SOCIAL NEWS

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21492, 16 May 1933, Page 3

SOCIAL NEWS

Mrs. Rav Fuller, of Mount Eden, is visiting Matamata.

Mrs. Victor Macky, of Mountain Road, Epsom, left yesterday on a visit to Tauranga.

ill's. J. P. Kalaugher, of Stanley Bay, returned on Saturday from a short visit to Napier.

Lady Ngata, Mrs. T. Carroll, Mrs. G. Oman and Mrs. C. Oman, of Gisborne, are at tlio Central Hotel.

Mrs. F. Duffy arrived from Hamilton at the week-end and is the guest of her sister, Mrs. E. Greer, Takapuna.

Miss Jean Wright, of Mount St. John Avenue, has returned from a motor trip to "Wellington and Hawke's Bay.

Mrs. E. B. Gunson and Miss Elizabeth Gunson have returned to Auckland after spending a week at llotorua.

Mrs. A. S. Brown and the Misses Bronda and Joy Brown, of Remuera Road, have left on a visit to Lake Rotoiti.

Mrs. N. Marsks and Mrs. Heslehurst, of London, are through passengers by the Aorangi for Sydney, leaving Auckland to-day.

Mrs. Bertrand Cooper, Malay States, her daughter, and Mrs. L. J. Simpson, Sydney, are spending a holiday at Waiwera House, Rotorua.

Mrs. Gladys Samson, of Northlands, Bay of Islands, is on a visit to Auckland, where she is the guest of her sister, Mrs. T. Maxwell, Belmont Avenue, Mount Albert.

At Hotel Cargen are: Mrs. Robert Browning and Miss L. Clark, of Wellington; Mrs. J. Hay, Mrs. Campbell Hay,* and Miss K. Hay, of Canterbury; Mrs. R. H. Heath, Rotorua; Miss McKellar. Christchurch; Mrs. C. A. Levatt, Feilding; Mrs. R. W. Hardey and Miss C. Hardey, Perth.

St. Enoch's Presbyterian Church, Morningside, was filled with a very large congregation, which had gathered for tho observance of Mothers' Day, on Sunday. Appropriate solos were rendered by Mrs. A. Morton and Mr. Gold. An address on the theme "Tho Glory of Christian Motherhood " was delivered by the student minister, Mr. A. W. Morton. The church was beautifully decorated with white flowers.

The Kohimarama branch of the Women's Christian Temperance Union held a very successful drawing-room meeting yesterday afternoon at the residence of Mrs. J. Hubber. Mrs. H. Kasper presided. Mrs. Perkins gave a devotional address on "Casting Bread Upon the Waters." A report of the recent Dominion convention was read, after which Mrs. Warburton gave a song and Mesdames Eady and Reffel sang a duet.

The only woman in South Africa known to hold the Culbertson diploma is Miss Margaret M. Livingstone, M.A. Miss Livingstone attended the Lady Rhodes' Bridge College in London, which is authorised to train for and giant the diploma in England. She took the higher diploma, which qualifies for preparing pupils for tho Culbertson teacher's diploma, as well as to give instruction in 'the game.

Two women who made history by undertaking the management of a savings bank, retired recently after 30 years of remarkable work. They are sisters, the Misses I. M. and G. A. Hardwick, who were actuaries at the Grantham branch of the York County Savings Bank. Since they succeeded their father in the work 30 years ago they have increased tho number of depositors from 3500 to 6855, and_ tho amount of deposits from £131,000 to £350,000.

Every women's organisation in Wellington was represented at the reception given'by the president and executive of the New Zealand Women Teachers 5 Association at tho neer Club on Friday night. Bowls of French marigolds and standing baskets of hydrangeas, chrysanthemums and autumn-tinted foliage were arranged in the large reception room, lhe guests were received by Miss E. Andrews (Isew Plymouth), president of the association, and the Mayoress, Mrs. 1. O. A. Hislop, was also present.

The Taupiri Croquet Club held a card evening on Saturday, progressive five hundred being played. The ladies prize was won by Miss J. Sowman and the gentlemen's by Mr. S. Mathers, lhe ladies' consolation prize went to Mrs. Hewitt and tho gentlemen's to Mr. Baucke. Among the ladies present were- —Mrs. G. Harwood, Mrs. N. Wilson, Mrs. Hewitt, Mrs. E. A. Sowman, Mrs. F. Catley, Mrs. Bentley, Mrs. E. Roach, Mrs. Clayton, Mrs. Shepherd, Mrs. A. W. Buss, Miss J. bowman, Miss N. Wilson and Miss D. Gleeson.

Mrs. S. O. English, provincial president of the League of Mothers, Mis. F. W. Whyte, provincial secretary, and Mesdames Kingston Smith, Allen and Utting, members of the organising committee, recently attended a meeting ot some of the ladies of tho Kohimarama district. After the aims and objects of the league had been outlined by the speakers, it was unanimously decided to form a branch, 'lhe provincial president enrolled the president, Mrs. Littlejohn, the secretary, Mrs. Warburton, and the treasurer. Musical items were given, and afternoon tea brought tho meeting to an end.