SOCIAL NEWS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20501, 28 February 1930, Page 19

SOCIAL NEWS.

Mrs. Innes Taylor has left Cambridge lor Auckland.

Miss Lukin is visiting her sister, Mrs S. Lewis, of Cambridge.

Mrs. Seccoinbe. of Auckland, is visiting [Whangaroa for the fishing.

Mrs. Norman Banks, of Cambridge, is paying a short visit to Auckland.

Mrs. S. I returned to Cambridge on Tuesday after a visit to Auckland.

Mrs. Holmes and Miss Holmes, of Mas lerton, are staying at the Grand Hotel.

Mrs. Morlev Smith, of Canada, is visiting Auckland" aud is staying at the Grand Hotel.

Mrs. VV v Brander, of Remuera Road, has left for Rotorua, and is staying at "Waiwera House.

Mrs. S. H. Brown, of Oliver Road. Remuera, is returning to-morrow from a visit to Christcluirch.

Mrs. F. G. Bilton, of La mist on Avenue, Remuera, and Mi's. J- Were, of Kipling ik venue, Epsom, are visiting lo Aroha. Miss Betty Gird wood, of Tuakau, is visiting Auckland, and is the guest of Mr. and Mrs. J. William Bailey, Symonds Street. Professor Macmillan Brown and Miss Helen Brown, Christchurch. will be leaving by the Rangitano from Wellington lor England. Mrs. R. A. Patrick and infant, who have been, spending an extended holiday in Auckland,' are returning to Sydney on the Maunganui to-day. Mrs. E. M. Page, of Auckland, who has "been the guest of Captain and Mrs. iodd. of Lane Cove, Sydney, sailed for England recently by the S.S. Comorin.

Mesdames W*. and F. W. Gruer, who have spent a month motoring in the South Island, are spending a few days in launching at Picton, preparatory to returning to Hamilton.

Miss Albinia Morres, of Guernsey, Channel Islands, accompanied by_ her uncle, Captain Roe. of Ireland, is at WBangaroa, on a fishing expedition, and is staying at the Hotel Martin.

Dr. Doris Gordon, of Stratford, is paying a brief visit to Invercargill in the interests of the New Zealand obstetrical endowment appeal. She, is the guest of Dr. and Mrs. A. T. McCaw during her etay there.

The Rev. W'ilua Constable, who with the Rev. W. A. Constable has been visitin» the South Island, will be in Wellington during the week-end and will preach there on Sunday. Sho expects to return to Auckland early next week.-

Mi=s Gillett. private secretary to Lady Stonehaven.' Australia," is on a visit to 2sew Zealand and. is staying «7. D. A'Deane. of Ashcott, lakapau "Miss Gillett will be remembered bv many New Zealanders as the secretary ot Lady Jellicoe during Lord Jellicoe's term of office in New Zealand.

The Mayoress, Mrs. A. D. Campbell, cresided over a meeting of thn executive of the /Mavoress War Memorial Library League vesterdav at which it was"decided to 'hold the annual meeting toward the end of March. Owing to the recent wet season having interfered with arrangements for raising funds, further efforts will have to he considered end suggestions are to be invited from membe/s.

Mrs. T. H. Low it, Wellington and Ilawke's Bay, president of the "Mothers' Chair" appeal, reports most, satisfactory progress all throuprii Her districi. Women even/where are onlv too anxious to assist in raising the amount necessary to provide a Chair of Obstetrics (the science of health for mothers) in the New Zealand University, and when this campaign is over at the end of March, it is safe to say thev will be equally interested in responding to the cancer research appeal, whicii was opened early this week, and men is claiming so much of the attention of tlio medical world.

,A garden party. held under the auspices of the St.".Andrew's Presbyterian Church Ladies' Guild, Te Kuiti, took place at the residence of Mrs. W. Smith on Wednesday afternoon. The gathering, which was held in ideal surroundings, was well attended and the ladies of the guild.Sunder the presidency of Mrs. J. • • Boddie, achieved a thoroughly successful function. Stalls were arranged as follows Vegetable stall, Mrs. Henderson and Mrs. Frneser; cake stall, Mrs. Mar Kenzie and Mrs. Dodds; sweets stall, Mrs. Aitken and Mrs. Saunders; afternoon tea. Mrs Bathgate, Mrs. Jones, Mrs. Histop and Mrs. Powdrill. The proverbs coirpetition was won by Miss Gundry anil Miss Marjorie Allison.