SOCIAL AND PERSONAL

Evening Star, Issue 26144, 4 July 1947, Page 9

SOCIAL AND PERSONAL

: Miss Joy Smith was hostess at a :£> o’clock party at her .home, Hawthorne Avenue, yesterday given in honour of Mr and Mrs Edmund J. Smith. \, • Mrs Lloyd Spears and small daughter, wno have been on a visit to Dunedin, returned north to -Tauranga yesterday. Mrs K. Campbell, of Maitland street, has v returned from a three weeks holiday in Central Otago. Mrs Bryan Thompson, of Tauranga, returned north yesterday. The Poetry Circle of the. Otago Women’s Club met on Tuesday. Mr >C. R. Allen, the guest speaker,'spoke on ‘Chesterton and Browning.’ - He pointed out the similarity Jn the lives of these two men; in that; by . varying influences and experiences : in ) their lives, they were enabled to rise above the commonplace and so gave to the world the best of their learnings.

These points were illustrated in the reading by Mrs V. . Wilkin of ' Pauline ’ and ‘ Dedication to Edmund Bentley.’ Miss Nelson- proposed a hearty vote'of thanks to the speaker. . ißowls of foliage, chrysanthemums, and African marigolds’, with posy vases of spring flowers adorned the Pioneer Women’s Memorial Hall on Tuesday evening for a trump whist party, held under the niispiees of the Kew-Cor-storphine sub-branch of the Plunkct Society. There was an attendance numbering nearly 100, and the prize winnners of the evening were Mesdames T. Archibold, Wilson, and F. R. Moen. Mr Clifford Muir, member of the Advisory Board of the branch, and president of the Kew Ratepayers’ Association, welcomed the guests, and express eel thanks to the women of the committee on their successful organisation of the evening, it being the first function and effort of Kew-Corstor-phine sub-branch.