THE SOCIAL ROUND!

Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 16, 20 January 1933, Page 9

THE SOCIAL ROUND!

PERSONAL ITEMS.

jlrs Alma Baker, of Malay States. is at-Hotel Cargen. Mrs J- P- Weldons, of Dunedin, is staying at the Star Hotel. jlrs R- H. Simmons, of Sydney, is staying at the Grand Hotel. •\l rs . L. H. Labone, of Wellington, is a/ present visiting Auckland.^ jklrs L. J. Rusden leaves by the Marama for a holiday in Sydney. Mrs. W. R. Bazeley, of Mount Eden,] leaves'bv the Marama for Sydney. * * * Mrs. G. Hurd-Wood Is on a visit to w mother, Mrs. W. Chitty, Hamilton. * * * * Joan Hammond, of Sydney, is the guest of Mrs. C. Mocindoe^Rcmuera. Mrs. D. L. Davis, Shirley, Cliristchurcli, will leave shortly on a yisit to Auckland. # # . Mrs. Prior Williams, of Pemuera, lias returned from a holiday spent in Dunedin- .

Miss Olga Blake, of King's Road, Paninure, has left for a holiday in Christchurch. . . ~ ***• - • . Miss Ethel Fleming, of Auckland, is staying at "Khartoum," Cashmere Hills, Christcliurch. . » f Dr./and Mrs. Hall have returned to Wha'ngarei, after an enjoyable holiday at Takapuna. # # Miss T. Macindoe, of Portland Road, Kemuera, has returned from a tour of the South Island. - * * * * Canon and Mrs. Percival James, Bolton Street, Wellington, have returned from a holiday at the Sounds. Misses Rita and Florence James, of Symonds Street, left yesterday by motor for Rotorua and Taranaki. * * * * MisS Josephine Thomson is the guest of Mrs.Trevor Coleman at her seaside residence, Wainur Beach, Gisborne. * * # * Dr. and Mrs. Cumming, of Dunedin, and Miss Annie Cumming are staying with Dr. Cumming, Dominion Road. '*' » » * Miss A. L. Louden, of Auckland, is the guest .of Miss Lesley Rogers, "Dreamthorp," Broad Bay, Christchurch, * * * • Overseas visitors at the Grand Hotel include Mrs. R. Capel and Mrs. J. A. Simpson, of Wanalda, New South Wales. # «• * * Mrs. E. Fpeai'nan, Who is the guest of litf mother, Mrs. Dryland, Norwood Road, -. Bays water, returned to Sydney today by the Marama. . She is accompinied by her daughter. , »»»..•■ Miss W. Weenink, of Pareora, and Miss Edith Moore, of Pukekou, have made a holiday cycling tour of the North Island. Titty covered about 1405 miles, and cimed all their camping material on thftif. wheels. • • 5 '* « * ♦ Among the visitors at Hotel Ventnor, Devonport, are Meedames Walker, Te Awamutu; Belgrave, Norman Taylor, Dolierty, all of Hamilton; Kidson and Adams,. Remilera; Robins, Auckland j Misses Catiley and Symonds, Wellington.

Visitors at the Chateau Tdngariro, include Mr. and Mrs. Derrick, Miss B. Agnes Smith, Mrs. and Miss Gardiner, Miss Jipson, Miss. M. M. Findlay, Mr. and Mrs. Dearsly, Miss Dearsly, Mr.-and Mrs. N. H.-Naismith, all of Auckland.

Mr. and Mrs. Walter Moofe,-Of Fendalton, Christchurcli, • are celebrating their golden wedding. Their daughter, Mrs. Frank Mills (North Auckland), and their son and daughter-in-Jaw, Mr. atid Mi's. W. h. Moore (Wellington), will spend the anniversary with' -their parents.

The golden jubilee of Sister Mary Aloysius, of the Sisters of St. Joseph, was -fittingly marked last week at the Stored Heart Convent, St. John's Hill, Waflganui. Siitfer Aloysius was the first New Zealand Postulant to enter the Order on the arrival of the sisters in WaHganul over 50 years ago. Sister Aldysiiis Wafl at one time associated with-the Rev. Mother Aubert on the Wangauui River.

MSsb Clo. Craves, the author of '"The Dop Doctor," who died in England, was an unusual figure in London literary life. Most readers know her under the pert-name she adopted of " Richard Dehan," says .the " Manchester Guardian." She wore short hair and affected a masculine manner and cut of costume, and smoked cigarettes in public some 35 years ago, when such characteristics were considered eccentric. Edmund Yates thought her stories ideal for his man-of.-the-world " World," and she also contributed to " Punch." She had much of the talent of the Irish Graves family of C. L. Graves and A. P. Graves, to which she was related.

_ The Royal National Lifeboat Institution lias awarded its thanks on vellum to the women of Dungeness for the gallant part they took in helping to launch thft Dungeness lifeboat on October S. The' lifeboat, one of the largest and! heaviest in the institution's fleet, was taken out to go to the lielp of the barge Shafrirock, of London, and the launchers, among whom were many women, pushed her doton the skids to the sea. So strong was the wind that a sudden gust blew the. boat right off the skids on to tlie beach. ■ Although wet to the skin and hardly able to keep their feet on the loose etdiies, the launchefs got the lifeboat away at the second attempt. Three men find a cat were rescued by the lifeboat.