SOCIAL NEWS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19550, 1 February 1927, Page 7

SOCIAL NEWS.

Miss Jean Byren, Sydney, is staving at the Grand Hotel. Mr. and Mrs. G. A.'Russell, Auckland, are on a visit..to Christchurch. , i Mrs. H. C. Ross and Miss M. McKenzie, of Hamilton, are in Auckland. Dr. and Mrs. W, H. Parke's left last evening for Wellington, en route to Dunedin. ' Miss Barbara Clark, of California, who is visiting Auckland, is staying at the Grand Hotel. ' ... . Mrs. Frank Hay, who has been staying at the Grand Hotel, returned to Wellington on Sunday evening. Mrs. M: ' Welcker, of Berkley, California, arrived by the Niagara, and is staying at the Hotel Cargen. Dr. and Mrs. Kenneth MacConnick are in Dunedin, where Dr. MncOrmick will attend the Medical Conference. Miss C. Mahonv, of tha Dannevirke High School, who has been spending some weeks in Russell, is alt present -visiting Auckland. Miss C- Barnes and-Miss E. Robinson, of Philadelphia, who arrived yesterday by the Niagara, are in, residence at tho Hotel Cargen. Miss Betty Jackson, who has been visiting Russell, has returned to Auckland and is the guest of Mrs. Dewing; Alclred 'Road, Remuera. Mrs. M. C. Schuett, of Seattle, California, Mrs. T. Patterson, Pasadena. California, and Mrs. B. Head, of San -Francisco, are at the Grancl Hotel. r Mrs. E. Howard, Vancouver, Mrs. F. I Levy, New York,' Mrs. Gordon Williamsj Melbourne, and Mi's. CI Stevenson, Wellington, are staying at Stonehurst. Mrs. Hope-Lewis and her niece, Miss Jocelyn Wilkie, who have boon staying with Mrs. Guy Williams, -at Master ton, fire now at Heretaunga,, Wellington, after farewelling Mrs. C. \V» Egertoo s,nd her daughter, Mrs. Edwin Smith, on thair departure to England by tho Rotorua. The first paper prepared by a woman was read before the Society of Engineers recently by Miss Annette Ashberry, managing director and works manager "of Atalanta, Ltd. engineers, of Brixton, S.W., who is the first and only woman member of the society. Miss Ashberry described the plant with which the company set out six years ago to establish a manufacturing enginners' business and how the plant was improved and developed. Few women in the diplomatic world have so great a gift in tongues' 'is Mmo. Rudolph Mollerson. tho wife of the First Secretary of the Estonian Legation and the Consul-Genoral of that country in London. Sho speaks fluently—in- addi-, of course, to Estonian—Russian, Finnish,' French, , German and English,, while she has more than » bowing acquaintance _ with Italian and Swedish. The result is that sho has a wide acquaintance with the literature cf those countries. "Home arts and crafts are greatly en the increase," said an official of the Home Arts and Industries Association at an exhibition recently held at Drapers' Hall, London. "Women predominate among our members, but there is an augmented number of ex-Service men. Thorp arei also some disabled ox-Army nurses ir: Nottingham and Northamptonshire who have takon up • laosjrtakiug. «ojre more exhibitors this year than was iho case last year—which has necessitated smaller stalls for everyone." . : .- r ':\ 1