THE SOCIAL ROUND

Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 115, 18 May 1933, Page 12

THE SOCIAL ROUND

PERSONAL ITEMS. Mrs. J. Wright, of Tauranga, is on a visit to Auckland. * * # * Mrs. S. C. Carter, Te Arolia, is staying at the Central Hotel. * * * * Mrs. Clinton Greig, of Tauranga, is at present visiting Auckland. #** _ # Mrs. C. Hodgens, of Masterton, is at present visiting Auckland. * * « * Mrs. Burges Watson, of Remuera, is on a fishing holiday at Taupo. * * # # Mrs. A. Pollock, of Palmerston North, is on a visit to Auckland. Mrs. J. Wilson, of Portland Road, Remuera, te on a visit to Rotorua. * * # Mrs. Ernest Clarke, of Melbourne, and Miss Doris Bradford arc staying at ijotel Cargen. * ♦ # * Mrs. F. Allison, of Waiheke, leaves for a visit to tho East, via Australia, on Friday. » * # * » Mrs. Bert Finn, accompanied by her daughter Margot, is spending a holiday at Rotorua. *», # • Mrs. A. A. Wright, of Suva, and Mrs. Gibson Bisset, of India, are at Hotel Stonehuret. * * * » Hotel Cargen visitors are: Mrs. Kenrick, of Sydney, Mtes. Stennett and Miss Winiata, of Rotorua. # « » # Mrs. A. Gregory, Wills Street, Ashburton, has left for Auckland on an extended holiday visit. * * * # Mrs. Charles Chapman, Dtinedin, who spent several weeks in this city, left for Sydney by the Aorangi. Star Hotel visitors include: Mrs.. J. Waite, Palmerston North, and Mrs. J. G. R. Edwards, of Gisborne. # * * • Mrs. Ivan Phillips, of Seaview Road, Remuera, lias returned from an enjoyable holiday spent at Christchurcli. * * * * Mrs. R. J. Bowie and Mrs. C. Aitken, of Ohakune, and Mrs. H. Smith, of Chrtetchurch, are at the Station Hotel. Mrs. Lvttelton, Auokland, is at present in Christchurcli, on a visit to her parents, Mr. and Mrs. John Dwyer, St. Albans. Mrs. P. Steele, Auckland, and Mrs. Kent, Napier, are the guests of their mother. Mrs. Wilton, Upland Road, Wellington.

Mrs. G. Plank, Dunedin, Miss Rona [ Saville, Cambridge, and Miss Jean McLellan, of Wellington, are staying at the [ Station Hotel. Miss Molly Moore, of Horotutu Road, One Tree Hill, left by the Aorangi to visit her sister, Mrs. T. 0. Mclntyre, of Woollalira, Sydney. Miss Kathie Brown, Temuka, and Miss Stella Wheatly, Christchurcli, who have been touring England and the Continent, are among the pa.-sengers returning, by the lonic. * * * » Dr. Gladys Rowley, who lias been on a trip to China, Japan, Siam, Java and the Malay States, has readied Sydney and will arrive in Auckland on Tuesday by the Wanganella. Miss London, of Auckland, left Wellington by motor for the Chateau Tongariro and Auckland on Tuesday. She was accompanied by Miss Mona Hay. who has been the guest of Mrs. S. Pryor, Wadestown. * * * * Miss Lyttleton, the New Zaeland authoress who writes under the penname of G. B. Lancaster, intends leaving England in August for a visit to the Dominion. Miss Lyttleton's last novel is meeting with great success, especially in America. Miss Adele Seay returned to Christchurcli from Dunedin, where she has been visiting Professor Ann G. Strong, Studholme House, and after spending a few days with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. N. Seay, Merivale, will leave for Auckland on Friday night. Miss Elisa Ulvig, a Norwegian journalist, passed through Fremantle on her return journey to Europe, on the motor vessel Triton. She visited Australia oil behalf of a group of Norwegian newspapers, and on her return to Norway will give impressions of her visit in a series of newspaper articles and lectures. Miss Marjorie Barnard, who collaborated with Miss Flora Eldershaw in writing "A House is Built," the successful £1000 Australian prize novel, is on her way to England. She was entertained at morning tea by members of the Women Writers' Club at the Karrakatta Club in Perth. Miss Barnard is librarian at the Technical College, Sydney, and is on leave at present.

The Rev. Dr. Dorothy Wilson, who lias been in Australia on a health trip, passed through Fremantle recently, states "The Dawn," on her return to England. She is one of 10 women preachers in Great Britain, and is minister of Hestbank Congregational Church, Lancaster. She was the first woman to win an Oxford University diploma in theology (with distinction), and was ordained in 1927. She is a Master of Arts and a Doctor of Literature.

A schoolgirl who earted with a capital of £87 a few years ago, now has a business with an annual turnover of £87"),000 a year. The girl who started with her as her first assistant at £2 a week is now getting a salary of £15 a week. From her palatial offices in London "Isobel" now controls a business which is one of the largest of its type in the world, and she sells her products all over the British Empire, and even in hundreds of shops in America. » » # #

, Miss Rosita Sidebottom, of Auckland, returned to England with her father and sisters, via Sydney. They broke their journey at Toulon, where they stayed at Cannes for three weeks. After spending Christmas in London they stayed for a couple of months at Oxford.- : They have now taken a house for the ! next six months at Broadwindsor, Dorset, after which, unless they decide to stay permanently in England, they will return and take up residence ill Auck- , land.