SOCIAL NEWS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20563, 14 May 1930, Page 17

SOCIAL NEWS.

Mrs. H. n. Partridge, of Glendowie, is yisiting Rotorua.

Mrs. R. E! Dickinson, of London, is staying at Hotel Cargen.

Miss R. Gentles returned by the Tofua yesterday from a visit to the Islands.

Mrs. Tillingpost, of New York, is visiting Auckland, and is staying at the Grand Hotel. • -

Miss V. Stewart, of Sydney, is visit jng Auckland, and is staying at Hotel Cargen.

Mrs. Norman Day, of Ilerno Bay, is leaving to-morrow for a visit to Taujranga.

Miss Ruby. Birchall has returned to Cheltenham after a visit to the King Country.

Mrs. P. D. Jarman, of Hororata, is tho guest of Mrs. G. Hardy, Arney Road, Remuera.

Miss A. Ilughcs Johnson has returned lo Gonville, Wanganui, from a visit to Auckland.

Mis. Handson Abel and Miss Joan [Abel, of Kcmuera, left yesterday for a -visit to Rotorua.

Mis 3 Alma McGrucr will sail by the Ulimaroa for Sydney, cn route for Vienna, on Friday morning.

Miss Stella Richardson, of Wanganui, js visiting Auckland, and is tho guest of Miss Noeliuo Worthy.

Miss Betty Waterman, of Denver, Colorado, is visiting Auckland, and is stay ing at the Grand Hotel.

Mrs. Stuart Smith and Miss Stuart Smith, of Melbourne, aro visiting Auckland, and are staying at the Grand Hotel.

Mrs. G. IT. Stephenson, of New Plymouth. is visiting Auckland, and is the guest of Mrs. L. T. Synies, St. Stephen's Avenue.

Miss Veronica Pope and Miss Jovco Hewitt loft on Monday night for Christchurch, where they will bo taking part in tlio musical competitions.

The Misses Mary and Selby Morton arrived from Wellington at the week-end. During their stay in Auckland they will be the guests of Mrs. J. Parlies, of Onslow Road, Mount Albert.

Among the guests staying at Hotel Stonelnirst are:—Miss A. Watson, of Wanganui; Miss E. Wheal, Wanganui; Jliss C. Jefferson, Dunedin; Miss G. M. Mclnstry, New Plymouth; Mrs. Rose, Buntly.

The study of criminal psychology has long had a staunch adherent in Miss Helena Normanton, the English woman barrister, who was recently appointed one of the prosecuting counsel to the British Treasury. Sho is recognised in legal circles as an expert on this subject, and several years ago published a volume of analysis of famous murder mysteries.

Among the Auckland visitors who were gtaving at the Chateau, National Park, during the past week were:—Mr. and Jlrs. Keeble, Air. and Mrs. King. Judge Acheson, Mr., Mrs. and Miss Turner, Mrs. and Miss Henderson, Miss White, Jlrs. Charlton Dawson. Misses Dawson (2), Mr. and Mrs. Bertram Dawson, Miss Dawson, Miss Ileald, Seddon Memorial College party (42), Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Clarke, Mr. and Airs. Brinsdeu.

An outstanding feature of tho Society of Women Artists' exhibition, held recently in London, was the work of Mrs. Granger-Taylor. Two of her contributions were large panels of amusing subjects, the one a motor-car breakdown by a roadside, and the other a group of women judging pictures. She looked at tho incidents with an eye to their humorous side, and turned - into serious decorative art something which approached very nearly to caricature

The president of the Mangero East Croquet Club, Mrs. E. H. Solornan, gave a very enjoyable afternoon to members at her residence, Massey Road, Mangero, on Monday.- Two rooms were thrown into one and were decorated with tho club colours. Five hundred was played, Mrs. House being the winner of the first prize, Mrs. Gunthorpe tho second and Mrs. Henwood the hidden number. After tea was served musical items were given by Mesdames Massey, Tait and Moflitt.

For the first-time a diploma in art has been awarded in Australia. The award was madp- to Miss Eileen McGrath, of Farramatta, who was a pupil of the Art. Department of the Sydney Technical College at Darlinghurst. Apart from her work exhibited at the Technical College, Miss McGrath, who specialises in sculpture, designe'd and executed the G. H. Smith Memorial Medal for the Chemical Institution, and also executed three terracotta decorations for the Callan Fark War Memorial. .

Ati appointment of interest in Anslican circles in Melbourne is that of Miss A. M. Gillespie,-who was recently mado principal of the Church of England Deaconess Institution at Newtown. An M.A. of Cambridge .University, Miss Gillespie was for four years general secretary and superintendent of tho [lanyard Mission in London, and for five years was a member of the Sotithwark Diocesan Board of Women's Work. Miss Gillespie also did social -wprk in the latter years of tho war and was lecturer for three years to exservice men who studied for university degrees with a view to becoming teachers.