SOCIAL NEWS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 20059, 24 September 1928, Page 5

SOCIAL NEWS.

Mrs. I?.. .Eraser and Miss Frascr, of Gisborne, aro guests at Cargcn.

Mrs. T. Lcihy, of Dunedin, is a visitor to Auckland, and is staying at the I lot c-i Stonchurst.

Miss M. S. Girdwood, of Ayr, Scot, land is visiting Auckland, and is stay nig at tho Hotel Stonchurst.

Mrs. Kenneth MacCormack, of Auckland, has left for Rotorua on a brief visit to her parents, Dr. and Mrs. Duncan.

Mrs. Duff, of To Puke, is on a brief visit to Auckland, where she is the guest of her sister, Mrs. J. 'l'. Tanner, Rernuera.

Miss Kathleen Bristed, of Avonside, Christchurch, is visiting Auckland to take part in tho New Zealand golf championship meeting. While hero, sho is the guest of Miss Jessie Rcid, Alton Road.

A Rainbow Fair was held in tho Stanley Bay Methodist Hall on Saturday afternoon. Tho effective decorations brightened the stalls, and these were carried out in rainbow-tinted streamers. Tho fair was opened by Sir. 0. Brown, of tho Devonport Borough Council, who wished the woikors every success. The stalls were well supplied with pretty articles, which had been made by tho Ladies' Guild, with Mrs. Martin as president. Tho stallholders were as follows:—Work stall, Mrs. Galbraith, Sirs. Davis, Mrs. Birss, Mrs. llill; fancy stall, Mrs. Smith and Mrs. Cunby; produce, Miss Drew; cakes, Mrs. Mason, Mrs. Purser ; sweets, Miss Purser and Mrs. Hauler; competitions, Mr. Martin and Mr. G. Gardner; refreshments. Sirs. Stubbs; fish pond, Miss Harris. Tho fair was continued in the evening.

To mark tho forty-first anniversary of their marriage, Sir. and Sirs. T. White, of Anglesea Street, I'onsonby, entertained members of their family at a dinner party on Saturday evening. Those present wcro Mr. and Mrs. Frank Jackson, Sir. and Sits. Harry Jackson, Sir. and Sirs. Arthur Turner and Sliss Ruby White. A happy coincidence was tho fact recalled by Sir. and Sirs. White that on their wedding day they were entertained in the same building. Only recently has the name been changed, but tho hotel is still undel- the management of the same family as in the eighties. Both Sir. and Sirs. White were members of well-known Onohunga families and recall how people of that suburb imagined tho noise of the Tarawera eruption of 1886, tho year before their marriage, to bo distress signals from a ship wrecked on the Slanukuu Bar.