SOCIAL NEWS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18458, 23 July 1923, Page 12

SOCIAL NEWS.

;;; ■":ji : '';.i , |'.' i '..-:v.■■•'•-.•>._' ■',-': :;, ; .. ....■.■■.•■ .. v .'.:■..■'■.••.■'ij-'t, ■:•■■!.■.'.. .'.-■. ; ; J&s-' ; l>.:'(>. Hunter is staying, with" her ' |i .mother, Mrs. Allan, in Masterton* '{'\ :L ! M-s. W- Colbeck is on'.» visit to Falmers- ■ '*< ton r North where she is the guest' of Mm. - JTitisherberfc. , ' '*' Mr. and Mm J. Hellaby hate taken ?li f Mrs. - Booth's house in ; Market Road, .;j Bcmuera^ ' / • |> -. /.;'" Mr. and lira. J. Oraig, ©£ Wangaehu,, ■ i sailed on Saturday ./by the lotua. on a ■ ■• visit to the Islands. " After fa four months' tour of New Zealand, Mm Brett leaves for her home in Sydney ly the Manuka sailing on .Friday. Mrs. K. Hufnafel-Betham, of Apia, ' Samoa, accompanied by her sister, Miss Vera Cooper, left for the Islands by the , Tofua on. Saturday. Mr. and Mrs. E. H. Reid and Miss : Robertson, of South Canterbury,, who have been 'staying.at Cargen, have t&sen a flat at Courtyille. . Mr. tind Mrs. A. E. Harding and the Misses Harding, of Dargavillc, are staying at Cargen. Miss Alberta Ridley, of England, accompanies them,. The Duke and Duchess of York do not, for the present at all events, intend to -"'" acquire a town house, the Duke having .'. lee:', offered the use of his old rooms at Buckingham Palace for such timet as he desires it. Several " house-warming" entertainments will be given at. ; White Lodge during the summer.

The Ponsonby brancn or the W.C.T.U. met on Thursday. The president. Mrs. Lee Cowie, -was in the chair. Letters from various women's organisation;! wen. discussed and reports of visits to the stick were read. '- A short memorial service was held in memory of Maori superintendent, Mrs. Jameson. "Prohibition Liberty Bonds were explained to members. Mrs. Cowie reported having taken the Grand Theatre for Sunday night services from August 5, and asked for help with literature and singing. • j

"Among. the guides who showed the marvels of Rome to, the King, and Queen was a woman, and a very distinguished woman, Mrs. Strong. Assistant Director of the British School. A Girton graduate, who took first-class honours arid was first Fellow of. the' College, she is widow of a former librarian of the - House of Lords', and succeeded him us librarian nt Chatsworth, where her relations with the old Duke of Devonshire gave her material for a sympathetic little picture of the old statesman among the treasures of his house. She is a great authority on art, ancient and modern, a scholar of . deep erudition, and a delightful writer.