SOCIAL NEWS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19217, 5 January 1926, Page 5

SOCIAL NEWS.

Colonel and Mrs. Noel Adams have returned to Wharek.iwa. Miss Eileen Wilson, of Sydney, is staying at the Hotel Cirgen. Miss Anita Bridge, Christchurch, is the guest of her sister, Mrs. Guy Chapman, Auckland. Miss Hardie-Neil and the Misses Beach and Rose Hardie-Neil have left for a holiday in tho South. Miss Jane Mowbray has returned from Dunedin, whore she attended"the "Victoria Leaguei Conference. Mr. and Mrs. T. A. Oliphant, who have been in Christchurch for several days, ! left for Dunedin on Saturday. , Miss Kathleen King, who has gono to the Great Barrier for a holiday, is the guest of Mrs. Blyth, at Port Fitzroy. Mr. and Mrs, Kellum and family, of the j yacht Kaimiloa, left by motor yesterday £or Rotorua, where they intend to spend some time fishing. Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Ilardley, Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Hardley and Miss Laura Stono have loft Auckland on an extended tour of the South Island. Mrs. McKail Gec'ldes, who has been living in England for some, considerable time with Miss Mary Gieddes and Mr. Robert Geddes, has returned to Auckland. Miss Geddes has remained in England. It is announced that a marriage will shortly take place between Ambrose Spong, M.D., M.R.C.P. (London), F.R.G.S. (England), Gray's Inn, London, and Ruby Mildred Rolleston, widow of Arthur Rolleston, of Christchurch. Mrs. ' Rolleston has been living at Chelston, Tor- I quay. j The christening of the infant heir of j Sir Godfrey and Lady Thomas took place I at the Chapel Royal, St. James', a few j days ago. The godmothers were the Queen j (who was represented by Lady' Joan Ver- I ney) and Miss Verney. Tho Prince of j Wales, to whom Sir Godfrey is secretary, | was the chief, godfather, his equerry, Major tho Hon. Piers Legh, acting as proxy. The other godfather was Lieut. Allenby, nephew of Lord Allenby and cousin of Lady Thomas.

Miss Bullow, whose fearless riding was much admired at the Bath Horse Show, has the unique distinction of running a school for women grooms at her riding stables at Birmingham. She has now seven women training and 11 of her lady grooms obtained posts last year. It seems a good opening for girl lovers of j horses. Many pupils are ladies who intend to run their own stables, who like to know what their grooms should or should not do, and who wish to be able to supervise the management of their own horses. " Girls make good grooms. They aire very patient, and, if they have soft hands, the horses are most responsive," says Miss Bullow. Mrs. Preston-Thomas, of Havelock, whose baby girl has tho honour of being one of the two children chosen by the judges during the National Baby Week in London to represent New Zealand at Wembley, has received advice from London that the baby's photograph has been on view in the New Zealand pavilion at the British Empire Exhibition since July. With the photograph Mrs. PrestonThomaii had to send detailed answers, guaranteed by a doctor, to a long and searching list of questions on the child's fitness, health and general stamina; s,nd as by the answers the child proved to be as nearly as possible physically perfect; the judges awarded her the position of honour. Miss Eliza Campbell (Auckland), at the completion of thirty years' of teaching in New Zealand, has arrived in England and is staying with her brother, Mr. J. Morrow Campboll,- D.Sc., who left New Zealand in his youth and who is well known as a geologist and mining engineer. Mr. Campbell spends a good deal of his time abroad. Miss Campbell is a native of Timaru. During the last three years of her life in New Zealand she was senior mistress at Epsom Girls' Grammar School, but previous to that she was attached to many of the high schools in both islands.) Miss Campbell travelled to England by way of San Francisco and New York, and reached London in time to see tho Exhibition at Wembley. She expects to be in England for at least two years. A visit will bo paid to France after the New Year.