SOCIAL NEWS

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21729, 19 February 1934, Page 3

SOCIAL NEWS

Mrs. M. lde, of Vancouver, is at tho Grand Hotel.

Mrs. B. S. Finn, Victoria Avenue, is spending a holiday at Taupo.

Mrs. W. P. Hay, of Northcote, lias returned from a visit to Tauranga.

Miss Vera Robertson, London, is the guest of Mrs. H. E. Vaile, Epsom.

Mrs. C. 1?. Birchall, of Stanley Point, has returned from Palmcrston North and Taumarunui.

Dr. and Mrs. L. A. Spedding, of Remucra Road, arc spending a holiday at Taupo and Rotorua.

Mrs. J. H. Armitage, of Winnipeg (Manitoba), arrived in Auckland by the Aorangi and is at tho Grand Hotel.

Mrs. R. W. Kane and Miss Amy Kane have returned to Wellington after a motor trip to the Bay of Islands

Miss Maida Ellicott, of Marolicino. and Miss Shirley Tickle have returned to Matakana after spending a few dajs at Kawau.

Mrs. M. Colder, Invercargill; Mrs. J. S. Mathias and Mrs. Krogh, Rotorua; Mrs. L. Bates, Wellington, aro at the Station Hotel.

Miss Betty Murly, who has been the guest of relatives at Highbury, Birkenhead, has . returned to New Brighton, near Christchurch^

Mrs. H. Holland, Christchurch, who has been the guest of Mrs. A. R. Hosking, Mount Eden, has left for Wellington and will stay with Lady Luko before returning home.

Mr. and Mrs. Campbell Heard, Masterton, accompanied by Miss Enid Kebble, spent the week-end in Auckland, and will leave to-morrow for a motor tour of the North.

. Members of the Tokanui branch, of the League of Mothers were the guests of Mrs. Thornton Walker at her residence, Waikeria* at the first meeting of the league for this year. Competitions and items were enjoyed. •

Mrs. A. Campbell, president of the Northcote Plunket Committee, and Mrs. I. Allan, vice-president of the Auckland .Committee, left by train on Saturday afternoon for Wellington to attend the conference of the riunket Society, at Dunedin.

Visitors from overseas at the Station Hotel include:—Mrs. Fred Moore. Mrs. M. H. Smith and Miss Margery Myers, London; Mrs. G. T. Borg and Miss Borg, Fiji; Mrs. M. T. Clark and Miss Z. Clark, Queensland; Mrs. T. Hill, Sydney; and Mrs. J. T. Buchanan, Scotland.

Miss Alice Booth and Miss Claudie Cranston, editorial representatives of a well-known American women's magazine, will shortly visit New Zealand. Thev are planning to write a series of articles on Hawaii, New Zealand and Australia, which subsequently will be published in book form.

A social evening arranged by Mesdames Whinstcr, McGuire and McLaren was held in the Orphans Hall in Onehunga for members of the Parents' Club of the Onehunga Free Kindergarten and friends. Mr. Graham Reid and his Revue Troup provided an excellent programme of entertainment, after which supper was served. Later, dancing was enjoyed and exhibitions of conjuring given bv Mr. Leslie Mills.

At Mansion House, Kawau, are:— Mr. and Mrs. E. H. Bartley, Paeroa; Miss Catherine Boffa, Miss Gladys Gray, "Wellington; Mr. F. A. Ansell, Mr. Neville Wallace, Mr. N. P. Edgar, Mrs. R M. Scellv, Mrs. S. Salter, Master W. E. Salter, Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Penned, Auckland; Mr. and Mrs. 11. W. Wilson, Mr. and Mrs. L. E. Tabley, Wellington; Miss A. .T. Kenton, Auckland; Mr. A. Bloomfield, Mr. H. A. By all, Mr. F. A. Benson, Mr. D. A. Alexander, Sydney.

A meeting of the Otahuliu Women's Christian Temperance Union was held on Thursday afternoon and was presided over by the president, Mrs. Eecersall. After business ha,d been dealt with, items were given by Mrs. Christini Mrs. Venables and the Rev. J. A 'Scott and elocution by Jean Sawyers and Jean Clayton. An address was given by .Mr. White. Mrs. Taylor was appointed representative of the union at the Jubilee Convention to be held in Wellington next month.

Miss V. Bargrove, a nurse-missionary from China, gave some interesting details of her work at a meeting held 111 Christchureli recently. Miss Bargrove first went to China as a nurse-missionary 10 years ago, and she is now .on furlough for the second time since she joined the ranks of the Church Missionary Society. She has been one of three British trained nurses on the statf of the society's hospital at Hangchow. a hospital that has 450 beds. There are also on the staff 13 Chinese trained nurses and many Chinese pupil nurses, who are being trained. On the medical staff there are 11 doctors, five British, including two women, one of whom is a New Zealander —Dr. Phyllis Haddow, of Auckland —and six Chinese.