THE SOCIAL ROUND

Auckland Star, Volume LXVII, Issue 64, 16 March 1936, Page 10

THE SOCIAL ROUND

ENGAGEMENTS. The engagement is announced, of Edith Emma Winifred, eldest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. Rhind, Glenmurray, to John Alexander, youngest son of Mr. and Mrs. A. F. Jones, Epsom. PERSONAL ITEMS. Mrs. L. Allen, of Timaru, is visiting Auckland. * * • * Mrs. R. N. Bell, of Hastings, is at the Grand Hotel. • * * * Mrs. D. T. Allan, of Wanganui, is at Hotel Cargen. »»» » ' Mrs. E. Black, of Gisborne, is visiting Auckland. * • • • Mrs. H. Jenkins, of Tauranga, is at the Central Hotel. • • • • Mrs. F. Beaumont Smith, of Wellington, is visiting Auckland. • • • • Mr. A. C. Holmes, of Cliristchurch, is spending a holiday in Auckland. • • » • Mrs. Leahy, of Cootamundra, is an overseas visitor at Hotel Cargen. • 9 • Mrs. T. C. Fookes, of New Plymouth, is spending a holiday in Auckland. • • • • Mrs. Paul Cropper has returned to Remuera after a holiday in Wellington. • • • • Dr. and Mrs. Asmis and family arrived from London on Saturday by the Rangitata. » * • • Miss Olive Lusk, of St. Stephen's Avenue, Parnell, has returned from Palmerston Nortli. • -\ • • • Mrs. A. .T. Don, of Mount Eden, returned from a tour of the South Island this morning. * • • • Mrs. F. Morley, of London, Mrs. H. Gray, of Melbourne, are overseas visitors at the Grand Hotel. • « t » Mrs. J. C. Beale, of Balmoral Road, Mount Eden, returned by car last evening from Hamilton. » • • • Miss C. Leatham, of New Plymouth, is staying with Mrs. W. Cutfield, Victoria Avenue, Remuera. • • • • Mrs. J. C. Williams, of Birkenhead, left by motor car for Oliakune on, a three weeks' holiday. #•i • » Mrs. Starr, of Sydney, with her young daughter, is on a visit to her mother, Mrs. Knowles, of Stanley Bay. • » • • Miss S. Ardley, of Christcliurch, is the guest of Mrs. G. S. Ardley, Malvern Road, Narrow Neck, Devonport. • • • * Professor and Mrs. N. A. Sewell, who came from London by the Rangitata, arrived in Wellington on Saturday. • • » • Mrs. Charles V. Houghton, of Gladstone Road, Parnell, is staying with her daughter, Mrs. McClurg, of Lower Hutt. ° • » • * Station Hotel visitors include Mrs. Ray Penlington (Te Kawa), Mrs. B. Penlington (Christchurch), Mrs. E. G. Burt (Whangarei). * • * * Lady Trent and the Hon. Mary Boot, who have been on a tour of New Zealand, arrived in Auckland from Wellington yesterday and are at the Grand Hotel. • • • • Mrs. Arthur Rosser, of Epeom, left by express this afternoon- for Wellington for a short stay while the annual conference of the New Zealand Justices Federation is in session this week.

Mrs. Pirie and Miss Pirie, of Canada, who have been the guests of Mrs. Kenneth Myers, of Glendowie, leave this week for the East, prior to returning to Canada.

Miss Marjory Willcocks, who is well known in amateur theatrical and musical circles in Wellington, is visiting Auckland, where she will spend several months, proceeding later to Christchurch and Dunedin. Miss Willcocks wis deputy-chairman of the junior branch of the Navy League, was on the committee of the New Zealand Women Writers- and Artists' Society, a member of the Repertory Theatre, and of its ladies' auxiliary, a member of the Thespians and of the original compositions group of the British Music Society.

Mrs. R. G. Coats, superintendent of the Maori Mothers' Union, left for a tour of the northern districts this morning, accompanied by Mrs. Maungatai Babbington, of the Orakei branch. They will be visiting Naumai, Dargaville, Waimamaku, Whirinaki, Waima, Kaikohe, Kaitaia, Ahipara, Te Kao and Te Hapua, and on the return journey will visit some of the settlements on the eastern coast. The tour is to confirm branches of the union already formed, to meet arid confer with the mothers, and to form new branches where desired. Mrs. Coats and Mrs. Babbington expect to he away from Auckland about a fortnight.