SOCIAL NEWS

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21454, 30 March 1933, Page 3

SOCIAL NEWS

Mrs. F. Levy has left for a visit to the Chateau, National Park. Mrs. Guthbert McCaw is visiting Mrs. Norman Banks, Cambridge. Mrs. Vincent Lorigan and Miss Lorigan have returned to Te Kuiti. Mrs. R. W. Hansard, of Napier, is visiting her son in Auckland. The Misses M. W. and E. M. Balder, of Hamilton, are at th u Central Hotel. Mrs. A. Howey Walker, of Mount Eden, who has been on a visit to Rolorua, has returned to Auckland. Miss Vivienne Edgecumbe, who has been the guest of Mrs. E. W. Rose, of Timaru, has returned to Auckland. Miss Livingston, of St. Andrew, Jamaica,, is visiting New Zealand, .and is the guest of Mrs. F. T. Murison, of Reinuera. Mr. and Sirs. A. E. Andrews, of Hokianga, with their son Edmond, left this week for Sydney and Melbourne by the Monterey. The Misses E. and B. Appleton and M. Fishbourne, of Melbourne, and the Misses Paine, Trickett and Dickens, of Sydney, are at Hotel Cargen. The use of the Borough Chambers on the first. Monday in each month..for meetings of the Northcote Welfare League, has been granted by the Borough Council. "lhe residents of Wintere Road, Papatoetoe, gave a farewell party on Tuesday to Mrs. G. Myers, who leaves by the Wanganella to take up her residence in Australia. Mr. and Mrs. E. Dodscheck, of Melbourne, who have been staying with Mrs. N. Fisher, of Avondale, leave by the Wanganella on Friday on their return to Australia. They have toured both the North and the South Islands. _ Miss G. D. James, of the Anglican Mission, Labasa, Fiji, who has been spending her furlough with Canon and Mrs. Percival James, of Wellington, arrived in Auckland yesterday, and is the guest of Mrs. John Dawson, Williamson Street. Epsom.

Ihe honour of being the first woman of her race to become a fully qualified barrister has fallen to Princess Jane Flux, a full-blooded American Indian. Princess Jane recently defended her tribe in one of the Federal Courts, and obtained a verdict in their favour. Besides having been admitted' to the Bar, she is a qualified medical woman, is practically selfeducated, and is only 27 years of age. At the British Industries Fair at Birmingham was shown a library of books by well-known authors which are bound in fadeless linen. Mr. George Bernard Shaw was the first to think of this idea, as he objected to the covers of his works suffering from careless usage, and since then there lias been a big demand for linen for covers from publishers. Jade green and Venetian red are Mr. Shaw's chosen colours, states our London correspondent. At the invitation of the ministeir and congregation Captain and Mrs. CorbettScott will go to Pukekohe next Wednesday to attend the celebrations which have been arranged to commemorate the 70th • anniversary of the opening of the East Pukekohe Church. It was at this church that the farmer Governor-General, Sir Charles Fergusson, unveiled a memorial to Captain Corbett-Scott and those who defended the church during the Maori War. Captain Corbett-Scott will be 95 years of age on April 15. At a well-attended meeting which was held at the Roman Catholic Presbytery, Tauranga, on Monday afternoon, Mrs. Pilling, Mrs. Joseph and Miss 'Violet Walsh, representatives of the Catholic Women's League of Auckland, were present. Miss Walsh gave an address upon the aims and objects of the league, and it was unanimously decided to form a branch in Tauranga. Mrs. A. Skinner was elected president, Mrs. T. F. Lloyd vicepresident, Mrs. E. L. Broad treasurer, and Mrs. W. M. Campbell secretary. A strong committee was also appointed. At the annual meeting of the music section of the Penvomen's League the following officers were elected :—Convener, Miss Alice Law; secretary and treasurer, Miss M. D. Haresnape; committee, Mrs. 11. King, Misses Amy Stevenson, Florence Walker, Hansard, Blamires, Hewson and Ida Walker. At the conclusion of the meeting a very enjoyable programme arranged by Miss Mavis Hewson was given, consisting of songs by Mrs. Richards, Mrs. Harold King and Miss Ida Walker, who also gave an interesting talk on Schubert, and pianoforte solos by Miss Erica Blamires.