SOCIAL NEWS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 18950, 23 February 1925, Page 13

SOCIAL NEWS.

Mrs . H. Mace, of Wanganui, is on a j-isit to Auckland. Mrs. B. Hav is staying with Mrs. A. Gifford, Hamilton. Mrs. Short and her daughter are visitjng Mrs. O'Mcara, Hamilton. Mrs. D. R. Wilson, of t Wellington, is staying at the Hotel Cargcn. ' Mrs- Ait ken is the guest of her sister, Mrs." Draffin, in Wanganui. Mrs A. Hogg, of Auckland, is the, guwt" of Mrs. F. Swan, Wanganui. Mr. and Mrs. H. R. Smith, of Christchurch, are on a visit to Auckland. Mrs. D. B. Mac Donald and the "Misses McDonald arc arriving by the Aorangi on Tuesday. Mrs. E. L. Humphries, who has been a. visit, to Auckland, has returned to W.rganm. Nurses Wood house and Gendall, of the Wellington Hospital, loft for the South last evening. Mr. and Mrs. Eric Baumo and theit little'daughter left Wellington on Friday on their return to Sydney. Mrs. Mouutfort and Miss Phyllis Mountfort returned to Wanganui last week after a visit to Auckland. Lady Ward, who has been visiting Mrs. Bernard Wood in Christchnrch, has gone on to Invercargill with Sir Joseph Ward. Dr. and Mrs. M.orrice and the Misses Morrice, of Wellington, arc sailing by the Rotorna this week on a visit to England. Mr. and Mrs. T. Williamson are learning by the Aorangi from a stay of two vears in England and tho Continent. Mrs. A, Duxfield has been elected president of the Wanganui East Women's Christian Temperance Union for the en--1 suing year. Mr. and Mrs. C 5. M. Impey have now returned to their homo in Mount Albert, after a six months' tour of England and the Continent. Mr. and Mrs. A. D. Johnson, of Mel bourne, who have been touring the South Tsland, aro staying at Braeburn, Symonds Street. . Miss Williams, president of the Hastings Plunket Society, leaves for England this week. Mrs. F. E. Nelson has been appointed acting-president in her place. Miss Marion G. Farquharson, M.A., Senior mistress of tho Invercargill High School, has been appointed to a similar position in the Hamilton High School. Mrs. Eliot Davis and Mrs. Charles Macindoe are, leaving Auckland for Sydney, via Wellington, by the Aorangi, returning again to Auckland by the Aorangi on March 16. Visitors staying at the Grand Hotel include: Mrs. Langvord, Christchnrch, Mrs. Reid and tho Misses Reid, Motutapu, Miss Isacke, England, and Miss ,Fuller, England. Mrs. Gaffney, who has been on a visit to her mother, Mrs. T. Cotter, lias returned to Sydney. Mrs. Haines is arriving on Tuesday by the Aorangi from a trip abroad. Miss K. Granger, of the firm of Messrs. Archibald, Clark and Sons, who is to ho married,, shortly, was presented by her co-workers on Thursday with a silver egg stand and bouquet. Mrs. Knox Gilmer was the hostess in Wellington at a tea party given as a farewel] to her sister, Mrs. C. Morice, and the Misses Morice, who are leaving on a visit to England. The tea was held in the Pioneer Club. Mrs. W. Edgar Suckling has recently passed, the examination of the Institute of Optometrists of New Zealand, being the first, woman in New Zealand to gain her diploma. For some time past Mrs. Suckling has been working with t her husband as an optician, arid though there are women in America, and a few in England, who practice, she is the first woman in New Zealand to become a practising optician. Among the arrivals in Wellington last week by the Maunganui was Miss Leah Zueker, chief of the correspondence division of J. Ilott, Limited. Miss Zueker left for England early last year as secretary to Mr. C. E. Clinkard, Auckland manager for J. Ilott, Ltd., who was the solo representative of New Zealand at the International Advertising Convention at Wembley. Her experiences among advertising experts and advertisers from all parts of the world arc of exceptional interest. Miss Way, travelling representative of the Girls' Friendly Society, arrived in Wellington by the Maunganui. She intends touring New Zealand and speaking on G.F.S. interests in the different centres. Miss Way has just concluded a lengthy visit to Australia, where she especially studied the immigration question, in which she finds there is a good deal to be done. While there she met Mrs. Henry Dobson. of Tasmania, who is a vice-president of the International Council of Women, and is attending tho conference at Washington in May. Miss Way intends, after touring New Zealand, to go on to South Africa. Her Excellency Lady Alice Fergusson has graciously accepted the position of Dominion president of the Girl Guides. Misa Fergusson has been made Inspecting Commissioner for the Dominion. She will inspect all companies when on tour with Her Excellency. The guiders' training f lass in Wellington reopened last Thursday with a good attendance, among whom wag Miss Fergusson. Several matters were discussed, and a letter received from the Rev. Maurice Holland, of the Cambridge Terrace Congregational Church, was read, in which he invited all guide companies to hold their first, united church Parade an his church, as the Cambridge Terrsco Company was the first formed m Wellington. The invitation was accepted unanimously. At the close of the meeting an appeal wa-s made for any guiders who could spare the time to go to the hospital as voluntary helpers, Miss Fergus- . son and Miss Tanner responding. Most becoming and distinctive wero frocks worn by Miss Muriel Starr in the "Garden of Allah," which opened at His Majesty's Theatre on Friday. An evening gown of blush rose georgette, exquisitely embroidered in crystal heads, was a very graceful model, in which a wide panel, attached to the shoulders at the back and again caught a t the low waist line, gave the effect of a courtier cape. A very chic Pari sen no toilet was of black souplo satin* longsleeved, with a very low -waist lino and a skirt that opened on cither side to Know accordion-pleated panels of rose pink. The tunic, closely buttoned to the neck, was piped with vinux rose satin, which also lined tho collar, tho scarflike ends of which were thrown over the shoulders. With this was worn a *Wall turban toque of black satin. Two v ety delightful bouso frocks were also worn by Miss Starr, one in grey crepe wariett-e, was cut in perfectly simple lines, with a deep tunic and narrow skirt, on which there appeared at tho side a panel of graduated flounces. The other was of beige marocain, following closely tho long, slim silhouette. Tho ti«ee-tiered skirt was attached to a very long tunic, which fastened at tho side, and the smart coat effect was accentuated by tho roll collar and closelyfitting' sleeves.

There arc many people throughout the Dominion who will regret to hear of the denth of Mrs. Edith Atkinson, widow of the lata Mr. W. E. Atkinson (who died about two years ago). Mr. Atkinson was principal for many years of the Htirworth Preparatory School at Wanganui (which ho and Mrs. Atkinson owned), and many of the boys of this school tooccupy leading positions in the Dominion. Mrs. Atkinson's great kindliness and understanding of boys made lier a wonderful assistant to her husband, though sho took no part in the teaching staff. Sho was Miss Watson, daughter of Mr. Watson, a house-master at Wanganui College, hoi- brothel- later occupying Iho same position. Before her marriage she was on the teaching staff of Nelson Girls' College, and was always most interested in the profession. Mr. and Mrs. Atkinson wero at one time in Fiji, where Mr. Atkinson was in charge of a large native school, and it was after their return to Now Zealand from there that Mr. Atkinson started the Hurworth School. About four years ago lie gave up the school and settled at York Bay, Wellington, and died rather suddenly. Later, Mrs. Atkinson went to England, making her headquarters at Sir Frank Dicksee's residence, the Royal Academician being a cousin of hers, and when she returned to New Zealand, Miss Dicksec, another cousin, accompanied her, Mrs. Atkinson has been in New Plymouth and other parts of New Zealand since her return, but has not been in very good health, and she returned to her residence at York Bay, where she passed away on Thursday morning.