SOCIAL NEWS

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21716, 3 February 1934, Page 17

SOCIAL NEWS

Mrs. Humphrey Clark, of Remuera Road, returned this week from a visit to Wellington. Mrs. Spencer and Miss B. Spencer, of Symonds Street, are spending a holiday in Rotorua. Miss Lesley Waller, of Maurice Avenue, RemueVa. left by motor yesterday for Rotorua. Miss Doris Tills, of Ridings Road, Remuera, has returned from six weeks holiday spent at Opononi. Mrs. T. H. Dawson, of Remuera, returned to Auckland by the Ruahine yesterday, after a visit to England. Mrs. H. Marsack, of Remuera, has returned after a holiday spent in Palmerston North and Wanganui. Mrs. C. H. Chapman left- Wellington yesterday for Auckland en route to Waitangi to attend the celebrations. Mrs. A. C. Dacre, of Devonport. is visiting Wellington, where she is the guest of her sister, Mrs. J. F. Buckrell. Mrs. Medhurst and Miss Shirley Medhurst returned to Auckland yesterday by the Ruahine after a visit to England. Mrs. L. Sinclair Thompson, who has been motoring in the North Auckland district, returned to Wellington this Miss Isobel Smallbone has returned to Auckland after a visit to Nelson, where she was the guest of Mrs. J. Baigent. Mrs. E. Wilmot, of Remuera. has returned from a holiday abroad. Most of her time was spent in England and Scotland. Mrs. W. McKail Geddes, of Remuera Road, will - leave by aeroplane to-dav with Mr. and Mrs. Douglas Mill for Waitangi. Mrs. A. E. Moore has returned to Auckland from a holiday at Beachlands and will leave to-day by car for Waitangi. Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Bailey, of Symonds Street, returned to Auckland last evening after a tour of W anganui and Taranaki. Canon and Mrs. Percival James, who have been motorine in the North, left Auckland this week on their return to Wellington. Mrs. D. McDonald and Miss McDonald. Victoria Avenue, Remuera. are the guests of Dr. and Mrs. J. W. Anderson, Wanganui. Mrs. H. Lewis and Miss Brenda Lewis, of Tauranga, and Mrs. H. Wood and Mrs. S. Smith, of Wellington, are at the Central Hotel. Mrs. W. L. Keenlyside, of Christchurch, Mrs. Porter, of Palmerston North, and Mrs. J. B. Cooper, of Sydney, are at the Hotel Cargen. Miss H. G. Warne. of Heme Bav. has left for the Waitangi celebrations. While there she will be the guest of Mrs. Leon Warne, of Russell. Mrs. J. K. Sidey. of Dunedin. Mrs. H. Smith, of Pahiatua, and Miss S. Williams and Miss G. Barker, of Gisborne, are at the Grand Hotel. Mr. and Mrs. J. Fletcher, Mrs ACameron and Miss Ella Fletcher are among recent visitors from Auckland at the White Star Hotel. Queenstown. Visitors from overseas at the Station Hotel include Mrs. F. C. Hughes and Miss C. Hughes, of Sydney, and Mrs. Cameron-Scott, of Bedford, England. Mrs. Cuthbert Freyberg, of Palmerston North, who has been the guest of her mother, Mrs. W. Ratbbone. Parnell, will return home to-morrow evening. Miss C. E. Pitcairn, a teacher on exchange from Scotland to Australia, arrived at Auckland by the Ruahine yesterday. She will leave for Sydney in a few days. Mrs. J. M. James and Miss James, of Masterton, Mrs. J. Peach, of Cambridge, and the Misses E. C., G. H. and D. Gideon, of Napier, are at the Station Hotel. Miss Betty Seth-Smith. who has been the guest of Mrs. E. Loisel, Tolaea Bay, has left for Hamilton and will later proceed to Waitangi to attend the celebrations. Mrs. Albert Cornaga and her daughter, Maureen, of Cambridge, have returned home after being the guests of Mrs. Bruce Quinton, of Hataitai. at their summer residence. Muritai, Wellington. Mrs. Alfred Kidd, president of the Auckland Trained Nurses' Association, left last evening to attend the nurses' conference to be held in Dunedin next Wednesday. She was accompanied by Miss Bagley and Miss Clements. An unusual work for a girl is undertaken by Miss Bessie Wilkinson, daughter of Superintendent James Wilkinson, of the Windsor police, Ontario. Canada. At the age of 18 years Miss Wilkinson is sufficiently skilled in the science of finger-prints to be abb to take her father's place as identification expert when he is away on leave. When on duty she has to go into all sorts of queer places 4 and among all kinds of queer people in pursuit of her quarry. Miss Oliver Kay and Miss Bessie Gaisford, both prominent New Zealand golfers. will leave for England next week. It was originally intended that these players would be sent to England by the >iew Zealand Ladies' Golf Union, but, as it was found not permissible for the union to send individual players to compete in a championship, they are travelling, privately bv the Mataroa, which will leave Wellington on Tuesday, and intend, on arrival, to compete in the English championship matches.