Town Tit-Bits, By Jane

Northern Advocate, 16 April 1938, Page 3

Town Tit-Bits, By Jane

We won’t be seeing Zoe Ward about the town much longer. She is making numerous dates with the dressmaker 'before finally setting off cn a tour south, visiting lots of her friends and relatives, and Zoe seems doubtful of .when she will return.

Whangarei social lights have been taking things very quietly, while some have been getting ready their bag and baggage for the Easter holidays, although it seems no time since we were unpacking our buckets and spades from the Christmas vacation

Parties have been the order of the day, and some of her hostesses were Mrs W. J. Orr and Mrs S. C. Blanshard, who both gave bridge parties, while Mrs Thomson invited a number of friends to her home on Friday night to say “bon voyage” to her guest,

Of social events of purely local inspiration there has been a bit of a scarcity this week; now' that the hustle and bustle of the races are over. One of the. brightest was that for Mary Evans, who has now attained the bright old age of 21. Mary really came of age earlier in the week, and her mother, Mrs Jack Evans, invited a few of Mary’s friends to celebrate then, but, of course, any excuse for a party, and so Mary was the guest of honour on Friday night at the Nbk Nok Inn. Some of those I saw there were Mesdames A. H. Crane, A. B. Brown, Booth, J. A. S. Mac Kay, W. C. Coote, Morris, Mitchell, Kyle, T. Mitchell, F. Farmer, Peat (Waipu), Steinberg (Auckland), H. W. Crawford, Clinton Jones, and Misses Zoe Ward, Packwood (2), Jean Ford, Pat Cronin, Nancy Booth, Barbara Walker, Lyn Hemus, Dorothy Brigham, P. Mullins, G. and S. Griffin, L. Ventry-Smith,

Alice Hirst, Steinberg, Bennett, D, Palmer, and Pat Coleman

Mrs A. P. Morgan, and Mrs Bruce Burgess, who is perhaps better known as Myra Hosking, are holidaying at Lang’s Beach.

These who will be missed at local affairs during Easter Week are Mrs

Rcss Nelson and Joan Stewart, who are .visiting Manly before going on later to Auckland for the Easter races.

There were numerous parties after the final day of the race meeting, and by the gaiety it seemed as though the world and his wife had simply collected a fortune instead of nearly losing it all.

Mrs A. R. Ryder and her daughter, Pat, are leaving on Thursday for Rotorua, and those who are making Auckland their destination sre Mrs W. T. Surman and Mrs Dodds, who has been up visJting her mother, Mrs A. J. Mackay, and incidentally managed to attend the races.

Mah jongg enthusiasts have lost one of their keenest members for a month or so. Mrs A. H. Crane, president of the Whangarei Women’s Club, is representing her home town at the Federatino of Women’s Clubs, which is being held in Christchurch, and while down there is taking the opportunity of looking up old friends before making tracks for home. • * *. m What with entertaining her sister-in-law, and attending parties with her, Mrs E- W. Thomson has had a few busy weeks. The sister-in-law in question is Miss Ethel Thomson, who has been sampling the social life of Whangarei before returning to her home in Christchurch, accompanied by Mrs Thomson as far as Auckland.