIAL ROUND

Auckland Star, Volume LXI, Issue 33, 8 February 1930, Page 14

THE SOCIAL ROUND

PERSONAL ITEMS.

Mr. and Mrs. Wilson, of Kaitieke. are visiting Wellington. *■ * * *

Mr. and Mrs. Frank Abbott are spend ing a holiday at Takapuna. * * ♦ #

Mr 6. B. Brewer, of Christchurch, has loft for a visit to Auckland.

Nurse Biddic-k and Mrs. Whittingham. of Auckland, are staying at Lake Taupo, * •» «• *

Mrs. V. Greene, of Heme Bay, left bv last evening's express for Invercarg'ill.

Mrs. T. C. Sloane and Miss Cliff are amongst those staying at Beach House, Milford. # * * *

Mrs. Arthur, of Hawera, has left the Hotel Ventnor after spending a short holiday there.

Miss Heywood, of Dilworth Avenue, Re itinera, sails by the Rangitata to-day for England.

.Miss Coleen Rentley, of Fendalton, ('liristchurch, is spending a holiday at Ivaikolie. North Auckland. * W * #

Mrs. Wootten, who has been staying at "Rose Cottage," Takapuna, left this week and is now at Remuera. « w * *

Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Sheath, of Orakci Road, Remuera, are spending a short holiday at Rotorua, * # * #

After spending a few days at the Hotel Ventnor, Miss Pascoe has returned to her home in Mount Eden. * * * ♦

Mr. and Mrs. G. F. Cowling have returned to Cambridge after a visit spent at the Hotel Ventnor, Devonport.

Miss S. Walker, of Grafton Road, is on holiday at Queenstown. She will visit the other cold lakes before returning home. » « » »

Miss 'Copeland, of the Training College, is,,leaving Auckland on Marcli 25, for a year's holiday visit to Paris and England.

Mr. and Mrs. G. E. Cluett, with their niece, Miss Phyllis Peacocke, of Epsom, are spending several weeks' holiday at Russell. » * * •

Mrs. P. Craig and family have returned to their home in Cambridge after spending a holiday at the Hotel Ventnor, Devonport. • * • • Mrs. Muggleworth and Miss Cara Mugglewortli, of Grafton Road, have returned from a holiday spent at Invercargill and Ashburton. * * a * « Dr. and Mrs. L. A. Spedding, of Auckland', and Mrs. D. M. Spedding and Miss Spedding, of Dunedin, have been paying a visit to Christchureh. * * ft * Mrs. Alice Whitney and Miss Leona Whitney, of Remuera, leave Wellington, cu route for England the the Continent, by the Rangitata.

Mrs. B. Buttle, who has been away 011 a motoring trip to Wellington, has returned to her home in Landscape Road, Mount Eden.

Mr. and Mrs. A. Nation and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. A. R.Wilson (Christchurch), and Mr. Ralph Boyce (Cambridge) are staying at Hotel Mon Desir, Takapuna.

Dr. and Mrs. Bird," of Westport, and Miss Peggy Bird, of Wellington, who spent a fortnight with Mrs. E. A. W. Henley at Taupo, returned (home via AVaimarino and Taihape.

Mrs. T. Anderson, of Port Chalmers, who was in Auckland to witness the Sanders Cup contest, has gone on an extended holiday to Rotorua and her parents' home at Opotiki.

The Rev. Wilna L. Constable and her husband, the Rev. W. A. Constable, M.A., of Auckland, are spending the month of February on holiday in the South Island. They are at present in Queenstown and hope to go on to Lakes Manapouri and Te Anau and over the Mil ford track.

Mrs. Norman Spence, who is leaving To Aroha in a few days to reside in the Gisborne district, was presented on Thursday by St. Mark's Ladies' Guild with a handsome fruit bowl. In making the presentation the Eev. B. L. Connolly referred eulogistically to the splendid work of Mrs. Spence in the interest of the guild. * * * #

Miss G. Seifert, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Louis Seifert, of Victoria Avenue, ■Palmerston North, sailed by the Niagara for Sydney, en route to England and the Continent. After some jive months' touring and eight-seeing Miss Seifert ■will continue her musical studies. Dr. Pauline Witherow, until recently house surgeon at the Palmerston North Hospital, accompanies Miss 'Seifert on her travels.

A girl of 21, Miss Stella Gale, may proudly claim that she is the only harliour "master" of her sex in England. When the post of master at Paignton's little harbour became vacant through the death of Mr. George Moore, who had held it for many years, Miss Gale applied for it, arid the directors of the Harbour Company were so impressed by her qualifications that they disregarded all precedents and gave her the job. Miss Gale owns an outboard motor,, and, us one of the crew of a yacht, has often taken part in Torbay races. Her father, Mr. Louis Gale, is head of an engineering and shipbuilding firm at Paignton. « 4 » », ( Miss Stella Murray, the New"Zealand contralto, like so many artists nowadays, has a flat in a converted mews in London. She lately gave a charming party there, at which she herself and Miss Vera Moore, the New Zealand pianist, provided the musieal programme. As an addition to the usual party programme there was a treasure hunt. Among the guests were: Mr. and Mrs. Harold ■ Craxton, y v Mr. and Mrs. Lindo •ljevelin, Mrs. Jack Gordon, Mr. and Mrs. rB - Gu y Innea and Mr«Rk Miss' Colhou'n, Mv Cofviiuf o^ 0 -Smith, Cttpt, Blackford, MisJ' SlS?' I aud Mr, aud Mr ß ! L-2d. y