SOCIAL NEWS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20425, 29 November 1929, Page 19

SOCIAL NEWS.

Mrs. <T. H. Keesing, of Wanganui, is ■visiting Auckland.

Miss Cuthbertson, of Auckland, is at present staying at Arundel. Mrs. C. W. Rickard, of Wellington, is •visiting her mother in Auckland.

' Mrs. R- S. Abel, of Pentland Avenue, Mount Eden, is visiting Palmerston North.

Miss Helen Bullock, who has been visiting Auckland, has returned to Now Plymouth.

Mi s s M. Snoakes, of Palmerston North, 5s visiting Auckland and is staying at the Grand Hotel.

Miss Mary Fookes, of New Plymouth, is visiting Auckland, and is staying with friends in Heme Bay.

Miss Kathleen Joug'nin, of Belmont „ Road, Mount Albert, returned yesterday from a visit to Christchurch.

Miss Jean Beigg, who has been visiting "Wellington to attend a meeting of the Eugenics Boa.rd, is returning to Auckland to-day. ■ .

Mrs. Allen Cameron, of Ngaruawahia, is spending a short holiday in Auckland, and is the guest of , Mrs. Milton-Manning, of Portland Road.

j . Dr. and Mrs. E. Newton Drier and ]\liss Crancelle Drier are leaving by the ! Ulimaroa to-day on an extended tour of ' England and th'o Continent.

. Miss G. Gee, of Helensville, who has | been in Chi'istchurch for several weeks, ' visited her cousin, Mrs. R. G. Devey, 1 '■ Palmerston N T orth, on her return journey.

■ Miss ElsilS Pearl Truskett holds an j unusual posiition for a woman. She is | a saleswoman at the Kansas City stock- ! yards, U.S.A., and is evidently a successful one, aa. she now owns five cattle ' ranches in Colorado, Texas and Missouri.

"Miss Margery Perham, lecturer on colonial history at St. Hugh s College, Oxford, whe is at present m New p a l» nc | studying educational methods and tribal life'among the Maoris, is the holder of the Rhodes Travelling Fellowship. This award, which is distinct from the Rhodes Scholarship, his been instituted by the Rhodes Trust with tho object of giving lecturers and tutors an opportunity to travel and litudy.

Miss Lorria Reyburn, of Auckland, has been spending her vacation with a friend, Miss Sheila Rqssiter, whose parents, Dr. and Mrs. Rossiter (formerly well-known residents of Auckland) reside at Egham, Surrev. Miss Reyburn then went to the West of Eiiigland and toured with Miss Peggy Brown, a Paris school friend, before joining! - her mother and brother in !• Devonshire, states our London corres--1 pondent. <

Miss Priscilla Greenwood, of Nelson, has beei spending the last year in, visitine England and the Continent and has taken the opportunity of furthering her musical studies. She has been working , at the Royal Academy of Music, taking i '' pianoforte" under Mr. Harold Craxton, and tho , :ello under Mr Whitehouse and .has now obtained her L.R.A.M. At of the year Miss Greenwood will retura to New 1 Zealand.

Dr. Luisd Lammert, of Leipzig University, who i,was recently in Australia as the holder of one of the internation' fellowships made available by the generosity of "Dir. Georgina Sweet, recently eave her impressions of that country at the conference of the International Federation of University Women held at Geneva. Particularly was she impressed by the freedom and advantages of the university life in Australia.

A girl guide visitor to Australia at present is Miss Hope Pritchard, who for several years has, in addition to conducting "a company of Girl Guides in ' London, been 'assistant secretary to trie r overseas department of the Imperial *Headquarteis. ( of the movement in fßuckingharn Palace Road. Her work, £ which covered a very wide range, \amounted to meeting practically every -yequiremeni of guides from overseas.

According to a report from Constantinople, it has been decided to adopt a model dress made of home-produced materials for Turkish men and women. , JThe men's tdress has been fixed. It will (■ consist of it white Norfolk jacket with (-black stripes, cream silk shirt, and tie, :with soft collar; and a silk handkerchief. - jThe colour and shape of the trousers, 'which must also be made of home materials, is left to individual taste but they •must not he," baggy." The suit will cost 15s without the trousers.

Well known in Australia for her work ' !n public affairs and for her experience -of political 'organising, Mrs. C. E. Bolitho, organising general _ secretary of the Australian Women's National League, has returner! to Melbourne from a visit to Great Itritain with - interesting _ information about the various organisations I with which she came into contact. Being ■'in England during the recent elections Mrs. Bolif.ho heard several women speakers, the ono with whom she was most impressed being the Countess of Iveagh.

A clever woman aviator is Miss Ruth Nichols, of the' United States, who is director of the organisation committee of the Aviation Country Clnbs' Association. A student of literature and languages at IVassar College, she suddenly dropped . ithese subjects and took up engineering ;ind navigation, working at aviation groundii in the United States, ranee and Vienna. She was appointed director of aviation promotion for seven United States companies about 18 month!) ago, -and 13 now directing the A.C.C.A. Ac- ; tivities at a. salary that many men would I envy.

At a reosnfc notable wedding in London dahlias were used to form the bridesmaids' bcnquets, states a London writer. These "Victorian" flowers, which used to be horrible little button rosettes, remarkable chiefly for'.the fact that they cosily housed an earwig in each curled-up petal, have now teen developed by clever gardeners whc "remake" and improve Nature's handiwork, till she would ihardly know it by sight, poor Dame, until tbev are really superb "florist s flowers. In "fact, tho orchid dahlias, with the.r starry corollas and stiff proud heads, aie eminently suited to do duty m bridal bduquets, arid I expect we shall see plenty more "dahlia weddings.

An enjoVable afternoon was spent at ihe home'of Mrs. A. J. Pearson, of Haultain Street, Mount Eden, to celebrate the wedding anniversary of Mrs. C. E. Hank Ins, of Te Papapa. Mrs. Pearson received \ber guests wearing ue floral silk, and on behalf of her guests made a presentation to Mrs. Hankins of a cut-glass - scent bottle. Mrs. Nixon presented t<? the guest of honour & bouquet of roses and fern. Songs were sung hy Miss Ruby'Burk and Mrs. Pankhurst recited "Not Understood." Miss .lucid s '' pianoforte solos were very much enjoyed. Afternoon tea was served in the dining room. Among the guests were: Mrs. Hankins, Mrs. Shaw, Mrs Bulk, Mrs, Pankhurst, Mrs. H. Judd, '!}■ Nixon, Mrs, Hvnes, Mrs. McDonald, Miss M. Burk,'Miss W. Judd and Miss Irene Hankins,,