SOCIAL NEWS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19809, 2 December 1927, Page 7

SOCIAL NEWS.

Mrs. D. Latemer is on a visit to Christchurch. \ Miss Millington is spending the summer months in Rotorua. Miss E. Jackson has returned to Hamilton from a visit to Auckland. Miss N. Gray, of Auckland, is staying with Miss V. Watts in Hamilton. Mrs. H. L Biggs has returned to St. Heliers from a visit to Hamilton. Mrs. A. W. Sims, of Auckland, is the guest of Mrs. S. B. Sims in Hamilton. Mrs. F. Clemow and Miss Clemow, 6f Cambridge, are on a visit to Auckland. Mrs. Frank McKenzie and Miss K. Bews, of Auckland, are on a motor trip to Gisborne. Miss Ida Gray is sailing by the Port Fremantle this month for England and the Continent. •• Mr. and Mrs. Keesing, of Christchurch, have left for Auckland to visit their daughter, Mrs. Van Staveren. Mrs. R. Humphreys, of Wellington, is on a visit to Auckland and is staying with Mrs. R. Johnson in Parnell. Miss E. M. Harrison, of Christchorch, is visiting Auckland and is staying with Mrs. L, M. Wilson, Epsom. Mrs. B. Wake, of Hamilton, is in town and is staying with her mother, Mrs. V. J. Larner, Elmstone, Remuera Road. Mrs. Wynne Gray is on a visit to Auckland, and is staving with her mother, Mrs. S. A. Bull, Roxton, Mount Eden. Miss B. Eggerton, who has been the guest of Mrs. Hope Lewis, Heretaanga, Wellington, has returned to Auckland. Cblonel and Mra. Noel Adajns, of !Wharekawa, and Mrs. Rennie are arriving in town to-day and will stay at the Hotel Cargen. " Mr. and Mrs. F. Wilson and family, of Mountain Road, Epsom, are sailing by the Ulimaroa to-day for Sydney en.route to England and the Continent. Visitors staying at the Grand Hotel include Mrs, M. K. Chase and Miss E. Cox, of New York, Mrs. W. E. Kay and Miss J. E. Kay, of Sydney, and Miss Hutchings, of England. A pleasant function took place in the Farmers' Trading Company's tea-rooms on Wednesday afternoon in the form of a presentation to Mrs. Ballantyne, the retiring secretary of the Auckland Women's Branch of the New Zealand Labour Party. Mrs. Rowlatt, as president of the branch, presented Mrs. Ballantyne, with a leather case and fountain pen, and in a few well-chosen words referred to her seven years of service, characterised by an admirable enthusiasm and kind coni sideration for others. Mrs. Gibson, the j oldest member of the branch, also spoke.