PERSONAL ITEMS.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVII, Issue 181, 1 August 1936, Page 14

PERSONAL ITEMS.

Mrs. R. Packwood, of Whangarei, is visiting Auckland. * * * Mrs. R. Barstow, of Auckland, is holidaying in the thermal district. » * ♦ • Miss Jean Meredith, of Rotorua, is on an extensive visit to Auckland. ♦ © * « Mrs. A. Brown, of Rotorua, who has been visiting Auckland, has returned home. • • • • Mrs. J. S. Hall, of Remuera, leaves today by motor for a tour of the South Island. •» * * * Mrs. Gilmore Rogers, who has been visiting Auckland, has returned to Tau- ' ranga. * *. . # ♦ Miss Rita Cumming, of Great North Road, left by motor yesterday for Taranaki. # * » »

Miss Jean Pearce, who has spent several weeks in Auckland, has returned to Rotorua. * *. » »

Mrs. A. -Riddell, ot Kerikeri, and Mrs. O. Ormsby,' of Te Kuiti, are at the Station Hotel. * * * *

Mrs. B. Bellringer returned to Stratford yesterday, after an enjoyable holiday in Auckland. • • • • Miss RuthUpton, of Victoria Avenue, Remuera, motored yesterday to the Chateau Tongariro. • • • • Mrs. V. Macky,. of Mountain , Road, Epsom, returned yesterday from a brief visit to Wellington. . , , -* » - • » Mrs. Renshaw and Miss Charmian Renshaw, of Tauranga, are spending a holiday in Auckland. V C ' /'' ; »»» • ■ Mrs. J. T. S. Cox,; of Remuera, is the guest of her sister, Mrs. ' J.' . McLean Clarke, of Whangarei. ♦ * » ft V > Mrs. J. H. Dalrymple, of Mangaweka, is the guest of Mrs. E. G. Eckett, of Rarere Road, Takapuna. * » * * Miss Hunt has returned to Auckland after an extensive visit to her sister, Mrs. H. Turner, of Tauranga. • • » • Lady Buckleton and.Miss Jean Buckleton, of Wellington, are staying with Mrs. A. I. Walker of Morrinsville. ' .Z-- • • » • Mr. and Mrs. Keith Clayton, who are taking a motoring holiday, left this morning for Napier and Wellington, en route to Palmerston North. - • » »■ The marriage is taking place in London to-day of Mr. P. L. Soljak, late of Auckland, to Miss Dorothy McNeicc, of Scotland. •»• » , . Miss Denise Dettman,.of Sydney,, who is a daughter of Professor and Mrs. Dettman, who used to live in Auckland, has left for London, where she will attend Oxford University. f. # ♦ » Mrs. Tui McEwin, 'of Herne Bay, and Mrs. G. Leslie Adams, of Remuera, .are motoring to Rotorua and Gisborne for a holiday in Gisborne, and will be the guests of Mrs. McEwin's mother, Mrs. Corbett. ♦ * # * The Ladies' Auxiliary of the Y.M.C.A. held an afternoon recently at which Mrs. R. E. Matthews gave an address on life in New England. Songs were sung by Mrs. Armstrong- Keven and recitations were given by Mrs. C. Simpson. The accompanist was Madame Dunn.

Miss Alice S. Bourke, M.A., of Christchurch, -will leave New Zealand, to-day for England, where she intends to take a post-graduate course of lectures in ■bacteriology at London University. Miss Bouike was for many years a bacteriologist in Hamilton, and has for the past 18 months, held the position of bacteriologist in charge of the West Coast clinical laboratory at Grey River Hospital, Greymouth. «k • • ,

Professor Ann G. Strong, of the University of Otago, has lately received from the Carnegie Corporation of New York a bronze medal, designed by Paul Manship, in recognition of her constant interest and help m the corporation's work. She has also received advice from the chairman of the membership committee of the American Dietetic Association that it has found her training and experience such as to qualify her for active membership in the association, and she has accordingly been enrolled as a member. This association is so exclusive that membership of it is regarded as a mark of distinction.