SOCIAL NEWS

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21698, 13 January 1934, Page 16

SOCIAL NEWS

Lady Myers, of Wellington, is at the Grand Hotel. Mrs. A. du Cros, London, is at the Hotel Cargen. Viscount and Viscountess Long are spending a holiday in Rotorua. Miss Annette George, Remuera, is the guest of 3lrs. A. Blair, Gisborne. Jh-s. T. Jolly, of Northcote, loaves to-day to spend a week at Oneroa, Waiheko Island. Miss Elizabeth Mee, of Wellington, is spending the vacation with relations in Auckland. Mr. and 31 rs. Maurice Chambers have returned to Havelock North from a visit to Taupo. Mrs. H. I. Biggs, of St. Heliers Bay, is visiting her sister, Miss Jolly, of Lake Road, Hamilton. Mrs. Ernest Williams and Miss Vieve Williams are the guests of Mrs. F. P. D. Jefferries, Stratford. Mrs. P. Hamilton, of Northcote, is in Wellington, where she is visiting her daughter, Mrs. Ivo Reid. Dr. and Mrs. L. G. Drury are spending two or three weeks on a holiday tour of North Auckland. Bishop Cherrington and Mrs. Cherrington are spending a holiday at the Hot Springs Hotel, Waiwera. Mrs. H. A. Corbett, of Pukekohe, is staying at Beachlands for a fortnight with Miss E. M. Day. Overseas visitors at the Grand Hotel include Mrs. 0. W. Dorch, United States, and Mrs. Thayer, Chicago. Mr. and Mrs. H. M. Campbell, of Horonui, Hawko's Bay, with their family, have returned after a visit to Taupo. Mrs. Digges Smith and the Misses Moira and Ismay Digges Smith have returned to Wellington after a visit to Rotorua.

Mrs. J. C. E. Kissling, Highwic Avenue, who has been visiting her son, Mr. K. Kissling, at Ruatoria, has returned home. Mr. and Mrs. Roy Reardon and their little daughter returned to Taumarunui after a holiday spent with Mrs. C. R. Birchall, Stanley Point. Miss Mary Campbell, of the Melbourne Conservatorium of Music, is staying with Mrs. Harold Owers, Rewhiti Takapuna. Mrs. J. T. Fearnley, of Northcote, has returned from Maungatapere, where she spent the holidays at the home of her daughter, Mrs. J. M. Delamore. Miss Wood, of Dunedin, who has been visiting Mrs. Patterson, of Onehunga, has left on a visit to Miss K. Hogan, in the Te Aroha district before proceeding South. Mr. and Mrs. S. H. Brown, accompanied by their son, are leaving this month by the Mariposa for Sydney, whero they will join the Ormondo on a visit to England. Mrs. Murray and Miss Clearv, Whangarei, Mrs. Ernest Blackmore, Miss Dorothy Blackmore and Miss R. Thomson, Wellington, and Miss J. Coleman, Stratford, are at the Station Hotel. Mrs. E. J. Bell, of Christchurch, leaves Auckland to-day for San Francisco to meet her husband, Mr. E. J. Bell, librarian of the Canterbury Public Library, who has been in America for the past few months. Commodore C. A. Bartlett, C.8., C.8.E., R.N.R., retired superintendent of the White Star Line, and Mrs. Bart- 1 lett are touring New Zealand by car accompanied by Dr. C. and Mrs. Coldicutt. I hey left Auckland yesterday morning to visit the Rotorua district.

Miss Tessa Reading, daughter of Mr. and airs. M. L. Reading, formerly of Christchurch, now of Brisbane, will leave Sydney on February 7, en route for Washington, whero she will visit licr sister, Mrs. Freeborn Johnson. Miss Reading will travel by the Mariposa, via Auckland, where she is due to call on February 10. Mrs. W. R. C. Oswin, Wellington, has been for the last two months on a round of visits to friends and relatives in Yorkshire and the Midlands. She will leave for New Zealand by the Orsova, travelling via Suez, but her daughter. Miss Therle Oswin, will remain in London to continue her pianoforte and 'cello studies at the RoyaA Academy of Music.

Mrs. Carey-Hill, who arrived in New Zealand by the Tainui from England recently, has been visiting her sister, Mrs. Hnllen, Poverty Bay. Later *he wilt tour New- L'jaland, and report on the Home activities of the Victoria League to the various branches throughout the Dominion. Mrs. Carey-Hill commenced the Victoria League in Poverty Bay 20 years ago.

Mrs. C. Spencer Mason (Auckland) has been spending some little time on the south coast of England, and she has planned to spend Christmas in Paris, wrote our London correspondent on December 6. Later an extended Continental tour will be made. Mrs. Mason has been on a visit to tho country home of her uncle, Mr. G. C. Howard, one of the "Fathers" of tho London Stock Exchange, who lives at Medstcail Cnuige, in Hampshire. Tho Church of St. Mary tho Virgin, in the north of London, has a woman sexton, Airs. Walter Stutters. She was appointed when her husband retired thirty years ago aftor twenty years' service, during which Mrs. Stutters often acted as his deputy. The appointment is likely to bo unique, as the Enabling Act states that all sextons must bo ablo to perform their traditional duties. These include grave-digging and tolling the passing bellMemories of 1536 were revived at tho old palace of Tudor kings, Hampton Court (London) on October 29,. when Jane Seymour, daughter of General and airs. Win. Seymour, in marrying air. aiichael TJnwin-Heatbcote at tho Chapel Royal in the palace, trod tho sarno stone-flagged aisle and, later, mar bio terraces ns once did that other Jane Seymour, who for a year was Queen of England, and is now by means of the talkie "The Private Life of Henry VIII." being brought to life. 31 rs. Unwin-Hcathcoto comes of that family of Seymours or St. Maurs which Hcnry'a third Queen lifted from being mere knights of the shire to second place in the peerage (the Dukedom of Somerset), with branches in tho Beaufort dukedom and Hertford mariiucssato.