SOCIAL NEWS

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21470, 19 April 1933, Page 4

SOCIAL NEWS

Miss Norah Whinerny is spending a week at Rotorua. Miss J. Hay, of Takapuna, is spending a holiday in tho South. Mrs. I?alph Holden, of Hawko's Bay, is on a visit to Auckland. Miss Una Platts, of Tirau, spent tho week-end at her homo in Takapifna. Miss J. H. M. Carpenter, of Remuera, left yesterday on a visit to Tajipo. ■ Mrs. J. D. Shea, of To Awamutu, is visiting Auckland and is at tho Royal Hotel. Mrs. W. Macfarlano, of North Auckland, is visiting her mother, Mrs. H. L. Michel, of Hokitika. Mrs. A. Rigg, of Birkenhead, with her son and daughter, left Auckland by tho Niagara for England yesterday. Mrs. Geoffrey Marler lias joined Mrs. T. M. Davis at her farm, Clovedon, where she is spending a week's holiday. Miss Cora and Miss Lily Dixon returned to Hamilton yesterday after spending tho Easter holidays in Auckland. Mrs. I. Satchwell, of Clifton Road, Takapuna, and Miss E. M. Potts, of Gisborno, have returned from a visit to Maungaturoto. Miss Moya Williamson, of Rotorua, arrived in Auckland jesterday and is the guest of Mrs. W. Carson, Benson Road, Remuera, for a few days. Mrs. E. and Miss H. Pringle, of Sydney, Mrs. 0. H. Moller, Hastings, Miss K. Holder, Waihou, and Mrs. T. Ilagan, Invercargill, aro staying at Hotel Stonehurst. Staying at Hotel Ventnor for tho Easter holidays were Mrs. R. W. Parsons and two children, of Epsom; Mr. M. Nicholls and two children, Rauritnu; Mrs. Hilton Bird, Hamilton; Mr. and Mrs. C. Vautior and Miss S. Vautier, Hamilton; Mrs. R. Little and two daughters, Tirau; Mrs. J. lzzard and family, of Dargavillo. At the Station Hotel aro:—Mrs. G. Russell, Mrs. A. Wallis and Mrs. A. McNeil, of Wellington; Mrs. F. D. Pinfold, Mrs. E. Milno and Mrs. A. Brown, Hamilton; Misses Jefferson, Taumarunui; Mrs. E. King anil Miss M. Mills, Hastings; Mrs. .T. A. Masterson, Edinburgh; and Mrs. F. R. Beckingsale, Masterton. An English company, composed entirely of women, and known as tho British Women's Corporation, is planning to produce a talking-picture romance dealing with tho days of Queen Victoria. The enterprise has for its chairman and supervisor of the production the Dowager Lady Raglan, who was a lady-in-waiting to Queen Victoria. Tho company is being financed mainly by leading women's associations in England. The first woman in Prussia to be entitled to be called professor is Professor Lydia Ravinovitch Kempner, who was recently appointed director of the Institute of Bacteriological Research at Berlin. She has travelled widely in her research work in malariainfected districts of Africa and the new world, and also on the Island of Lepers. She was the only woman assistant of Dr. Robert Koch, discoverer of tho tuberculosis bacillus.