SOCIAL NEWS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19302, 15 April 1926, Page 5

SOCIAL NEWS.

Mr. and Mrs. Wynn Grey, of Hamilton, j are staying in Auckland. Miss Kathleen Cowie, of Hamilton, has be-en spending a short holiday in Auckland. Mrs. E. J. Mears, of Hardley Street. Hamilton, left this week for a visit to Honolulu. Mrs. Lan Duncan, of Wellington, and the Misses A. and I. Duncan, left last week for a visit to England. Mrs. N. Holden, of Hamilton, was a passenger by the Aorangi for Honolulu, where she will spend a few weeks. The Lyceum Club will hold its monthly luncheon talk to-day, when Commander Middleton, R.N., will be the speaker. Mr. and Mrs. Edwin H. Hunt, of Wellington, left Auckland on Tuesday for Denver, California, where their future home will be. Mrs. E. G. Drury, of Fiji, who has been spending a few mouths with her people in Palmerston North, returned by the Aorangi, 011 Tuesday. Mrs. E. J. Reid, of Motutapu, and her daughters, left this week by the Aorangi for an extended tour of Great Britain, the Continent and America Mrs. P. W. Reeves and Mrs. F. M. Orchard, of Christchurch, are visiting Auckland, and are the guests of Mrs. J. J. Cannavan, Sarsfield Street, Heme Bay. It is announced that Lady Pitcairn Campbell will give a dance in London in May in honour of the Hon. Joan Ogilvie Grant, only daughter of Lord and Lady Strathspey, who is to be one of the season's debutantes. Mrs. Curlewis (Ethel Turner), the wellknown writer, arrived in Wellington on Tuesday morning by the Maunganui. She is staying with ner sister, Mrs. H. Pockley f at Wadestown, before leaving for a visit to Auckland and Rotorua. Mrs. Eleanor Hughes, the well-known New Zealand artist, writes our London correspondent, is represented by some of her clever work at the exhibition at the. Women's International Art Club at the Suffolk Street galleries. Her work is always widely appreciated in London.

Miss Mona C. Hay, of Remuera, who has been on a holiday visit to England and the Continent, has accepted a position at a well-known girls' finishing school in Lausanne, Switzerland, where she, will remain until July. Miss Hay will then return to England and pay a short round of farewell visits prior to leaving for New Zealand in September

Mrs. G. I. Stewart and Miss E. M. Henderson, Auckland, have arrived in England on a holiday visit to relatives, and they may be there for some time. Having been engaged in dairy farming together in New Zealand, they hope to see something of similar work in England. Scotland will be visited shortly and a Continental tour is in contemplation later in the year.

The New Zealand friends of Mr. B. R. Ward (Wellington and Napier) will be interested to hea# that he is in the ten finalists for the Rome Scholarship in Architecture. He has been studying in London at the University Italier, and has been working as draftsman to Mr. F. W. Troup, a well-known London architect who is at present engaged on alterations to the Bank of England. If Mr. Ward is successful, the scholarship will entitle him to three years' stud}' in Rome.

It is part of the Lord Chamberlain's duties to scrutinise all applications for presentation at Court and to "weed out" the unsuitable ones. This year it would appear that many ladies who are not unsuitable may have to be weeded out, owing to the unusually large number of applications. Possibly, however, the King will decide to increase the number of Courts on a pre-war basis. The Royal " extravagance " of an extra Court would be appreciated by both trade and society.

Mr. H. Belshaw (formerly Tutorial Class Lecturer in Economics at Canterbury College) who went to England to do research in economics at Cambridge University for the degree of Ph.D., is expecting to leave for Australia by the Ormonde at the end of May to take up the position, of lecturer ,in economics at Hobart, which was offered to him a year ago, and which was accepted on conditoni tnat the position would be held ope,n until he was aolo to complete the Ph.D. degree before leaving. This the Senate of Hobart very kindly agreed to do. Mr. Belshaw will be accompanied by his wife and child.

In a letter in tho Church News, Mrs. West-Watson, wife of Bishop West Watson, Christchurch, writes:—"l feel 1 must thank from my heart all those who have taken such kindly thought for us on our arrival. An anonymous letter reached mo at the deanery, telling me that some friends, including the Sunday School children, had provided some eggs, fruit and jams for us, as the season tor preserving' them for ourselves, was past. That you should have thought of such details for our help and comfort filled me with astonishment, but I was not prepared for the sight that met my eyes when we arrived at our new home—hundreds of eggs, no eild of fruit and jams, beautiful home-made cakes, a ham; indeed, more good things than I can enumerate. It is absolutely overwhelming, and I cannot attempt to thank you as I should like, but I hope that all who contributed to this woncierful surprise will know how grateful we all feel. The housewives of Christchurch certainlv know the vory direct route to the heart of an English housewife."