THE SOCIAL ROUND

Auckland Star, Volume LXI, Issue 123, 27 May 1930, Page 12

THE SOCIAL ROUND

PERSONAL ITEMS. Mrs. H. Lawrence, of Courtville Flats;, has left for Rotorua. * * * 9 Mrs. J. Franklin, of Hawera, is staying at the Central Hotel. -* * * * Mrs. A. Macklin, of Wellington, is staying at Hotel Cargen. * * * * Mrs. W. Coleman and- Miss Ruby Colec.man are spending a holiday at Rotorua. * # * * Mrs. Foote and Miss Avis Foote left for Christchurch by last evening's express. * * * # Miss Nell Graham, who has been on a holiday in Auckland, has returned to Te •Awamutu. * * * * Mr. and Mrs. F. N. Ambler, of King's Avenue, Mount Eden, left last evening for a short visit to Wellington. * * * •.','. Miss Joyce Beale returns this evening to Stratford after a visit to her parents, Mr. and Mrs. John Beale, Remaera. * * * * Mrs. Fred Eskell, of Wellington, accompanied by her daughter, Joan, are guests of Mrs. F. H. Pope, St. George's Ray Road, Parnell. * * * * Miss F. Goodall, Miss L. Bakehill and Nurse Collins, formerly of Auckland, left Wellington last week for a six months' tour of Australia. ; * * * * Mrs. W. Cassidy, Islington Street, Ponsonby, has returned to Auckland from the South, where she has been lecturing for the N.L.C.S. On the homeward journey she was a visitor to the Chateau Tongariro, National Park. • * * * *

Hearty congratulations on attaining her pilot's flying certificate were given last evening to Miss Ina Wright, of Devonport, by the National Council of Wpmen. Miss Wright is the first Auckland woman to gain this distinction. ,■* * * * Arrangements for a function to- be held on Thursday evening in the Palais Theatre, Northcote, in aid of the Plunkei work in the district, were finalised last evening at a meeting of the Northcote branch of the society. The Mayoress, Mrs. A. E. Greenslade, presided. * * * * At the meeting of the National Council held last night several speakers' expressed their pleasure at Miss Amy Johnson's wonderful achievement in flying from England to Australia, saying she had done a big thing for British aviation, and was another pioneer in the great field of things that were -being done by women. It was decided to forward \ a suggestion to the Dominion president, Mrs. Fraer, that the National Council cable its congratulations to Miss Johnson on her wonderful feat. The meeting also passed the resolution that a cable be sent, through the Mayoress, from the women of Auckland, congratulating Miss Johnson.