SOCIAL NEWS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19470, 28 October 1926, Page 5

SOCIAL NEWS.

Mrs. H. R. Burrett is spending a holiday in Hamilton and Rotorua. Miss Gwe.n D ids bury, of Auckland, is tho guest of Miss Barraud, Wellington. Mrs. Swales, of Hamilton, is at present the guesi of Mrs. B. Finn, Victoria Avenue. Mrs. H. Horrocks, who with her family has been staying at MLlford, has returned to town. Misses Chrissie and Daphne liawnsky, of Remuera, accompanied by Miss M. A. Parsons, of Devonport, are on a visit to Rotorua. Mrs. A, W. Benton, of Epsom, who has been touring southern England, Scotland and . Ireland, has left on her return to Now Zealand. Mr. and Mrs. C. C. McMillan. Miss McMillan and Mrs. Harold Bull are arriving from England by the Rnahine, which is due in Wellington on Friday. Miss E. L. Ostler, of Remuera, has been touring on the Continent, visiting Holland, Belgium, Switzerland and France. She will sail by tho Com or in on November 5. The Misses S. and J. Mulvaney, of Auckland, have left London for Holland on a visit to friends. Thence they will , tour by car to Belgium, France and Northern Italy, returning to England in about two months' time. Mrs. S. J. Sawyer, of Remuera, has spont a very enjoyable time in the , Mother Country, visiting relatives and " friends in various parts, says our London correspondent. She booked her return passage by the Otranto, which sailed at the end of September. Mrs. George Beaney, of Remuera, has, since her return from the Continent, been touring in the English lake district, Scotland and Ireland. She leaves by the Tuscania for New York, and she will sail from Vancouver for Auckland about October 20. writes our London correspondent. Mr. and Mrs. A. Hawking, of Holmleigh, Dagmar Avenue, W 7 embley, London, well known in musical circles, have arrived in the Dominion. At the exhibition they were members of tho famous tattoo and pageant choirs. Mr. Hawking will be remembered by visitors as the hearer * of the mascot in the tattoo, "Baby Peggy." Their son is in the educational service in the Bay of Plenty district, and it is the intention of Mr. and Mrs. Hawking to make their home in Auckland. Miss Cecil Hall, of Auckland, who is now on her way to London, received by cable the sad news of the death of her father, Mr. W. Y. H. Hall, barrister and solicitor, of InvercargilL Mr. Hall, who had latterly retired from his profession, had been writing a history of Southland. He was - the son of the late Captain T. Hall, a runholder in Canterbury, and nephew of the late Sir John Hall, a former Premier of New Zealand. Mr. Hall married the only daughter of the late Archdeacon Edwards, of Dunedin, who died within eight years of her marriage. Miss Cecil Hall is the only daughter. Mrs. G. F. Liversedge, of Hokianga, and her three children have been visiting relatives in England. During her stay in England, Mrs. Liversedge, who is keenly interested in all educational matters, has taken every opportunity of observing methods of education in many schools. She herself was at one time a teacher under the London County Council, and she is accordingly in a position to appreciate the efforts and progress which have been made in their endeavours to attain the best methods of education for the children under their care. With her family, she will return to New Zealand in November by the Rotorua. Tho Duchess of York at th« garden party blushod prettily on inn lmerable occasions as one guest after another came up to say nice things about the wonderful baby, "says a London correspondent. A more than ordinary mother's pride would certainly be justified in regard to the little princess Elizabeth. Now three months old, she grows more and more like the fairy-grandmother-dowered babe of the coloured picture books. She thrives in the matter of weight, has the loveliest rosebud colour in her cheeks, quite a little thatch of dark, downy hair, and bonny i bine eyes that are really and unchang- " ingly blue. Her devoted mamma has . had a happy time since her tiny daughter was shortened, and has been indulging her own perfect taste in the purchase of delectable wee frocks for hot-weather days. Sleeveless, with ribbon tie-nps for each shoulder, they are made of fine Brussels net over coloured slips.