THE SOCIAL ROUND

Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 113, 16 May 1933, Page 10

THE SOCIAL ROUND

PERSONAL ITEMS. Mrs. A. A. Wright arrived from Fiji yesterday by the Aorangi. Mrs. R. Browning, or Wellington, is at present on a visit to Auckland. Mrs. C. A. H. Levatt, of Feilding, is on a visit to Auckland, and is staying at Hotel Cargen. • * * » Mrs. J. P. Kalaugher, of Stanley Bay, returned on Saturday from a short visit to Napier. Mrs. Victor Maeky, of Mountain Road, left by motor yesterday for Tauranga. Miss M. Robb and Miss Fitzgerald, of London, are overseas visitors staying at Hotel Stonehurst. Dr. and Mrs. A. A. Spears, of Ottawa, and Mrs. G. A. Findlay, of Dunedin, are at the Grand Hotel. * * * * Mrs. E. B. Gunson, of Princes Street, and her daughter Elizabeth have returned from Rotor.ia.. Central Hotel visitors are: Lady Ngata, Mrs. T. Carroll (Wairoa), Mrs. G. Oman and Mrs. C. Oman, of Gisborne. Madame Melburn, who has been stayin with Mrs. Andrew Maguire of Dargaville, returned to Auckland last evening. Hotel Cargen visitors are: Mrs. J. Hay, Mrs. Campbell Hay and Miss K. Hay, of Canterbury; Miss R. H. Heath, of Rotorua; Mrs. R. W. Hardy and C. Hardy, of Perth. Mrs. C. A. T. Levett, of Feilding, Mrs. Campbell Hay, Canterbury, Miss Katherine Hay, Mise McKellar, of Cliristchurch, Mrs. Robert Browning, of Wellington, Mise C It. Clark, of Wellington, and Mrs. L. O. Keith, of Kio de Janeiro, are staying at Hotel Cargen. * * & Miss Winifred Guy, who has been round the world with a poster exhibition, and exhibited in Auckland, gave an address to the Croydon Rotarians recently. "Until you have tasted the pure food you get in Australia and New Zealand you have no idea how badly our food is adulterated here," eaid Mise Guy. "The result is apparent in the physique of the people. • • • * While on a visit to Florence, Miss Mary Butler (formerly of Wellington) was asked to give a lecture on New Zealand as one of a seriee dealing with the British Empire arranged by Professor Goad. Miss Butler spoke on March 24 to a large audience, illustrating the lecture with a poi dance and a poem by Will Lawson. Miss Butler was to repeat her lecture in Paris, to which city eho afterwards returned. * * • * Miss Alfreda G. Patterson, the gold medallist for her year at the Auckland Hospital, is descended from one of the oldest New Zealand families named Evers. Her great grandparents settled in Wellington in the early 'forties, and lived there .till after the big earthquake in 1848. They decided to go with their family to the Hawke's Bay district and they travelled the whole way on foot, over bridle tracks and unbridged rivers in virgin country, the mother carrying a young baby the whole distance. It was a wonderful undertaking for people with young children. There was no means of communication along the distance of over 200 miles, and when no word came from them for long -weeks they were given up for lost. They had to carry much of their food witli them because none could be got en route. After many years of hardship and privations in their new home the family grew up and became prosperous, and for miles around during many years the great-grandmother of Miss Patterson was the only nurse in the district. Some members of the family migrated from Hawke's Bay to Auckland quite early in the city's history. Miss Alfreda G. Patterson is following out the family traditions by becoming a nurse, and at the outset of her career lias set a brilliant example, for her percentage of marks, 88.8 per cent, is not often excelled.