SOCIAL AND PERSONAL

Evening Star, Issue 20374, 4 January 1930, Page 16

SOCIAL AND PERSONAL

Mrs Johnson, Christchurch, is the I guest of Mrs M. Wise," Grant street. Miss Sheila Cameron is spending the holidays at Tineri Mouth. Mrs and Miss Vallang© are enjoying a motor trip in Canterbury. Mr and Mrs J. C. Stephens returned from Queenstown to-day. Mrs Aufrere Fenwick returned on >iday from Shag Valley. Mr and Mrs A. S. Mitchell (Wellingn) are visiting Dunedhi. ■•' Miss K. L. Sinikin (Wellington) 13 e guest of Mrs Hodges, Maori Hill. Mrs Ambrose Hudson left yesterday >r Wanaka. Miss Betty Andrews returned to-day iom a holiday at Arthur's Pass. Mr M. Prior-Williams is the guest of Mr and Mrs John Haggitt, Warringion. Mrs Chas. Samson, Richardson street, left on Sunday for Hampden, where she will spend a holiday. >,.■ Miss Denniston and Miss Ogston are among the many who are holiday making at Wannka. Miss Webster and Mr *!. Webster are the guests of Mrs Sam Chaffey at Keinton Coombe. Amuri. Mr and Mrs J. H. Dixon left on Friday morning to spend a month at Karitane. Mr and Mrs J. Dickison and Miss Alice Corson returned on Friday from a deer-stalking expedition to Rongahere. Mrs F. E. Woolley and her little daughter Barbara are the guests of Mrs E;: Asliihf; Littlebourne road, during the stay of the M.C.C. team in this city. --Mr and Mrs Geo. A. Dawson (Wellington); with Mrs and Miss Sutcliffe (Oamaru), are holiday-making at Broad Bay,

Mrs Robert Kennard (Granity) is spending a short holiday here as the guest of Mrs G. H. Jordan, Abbotsford.

Mr and. Mrs J. J. Clark and family left this morning for Oamaru, where they will spend a few weeks before proceeding to Wellington.

The members of the M.C.C. team were entertained on Thursday evening by Mr D, E. Theomin at his residence, Royal terrace, prior to leaving for the south yesterday.

Mrs A, R, Falconer left to-day for Warrington. The Misses R. and J. Rutherford (Christchurch) and the Misses Falconer (Dunedin) will be her guests there. Mrs A. W. Every (Malay States) arrived in New Zealand last month. She is at present at Pelorus Sound, and is expected in Dunedin about the end of January.

Miss M. Feichley went north on Thursday. She is the first ot the Girl guiders to leave for the dominion camp to be held in Wellington on January 7 and 14.

Mr and Mrs Walter Young and Miss Dorothy Young (London) returned _to Dunedin on Thursday from a motoring tom* in the north. They will spend the next month in Dunedin before leaving for England early in February. The engagement is announced of Kathleen, third daughter of Mr and the late Mrs T. M‘Ta<rgart, to Albert Arthur, second son of the late Albert and Betty Isaacs.

The' engagement is announced of E. Myrtle Phillipps, daughter of Mrs Wm. Phillipps, Wellington, and the late Mr Wm. Phillipps, Waikouaiti, Otago, to Raymond Malcolm, son of Mr and Mrs D. Collis, Kairanga, Palmerston North.

The engagement is announced ol Hazel Irene, eldest daughter of Mi and Mrs G. A. Lawrence. Pacific street, Roslyn, to Eric Hosford, only son ol Mr and Mrs 0. A. Thompson, Constitution street.

The only girl gravedigger in England is a Yorkshire girl. Miss Maggie Freeman, the last of five generations of janitors in Normanton. Yorkshire. Maggie acts as gravedigger, verger, clerk of records, bellringer, and general factotum at the eight-centuries-old parish church.

Dr and Mrs W. P. Gowland have arrived in London after spending some time in U.S.A. and Canada. Dr Gowland will visit various anatomical departments in Britain and on the Continent, and will attend the International Congress of Anatomy, to be held in Amsterdam.

In a Press Association cable message from London the death was. announced of Miss .Eva Munfo, at the age of 28. New- Zealanders visiting London_ will remember her in charge of the mails at New Zealand House. She complained of head pains on December 27, went home, and died of’ meningitis on the 29th.

Another record in the motoring world has been established bv a woman, the Hon. Mrs Chetwynd, who drove her car for 996 miles in twelve hours at an average speed of 82.97 miles per hour, at Brooklands (states an American exchange). In’ doing this Mrs Liietwyucl has beaten the record held by Mr and Mrs prqirbart Dykes of eigbty-oiie miles, per hour for the same time. . i Following the review of the Otago : Girl Guides by Lady Alice Fergusson the officers, of the various companies paid a surprise visit to the home of the provincial commissioner, Mrs C. de R. Andrews, at St. Clair, to celebrate her birthuay. A cake (made and decorated by one of the Guides) had the place of Honour on the table. The party had been kept an absolute secret by the thirty-one guests, and was thoroughly enjoyed by all. Sir James and Lady Allen entertained some members of the visiting M.C.C. i team at ‘ their residence, “ Arana,” on Wednesday evening. Among the guests were Prince Dulcepainhji, Messrs Dawson, Allom, and Campbell, Mr and Mrs John Cook, and Miss Joachim. More and more are women invading the field of; sport, and this is occurring in hunting as well ns in other .branches of athletics. For the first time in the long history of the famous hunting pack in Quorn country, England, a woman l has become associated • with its mastership. She is Mrs A. E. Burnaby, who- has been appointed to the mastership in partnership with her husband. It is very pleasing to note that Mr C. R. Allen was successful in carrying off the second prize in both sections of the Christmas literary competition organised by the Christchurch ‘ Sun. The entries were exceptionally heavy this year, coming from all over New Zealand, from Fiji; and from Rarotonga. His short story was entitled *The Stolen Code,’ and his poem ‘Conjecture.’