SOCIAL NEWS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20480, 4 February 1930, Page 16

SOCIAL NEWS.

Mrs. F. Saywcll, of Auckland, is visiting Christehurch Miss M. Marshall has returned to Auckland from a visit to Tintaru. Mrs. F. Turn Cull has returned to Wunganui from a visit to Auckland. Mfas Ivy Scott, of Cleveland Road, Parnell. left last week on a visit to Wellington. M iss Muriel Ford, of Svmonds Street, is visiting her sister, Mrs. A. Finch, Tim a ru.. ■Mrs. Robert McCrackcn is visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. 15. Sheath, tivmonds Street.. Mrs. Kenneth Mackenzie leaves for Wellington on Thursday to join the Rangitata for England Miss 'J'. 'Thome, who has been the guest of Mrs. H. E. Morton. Epsom, has returned lo Sydney. Miss Malcolm, who has been staying at Dracbum,- left for Wellington by the limited last evening. Miss Dale Austen, of Dunedin, is I lie guest of her aunt, Mrs. Austen, of St. Leonards Road, Epsom. Mi's. G. W. Hutchinson, of Portland Road, Remuera, has returned from her beach house at Manly. Mrs. J. A. Rosewarne, of Masterton. in id her two daughters, who have been .visiting Auckland, have returned. Mrs A. Steer and the Misses Steer, of London, have returned to Auckland from Rotorua, and are at Hotel Cargen. Mrs. Isobel Halligan, who has been staying with her sister. Mrs. Navin, Le. Petit, Mount Albert, has returned South. Mr. and Mrs. Whitfield, of Canterbury, have returned to Auckland from a visit to Rotorua and are staying at Braeburn. The Rev. and Mrs. Leonard H. Hunt, of Pemhyn Road, Mount Eden, have returned from a visit to Opawa, Christchurch. Mrs. W. Norman Kerr, who has been staying with her daughter at her summer residence, Orewa, has returned to Auckland. Mrs. W. J. Stevens, who has been spending some weeks in Auckland, returned to her home in Hunterville by the limited last evening. Mr. and Mrs. Alec Allan, who have lieen spending a holiday in Rotorua, have now returned to their home, King Ed>vard Parade, Devonport. Mrs. Claude Coldicutt, accompanied by Miss Kathleen and Master Addison Coldicutt, arrived in Auckland on Saturday after having spent their holidays in the South.

Miss Agues Kerr Crawford, the wellknown scenario writer, of Hollywood, who is the guest of Mrs. Nello Porter, Victoria Avenue, is returning next week. Miss Edith Lyttelton (G. 13. Lancaster) intends to visit the East at the end of the month, via Java and Singapore, in order to obtain further colour for her next novel. Mrs Desmond Williams, of Te Awamutu, has been staying with her mother, Mrs. Hume, Kipling Avenue, Epsom, before leaving with her husband this month for an extended visit to England. Mrs. J. A. Watson, of St. Stephen's 'Avenue, Parnell, who has been visiting relatives in Scotland for the past nine mouths, is returning via Sydney at the rnd of March. She will be accompanied by her two children, Master Peter Watson and Miss Rosemary Watson. A writer in a London paper, in corn: iMonting on the marked effect the war had upon the position of women in Germany, instances Frau von Kardorff as one of the busiest women in Berlin. A member of I lie Heichstag, she is also the author of many successful books on philosophical and political subjects and is on the directoiatc of several manufacturing firms. .•Wording to the Times, legislation will b" introduced in the Legislature of the Canadian Province of Quebec admitting women to the practice of law. Quebec and Prince Edward Island beine tl r. only Canadian province which still upholds the exclusion of women from u,c leual profession, it is very satisfactory tiist their admission has now finally been upproved of by the General Cour.c.l of the Bar cf Quebec. The first American woman to be appointed engineering assistant in any city department of New York is Miss Mae V." Connolly, who has just been appointed to serve in the construction branch of ono of the highway bureaux of the city. Miss Connolly is one of those energetic American" women of whom wc hear. who. -while earning her living all dav, followed university cpurscs -at night to" get on in her/work., She started as a clerk in the same office where she now holds an important position. The engineering courses which she took at Columbia University enabled her to qualify for the Civil Service examination, which she passed with honours