SOCIAL NEWS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20472, 25 January 1930, Page 20

SOCIAL NEWS.

Mrs. S. Milne, of Remuera, is staying ht Hauraki Road, Takapuna:

Mrs. Alec MacDiarmid has returned to 3\ T ew Plymouth from a visit to Auckland.

Miss Manu Porritt lias returned to Strat 'iord from a visit to Auckland and Kawau;

Mrs. Mathew Muir, of Mount Albert, Heft for Sydney yesterday by the Ulimaroa.

Mrs. Coxhead and Misr, Coxhead have returned to Timaru from a. visit to Auckland. ;

Mr. and Mrs. J. William Bailey arrived from Wanganm yesterday to lake up their .residence"in ' Auckland.

Mrs. M. H. Wilks. who has been stay ing at Hauraki Road. Takapuna, has re turned to Taumarunui.

Mrs. E. Newton Drier and. Miss Francelle i. Drier are leaving-bv the Maunganui next week for a world tour. a

Mrs. Nevlon and Miss Ncylon, of Melbourne, are visiting Auckland, and are staying at the Hotel Cargen.

Dr. and Mrs. E. Newton-Drier, with Dr. Rose, of Canada, and party, have returned to Aucklar/d after a fortnight's fishing at ,Taupo. .

Miss Doreen Walsh, who has been visiting her relatives at Kohimarama, left yesterday by the Ulimaroa on her return to Sydney.

Mrs. A. Herald, of Ba, Fiji, arrived in 'Auckland this week, and is the guest of her mother, Mrs. Westwood, of Wapiti Epsom.

Mr. and Mrs. F. Rose and Mr. and Mrs. T. F. Jolly motored back to the Waikato yesterday, after spending some ;weeks at Devonport.

Mrs. W. G. Stead, of Christchurch, arid her son, of Hastings, have left en route for England, where Air. James Stead will join the Flying Corps.

Mrs. , and Miss Pirrit, of Morrinsville, and Mrs. and Miss Lloyd, of Auckland, have returned irom a motor trip to Mercury Bay and Coromandel.

Recent arrivals at the Hotel. Vent nor, Devonport, include: —Mr. and Mrs. T. F. Berry, of Sydney; Mrs. A. G. Parfitt and Miss Parfitt, Gordonton; Mrs. R. Mitchell, Hamilton; Miss Whyte, Hamilton; Mrs. M. Morrish and Miss Morrish, Ohaupo; Mrs. C. Qameron, Morrinsville; Miss A. M. James, Cambridge; Mrs. Spencer, "Wellington; Mrs. G". F. Cowling, Cambridge.

Miss Mary Garden, the world-famous Chicago opera singer, returned last year from a holiday in Europe with a fixed determination to oppose the restoration to favour of the long skirt. "My skirts

»ill always be short," she declared. •* 4 Others may tfail them in the gutter if they wish, but I shall continue to wear them short, except, of course, in the evening,: when they will be long at the back and short in front." .

A South Australian, Mrs. Ida Standley, was recently made an M.B'.E. in recognition of 15 years' child-welfare service in Central Australia. To improve conditions for the white children in that remote territory Mrs. Standloy established the Federal Government school at Alice Springs, and became matron of a bungalow for 50 unwanted half-caste children who, before her advent, were in a sorry plight.. When she began her work slio was given board at the police, station and held classes in a cell.