THE SOCIAL ROUND

Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 150, 28 June 1933, Page 12

THE SOCIAL ROUND

PERSONAL ITEMS. Mrs. L. D. Somerset, of Sydney, is at the Star Hotel. Mrs. V. E. Hitchings, of Otorohanga, is on a visit to Auckland. Mrs. J. B. Batten and Mrs. Bruce Dall, of Wellington, are at the Station Hotel. Miss Edith Lyttclton (G. B. Lancaster), has had a big success with her new novel in America, states our London correspondent. * ■* * * Mrs. Jameson, of Bcmuera, has arrived in London to see her artist son whom she had not seen for nine years. She will later do some touring. * W * * Mrs. F. Jones, of Bidings Boad, Bemuera, has returned, with her children, to Auckland after spending a holiday on the West Coast of the South Is-land. * * * » Miss Margot St. Lawrence-Toner who hails from Auckland, is in London after touring America and the Continent. In New York she gave recitals for the Badio Corporation. Her sister, Madame Clair Tanqueray, whose husband is vioeConsul for France in New York, is with her. • » » ♦ Miss Jean Batten, the well-known Auckland airwoman, is giving people joy rides 011 the English beaches during the summer months, writes our London correspondent. She hopes to have a new 'plane in the autumn, to make a second attempt on the record to Australia. Miss Batten has a report from Bari saying that the cause of her crash was the breaking of a piston in the engine.