THE SOCIAL ROUND

Auckland Star, Volume LXV, Issue 239, 9 October 1934, Page 12

THE SOCIAL ROUND

PERSONAL ITEMS.

Mrs. H. G. Staple (Kotorua) is visiting Auckland. » • » • Mrs. J. BracTstrect (Hawcra) is at the Roval Hotel. » * » « Mrs. A. H. Hodge (Patca) is on a visit to Auckland. * » • • Mrs. E. F. Walker (Melbourne) is at Hotel Cargcu. * » • • Mrs. k. Osborne (Gisborne) is at present visiting Auckland. * » * * Mrs. Donald Ogilvie (Remuera) and her daughter, Bernicc, are visiting Kotorua. * * • • Mrs. G. W. Bennett, of Main's Avenue, Whangarci, is visiting Auckland. * * » • Mrs. F. - Stevenson, who has been on holiday in Auckland, has returned to Whangarci. « « • • Miss D. Steele, who has been in Auckland for the golf tournament, has returned to Whangarci. * • • • Station Hotel visitors: Mrs. A. IT. Miss Hodge (Patea), Miss M. Spencer (Kotorua), and Miss Paulino Humphries (Nelson). * • • • Mrs. Lan MacEwan, of Vincent Avenue, Remuera, is staying with Mrs. B. M. Silk in Wanganui, during the golf championship tournament. * • • • Mrs. E. Caradus, of Wellington, is staying at the Station Hotel. She is returning home, via Hamilton and New Plymouth, on Thursday. Miss Helcnc Dykes, who has returned to Auckland from the Cambridge competitions, was successful in all her entries. She tied for points in the vocal championship, with first places in "soprano test" and "oratorio," and second places for "operatic and sacred solos." . r * » * * At the monthly meeting of the associate branch of the National Council of Women, at which Mrs. Turner presided, after the usual business was finished a most interesting and instructive talk was given by Mrs. F. Mcßride, J.P., on Borstal systems in New Zealand and elsewhere. * • • • • Miss J. K. Darroch, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. D. M. Darroch, of Stanley Bay, who has been two years in the United States, returned home by the Monterey at the week-end. During her stay in the United States Miss Darroch found the people very kind, and when she got used to their ways, and especially their table manners, it was very easy to get on with them. They would have liked her, she thought, to "get into their way of speaking and the exaggerated way they have of putting things, but she continued on in the way to which she was accustomed. At the table, she said, it was wonderful what Americans could do with a fork even with a tough piece of steak, and they mixed their food in a way peculiarly their own. What struck her most of all was the vastness' of the country and the number of large cities. The awfulness of the unemployment problem with 10,000,000 unemployed made her glad to be back to her own country where things at any rate looked .prosperous.