SOCIAL NEWS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20986, 24 September 1931, Page 3

SOCIAL NEWS.

Mrs. Montague Poiiey, of Remucra, left last evening on a visit to the South. M iss R. Brown has returned to Auckland after a visit to Wellington. .Mrs. W. Graham, of New Plymouth, is visiting Auckland and is staying at Hotel Cargen. Mrs. Macarthy Reid has returned to Wellington from a visit to Auckland and Rotorua. Mrs. W. E. Collins, of Wellington, is returning to New Zealand by the ttangitiki from a visit to England. Mrs. T. Shailer Weston returned to Wellington this week from Sydney where she, had been spending the past few months. Mrs. J. E. Barton, of Lucerne Road, Remucra, returned on Saturday from a three weeks' visit to Paihia, Bay of Islands. Miss Renee Satclnvell has returned to her home in Clifton Road, Takapuna, after a holiday spent at Waitahanui, | near Taupo. | Mrs. Aiister Mclvillop, Miss Betty Holmes and Miss Dtilcie Fleetwood, of Christ church, are leaving on Saturday for i Wellington, en route for Rotorua. Miss Molly Mitelielson, of Armadale Road. Remucra, who has been paying a , round of visits in the Poverty Bay disj rrict, is at present the guest of Mrs. I. Corson, of Gisborne. Misses Helena and Annette Harcourt, of Wellington, who spent the past year in England, are returning to New Zealand by the Rangitiki, which arrives in Auckland at the beginning of October. Miss Dorothy Chrvstall, of Christchurch, leaves to-morrow for Wellington , where she will spend the week-end, before going on to Palmerston North for : the golf tournament. Later she will go to Rotorua to play in the Dominion championship tournament. > One hundred and thirty persons ga.h----i ered in the parish hall, Te Aroha, to hear ■ an address on the " Unemployment Qnes- ! tion "bv Miss Elsie K. Morton. the Mavor, Mr. R. Coulter, presided. At the | conclusion the speaker was presented with a bouquet of spring flowers from 10 i Arolia friends and a posy of primroses i from the children. V meeting of the Ponsonby branch of : the Women's Christian Temperance Union ' was helil in St. John's Methodist Hall on Thursday afternoon. Miss Read presided. : Reports "of the district convention recently ! held in Auckland were given by Mrs. i Young and Mrs. Turnbull. Being "FranI chise "Dav." a paper was read by Miss i Read on ""How the Women of New Zealand Won the Franchise." The meeting | closed with a "bring-and-buy" sale and ! afternoon tea.

j A team of four debaters from the Papa- | toetoe Debating Society entertained memj hers and friends of the Mangere Literary and Debating Society in the Mangere Hall supper-room on Tuesday evening, lhe dej hate was "That Modern Democracy has been a Failure."' Those who took part I were as follows Mr. C. H. Burton (affirmative!, Mr. C. J. Mahon (negaI tive), Mr. D. E. Stacey (affirmative). Mr. ! s. J C'losey (negative). • Miss Gabrielle Fraser and Miss Anne ' Bel la hi were hostesses at the fortnightly | meeting of the Play bo \- Club, when a readin a of Clemence Dane s powerful threej act play. "A Bill of Divorcement," was ! given under the direction of Mrs. E. B. ; : Lovell. The unusual and difficult dialogue was cleverly taken. Miss Edna i Herrick giving a "moving performance as j Margaret Fairfield and Mr. W. Russellj Wood as Hilary Fairfield, handled the part 1 with sjreat skill. Other parts were read ! bv Mrs. Lovell. Miss Hester Fairfield; i Miss Hilda Gavey, Sydney Fairfield; j Miss Anne Bellam, Basset (the maid): | Mr. Douglas Green, Kit Pumphrey; Mr. j P C. Garrett. Rev. G. Pumphrey; Miss iM. Began. Mr. Allcoti: Mr. Rowland 1 Wb.itlev. Grev Meredith.