SOCIAL NEWS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 20105, 16 November 1928, Page 9

SOCIAL NEWS.

Lady Sinclair-Lockhart left yesterday for a. visit to Okar.ita.

Miss Stott has returned to Auckland from a visit to Wellingtons

Mrs. W. Young and Miss C. Young lnivc returned to Wellington from a brief visit to Auckland.

Mr. and Mrs. V. E. Kemball, of Hawke's Bay, are visiting Auckland, and are staying at Braeburn.

Mrs. J. Allen and family, of Suva, who have been vi'siting Rotorua, are staying at Ventnor, Devonport.

Miss Fox, of Cornwall; England, is spending a few days in Auckland, and is staying at the Star Hotel.

Mrs. Yigers has left Auckland for Palmerslon North where she is working on commissions for garden painting.

Mrs. Grant Cowen, who has been on a visit to England, is returning to Auckland by the Marama on Tuesday morning.

4 Mrs. Wright-Neville, who had been visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. R. H. Northe, of Wellington, has left to rejoin her husband, Captain V. R. WrightNeville, in India.

Mrs. W. S. Shakespeare has rdturnpd 1,0 Wellington after a visit to the Bay of, Plent-- and further north. She will leave this month for Hongkong, China, where with Mr. Shakespeare she intends to make her home.

Mrs. W. J. Geddis and Miss Kathleen Geddis, of Napier, are staying at the Central Hotel while visiting Auckland. With them is Mrs. Cecil C. Lewis, of Vaucluse, Sydney, who is leaving for Australia next week.

Madame Aino Malmberg, a well-known Finnish authoress, is at present in Aus tralia making a tour of ea-ch State with a view to studying the conditions and prospects of Finnish migrants in that country. Madame Malmberg will send her impressions to newspapers in Finland, and later hopes to ttrite a book about her travels.

Miss Clara Andrew, who founded the National Children's Adoption Association in England, has been invited by Princess Alice, Countess of Athlo'ne, and wife of the Governor-General of South Africa, to go to that Dominion and put before the child wel/are societies tho aims and objects of the association. Miss Andrew contemplates visiting Australia and possibly New Zealand.

Examples of the work of six New Zealand artists will be reproduced with that of various Australian artists in the Christmas number of an Australian art journal. Among the six who will be represented will be members of the Christchurch 1928 Group. Their accepted studies include a nude study by Evelyn Poison, a landscape painting by Viola Macmillan-Brown, a study, " The Mexican," by Mrs. H. McD. Vincent, and possibly a painting by another member.

London women are taking keenly ( to club life, a fact emphasised in mail week by the knowledge that one of th*> roost prosperous woman's clu*; the Carlton, in Cui'zon Street, has had to move to larger premises in Grosvenor Place. So popular has the women's club idea heroine that some of them have 110 vacancies, except through the resignation or death of members. Such is the case with the Forum in Grosvenor . Place, which now has a-membership ;of, 3000 women. Billiards is a popular feature at this club, and exhibitions by champions of the game are one of -its attractions. The woman secretary ' to .the New Century (Ladies') Club, of Hay Hill, Berkeley Square, W., says: "I think that the young woman of to-day is an ideal club member, for she is so willing to be friendly. Women have, too, more of the community spirit. One of (ho lessons they learned in the war—and which no doubt they have passed on to their juniors—is to relish keeping rules when it benefits others."