PROV NCIAL ITEMS.

Dominion, Volume 22, Issue 93, 14 January 1929, Page 5

PROV NCIAL ITEMS.

Mrs. Mawhiuney, of Palmerston North, accompanied by Miss J. Mawliiuney, is visiting Auckland. Mrs. MeAlley and family, of Levin, are staying at Parapataumu. Mr. and Mrs. J. Silson, of Palmerston North, have returned from a holiday at the National Park. Mr. and Mrs. John Murray and family, of Palmerston North, are spending a holiday at Warrington, Dunedin, Mrs. B. J. Jacobs, of Palmerston North, is visiting Wellington. Mrs. Sydney Freeman, of Palmerston North, is staying at Paraparaumu for a few days. Mrs. Constable, of Napier, is visiting her sister, Mrs. E. V. West, of Palmerston North. Mrs. Stromborh, of Auckland, arrived on a visit to Mrs. P. J. Christensen, of Kifnbolton, last week. Mrs. H. Cornfoot, of “Greenlea,” Halcombe, and Misses P. and A. Cornfoot, are spending a holiday at their seaside cottage at, Manawatu Heads. Mrs. Rhodes Williams, of Wellington!.,is staying in Palmerston North. Mrs. Picco, of Wellington, has been visiting Palmerston North. Miss Norma Davidson, who has been staying in Woodville for some months with her uncle, the Rev. G. W. Davidson and Mrs. Davidson, has now returned to her home in Christchurch. Mrs. Crowe, of Westport, has returned home after a visit to her mother, Mfs. S. McKinlay, of Woodville. • Mrs. Logan, of Masterton, is staying at Paraparumu.

KEEPING MOTHS OUT OF FURS. Here is the moth season again. Watch your furs! According to Madame Menere, the well-known furrier, the only way to keep moths out of furs is to give the furs a good shaking and beating with a thin stick every few days. If a moth is constantly disturbed in a fur it is not going to lay eggs there.—Advt.

Miss Nichols, of Mount Eden, Auckland, is visiting her sister, Mrs. Bruce, of Feilding. Mrs. L. Potter left Palmerston North on Saturday for Porongahau, Hawke’s Bay. She will be the guest of Mr. and Mrs. A. McLean. The Sl-year-old Princess Louise was paid a charming compliment recently when the men of the 13th London Regiment, of which the Princess is the colonel, decided quite spontaneously to pay their respects to their royal chief before dismissing. They inarched with fixed bayonets to Kensington Palace, where Princess Louise lives, and, drawing up on the green, paid their tribute with colours flying and band playing. The Princess, in spite of her recent ill-health, came out and inspected the line and chatted to a few of the men. Afterwards, the commanding officer asked leave to show f the Princess “what they thought of her,” and the Princess said: “I don’t know what you mean, but you may.” Whereupon men and officers, witli caps on swords and bayonets, gave three cheers. Deeply touched by this evidence of affection, Princess Louise wished the men a happy return to civil life. At this time of the year Princess Louise used generally to be in Scotland, but now she rarely leaves Kensington Palace for long. She has very pleasant quarters there, which she has decorated according to her own ideas, and, in some details, witli her own hands. Formerly she used to entertain a succession of guests distinguished in artistic and professional ways, for, more than any other of Queen Victoria’s sous and daughters, did Princess Louise contrive to make friends outside the royal circle.

Under arrangements with the New Zealand Government Publicity Office, Mr. W. Lawson, of Sydney, is lecturing and displaying enlarged photographs of the Dominion’s beauty spots in each of the main centres throughout the Malay States, Japan, Singapore, and China. The principal tourist hotels and offices in each of the countries visited have already requested that supplies of publicity material he forwarded regularly to them, and this should result in ; a valuable extension of New Zealand’s prospective tourist fields.