SOCIAL NEWS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20262, 23 May 1929, Page 7

SOCIAL NEWS.

Mrs. Tomlinson, of Hamilton, is visitmg Milford. Mr. and Mrs. A. 'N. McLeod, of Wanganui, aro visiting Auckland. Miss Sybil Fowler has returned to Hastings "from a visit to Auckland. Mrs. E. K. Mulgan returned in * the Rcmuera after a three years' visit to England. Mrs. J. A. Johnson, of Dunedin, is visiting Auckland'and is staying at the Grand Hotel. Mrs. Creagh O'Connor, of Wellington, is visiting Auckland and is staying at tho Grand Hotel. Mr. and Mrs. Hector Chapman, of Dunedin, aro tho guests of Mrs. David Chapman, of Komuera. Miss Joblin, of Hawke's Bay, is visitnig Auckland and is the guest of Mrs. Emanuel, Victoria Avenue. Miss F. Hall-Jones, of Wellington, is a visitor to Auckland,; and is the guest of Mrs. St. John Clarke, of Epsom. i Mr. and Mrs. C. Denny-Brown, of New Plymouth, aro spending a holiday in Auckland and aro at the Hotel Stonehurst. ' Mr- and Mrs. H. Kinder, wero guest's of the Lyceum Club at luncheon yesterday when an address was civen by Professor H. Dettmann. An apology for unavoid able absence; was received from Mrs. W 13. Tavernor. ' Miss Isabella Brook, who has accepted a short engagement at tho Majestic Theatre, Wellington, left by the limited express last evening. She is accompanied by her mother, Mrs. H. H. Brook/of Epsom. That Mr. Lloyd. George believes women/ are seekers after peace was evidenced in an address he recently gave in the Albert Hall, London. He said he belieyed that if women v had had the franchise in 1914 there would have been no war. A pioneer of the Australian goldfields is Mrs. Dignum, now aged 72, who is at present living in Bafmain, Sydney. Once, when travelling with her family from Syd-„; ney to different goldfields, she was nearly murdered by an aboriginal with a tomahawk, but was saved by tho timely arrival of one of the workmen. The Queen and Princess Mary are engaging in , friendly rivalry in their collections of rare china, and are constantly comparing notes of their different finds The Queen has a preference for Sevres and all bright china, especially the Queen Anno cups and saucers and the teapots of quaint design patterned with a happy decorative sentiment in keeping with the times. At the moment Princess Mary is collecting all blue china, which is her favourite shade. Her own china collec tion, added to that of-Lord Lascelles, is a largo one.