SOCIAL NEWS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 19144, 9 October 1925, Page 14

SOCIAL NEWS.

Mrs. Claude Saw tell, of Christchurch, is arriving {row Wellington to-day ana will stay at Baeburn. Mrs.. D. Bates, president of the Wellington Lyceum Club,, was the guest of honour at the Lyceum Glub luncheon talk yesterday. Mrs. Arnold F. Preston, of Christchurch , is visiting Auckland and is the guest of her mother, Mrs. J. M. F. Connelly, Bayswater. The engagement is announced of Phyllis Evelyn, younger daughter of the late R. H. .Nicholson and Mrs. Nicholson, Carlton, Te Kowhai, Ngaruawahia, to William John, only son of Mr. and Mrs. John Dewhirst, London, England. The dramatic circle of the Auckland Lyceum Club will hold an open evening next Monday, when a miscellaneous programme consisting of dramatic items, monologues, recitations and musical items will be presented. By kind invitation of Mr. Brett, trie Gardening Civcle will visit hi' garden at Takapuna next Wednesday morning. " Driving a light aeroplane is easier than driving a motor-car." said Mrs. Eliott Lynn, the well-known sportswoman, in an interview, when she spoke with enthusiasm of the. new London Aero Cluh for light aeroplane flying, which was opened by Sir Philip Sassoon. I nderSecretary' for Air. Mrs. Eliott-Lynn said she thought, the new movement might lead to the establishment of an army of women pilots, and added: "I think women ought to make good as pilots of light aeroplanes as they have made good as motor-car drivers.