SOCIAL NEWS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18896, 19 December 1924, Page 14

SOCIAL NEWS.

Sister Gumming has returned from a visit to Rotorua.

Mrs. Robert Hudson, Thames, is the guest of Mrs. Ralph, Epsom.

Mr. and Mrs. Malcolm Robb left by the Maheno yesterday for Sydney.

Miss G. Erson and Miss Fraser left for Sydney yesterday by the Maheno.

Mr. and Mrs. K Chapman, of Sydney, are the guests of Dr. and Mrs. Chapman, Remuera.

The Misses Macdiarmid, Auckland, have left on a holiday visit to Sydney and the Blue Mountains.

Mrs. Cory Wright, Parnell, is spending several weeks in tho country at Tairua, East Coast.

Mr. and Mrs. A. Pickering, Parnell, left yesterday to visit Mr. and Mrs. Cecil "Pickering, Ohura.

Mr. and Mrs. Derrick Gould, Christchurch, were passengers to Wellington on Friday night en route to Auckland.

Miss Evelyn Giesen, Dannevirke, arrived in Auckland this week to undergo a year's training at the Karitano Hospital.

Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Spicer and their daughter left by the Maheno yesterday for Sydney, en route to England for an extended visit.

The Misses Roma and Glyn Monck Robinson, of Christchurch, have left on a two months' visit to Auckland, where they will stay with friends.

The engagement is announced of Irene Beatrice, eldest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. H. J. D. Hallett, of Main's Avenue, Whangarei, to Albert, second son of the late Mr. and Mrs. J. Verran, of Auckland.

Lady Esher's new business venture, the curio-souvenir shop which she opened at the boginning of this season at Callander, has been remarkably successful, and she anticipates making a considerable addition to the premises, says a London exchange. She is a daughter of the late M. Sylvain van de Weyer, a former Belgian Minister in London. The Ranee of Sarawak, her younger daughter, is a keen student of the psychic and the authoress of several novels.

New Zealand artists have been well represented at Wembley, and now Canada has decided to buy pictures of what sho considers good typical New Zealand work. Those who have been thus honoured are " Mabel Hill," otherwise Mrs. Mclndoe, of Dunedin, who, with Mr. O'Keeie, has the successful Barn Studio; Mrs. Grace Butler, of Christchurch; Miss Dobie, of Auckland, who has just left, to continue her art studies in England; Mr. H. Linioy Richardson, of Wellington; Mr. J. Weeks, of Auckland, at present studying art in Edinburgh: Mr. E. W. Hunt, ot Wellington; Mr. J. W. Ash, of Auckland; M\\ Marcus King, of Wellington; and Mr. W. Menzies Gibb, of Christchurch.