SOCIAL NEWS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19889, 7 March 1928, Page 7

SOCIAL NEWS.

Miss Goldie, of Wellington, is visiting Auckland/

Mrs. Boyd, of Auckland, is at present visiting Stratford.

Mrs. N. V. Davidson, of Auckland, is visiting Wellington.

Miss Ruby Cole, of Wellington, is on a visit to Auckland.

Mrs. S. Dunbar, of Stratford, is visiting Te Kuiti and Auckland.

Miss F. Wood has returned to New Plymouth from Auckland.

Miss McKibbin has returned to Wellington from a visit to Rotorua and Auckland.

Mrs. E. Sinclair, of Stanley Bay, Auckland, is on an extended visit to Australia.

Mrs. J. Knight and Mrs. T. Thomson, of Auckland, nave returned from a visit to Wanganui.

Miss Kayll, of Auckland, is visiting Stratford, where she is the guest of Mrs. Kayll at the vicarage.

Mrs, Adams, who has been the guest of Mrs. Percy Webster, of New Plymouth, has returned to Auckland.

Miss H. McGregor and Miss D. Mc Gregor, of Wellington, are spending a holi day in Auckland and Rotorua.

Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Sargood, of Corowa, New South Wales, are staying with Mrs. J. Ewen, Remuera Road.

Mrs. D. W. Duthie and Miss J. Duthie arrived from Wellington yesterday and are staying with Mrs. W. N. Abbott, Epsom.

Mrs. R. Seavill and Miss J. Seavill, of Waingaro, are sailing by the Mataroa From Wellington on March 17 on a visit to England.

Among the guests staying at the Grand Hotel are:—Mrs. Jacobs and Miss H. Smith, of Dunedin, and Mrs. A. E. Scoular, of Omakau.

Mrs. Marie Dean and Mrs. Holmwood, of Wellington, who are on a motor tour of the North Island, were visitors at Wanganui last week en route to Rotorua and Auckland.

Woiseley, who recently visited Auckland, lias published three books—a volume of verse, a novel, and a book on

the art of conversation. While she is travelling the world she is at work on a book about free will. Some years ago she was on the staff of the London Daily Mail.

A curious custom was observed quite spontaneously at the Savoy Hotel in London recently. A party who had engaged a room for a private luncheon discovered that there were 13 guests. Without a murmur one of the attendants sat down at the vacant, place to make 14, and the luncheon passed off quite happily.

Dr. C. F. Elam, Britain's woman metallurgist, has been awarded the travelling scholarship founded by Sir Robert Hadfield. "One in a million, she has launched her barque upon a sea hitherto unexplored by women," commented a professor upon her work, which is that of a special research student at the Royal School of Mines in South Kensington.

A unique service was held in the Stockton Congregational Church, Newcastle, recently. It was conducted by women only. The lessons were read, the hymns announced, solos sung, collection taken up, intimations made and organ played by women. Ihe lessons and sermons dealt with women characters in the Bible, and all the hymns sung were written by women. The oldest member pronounced the benediction. In all 18 women assisted in the special service.

Light-weight mackintoshes have come to stay. "Though it found favour in Paris, English firms fir.d there is a small demand for proofed velvet," a member of a Manchester proofing company torn a newspaper representative.JJ a P and crepe de chine are our principal fabrics for 1928. with satin as 'runner-up. Feather-weight cotton is also being proofed now in big quantities. In all cases the predominating colours are brilliant."

Perhaps the most remarkable development in the world of fashion of to-day is the rapidly increasing adoption of Western styles by the peoples of the East. Here surely is an immense and lucrative field for fabric manufacturers, who should secure abroad a demand for their wares which will more than compensate for anv diminution in home consumption due 'to more abbreviated garments. With womanfolk from Stamboul to Shanghai adopting European dress from their headgear to their.v footwear there is good reason why manufacturers should be kept busy provided thev display the necessary initiative and are well served by efficient sales organisations. The opportunity awaits them. It only remains for them to seize it.