SOCIAL NEWS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19834, 3 January 1928, Page 5

SOCIAL NEWS.

Mrs. L. Ross, of Wellington, is a visitor to Auckland. Miss M. Ballinger, of Wellington, is visiting Auckland. Mrs. P. G. Russell, ol Hamilton, is; on a visit to Auckland. Mrs. W. Badley, of Wellington, is visiting Auckland for the holidays. Mrs. Jefferies and Miss Jefferies, of Stratford, are on a visit to Auckland Mrs. W. Coffey, of Epsom, and her daughter, are spending a fortnight •at Rotorua. Mrs. Owen Bayly and Mrs.' L. W. S. Watkin left last" week on a camping motor tour. Mrs. Burnet, Auckland, is fhe gueiiE of her mother, Mrs. J. Williams, St. John's Hill, Wanganui. Mrs. E. C. Cutten, of Takapuna, left on Thursday by motor for Rotorua and the Lake. district. Mrs. Hickman Russell and Miss Maty Russell have left New Plymouth <m a visit to Auckland. Mrs. Percival James left last' evening for Dunedin where she will stay with her mother, Lady Fenwick. Mrs. H. J. B. Sellars and Mrs. Claude Motion, of Auckland, are staying with Mrs. D. Syme, in Eltham. Mr. and Mrs. Watson, of Auckland, are the guests of Mrs. Watson's mother, Mrs. C. Patterson, in Wanganui. Mrs. Colin laylor,, Mrs. J. S. Anchor and Miss Mona "Johnstone, of Hamilton, are spending the holidays at Kawau. Wanganui visitors to Auckland include Mrs. W. Wall, Mrs. P. Jones, Mrs. Scannell, Miss E. Murray and Miss; M. Fowler. Mr. and Mrs. M. L. Wilkins, Takapuna, Miss E. P. Grey, and Miss B. Garland have left by motor for National Park and Taupo. Mrs. Morgan/ wife of Captain Morgan, of Christchurch, returned by the Niagara yesterday from a holiday spent in the Hawaiian Islands. Mrs. Baird of Colstoun, a sister of His Excellency the Governor-General, Sir Charles Fergusson, arrived by the Ruahine on a \isit to His Excellency. Miss Norah Livesey, formerlyoorl r Feudal ton, who has been staving w:lh her sister in New Plymouth, has arrived in Auckland to stay with her brother, Dr. Livesey. The fourth finger of the left hard ha'i been selected as the wedding finger because the fourth has boon a favourite ring finger in all ages, especially when jewelled rings came into vogue, because it is the one among the ten on which a ring can be worn with the least likelihood of chafing the metal or breaking the jewels. Among the ancients precious stones were worn not so much on account of their appearance,- but because they were supposed to safeguard the wearer against accident and ciisease. Through association with these mystic properties the finger, itself became singled out as of particular account, and was always used for special purposes, as. for example, when the ancient physician mixed his potions. The ftwliion established bv this traditional importance has been handed down to us.