THE SOCIAL ROUND

Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 74, 29 March 1933, Page 10

THE SOCIAL ROUND

PERSONAL ITEMS.

Mrs. M. A. Hart, South Africa, is staying at the Star. Hotel. *,■-•■."-* * »

Miss Baher, of Silverstream, Wellington, is : spending some weeks in Auckland.

Miss Jean Fee, of Epsom, has left for Australia, -where she will spend a short holiday. * * * #

Mrs. W. E. Hutchison, Auckland, is visiting her daughter, Mrs. F. A. Letford, Hataitah

Mrs. T. H. Wilson, Portland, is visiting Auckland, and is staying at the Central Hotel.

Miss Jean Carswell, of Invercargill, is the guest of Mrs. J. T. F. Mitchell, C! illies Avenue. * * • »

Mrs. P. Mase'r, of Pertli, West Aus tialia, is visiting Auckland, and is stay ing at the Gr'and s Hotel.

Mrs. F. Levy, of Mount Eden Road, has left for a visit to the Chateau Tongariro at National Park.

Mrs, F. W. Webb, of Wellington, is spending a few days in Auckland, and is staying at the Station Hotel.

Mrs. Edgar Warn, of Katikati, is spending a short holiday with .her mother, Mrs. Jack, of Mount Eden.

Mrs. A. Howey Walker, of View Road, Mount Eden, has returned to Auckland after a holiday spent at Rotorua.

Mrs. A. G. Furness, of Melbourne, arrived in Auckland yesterday for a short holiday tour of New Zealand.

Among the guests staying at Hotel Stonehurst are Sirs. A. Pye, Taupo, Mrs. J. Taylor, Melbourne, and Mrs. J. Moore, South Africa. * * * *

Mrs. J. C. Strickland, of Perth, West Australia, is visiting Auckland prior to touring the Dominion, and is staying at Hotel Stonehurst. * •» • »

Mrs. G. W. Forbes and the Misses Forbes, of Wellington, are at present in Auckland, and are staying at the Grand HoteL

Miss Molly Coleridge and Mr. Ernest Coleridge, • Bishopscourt, Wellington, have left for Auckland, whence they will sail by the Monowai for Sydney, en route to England. They will leave Sydney on March. 29 by the Orsova. Mr. Coleridge will be away about six months and Miss Coleridge longer.

Miss Lillie Davis, of Carlisle,, who was made a member of the Order of the British Empire in the New Year honours, was presented with a wallet of Treasury notes and a gold wrist watch by the citizens of Carlisle recently in appreciation of her temperance and child welfare work in the city during the past 13 years. "Miss Davis founded the'"Sister Lillie" Shelter for poor children of Carlisle at Silloth.

The death occurred last week in Christchurch of- Mrs. Ada Wells, widow of the late Mr. Harry Wells, the first organist of Christchurch Cathedral. Mrs. Wells was always keenly interested in public work and educational matters, and the influence of her early teachers, Mrs. T. S. Poster and later Professor Macmillan Brown; remained with: her all her life. It was with Mrs. K. W. Sheppard that' she worked for the cause of the enfranchisement of women. ■ It is mainly owing to the efforts of .these two women that New Zealand has the distinction of being the first country to grant women- the vote. The children's cause always found a staunch supporter in her. In company ■with Sister Prances Torlesse and Mrs. T. E. Taylor she aroused public interest in the Government refuges. From this came the Children's Aid Society and the sponsoring of orphanages, by the various religious, bodies. For many years she was a member of the National Peace Council, and was'the first woman'member to sit on the Christchurch City Council. She was a woman of outstanding personality and intellect, who will long be remembered by a large circle of friends.