THE SOCIAL ROUND

Auckland Star, Volume LXV, Issue 240, 10 October 1934, Page 12

THE SOCIAL ROUND

PERSONAL ITEMS.

Mrs. J. E. Pago, Hamilton, is at the Star Hotel. * * * * Mrs. L. Killeen, New Plymouth, is visiting Ancklancl. Mrs. W. Tapp, Pahncrston North, is visiting Auckland. °»* « « Mrs. P. Cropper, ltemuera, lias returned from Kotorua. # * % • Grand Hotel visitors are Mrs. W. Hartham and Miss N. Hartham. » » # • Mrs. Owen Rainger arrived by the Wanganella from Sydney this morning. Mrs. Peter Lindsay, O'Porke Street, is' visiting her daughter, Mrs. Acton M. Adams, Blenheim. **• • ' Mrs. S. Lewis, of Cambridge, leaves bv the Wanganella for the Melbourne Centenary celebrations. » • • • Mrs. P. H. returns from England by the Eangitiki. arriving in Auckland on the 2-lth of this month. Mrs. Winter, Miss Winter, Gisborno; Mrs. Chidley-Cnmmins, Miss M. J. Cummins, Kotorua; and Mrs. J. E. Hey worth, Hamilton, are at the Station Hotel. ♦ » • • Mrs. A. B. Bullock, Seaview Road. Remuera, who leaves for the Melbourne Centenary celebrations by the Wanganella, will be the guest of her brother. Captain Donald Simpson, during her stay in Australia.

Sister Mary Nicolay, the "Grand Old Lady of the Nursing Profession," lias just celebrated her SJinl birthday in Perth, West Australia. She is believed to be the only surviving nursing sister who received her training under Florcneo Nightingale. Sister Mary is now actively interested in the progress of nursing, and gives much time to other benevolent work. When only 20 she enrolled under Miss Nightingale, and was the youngest of the last 12 trained by the Lady of the Lamp. Sister Mary went through the Boer War, and 50 years ago sailed from Africa to Perth to nurse leprosy patients.