THE SOCIAL ROUND

Auckland Star, Volume LXIII, Issue 93, 20 April 1932, Page 10

THE SOCIAL ROUND

PERSONAL ITEMS. Mrs. W. Kay, of Heme Bay, left by the Aorangi on a trip to England. » * * * Mrs. A. M. White and Miss T. White, of Rotorua, are among the guests at the Central Hotel. Mrs. T. McGrath, of Melbourne, is on a '. i it to Auckland and is among the ;;uests at Hotel Cargen. * * * * Mrs. IT. A. Horroeks, of Auckland, returned by the Maunganui yesterday after a visit to Australia. Mrs. T. Gillanders, of Darfield, Canterbury, is visiting Auckland, and is staying at the Central Hotel. Mrs. W. S. Furby, who has been on a trip to England, has taken up her residence again at 2, Awatea Road, Parncll. * # # « Mrs. C. Nuthall, an aunt of Miss Betty Nuthall, the English lawn (tennis champion, lias arrived in Auckland, where she will make her home with her sons. Commander V. A. C. Crutchlcy and Mrs. Crutchlcy, of Bridgewatcr Road, Parnell, Auckland, have taken a house at Heretaunga, Wellington, for a month. Mrs. Stanley Natusch (formerly Miss Elizabeth Blake), who has been visiting England, returned to Wellington by the Eangitata on Saturday. Mrs. Natusch is well known in amateur theatrical circles. Lady Beauchamp has accompanied Sir Harold Beauchatnp to Auckland and they are visiting Helensville. Sir Harold, after a brief rest, will leave for Canada, whore he will break his journey on his way to London. He expects to bo absent from New Zealand for six or seven months. Lady Beauchamp will remain in Auckland for some little time. * * # * Mrs. A. M. Ferguson, Auckland provincial president of the League of Mothers, and Mrs. Cook, of Auckland, visited Warkworth last Thursday afternoon and gave an outline of the work achieved and the objects aimed at. It was decided to form a local branch of the league, and a provisional committee was selected to organise a public meeting and arrange for speakers. * * * # Miss Dorothy Bridges, Melbourne, has arrived in Wellington en route to Hastings, where she will pay an extended visit to her aunt, Mrs. It. Brathwaito. Miss Bridges is the daughter of a very distinguished Australian soldier, the late Sir William Bridges, who was the first Australian K.C.B. and who commanded the First Division of the Australian Expeditionary Force for Gallipoli and was killed at the landing. Mrs. Maud Elizabeth Birchall was ordained in the Christchurch Cathedral on Sunday by Bishop West-Watson as a deaconess. She left Oainaru to work under the Rev. It. do Lambert in tl.c parish of St. James, Riccarton, and is now to follow her ministry in the parish of Tuahiwi. It is some time since a deaconess hits been ordained in Lhidiocese of Christchurch, but in view of the decisions of the Lambeth Conferences of 1920 and 1930, which desired that the Order should be one which "both fr jm the solemnity of its ordination and the importance of its functions should satisfy the fullest de-sires of women to share in the official work of the Church " it is hoped, states "The Press," that other candidates may soon bo found for the offico and other avenues for their work.