PERSONAL NOTES

Evening Post, Volume CXXIV, Issue 134, 3 December 1937, Page 16

PERSONAL NOTES

Mrs. J. P. Firth, Wadestown, has left to spend the holidays in Nelson.

Mrs. Eric Lawson has returned from a motor trip to Tauranga and the Bay of Plenty.

Mrs. Barton, who until recently was general secretary of the English Cooperative Women's Guild, will arrive by the Arawa tomorrow to visit her daughter. She will spend several months in New Zealand.

Mrs. F. J. Nathan and Miss M. Nathan, Palmerston North, who visited Wellington for the Benjamin-Nathan wedding on Wednesday, returned north yesterday afternoon.

Mrs. A. L. Stedman, Auckland, is expected in Wellington shortly, to meet her son, Mr. Alan Stedman, who is returning from England.

Mr. and Mrs. H. Wilson, Bulls, were recent visitors to Wellington.

The Countess of Hardwicke, who arrived in Auckland from England last week, will shortly visit Canterbury, and will be the guest of Mrs. Campbell Hay. Pigeon Bay. The Countess is a New Zealander, the daughter of the late Mr. James Russell, an Auckland lawyer.

Mrs. Hoffmeister, Wellington, is the guest of her sister, Mrs. O. C. Harley, Opawa.

Miss Helen Denniston, Christchurch. arrived in Wellington this morning en route to Wanstanui, where she will ?.+tend the wedding of her niece.

Miss Kathleen Courtney, an outstanding speaker in Great Britain, is expected to arrive in Auckland early next year, and will tour the Domin'on, speaking at various centres. The societies co-operating in arrangements for her Dominion tour are the League of Nations Union, the National Council of Women. Women's' Institutes, the W.D.F.U.. the Y.W.GA., and the PanPacific Women's Association.

Mrs. G.L. Bell. Wellington, is visiting Mrs. Will Hutchens. Christchurch.

Mrs. S. Coyle (Gisborne) and Mrs. A. L. Raymond (Brisbane) are guests at the Empire Hotel.'

Mrs. J. Lanford (Westland), Mrs. C. A. Parmiter (Waipawa), Mrs. T.. E. Khoo, Mrs. C. K. Loke, and the Misses Y. T. and Y. C.> Loke (Malay States), and Miss L. Niven (Johannesburg) are staying at the Midland Hotel. .

Mesdames Laing and J. Boyland (Dunedin) and A. Wilkinson (Cambridge) are among the guests "at < the Grand Hotel.

Mrs. R. Graeme. Orr (Melbourne)., Mrs.'A. P. Frautwein and .Miss Caro> line Frautwein (Carbondale, U.S.A.) are staying at the Hotel St. George.

Guests at the Royal Oak Hotel include Mrs. A. Mackay (Blenheim), Mrs. J. H. Dupin (Christchurch), and Mrs. J. Morling (Samoa).