SOCIAL NEWS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19719, 19 August 1927, Page 7

SOCIAL NEWS.

Mrs. de la Mare has taken up her residence at Burwood Crescent, Remuera. The members of the Lyceum Club held a successful dance at the club last evening. Mrs. H. G. Mason, of Auckland, is staying with Mrs. G. T. Mason, at Kelburn, Wellington. The many friends of Mr. and Mrs. W. B. Lloyd, Otahuhu, will be interested to learn that they celebrate their silver wedding to-day. Mrs. J. Parkes, Remuera Road, left on Wednesday evening for Wellington, where she will be the guest of Mrs. H. W. Kersley, of Belmont Road, Lower , Hutt. Miss H. R. Wright, who has been assistant supervisor of children's games , for the past five and a-half years, forwarded her resignation to the Auckland City Council last evening. Mrs. H. E. Ivempthorne, of Weybridge, England, is at present staying with Mrs. Godfrey Devereaux, of Green Lane, One Tree Hill. Mrs. Kempthorrie is returning to England next week, via Sydney. Miss Edith Lyttelton (G. B. Lancaster), who has been paying a short visit to Nelson, is now staying with friends in Hawke's Bay. She will leave about September to stay with relatives in Tasmania. Mr. and Mrs. A. Norman-Jones, Wellington, accompanied by Miss Violet Rawson. Auckland, who were visiting Christchurch for race week, will leave shortly for a six months' tour o£ the United States. ... - Princess Mary looks ahead. She has just ordered a set of six hot-water bottle covers made of a very thick, soft material, and each embroidered with a 'large coloured posy. They are to be made to measure, as the Princess explained" that their hot-water bottles were of various sizes. - > ' Many New Zealand friends will hear with interest of the marriage of- Dora. Haswell, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Robert E. Wood, of Toorak, Melbourne, to William Mitchell Wanless, soir of the Chief Justice of Victoria, Sir William Irvine, and Lady Irvine. ' The bride's father is the eldest son of the late- Mr. and Mrs. R. H. Wood, of Christchurch, while her mother was formerly Miss Nellie Haywood, of Wellington, daughter" of the ' late Mr. J. B. Haywood, at one time Auditor-General and Comptroller of , the Treasury. Ladv Stanley of Alderley held a reception at 1, Gloucester Square, on July 5, to meet Viscountess Harcourt, chairman of the Society for the Overseas ; Settlement of British Women, and mem- j bers of the council. Among those who accepted invitations were the Countess Buxton (late chairman of the 5.0.5.8. W. I Council), the Hon. Mrs. Francis Buxton, the Countess of Clarendon, Miss' Gladys Pott, Dame Meriel Talbot, Mrs. W Blundell, Miss S Barraud, Mrs and Aliss Batchelor, Mrs. R. A. Bean, Mrs. W, 5.,, Bean, Mrs. S. Harcourt, Miss Eileen Hunter, Miss McLean, Mrs. C. A. Whit- j nev, Lady Williams, and Miss Helen Williams. "Where the Duchess Lives" has already become an unofficial addition to bus 'direction points in London. Several times women have been heafd asking bus . conductors if their vehicle was bound for Hyde Park Corner. the Duchess lives? >Come jjong.l. ',, is a ■typical reply- No. 145, Piccadilly, ,ia. the most popular place .with sightseers-- at present. Everybody seeing the house m Piccadilly comments on the window boxes filled with blue hydrangeas. . The boxes themselves .are of perfectly simple plain wood painted dark green, to match the window sashes and the rest of the side woodwork No ornamental windowbox has ever surpassed these in showing off flowers to the utmost advantage. After all, the flowers are the. decoration, not the boxes, which .is forgotten. With the cream linen blinds and ivory net curtains at the windows, No. 145 "looks invitingly fresh and cheerful. A memorial tablet to the late Queen Alexandra was unveiled by the Princess Royal in Marlborough House chapel recently. The tablet, %vhieh is of gold affixe'd to an oaken panel, is placed close bv the spot where Queen Alexandra worshipped when in residence at Marlborough House, and is the tribute of the AngloDanish Society in London. Princess Victoria, Princess Louise, the Countess of Antrim, Earl Howe, the ? Countess of Minto, the Hon. Charlotte Knollys, and the Danish Minister were among those present at the service, which was conducted bv Prebendary L. J. Percival, C.V.0., precentor of the Chapels Royal. After the service Princess Victoria, the only unmarried daughter and life Jong companion of Queen Alexandra, went with Princess Royal and the Duchess of Argyll to make a close inspection of the ] tablet, and when she turned away after inscription she was in tears.