SOCIAL NEWS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20760, 31 December 1930, Page 5

SOCIAL NEWS.

Mrs. G. Meikle, of To Aroha, is staying at Hotel Cavgcn.

Miss Nancy Morpeth, of Ohaeawai, is staying at Arundel.

Mrs. A. Sievwright, of Wellington, is staying at the Grand Hotel.

Mr. and Mrs. Cecil Rickard, of Well ington, arc staying at Arundel.

Mrs. J. J. Craig is spending six months at her summer home in Takapuna.

' Miss Van Wart and Miss Ethel Van Wart, of Canada, aro staying at Hotel Cargcn.

Mrs. C. Dawson and Miss Helen Hawson, of Wellington, aro staying at Hotel Cargen.

Mrs. R. Macmorran, of Remuera, and her family aro spending the holidays at Takapuna.

Miss Sybil Knight and Miss Nancy Somervell, of Auckland, are visiting Mrs. J. Dodds, of Huarau.

Captain and Mrs. J. G. C. Wales, of Remuera, have left to spend the holidays at Taupo and Napier.

ISI r. and Mrs. A. A. Creamer, of Arthur Street, Onehunga, returned by the Niagara from a trip abroad.

Mrs. G. Speight, of Dunedin, and Miss W. J. Speight, arc visiting Auckland, and arc staying at Hotel Cargen.

Mr. and Mrs. W. G. Ritchie, of Rongapai Street, I'almerston North, are spending the holidays at Lake Taupo.

Miss Eileen Adkins is the guest of Mrs. A. Cerutty, of One Tree Hill, who is spending th 3 summer at Cecil Road, Milford.

Mrs. Philip Ilanria, of Wellington, is staying with her mother, Mrs. J. B. Macfarlano, of Roslyn, Gillies Ayenuo, Epsom.

Miss .Toan Cooper, of Wanganui, is on a month's visit to Auckland, and is staving with Mrs. J. Thornes, of Thorricourt, Parnell.

ilrs. Stuart Robinson arid family, who have been staying at Rothesay Bay, have returned to the Mission House, Kohimarama.

Miss Jean Wilkio (Auckland) will spend tlio winter months in Switzerland, states our London correspondent on November 20, and will leave London in a few days' time for the Continent.

Lady Rutherford, wifo of Sir Ernest Rutherford, who has been spending Christmas with her mother, Mrs. Newton, of Christchurch, has received by cahlo news of tlio death of her only child, Mrs. Eileen Fowler, wifo of Professor R. 11. Fowler, F.R.S., of Cambridge University. Mrs. Fowlor died suddenly on Christmas Eve-

The Rev. Ernest R. Weeks (chairman of tlie board of directors, Colonial Missionary Society) delivered a lantern lecturo in London entitled "New Zealan>, the Wonderland of the Southern Seas," states our London correspondent, writing on November 25. Mr. Weeks, who recently returned from the Dominion, kept his audience greatly interested with his vivid and informative description of the numerous lantern slides.

It has been intimated that the Duke and Duchess of York will open the extension of Harrow Hospital on May 6, 1931. states our London correspondent. It will be known as the Stuart Memorial, and is in honour of an old Harrovian, the lato Mr. J. N. Stuart. In olden days the site of tlio extension was the scene of the famous archery competition for the Silver Arrow —a competition comparable on a smaller scale with the Eton and Harrow cricket match of a later period. The last contest was in 1771. The competition was stopped by the mandate of Harrow's headmaster because of the disorderly crowds which visited the contest from London.

It, is announced by the Daily Telegraph (hat tho Duchess of York lias consented to become patroness of the Roads Beautifying Association, and to allow two flowering cherry trees to lie dedicated to Princess Elizabeth and Princess Margaret in the avenue which is to lie reserved for children under tho road-plan-ning schemes of tho association. The children's branch of the association has been formed to instil into the younger generation a love of nature, and to give them opportunities of helping to restore and maintain the beauty of the countryside. Membership costs Is a year, and the cost of a flowering cherry tree in one of tho children's avenues is two guineas. It is hoped that mothers will buy trees to commemorate the birth of their children.