THE SOCIAL ROUND

Auckland Star, Volume LXV, Issue 27, 1 February 1934, Page 12

THE SOCIAL ROUND

PERSONAL ITEMS.

Mrs. W. Kent, of Whangaroa, is visiting Auckland. * * * » Mrs. W. X. Page, of Wellington, is at present visiting Auckland. * *• * * Mrs. Howard G. Mason, of Takapuna, has returned from Wellington. • 1 • • Mi.*s Cecil McConnell, of Epsom, is the guest of Mrs. Hall, of Taumarunui. Mrs. H. J. Thomas, of Melbourne, is an overseas visitor staying at Hotel Cargen. • • • • Mii=is Turner, of Sydney, is on a tour of the Dominion, and is staying at Arundel. ♦ * # # Mrs. M. J. Moodabe, who has been on a visit to Dunedin, has returned to Auckland. • • •■ • Miss Reno Gray, of Northcote, has returned from a holiday spent in the Te Arolia district. v * • • • Mrs. C. .T. Badeley, of Remuera, and Miss Dorothy Badclcy have returned from Christchurch. • • • • Station Hotel visitors include Mrs. N. Sharpe, Sydney, Mrs. F. M. Blake, Mount Maunganui. » * » • Mr. and Mr.s. J. F. Vogel, of Lower Hutt, are motoring North to attend the Waitangi celebrations. ♦ » • • Mr. and Mrs. C. Price, who. have spent the vacation at Takapuna, return home to Mamaku on Saturday. • • » • The Rev. J. L. and Mrs. Hubbard, of Wellington, are spending a holiday at Parakai House, Helensville. Miss B. Maso.n, of Gillies Avenue, Epsom, has been at Lake Rotoiti for several weeks, and is now visiting Paeroa. • •. • • Mrs. Denis Muir, of Auckland, who lias been staying with' her mother, Mrs. G. Webster, Christchurch, has returned home. • • • • Mrs. J. V. Hodgkinson, of Christchurch, and Mrs. L. W. Andrew, of Palmerston North, are staying at the Star Hotel. • • » * Among Aucklanders staying at the Wanaka Hotel, Pembroke, arc Miss R. M. PI Kay, Miss A. L. Robb, and Miss L. C. Brown. » ♦ • • Mrs. C. J. Holt, of London, intends to live in Auckland for some time, and has taken up residence in Cotter's Avenue, Remuera. • • • • Sirs. George Reed and Miss Mary Reed, Mount Albert, will returtt- home this week after spending a holiday in Christchurch and Woodbury. • • • • Mrs. Stapleton Beale and Miss Joyce Beale have returned from a tour of the thermal district, and are the guests of Mrs. Adison McConnell in Epsom. • • • • Among the guests at Hotel Ventnor are: Mr. and Mrs. Livingstone and family, Suva; Mrs. and Miss Bellamy, Auckland; Mrs. J. Smith, England. » • • • Mrs. C. F. Bickford, who has been away from Auckland for over two years, returned on a visit by the Wanganella, and is staying at Arundel. • • t • Mr. and Mrs. Alex. Johnston, of Blenheim, who have been staying with Mrs. W. Johnston, Christchurch, have left to make their home in the Auckland district. • • • • Mrs. Eric Bullock, Auckland, who was the guest of Mrs. L. Scaife, Christchurch, is now the gueet of Mrs. G. B. Bullock, Christchurch, before returning to the North Island. • • • • Mr. and Mrs. Maxwell, New Plymouth; Mrs. Doble, Hamilton; Mr., Mrs. and Miss Whycherley, Hamilton; have returned to their homes after spending holidays at Hotel Ventnor, Devon port. ♦ # • # < Mrs. W. Upton, accompanied by her two daughters, Misses R. and W. Upton, arrived from England, via Australia, by the Wanganella. During their visit to Sydney they spent a fortnight at Palm Beach as the guests of Lady Leys. J * # * • Among the guests at Parakai Hous-e, Helensville, arc Mesdames Badcock, Barnes, Mason, Frear, Hamilton, Pilkington, Hall, Gee, Foley, Pearson, Hamilton, Misses Mason, Hotchkise, Bull, Hawkin, Foley, Chapman, of Auckland, and Miss Hanlin, Cambridge. • • • * Mrs. .H. S. Wliiteliorn, of Bayswater, is leaving on Saturday to attend the Waitangi celebrations. Her brothers, Messrs. Selwyn and Percy Simeon, arc accompanying her. Mrs. Wliitehorn is a granddaughter of the Rev. William Colenso, who was present at the signing of the Treaty, and her grandmother, who was, before lier marriage a Miss Elizabeth Fairburn, was a teacher in the Maori school there. * • • • Appreciation of the work done for Birkenhead by Mrs. William Wallace, a former Mayoress, and by Mrs. Helen Gilpin, widow of Mr. F. A. Gilpin, a former member of the Borough Council, was expressed at the meeting of the Birkenhead Borough Cotmcil last evening by the chairman, Mr. Albert Hadfield. He said the deaths of these two ladies was greatly regretted. The members of the council stood in silent tributo to the memory of the two deceased, whose relatives are to be forwarded letters conveying the sympathy of the council, and of the residents of Birkenhead.