THE SOCIAL ROUND

Auckland Star, Volume LXII, Issue 118, 21 May 1931, Page 12

THE SOCIAL ROUND

PERSONAL ITEMS.

Miss Tait, of Palmerston North, is vieiting Auckland. » # ♦ • Misses CromWc, of Palmerston North, are visitors to Auckland. • • • • Mrs. P. Montgomerie, of Hamilton, is staying at the Star Hotel. • * • • Mies M. Dalzell is a Hamilton visitor to Auckland and is at the Star Hotel. • ♦ • • Mrs. E. L. Cook and Miss Cook, of Tauranga, are on a visit to Auckland and are at Hotel Cargen. • • • • Mr. and Mrs. H. Absolum, of Hamilton, are the guests of Mrs. Raymond Smith, of Mount Albert. • ■♦ ♦ • Mrs. J. Beale, of Wellington, is spending a few days in Auckland as the guest of Mrs. H. Fraser, Heme Bay. • * • • Miss Fanny Middleton, Glouster Street West, Christchurch, is spending a holiday at Kawau, Auckland. » • ♦ * Miss Alison ILaery, Eemuera, Auckland, is visiting her sister, Mrs. Douglas Russell, Cashmere Hills, Christchurch. • • # ♦ Miss Z. Bcnton, of Palmerston North, is on a visit to Auckland and is at present staying with relatives at Mount Eden. •••■'• Mrs. Tomlinson, of Hamilton, is spending the remainder of the term holidays at St. Helier's Bay, after being the guest of Mrs. R, Robson, Taotaoroa. • • • • Miss Constance Ross arrived from Sydney by the Monowai on Tuesday to pay a visit to her relatives and friends in Auckland. She will be returning to Sydney in about a month's time. ♦ • • • Miss Louise Game, who arrived in Auckland by the Monowai for a visit of six weeks, is a cousin of Lord Mowbray, and is on a world's tour. After a short stay with friends, Miss (iame will spend a few weeks at the Hotel Cargen, before going on to Gisborne to visit friends there

Dr. Laima Leidenius has been appointed Professor of Obstetrics and Gynaecology at the University of Helsinki. This has been greeted with much gratification in women's circles, because the new professor is the first woman in Finland to win such distinction. Dr. Leidenius, who is a well-known physician, has held a lectureship at the university for many years.

Miss E, Branscombe-Jones left Auckland in September, 1928, and went to India, where she spent two years teaching in a school for the children of missionaries in Nilgiris, at Cronoor. During the vacation she travelled around India, visiting the principal towns, such as* Bombay, Delhi, Calcutta, and Madras. Miss Branscombe-Jones then left for Colombo, en route for England, (but she broke her journey by spending three weeks in Egypt, Palestine and Syria. She reached England early in March, and has since been sightseeing in London. She hopes to tour in England, Scotland, and Ireland, later going to the Continent, before eventually returning to New Zealand. » * * *

Miss E. H. Young, whose "Miss Mole" was awarded the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for 1930, is now working on her seventh novel. She did not begin to write until after her marriage. Her husband was killed in the war. Several years of her married life were spent in Bristol, which is the scene of most of her books, but at present she livee near London. The Tait Black prize was instituted by the late Mrs. Janet Black as a memorial to her husband who was a partner in the Edinburgh publishing house of A. and C. Black. The judge is Professor Grierson, the professor of English literature in the University of Glasgow. Mise Young has recently been elected chairman of the Writers' Club.

Mrs. Mary Newberry, of Parua Bay, Whangarei, who is well-known in Auckland, and who left New Zealand to join her son, Mr. Reg. Newberry, late boy soprano of Australia, and Madame Melba's protege, in Vienna, went via Vancouver. She spent some time in Canada with relations (writes our London corespondent), and then came to London, where she also visited relatives. Whilst in Vienna, Mrs. Newberry received news of the tragic death of her husband. This necessitates her return to New Zealand on April 11, on the Rangitiki, from Southampton. This has, of course, upset her plans of staying with her son during his training, but she hopes to return to Europe later. Meanwhile, Mr Keg. Newberry will continue his studies under Astranasy, a teacher of note, and will probably make his debut at the beginning of the next opera season, that is, at the end of the year.

One of the lasting memories which New Zealand delegates to the 1930 conference of the National Council of Women, held at Portsmouth, was their visit to the studios of Mr. W. L. Wylie, the celebrated marine painter, whose death took place recently. His funeral was a fitting last scene to his earthly career, for after the service in the cathedral the remains were embarked in a rowing boat in the shadow of the artist's studio, near the entrance to Portsmouth Harbour. On the way to the burial ground at Porchester Castle this sea cortege passed the famous flagship Victory, which Mr. Wylie did so much to restore to the condition in which it fought at Trafalgar. At Porchester the old water gate of the castle was used to admit the boats. The veteran painter last year showed fine hospitality to the delegates of this society of women from all parts of the world, who enjoyed their visit to his curious, romantic house.