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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVI, Issue 150, 27 May 1936, Page 12

Mrs Caccia Birch, of Palmerston North, .is visiting Nelson. Miss Patricia Nelson left Wellington to-day by the Maunganui for Australia, and was farewclled by her mother, Mrs W. H. Nelson, of Woodvillc. Mrs W. Davis, of Rongotea, is motoring to New Plymouth, where- she will l>e joined by friends and continue the journey to Auckland. Mrs A. M. Scars has returned to Palmerston North after a visit to V ellington. Mrs Sears will leave Auckland hv the Aoraijgi on June 8 for Sydney and after a coastal tour of Australia will later leave for England, via Suez. Miss Linden Boag, of Terrace End, will be among the debutantes at the Feilding farmers’ ball to-night. She is the guest of her aunt, Mrs J. H. Mason, of Reid’s Line, for the occasion.

For 16 years a student of world affairs, Miss E. Avery, of Massachusetts, arrived at Wellington yesterday by the Maunganui. She came, she said, to investigate New Zealand’s racial problems, and ascertain the country’s attitude towards the League of Nations.

The death has occurred of Miss Ada Marion (Minna) Stevens, well-known as secretary of the Hamilton Ladies’ Golf Club for 15 years. Miss Stevens was a keen worker for St. Peter’s Cathedral and a foundation and committee member of the Lyceum Club. She was the eldest child of the late Mr C. S. Stevens, headmaster of the Hamilton East School, and Mrs Stevens.

Dr Kathleen Pih, from the New Zealand Presbyterian Mission Hospital in Canton, is spending her first furlough in London and is taking a course of study at Moorfiekls Eye Hospital, where she has been successful in passing her first section of the D.O.M.S. degree. Dr Pih spent the Easter vacation in Seoltnnd with the Rev. G. Brown and Mrs Brown.

A party of New Zealand trampers who arc to visit the overseas youth hostels next year has now almost reached its complete quota. Dr Hilgendorf, the president of the New Zealand Youth Hostel Association, has signed the formal acceptance of 19 application forms, and some fronis are still under consideration. The party will arrive in England in good time for the Coronation, and the itinerary tentatively drawn up includes tramping in Devonshire and Somerset in spring, the Cotswolds, Stratford on Avon, the Trossachs, English lakes and North Wales, besides London for the Coronation and sight-seeing in Cambridge, York and Edinburgh. A London correspondent says:—“The engagement is announced between Lord Walcran, eldest son of the late Hon. Lionel Walrond, M.P., and the Hon. Mrs 11. W. A. Adams, of Bradfield, Willard, Devon, and Betty Emsley Carr, younger daughter of Sir Emsley Carr and Lady Carr, of Wonford, Walton-on-the-Hill. Sir Emsley Carr is one of the best known of the newspaper magnates, being editor and partproprietor of the News of the World, vice-chairman of Cardiff Newspapers, and director of George Newnes, Limited. He was in New Zealand for a brief visit as delegate to the Imperial Press Conference held in Australia in 1930.” Lord Waleran was formerly an A.D.C. at Government House.