PERSONAL NOTES

Evening Post, Volume CXIX, Issue 95, 23 April 1935, Page 15

PERSONAL NOTES

Mrs. M. E. Tripe and her niece, Miss Charlotte Richardson, are spending a holiday at Arthur's Pass. Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Salmon, "Matsroa," Parliament Street, are leaving shortly for a visit to England. Mr. and Mrs. Bryan Todd, who returned to Wellington last week after an extended tour abroad, are now visiting Christchurch. Miss Veronica Flanagan, Tinakori Koad, is spending a holiday at New Plymouth with Mr. and Mrs. F. Gowing, of Palmerston North. Mrs. Frank Hay and her sister, Mrs. W. S. Bean, of Christchurch, arrived in Wellington this morning. Miss Daisy Isaacs, Wellington, who has been visiting Mrs. Brockett in Blenheim, is now in Christchurch attending the Drama School. Mrs. Duthie, Heretaunga, is the guest of Mrs. W. N. Abbott, of Epsom, Auckland. Mrs. Frank Jervis is the guest of Miss Ivy Buddie, Victoria Avenue, Remuera. Miss Findlay and Miss Peggy Scott have left for a visit to Hawke's Bay. Mr. and Mrs. Leslie Angus, "Glenferrie," Willis Street^ have returned to Wellington after spending the Easter recess at Paekakariki. Mrs. F. Ward, Martinborough, is visiting Sydney, and is having some success at the show with her dogs. Mrs. Ross Moody has returned to her home in Sumner after visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Murie, Seatoun. Miss Kitty Peoples left today for the round trip of the Maui Pomare, visiting Apia, Western Samoa, and Niue Island. Miss A. Dennis, Cashmere Hills, Canterbury, arrived in Auckland by the Rangitata, and Will leave at the end of the week for Napier and Wellington. Mrs. Aiken, Wellington, is visiting Hawke's Bay. ' Mrs. Thornhill Cooper, who has been visiting Wellington, has returned to Auckland. , Miss Haines,, Wellington, is the. guest of Mrs. C. C. Warner, Christchurch. . Mrs. J. W. Sandham is spending the holidays with her sister, -Mrs.. L. F. de Berry, Christchurch. Mrs. Charles Gell and Miss Edna Gell are visiting Palmerston North for the Easter holidays. Misses M. Jenkins and K. Lager, who have been the guests of Mr. and Mrs. Terris Boyd, Masterton, have returned to Wellington. Mrs. Graham (Dunedin), Mrs. Moore (Timaru), Miss. F. Drake and Mrs. J. Barries (Auckland), Mrs.1: L. Nance (Christchurch), and Mrs. MacArthur (Wanganui) are staying at the Empire Hotel. , Miss E. W. Simpson (Gisborne), Mrs. A. Orr (Hamilton), Mrs. J. P. Delahunty (fahiatua), and Mrs. F. Pow I (Auckland) are staying at'the Grand Hotel. Mrs. S. Airfens (Sydney) is staying at the Hotel St. George. Mrsi F. G. Maps (Palmerston North), Mrs. T. Johnson. (Feilding), and Mrs. L. Gibson (Patea) are staying at the Royal Oak Hotel. Mrs. D. J. Rogers (Sydney), and Mrs. E. J. Stewart (Gisborne) vare staying at the Midland Hotel. Mr. and Mrs. L. T. Aitchison, of Lower Hutt, are spending a holiday at Greymouth with Mr. and Mrs. Coltman.

HER OWN DESIGN

NEW ZEALANDER'S HOME

The many friends of Mrs. Hurst Seager, the widow of the well-known New Zealand architect, will be very interested to hear the charming things the "Sydney Morning Herald" has to say of her home at Warrawee, Sydney. Sydney is a place of so many beautiful homes and yet they have chosen Mrs. Seager's as the perfect example of a small home that is a masterpiece of beauty and comfort, and of such lab-our-saving design that it is as easily run as a flat.

Just off the Main Pacific Highway (writes the "Herald's" representative) Mrs. Seager found a little block of land with some twenty or thirty lovely gum trees, the tall white trunks of giants, and the straight, slim brown stems of the sapling turpentines and stringy barks—and the gum-tree stems set the key to the colour scheme of her little house! She chose the pale creamy yellow of North Sydney bricks, which give a cool colour without plaster or colour wash, and put with them a pink tiled roof which has 'more than a little of the beige of the brickwork. To give definition and a little more colour, other bricks of warm burnt sienna in irregular colours were set in over the verandah arches, round the doorway, and here and there to give relief or emphasis. The walls of the sitting-room are "just the primrose yellow bricks of. the exterior, the doors of golden Queensland maple, and the polished floors of oiled and polished New Zealand rimu timber, which is the palest,honey colour.

"The room is in two levels," states the description. "An economy this, as well as a delightful architectural idea, for the lowering the room's level meant less expensive excavation and foundation (work below ground is always the dearest somehow!) So as you stand on the creamy hearthrug beside the low fireplace, with its long, horizontal lines of bookcases on either side, you look up the room and see three wooden steps extending across and ending in a low, cream wall. You mount them and you are in the dining-room, ■> and the white lines of ceiling and the cream expanse of brick wall are unbroken, giving a pleasant feeling of space and air. . . ■ '

"For furniture—the barest minimum to give an impression of spacious comfort, cool grey and cream curtains, oat-meal-coloured easy chairs, and for the dinner table and its chairs Japanese oak, which one might describe as creamy white. You cannot imagine anything lovelier than the delicate colour, with silver candlesticks, and pale China, and the one note of colour, the silver Georgian dish piled high withpurple grapes and bright green chillies. There is one more colour note, a glorious peacock-blue pottery crock! "Off this truly, livable living-room there is a passage at right angles. Through the arch you find one large and two small bedrooms, simplicity itself—with built-in cupboards and every labour-saving device. A bathroom and a kitchen, and there's your flat! But— a flat with a garden with trees, with bird-song, and with almost country peace"