SOCIAL NEWS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19718, 18 August 1927, Page 5

SOCIAL NEWS.

Colonel and Mrs. Robert Allen returned to Morrinsville yesterday. Miss Cox, of New York, and Mrs. M. Simpson, of Sydney, are among the guosts staying at the Grand Hotel. Mrs. H. Anderson is leaving for the South to-day and will sail' for Australia from Wellington on September 2. Miss Evelyn W. Smith is the founder and president of the largest big tree nursery in the world. It comprises 700 acres. Mrs. Body, Miss McNicol, and Miss Crawford, of Te Aroha, have returned from a motor trip to Taranaki, Wanganui and Palmerston North. Mr. and Mrs. E. Langguth, who have been staying at the Hotel Cargen, are taking up their residence on Monday in Mrs. Robert Rose's house, Rernuera Road. A meeting of the Ever-ready Sub-com-mittee of tho Victoria Leaguo was held in tho league's rooms yesterday afternoon. The Misses C. and M. Murray, who have been energetic workers on tho committee, were welcomed back from a visit abroad. t Miss Irma O'Connor, of Auckland, formerly on the staff of the New Zealand Herald, has for the past six weeks been visiting North and South Devon, in company with Dr. Susie Buckingham-Robert-son, also formerly of Auckland. Miss O'Connor is now visiting relations in Hampshire, and will later go on to Hastings before returning to London. Miss Nellie M. Scanlan, who is well known in journalistic circles, is leaving New Zealand by the Marama on September 2 for Sydney, and will sail by the Tasman on September 24 for Singapore, via Java. Miss Scanlan will make London her headquarters later on. She was abroad a year or two ago, and visited America, Canada and the United Kingdom, and looks forward to a very interesting journey on this occasion. At the London Hospital recently Lord Bearsted opened ' a new clinical theatre which cost £IO,OOO, and was the gift of his father, the late Lord Bearsted. Prizes were distributed to students by Lord Eustace Percy, M.P., president, of the Board of Education, who said: —The years of life between 5 and 14 are the most important for the prevention of disease and disability and for the saving of health in later life. Miss Grace Vanderbilt, daughter of General Cornelius Vanderbilt and Mrs. Grace Wilson Vanderbilt, was married to Mr Henry Cassaway Davis in the chapel of the Marriage Licence Bureau in the municipal building, New York, recently. The ceremony was performed by a deputy-clerk, and a policeman on duty at the bureau acted as one of the witnesses. Mr Davis, who is a mining engineer, is a grandson of the late Henry Cassaway Davis, the millionaire coalmine owner in West Virginia, and democratic candidate for the Vires-Presidency of the United States in 1904 There'have been repeated rumours that Miss Vanderbilt was engaged, the prospective bridegrooms including an English prince, the younger son of an English Duke and an American ex-duchess, and an Austrian nobleman.