THE SOCIAL ROUND

Auckland Star, Volume LXI, Issue 102, 2 May 1930, Page 11

THE SOCIAL ROUND

PERSONAL ITEMS. Mr?. H. Marsack i≤ staying at the Grand Hotel. * + * * Mrs. and Miss Finch, are staying at Royal Court. * * * ■£• Mrs. -J. McFarlane, of England, i≤ at the Grand Hotel. * * * * Mrs. P. E. Dietz. of San Francisco, is at the Grand Hotel. * * * ♦ Mrs. and Miss Avery, of Hawke's Bav. are staying at Arundel. * * * * Mrs. A. D. Orr. of Pukekawa, is staving a,z the Central Eetel. * * » » Misses G. and U. Alexander left by motor for Rotorua yesterday. Mrs. Harold Lawrence has taken up her residence at Courtville Flats. * *■ * ■* Mrs. Sydney SMlton i≤ visiting her mother. Mrs. Edward Petrie, Wellington. * c •» „ '- Artindel guests include Mrs. J. Collins, of Dunedin, and Miss Beddoe. of Wellington. c ■» * ♦ * Miss Powell, of Wellington, is on a visit to Auckland, and is at Braeburn. Miss R. Ayres. of Auckland, has returned from a visit to Rotorua and the Chateau. Mrs. Humphrey Hains has left Auckland for a tour of England and the Continent. 3liss Jean Garroway, who has been on a. visit to friend's in Palmerston North, returned to Takapuna on Tuesday, * * * • Miss Dora West left Auckland yesterday morning for Dargaville. Mr. and Mrs. D. C. Colson. of New Plymouth, who have been on an extended holiday in Auckland,, return by Saturday's express. * * * * t The Hon. T. M. Wilford, K.C.. Hi-h Commissioner for Xew Zealand, has accepted the invitation of the central executive of the Victoria League to become an hon. vice-president of the League in Great Britain. Mrs. Wilford has accepted election as an hon. member ot the council. * * » • Miss Margaret Bondfield. Minister of Labour in the British Cabinet, gave a Christmas party to about :JoO members of the staff of the Ministry «jf Labour ar. Montague House. The guests were of all grades, from typists to employment office managers, chosen by ballot" from the headquarters, of the "Ministry, the London divisional headquarters, employment exchanges, and the offices at Kew. Apart from the loan of the building' Miss Bondfield did it out of her own pocket and quite unofficially, a fact that was much appreciated. 'Miss Bondneld felt that owing to the recent accident to her leg she had not been able to get about a-nd meet members of the staff as she would otherwise have done. She therefore wished to meet a≤ manv as possible quite informally, and this was the primary object of the partv.