THE SOCIAL ROUND

Auckland Star, Volume LXI, Issue 129, 3 June 1930, Page 10

THE SOCIAL ROUND

PERSONAL ITEMS.

Her Excellency Lady Bledisloe accompanied the Governor-General, Lord Bledisloe, to Ellerslie to-day. This evening their Excellencies will give a ball at Government House. • ' # -6 * Mrs. R. T. Eeid (Hamilton) is at Hotel Cargen. » * « » Mrs. H. Wliewell, of Tamaliere, is at the Star Hotel. * * # » Mrs. J. McEnnis, of Whangarei, is at the Star Hotel. * * * • Mrs. A. Totman, of Okoroire, is staying at the Central Hotel. # » ♦ • Mrs. P. A. Walker (Melbourne) is staying at Hotel Cargen. Miss Irene Gallie, of Wellington, is staying at the Royal Hotel. • * ♦ • Mr. and Mrs. A. H. Hurley, of Wanganui, are staying at Hotel Auckland. * * * * Mrs. Lisle Alderton, of Remuera, has returned from a holiday at Rotorua. • * # •* * Mrs. Fisher and Miss Kathleen Fisher, of Cambridge, are staying at Royal Court. . # * * # Central Hotel guests include Mrs. B. C. Taylor and Mrs. G. Johnston, of Matamata. * w # # Royal Hotel guests include: Mrs. C. H. Murphy (Mornnsville) and Mrs. H. D. Hooker (Cambridge)'. * » * • Mr. and Mrs. Rongo Pilling, of Morrinsville, are the guests of Mrs. Pilling, Gladstone Road, Parnell. « * # » Mrs. E. Pierce and Miss Marjory Pierce, Heme Bay, returned by the Maunganui this morning after an extended trip to Australia.

Mrs. S. C. Eathbone, of Wanganui, who is leaving to-day on a visit to her son in Canada, has been the guest of Mrs. F. L. Eathbone, Parriell. * * * * Hotel Cargen guests include: Mesdames J. Donald (Wanganui), A. J. Harris (Gisborne), E. W. Orton (Wanganui), and G. F. Watts (Blenheim). ' *■ * .* • Grand Hotel guests include: Mesdames P. Boulnois (Christchurcli), E. Si Hatrick {Wanganui), E. M. Campbell (Hastings), andK. M. Duncan (Hunterville). * ■?> w ¥r English visitors touring the Dominion and at present staying at the Grand Hotel are: Mesdames E. D. Holt, of Liverpool, and Leslie Kent, of London. * * * * Visitors staying'at Stonehurst include: Misses H. C. and H. D. Caton (London), Mrs. E. 0. Chesney and Miss M. Chesney (Lower Hutt), Miss M. Hawke (Hamilton), Mrs. A. L. Warburton (Wellington), Mrs. D. Maltby (T'auranga).

Mr. Alex S. Reid, writing from Brisbane under date May 27, says: "In the Tourist Department to-day I met Mrs. Geddes-Crawford, well known in Auckland some years ago as Miss Stevens, who was an artist and had premises in the Victoria Arcade. She then took a keen interest in "public affairs of interest to women and contributed freely to the newspapers. She is now on the staff of one of the big life insurance companies, but still has literary aspirations and continues" to take keen interest in New Zealand."