THE SOCIAL ROUND

Auckland Star, Volume LXII, Issue 38, 14 February 1931, Page 14

THE SOCIAL ROUND

PERSONAL ITEMS.

Mrs. Hugh Short, Wellington, is visit ing Auckland. c » * ♦ Miss J. Bentzen, Wellington, is spending a holiday in Auckland. * * • * Mrs. J. H. Prater, of City Road, has returned home after a visit to Russell. * * • * Mrs. Clifton Bingham, Christchurcl), has left on /a holiday visit to Auckland. **■ * # Miss I. Devore, of St. Stephen's Avenue, Parnell, is on a visit to Otorolianga. »► * V * Mrs. A. St. Clair Brown, of Epsom, is leaving for England by the Maunganui on Friday. * * * * Staying at the Star Hotel are Mrs. W. H. Lee Cooper, England, and Mrs. D. F. Stewart. * • • • Mrs. Vigers (Lucretia Johnson), of Renin era, has left on a painting trip to Rotoiti and Rotorua. * I * * .» Mr. and Mrs. T. A. Low and the Misses M. and D. Low, Auckland, are visiting Christchurch. » * • Mr. and Mrs., Jack Kingsttjn and Mr. and Mrs. F. Lintott have left on a motor tour of the North Island. * * * • Mr. and Mrs. J. T. Fenwick and family, of Napier, are staying with Mrs. Hooper, at Claude Road, Epsom. * * * * Miss Elsbeth' Amess, of England, who : lias been on a business, trip to New Zealand, is leaving by the lonic to-day. ■«" * » * > Mrs. Liddell, of Gisborne, arrived in Auckland this morning and is the guest of her sister, Mrs. Henry McCoy, of Parnell. . '. Mrs. A. B. Rainger, of Epsom, and Miss F. Gaudin, Bayswater, have returned home after a motor tour at Rotorua. * * * » Mr. and Mrs. F. Cooper, of Bayswater, and their two daughters, Misses Valerie and* Maureen; have returned after a launch cruise in the North. *.* . » « Mr. and Mrs. Gerald Samson, of the "Towers," Devonport, have returned to Auckland, after a launch trip in the North. They were accompanied by their son Geoffrey. » tt- # * of women volunteered their cars for transport work during the earthquake disaster," said Mr. Stott, secretary of the Wellington Automobile Association, in a Wellington paper. "This excellent body of people weire given charge of the transport department, and women drivers have been utilised as well as men." A special committee of women drivers was formed and a certain number of them undertook to meet every train carrying refugees. "They have driven goods as well as passengers, ajid proved themselves competent and reliable."