SOCIAL NEWS

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21717, 5 February 1934, Page 3

SOCIAL NEWS

Mrs. J- H. Hume, of Takapuna, wil return from Dargaville to-day.

Mrs. Gilbert Mair, of Takapuna, is spending a holiday at Swan son.

Miss Frances Clark, of Nalson, is the guest of Mrs. Noel Adams, Wharekawa, Clevedon.

Mrs. R. H. Ellis, Mrs. R. Gates and the Misses Butler, of Wellington, are at Hotel Cargen.

Miss Enid Bell, of Wellington, left 'Auckland by the special train last evening for Waitangi.;

Mrs. H. L. R. Isherwood has returned to Russell after a month's holiday in Auckland.

Mrs. S. Thomas, of Hauraki Road, Takapuna, has returned from a motor tour in the North.

Mrs. E. R. Galpin, of Marton, and Mrs. F. B. Pinfold, of Hamilton, are at the Central Hotel.

Mr* and Mrs. Alan O'Neill, of Takapuna, and Mrs. L. L. Speedy, left on Saturday for Waitangi.

Mrs. Kight, of Dannevirke, ir. the guest of Mrs. Brownlow Horrocks, Lochiel Road, Remuera.

Mrs. Ralph Worley, of Arne.v Road, Remuera, will return to-morrow from a month's holiday at Takapuna.

Mrs. S. W. Foote, of Remuera, has returned from five weeks' holiday spent at her beach house, Wairangi Bay.

Mrs. James Prickett, of Birkenhead, who has spent six weeks' holiday at Sydney, will return by the Niagara to<3ay.

Miss Joan Caughey, of Mount Albert, will leave this evening for Wellington to join the Mataroa en route to England. *

.Sirs. J. Pascoe, of Devonport, accompanied by Miss Fay Pascoe and Miss Betty Richwhite, left yesterday for .Waitangi.

Miss Jessie Reid, of Alten Road, 'Auckland, will leave by the Mataroa to-morrow from Wellington on a visit to England.

Mrs. Herbert Tiarks and family, who have been staying at Thome's Bay, Takapuna, have returned to their home in Remuera.

Mrs. Miles Coverdale, of Te Kawa, who has been spending some weeks in Auckland, is now visiting Waitangi for 'the celebrations.

Mrs. A, Macindoe, who has been visiting Auckland, has returned to Napier, accompanied by Miss Marjorie Macindoe, of Suva.

Sirs. Carl Williamson, of Remuera, has returned from Matamata, accompanied by her daughter, Mrs. J. Edwards, whose guest she has been.

Mrs. F. Halahan and Mrs. A. E Groves, of England, and Mrs. L. J, Lambert, Manila, are among the overseas visitoTs at the Grand Hotel.

Until recently a lecturer at the Univerof Berne, Dr. Gertrud Woker has been called upon to occupy the Chair of Piiysico-bio logical Chemistry at the same university.

The Rev. F. W. Wilkes and Mrs. Wilkes, of iVortl/cote, have prolonged their,, holiday in the Bay of Islands disuntil the conclusion of the Waitangi celebrations.

Though many women occupy positions in the higher postal service in the United States, the highest-paid position to go to a woman is now held by Mrs. Nellie B. Donohoe, who was appointed to the acting-postmastership of Oakland recently. Her salary for this is 7000 dollars per annum.

Miss Kathleen Lindsay, a .young English authoress, arrived in Auckland by the Ruahine with her parents, Captain and Mrs. C. McDonald Lindsay, and a sister. Miss Lindsay has written several books, some mystery novels and others with a South African setting. The Visitors intend to settle in the Dominion and will remain in Auckland for some time.

At the Station Hotel are:—Mrs. H. H. Young, Mrs. M. Low, Miss M. I. Low, Miss Gladys Nathan, Miss Scarfe, and Miss M. Hayes, of Wellington; Mrs. W. A. Scarfe, Mrs. A. Marcroft and Mrs. J. M. Horton, Hamilton; Mrs. W. Graham, Gisborne; Mrs. T. Burgess, Christchurch; Mrs. J. B. Davis, Wanganui; Miss Hilliard, Kaikohe; Miss R. Davies, Huapai.

The first woman to be elected to the Council of the Dublin University is Miss Olive Constance Purser, who graduated in 1908 with a senior moderatorship in classics and a senior membership in modern literature. Trinity College, the constituent college of Dublin University, was one of the first to give degrees to women, and Miss Purser's election t-o the council is in accord with Dublin tradition. /

Miss Doreen Saunders, a well-known musician and elocutionist of Palmerston North, arrived recently in Auckland with her mother, and has taken up her residence in Lower Symonds Street. Prior to her departure from Palmerston North Miss Saunders was guest of honour at a number of farewell socials tendered by the various inusical and dramatic societies with which she has been associated. 7

Lady Bourne and Miss Pamela Bourne, of South Africa, have been spending a unique holiday in New Zealand, rhiefly occupied in walking along tracks and roads still unbeaten by tourists in the/less accessible parts' of the South Island'. Miss Bourne commenced her journey at. Picton, from which point she travelled down the West Coast to the Haast Pass, mostly on foot, but sometimes on horseback and occasionally by car. She met her mother near Lake Hawea, Lady-Bourne having-trav-elled down the east coast of the island by train. She left the Pembroke district on foot and met her daughter on a dusty, ■ lonely road on the wide Hawea fiat.