SOCIAL NEWS

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21596, 14 September 1933, Page 3

SOCIAL NEWS

Mrs. F. Wood, of Sydney, is at Hotel Cargpi.

Mrs. J. W. Stevens, Christchurch, is Spending a holiday in Auckland.

Mrs y A. B. Lawrence, of Pine Street, Remuera, has returned from Rotorua.

Miss Dorothy Mills, of Birkenhead, left this week for a holiday at Rotorua.

Mrs. C. M. Bowdon and Mrs. T. Cray, iof Masterton, are at the Central Hotel.

Mrs. J. Martin, of Roslyn Avenue, Remuera, has returned from a visit to Rotopa.

Miss Margaret Cousins, of Remuera, is staying at Brents', Rotorua, for a few weeks.

Mrs. E. J. Prendergast returned by the Wanganella yesterday from a visit to Australia.

Mrs. H. Choyce was a passenger for 'Auckland yesterday by the Wanganella from Sydney.

Miss M. Devereux, Auckland, is visiting her sister, Mrs. N. C. C. Shepherd, Featherston.

Mrs.'H. V. Coe, of Orakei Road, and Miss Betty Coe have returned from a visit to Rotorua.

Miss Edith Gordon-Cumming returned by the Wanganella yesterday from a visit to Australia.

Mrs. Harold Carr, of Bayswater, has returned from a holiday spent at the Waitakere Ranges.

Mrs. H. Pierce, of Ranui Road, Remuera,7 and Miss Cherie Pierce have returned from Rotorua.

Mrs. Cockburn-Hood, of Masterton, who is at the Station Hotel, is leaving for Rotorua next week.

Mrs. Ernest Craig, of Symonds Street, Teturned to Auckland yesterday after a visyt to Wellington.

Dr. Buckley Turkington, who has been spending four months in Australia, teturned by the Wanganella yesterday.

Mrs. W. A. Boucher, of Orakei Road, Remuera, and her daughter, Miss Dulcie Boucher, have returned from Rotorua.

Mr. and Mrs. C. K. Morriston (Durban, 'South Africa) and Mrs. A. Forte and her daughter (Auckland) are at Hotel Mon Desir.

Mrs. M. Vavasour, of Te Kuiti, Mrs. J. H. Simpson, Rangitikei, Mrs. J. Burt, Whangarei, Mrs. I. Pearce and Miss M. A. Green, of Rotorua, are at the Station Hotel.

Mrs/ W. R. Wilson, of St. Leonard's, Takapuna, Miss Wilson and Mrs. Roy Wilson, of Remuera, returned to Auckland yesterday by the Wanganella from Sydney after a tour of the East. • •

Mrs., Percy Thomson, her daughter, Miss Ray Thomson, and her niece, Miss Jean Mackenzie, of Sydney, have taken the residence of Mrs. Raymond Norris, of Eastbourne Road, Remuera, while the latter is visiting Hongkong.

Mrs. Gr. Eichelbaum, Mrs. A. H. Johns, Mrs. M. Foley, of Wellington, Mrs. jk. Allen ; Morrinsville, Mrs. F. H. Hardy, Hamilton, Mrs. B. Jackson, London, and Mrs. E. D. Leishman, of New York, are at the' Grand Hotel.

Miss Ruth Manning, of Christchurch, will leave New Zealand about September 21 by- the Narbada en route for the Malay States, where she will be the guest of her brother and sister-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Keith Manning, at Kuala Lumpur. .

Mrs. I. Dodgshun, member of the New Zealand women's golf team, which recently played against Australian women at Melbourne, returned to Auckland yesterday by the Wanganella. "It was a wonderful time," was the way in which she described her experiences. In the absence of her captain, Mrs. Dodgshun would not comment upon the play. '

Mrs. P. A. Lindsay, president of the city branch of the League of Mothers, presided at the monthly meeting. Several new members joined during the afternoon. Songs were given by Miss Harrisson and Miss Cork recited. An address was given by Major Annie Gordon upon the responsibility of mothers in traiping their children and in making the home happy.

A meeting of the Women's Christian % Temperance Union was held in the Northcote Methodist schoolroom on Tuesday. Mrs. Hulbert presided. Mrs. BrocklehUrst, president of the Birkenhead branch, addressed the meeting on "How we won the franchise." Two 3elegates were appointed to the district convention, these being Mrs. McKinnon and Miss Piper.

Mrs. Hem,us presided at the monthly Iheeting of the Mothers' Thought Guild. After reading the leaflet which has rei centlv been issued Mrs. Hemus introduced Miss N. Ockenden as the speaker for the afternoon. Miss Ockenden, who lately returned from a prolonged visit to India, took as her subject, New Zealand, the Cradle of a New Race. A discussion followed at the close or tne address and afternoon tea was served by the committee.

For only the third time in nearly 3000 vears a woman is Lord Marcher ot the Barony of Kemes in Pembrokeshire, Mrs. Nest a Withington having; just succeeded as the 26th holder of that h g and ancient office on the death or father, Sir Marteine Owen Lloyd, Bart. The privileges include the annual « pjiointmcnt of the Mayor of the ancient borough of Newport, Pembrokeshire, and tke maintenance of a bodyguar of homagers equipped with halberds.

Apple-green gas-stoves ifro thc , lat ? fashions for the kitchen. Those housewives who have so far been contented with a black gas cooking stove, or e\ a grev one, are now becoming *iisco - tented/and demanding a stove whic add a bright touch of colour to the r kitchens, states a London writer. , ' number of stoves in different colon is were /seen in an exhibition *at Oastie Bromwich, Birmingham, and those eiainelled in apple-green were the most popular. Another favourite colour was pale yellow, and there was also a Jig blue enamelled stove decorated witn a willow pattern design.

Th 6 Women's Debating Society founded during the Hilary term at xford, has taken a big step forwar , states a London writer. With the ope - ing of the October term, the society will h6ld. meetings exactly similar o those of the Oxford "Union. Pronuqen people and men undergraduates win be invited to take part in the debates. The proctors have sanctioned the use of the Pentagon Club for this purpose. The new arrangement means the amalgamation of the Women's Debating Society with the Pentagon Club, and put® the society on the same footing as the jmion.'