THE SOCIAL ROUND

Auckland Star, Volume LXIII, Issue 161, 9 July 1932, Page 14

THE SOCIAL ROUND

PERSONAL ITEMS.

Mrs. T. J. Thurman, of Wellington, is staying at the Grand Hotel. * * * • Mrs. W. F. Blackwell, of Christchurch, is on a visit to Auckland Mrs. E. Johnson ,of Rotorua, is spending a holiday in Auckland Mrs. Hugh Wallace, George Street, Parnell, left for the South yesterday. * * * * Mr. and Mrs. Andrews and Mr. It. B. Allen are staying at Beach House, Milford. * » ♦ • •Mrs. Noel Adams, of Auckland, was a visitor to Wellington during the week. * » * • Mrs. D. Rennie, of Helenaville, is on a visit to Auckland, and is at the Station Hotel. \ Mrs. T. Jolly, of Hamilton, is on a visit to Auckland and staying at the Central Hotel. * * • • Mrs. Oscar Josephson, of Auckland, is the. guest of her father, Mr. P. Selig, Gkriatch lurch. * • » • Overseas visitors staying at Hotel Stonoliurst include Miss E. C. Koss, and Miss J. Puttman, of Adelaide. * * » • Miss Helen Keller, the American blind, deaf, and dumb authoress, is to receive a degree, that of doctor of laws at Glasgow University. * * * • Miss«D. Peto, the head of the women's department in the Metropolitan Police Force in London, has been raised to the rank of superintendent. * » • • Mr. and Mrs. Roscoc Smith, of Taumaruniii, who have been staying at Sayes Court, have left Wellington for an extended motor tour before returning home.

Mrs. Frank Wilding, of Christchurch. who had becu visiting Auckland, is at present tho guest of Mrs. Phillip Cooko, Wellington. She will leave for her home this week. • • • » Mr. and Mrs. Bakewell, of Taumarunui, are among those staying at Beach House, Milford. Mr. Bakewell is appointed bank inspector for the Auckland district. • * » • Mr. and Mrs. W. G. Rutherford and Mrs. W. W. Wilson have been spending a camping holiday near Abergele, in tho midst of beautiful North Wales mountain scenery. » ♦ • • Mise Myrtle Abraham, of "Waimana," Devonport, is at present staying with Mrs. Eric. Hague-Smith, of Whangarei. She intends returning to the city on Monday. • « * • Advico lias been received iti,Wellington that Miss Flora Murray, .holder of tho Sir William Hartley Scholarship at Edinburgh University during the last three years, has been successful in gaining tho degree of doctor of philosophy. • » • • Mjs. Leigh Hunt, England, accompanied by her daughter, Miss Leigh Hunt, who is a member of the 8.8.C. national chorus, left Wellington this week on their return to England by the Remuera, after an extended holiday in Xew Zealand. • • • • Dame Sybil Thorndike, on the eve of her departure from West Australia, was presented with a beautiful little leatherbound book by the president of the Australian Federation of Women Voters as a token of remembrance on behalf of the Federal organisation and the State body affiliated with it—the Women's Service Guilds of West Australia. • » * » Private advico was recently received that Miss Dorothea 2Corinan-Jones, eldest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A. Norman-Jones, of Lower Hutt, has gained the Cambridge Tripos with firstclass honours in natural science. Miss Norman-Jones has been taking the medical course at Newnham College, Cambridge, and has completed her first and second M.B. examinations. .She now proposes to continue her studies at King's College Hospital, London,— (Manawatu "Times.") v • • • • A remarkable feat was achieved recently at the Sorbonne, when Mile. Lavaud, aged 28, who was born deaf and dumb, received her doctor of science degree, equivalent to the British M.A. Mile. Lavaud, the daughter of Madame Lavaud, who is the principal of a French college, by extraordinary perseverance has learned to speak as well as any normal person, although she is unable to conquer her deafness. She answered questions put to her by reading tho movements of the speaker's lips.