SOCIAL NEWS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19860, 2 February 1928, Page 7

SOCIAL NEWS.

Miss Magee, of Auckland, is a visifor to Christchurch. Mr. and Mrs. W. Stone, of Wellington, are visiting Auckland. Mr. and Mrs. Chatwin, of Wellington, are visiting Auckland. Mrs. Champion and Miss Champion, of Auckland, are visiting Christchurch. Miss I. Meadows, of Wellington, is the guest of Miss Newcomb, Mount Eden, Auckland. Captain Pickard and Mrs. T. W. Pickard, of Wellington, are visitors to Auckland. Mrs. T. Philcox returned by the Marama from a visit to Sydney. Mrs. C. K. Ward and Miss Jacobs en have returned to Wellington from a visit to Auckland. Mrs. E. H. Milsom and her family are spending the holidays at their seas.de residence, Deep Creek. Mrs. J. S. Brigharn and her daughter have returned to Auckland after a holiday spent at Lake Rotoiti. Miss Betty Buddie, who has been spending the holidays at Paihia, Bay of Islands, has returned to Takapuna. Mrs. Beaumont, Miss Beaumont and Mrs. Cranwell and family are visiting Cambridge and aro the guests of Mrs. Smales. Miss E. Hawkins, who is staying with Mrs. D. Poison, Ranui Road, Remuera, will leave for England by tho Rimutaka to-morrow. Miss M. Mattingly, of the secretarial staff of the Dunedin Y.W.C.A., has returned to Dunedin after a holiday visit to Auckland. Miss A. C. Searell, of Rotorua, and Miss Gladys Searell, of Remuera, who have been visiting Dr. and Mrs. Cooper, Whangaparaoa, are now at Waiheke. The Rev. Thomson and Mrs. 'Thomson, of St. Luke's Church, Remuera, hav«j returned to Auckland, after spending several weeks with Mrs. Smales, Highgate, Cambridge. Mr. and Mrs. H. 0. Nolan and Miss Dorothy Nolan left last evening for Wellington. They will sail by the Ruahine on Saturday on an extended visit to England and the Continent. There seems to be no limit to women's enterprise nowadays. Overseas papers record the fact that at a music festival in England recently a woman, one Miss M. t Hore, entered with •10 male competitors for the tenor solo cup and carried it off. Mosquitoes are now getting very active and are always found near water and woods. Since they have proved to be disease carriers it is very undesirable to have them near the housa If possible, cesspools and ponds shoiild be drained. Failing this, paraffin should be poured on the surface every two weeks or so and rain tubs or other water containers should be kept covered.