SOCIAL NEWS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19419, 30 August 1926, Page 5

SOCIAL NEWS.

Miss Snell, of Melbourne, is staying at the Hotel Cargeu.

Miss Janet Murray leaves on Friday on a visit to Helensville.

Sirs. A. Frater, Domett Avenue, has returned from a visit to Rotorua.

Mrs. Ernest Davis and Sirs. Murdoch Smith are on a visit to Ilotorua.

Mrs. C. IT. Mitford is the guest of the Misses Tucker at r Makauri, (Jisborne.

Sliss Rogerson, of Auckland, is staying with her sister, Mrs. Robbie, Hamilton.

Sirs. C. Warren and Mrs. A. Hum© are spending a short holiday, in Cambridge.

Miss Harm an Reeves, of Dnnedin, is at present the guest of Sirs. W. F. Boyle, The £ines, Epsom.

Lieutenant A. J. Baker Cresswell and Sirs. Cresswell leave by the Niagara tomorrow en route for England.

Sliss Dorothy Southey Baker, formerly of Hamilton and Auckland, has decided fo take up her residence in Palmerston North.

Madame Mabel St. James, who has been on an extended visit to the United Kingdom, returned to Auckland by the Corinthic.

Sirs. R. H. Lathlane and Sliss D. Lathlane and Sliss Ainsley Williams, Slelbourno, are among the visitors at Stonehurst.

Mrs. T. Savage and Miss Cooper have returned from Gisborne, where they attended the wedding of Mr. \. Savage ami Miss F. Barker.

Mrs. E. H. Snow, of Raetihi, has been visiting her son and his wife, Mr. and Mrs. Barrington-Snow, of Waimana Avenue, Northcoto.

Dr. H. L. Gould and Mrs. Gould have gone into residence at the Auckland Hospital, where Dr. Gould has been appointed assistant medical superintendent.

Invitations have been issued by Their Excellencies the Governor-General an 1 Lady Alice Fergusson to a reception to he held at Government House, Wellington, on Tuosday, September 7.

Miss Isabel Farquharson, school nurse, Southland, has resigned from the Health Department. Miss Farquharson has been appointed by the Otago - Hospital Board to the position of matron of the Palmerston South Sanatorium.

Mrs. H. E. Yaile and Mrs. A. F. Baker Cresswell leave on Wednesday on a visit to Rotorua. Mrs. Baker Cresswell will later spent a few days in Wellington as the guest of Their Excellencies at Government House, sailing W England by the Rotorua on September 11.

Mrs. H. L. Hendry, wife of Mr. Hunter Hendry, tho Australian cricketer (now touring England) is visiting Now Zealand. She will remain in New Zealand and meet tho Australian team when it arrives in Auckland on the Aoranpi early in November. Mr. and Mrs. Hendry were married early in tho year.

Tho wedding of Donald A. Cohen, of Alameda, California, one of the heirs of tho £400,000 Emily Cohen estate, to Miss Edith E. Herrick, of Auckland, New Zealand, was announced on June 21, following an elopement on Juno 9 and the refurn from the honeymoon. Mr. Cohen's father, Alfred Cohen, built the first house 'in Fernside, across the bay from San Francisco, in 1857.

Miss Catherine Landreth, of Dunedin, has been appointed head of the home economics department at North Collego, Illinois, United States, for the. coming year. Miss Landreth has been a graduate at lowa State College for the past year, and she received her M.Sc. degree at the end of the summer session. Before going to the United States she was home economics teacher in a New Zealand girls' school.

On August '24, Colonel Barclay, deputycommissioner of St. John Ambulance Brigrado Overseas, accompanied by Mr. C. J. Tunks, assistant-oommissioner, Mr. F. J. Hutchinson, senior district superintendent, and Dr. Northcroft, lady corps superintendent, paid a visit of inspection to the Epsom Nursing Division. Dr. Crawl ej, divisional surgeon, was present, and the usual routine of w6rk was carried out by the members. Colonel Barclay inspected the writing-table made and presented by returned soldier patients, and other 'valued testimonials belonging to the division. Ho afterwards gave a short address to the members on their work and favourably reviewed that of the past year.

Miss Beatrice Grimshaw, the wellknown authoress, .has arrived in Wellington. Miss Grimshaw has travelled alone in many out of the way parts of the world, and is tho author of about 20 novels, mostly with the South Seas as a setting. Some of their titles are: " In the Strange South Seas," " The Coral Palace," " f Guinea Gold," " Kris Girl," and " Tho Paradise Poachers." The authoress was bo.rn in Cloona, Co. Antrim, Ireland, and educated at Caen, Victoria College, Belfast, and Bedford College, London. The Canary Islands (where she ascended the Peak of Teneriffe), Papua, Borneo and the Moluccas are a few of the places visited by Miss Grimshaw, who is now on her way to England.