SOCIAL NOTES

Dominion, Volume 24, Issue 251, 20 July 1931, Page 4

SOCIAL NOTES

Mrs. J. McLeod. Wellington, has returned from New Plymouth. Miss Barbara Gould, Christchurch, nas returned from a visit to Wellington. Mrs. T. Shailer Weston, of Heretaunga, left last week by the Marama for Sydney. Miss Dorothy Robinson, Mount Palm, Christchurch, is the guest of Mrs. W. H. Ballinger, Kelburn. Wellington. Miss Beulah Hartnell, who has been visiting New Plymouth, has returned to Wellington. Mrs. E. R. Boucher, of Gilgit Road, Epsom, Auckland, has returned from a motor trip to Wellignton. Mr. and Mrs. A. F. White and Miss C. White, Wellington, are staying at Warner’s Hotel, Christchurch. Lady Herdman, Auckland, and her daughter, are making a tour of the South Island. Miss West-Watson, Wellington, is visiting her brother, Bishop West-Watson and Mrs. West-Watson, Christchurch. Mr. and Mrs. Mark Hambourg and Mr. and Mrs. Peter Dawson will be entertained by the members of the Canterbury Women’s Club this afternoon at 2.30 p.rn. The Bishop in Polynesia and Mrs. Kempthorne, who visited New Zealand a few months ago, have since their return to Polynesia been visiting different parts of the island diocese They expect to complete their tour by the end of August, When they will settle in their new home, Bishopscourt, Suva. The big fire on Saturdaf night attracted a very great crowd of people. Quite the most fashionable crowd seen at a fire for some time. People rushed from the dance halls in full evening dress to catch a glimpse of the blaze. Women in light, flimsy dresses and fur coats, and delicate satin shoes, kept abreast with their male escorts in the race to get there before the fire brigadesmen got to work. Motor-cars also brought many sightseers, and the crowd was so thick that the inner fringe was frequently pushed within range of the occasional streams of water 'that swept the road as the firemen swung their hoses to new objectives.