SOCIAL NEWS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19383, 19 July 1926, Page 5

SOCIAL NEWS.

Mrs. B. Godfrey returned by the Aorangi from a visit to the Islands. Mrs. Douglas Hay, of Hamilton, is spending a short holiday in Auckland. Tho Misses Henry, of Vancouver, arrived by the Aorangi yesterday and arc staying at the Hotel Cargen. Mr. and Mrs. Arthur E. Moore are sailing by the Maunganui from Wellington to-morrow on a visit to Tahiti. The Misses Irwin, of Montreal, Miss i Roddo, Sydney, and .Miss Tubbott, Syd- j ney, are staying at tho Grand Hotel. Mrs. Alister Real, who has been on a j visit to the Islands, returned by the j Aorangi and is staying at the Hotel j Cargen. Miss Gillies, of New York, who lias I been spending some months in New Zea- ! land, leaves by the Aorangi to-day for j Sydney. Mr. and Mrs. David L. Nathan are leaving this evening for Wellingtou to join the Maunganui, en route for London and Paris. The only woman member of the Empire Parliamentary Association to visit Australia will be. the Rhodesian delegate, Mrs. Tawst Jollie, M.L.A. Miss A. L. Spencer, of Remuera, is taking an art course in England and she hopes later to go to France and Italy. On her way back to New Zealand she will visit relatives in India. Miss H. N. Mitchell, lately of tho teaching staff of St. Cuthbert's Girls' College, Epsom, Auckland, is in London, after having spent a month in Australia prior to joining the Balranald, Mr. and Mrs. F. J. White, of Wliangarei, are staying in London until the end of July when they will cross to Ireland to attend the Dublin Horse Show and to visit friends in the Korth of Ireland. They are on a prolonged visit to tho Motherland. Mrs. C. J. Goodwin, of Auckland, went to England to be present at the golden wedding celebration of her parents, who live at Wymondham, Norfolk, says our London correspondent. She. will be away from New Zealand for about a year. Her son and daughter are with her. Mrs. Speedy, Miss De Renzy and Miss L. A. Roberts, of Waihi, spent a month in London before touring the cathedral cities of the South and West of England. They are now making their headquarters for a time at Stratford-on-Avon, after that the English Lake District will bo toured. The Misses S. M. and J. Mulvany, of Auckland, are making an extended visit to Great Britain and Europe, following some weeks spent in Canada cn route. During August they will be in Ireland, and then they will travel about England and Scotland by motor-car until the winter. The members and friends of the "Felix" Physical Culture Club enjoyed a most successful dance last week in the Mount Roslvill Hall, which was decorated with tho club's colours, orange and black. During the evening items were contributed by Misses H. Pearson, M. Wallbank and M. Monk. The Misses E, M. and A. E. Noon, of Cambridge, are staying in Herefordshire, England. They travelled via Suez and, at Cairo, they were among the first few hundred people to see the exhibits in the Egyptian- Museum taken from Tutankhamen's tomb. Miss E. M. Noon is in England chiefly to continue her studies, and though their plans for the distant future are not settled, they expect to make their home in England. The Raetihi Croquet Club held a drawing room evening on Thursday evening in the Druids' Hall, which proved most successful. There were nearly 200 present, and a most enjoyable time was spent. Ihe evening's entertainment consisted games, cards, music and dancing. Iho hostesses were Mesdames C. L. Boyd, A. Jennings and W. H. Sandford. Ihe musical programme was arranged by Dr. Z. Marshall and Mrs. Gieson, and the following contributed vocal items: Miss U McMillan, Mr. C. Whittington, Mrs. Rowlandson, Mr. E. Ironside, I<. lodd and Mrs. Mitchinsou. After supper dancing was enjoyed.

The Waikato Hunt Club Social Committee added another success to an already long list when_ the hunt ball was held at the Cambridge Town Hall on Friday evening. The function was a brilliant one and was attended by fully 700 guests from all parts of the district and bv a large party from Auckland. The hall was beautifully decorated with festoons of streamers which formed a canopy overhead and coloured electric lights enhanced the effect. The hostesses were Miss A. Brown, Mesdames Pickering, Potts, Souter, Crowther, Peaka and Meredith. The joint secretaries were Messrs. F. Swayne and Neville Souter.

The New Zealand friends of Miss Isabel Wilford, daughter of Mr. r f. M. Wilford, M.P., aid Mrs. Wilford, will, be interested to hear that she has been chosen to understudy Miss Olga Lindo, in the great London success, "The Best People," says our London correspondent. It is evident that the management at the Lyric Theatre thought highly of Miss Wilford's talents to give her anything so difficult at the outset of her London career. As a matter of fact, Miss Olga Lindo is out of the cast at the moment, being away for her health, ana it is not unlikely that Miss Wilford will be called upon shortly to relieve the actress who at present is taking the part temporarily. The management ot th<? Lyric Theatre have offered the New Zealar.d lady a part in a new play to be produced in September.

Lady de Chair, in speaking to an assemblage of Sydney women, reiterated a belief she has" often expressed—the need of greater co-operation in women's societies. So many societies had kindred ideals, she said, and their work would be strengthened by unity. Lady de Chair spoke on the value of co-operation between children and parents, and on homeI making. In England people believed that a garden did a lot toward prompting a real home atmosphere, aid though the climate was so "atrocious," the English people spent a great deal of time out of .doors. Children and adults, too, who took a pride in their homes, developed a civic sense, which later made them have a strong national and Imperial spirit. Lady de Chair said we had developed a distinct style of domestic architecture in our big cities, but she would like to see more per-manent-looking homes in the country. Many of them looked as if they were built as a temporary shelter and not for something that would be cherished for future generations. It would seem, too, that greater domestic conveniences would be possible in the country. In Norway and Sweden the peasantry had electricity for fight and poyer, vet in Australia comparatively few homes were supplied with 1 it.