SOCIAL NEWS

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21855, 18 July 1934, Page 4

SOCIAL NEWS

Mrs. T. Mitchell, Whangarei, is at the Central Hotel.

Mrs. E. Knight, Levin, and Mrs. F. S. Varnham, New Plymouth, arc staying in the Bay of Plenty.

Mr. and Mrs. B. H. Edkins, Kcrikere, have returned from a holiday visit to Wellington.

Miss Jocelyn Crawford, Gisborne, is the guest of Mrs. H. T. W. Wilcox, Laurie Avenue, Parnell.

Mrs. V. Barker, and Miss Muriel Barker, Gishornc, will leave at the end of this month on a visit to England.

Miss Acushla Orr, of Taupo, is visiting Auckland and is the guest of her aunt, Mrs. Trevor Brett, of Parnell.

Mrs. Dumbloton, Hamilton, Miss Allen, Paihia, and Miss I. M. Evans, Wellington, are at the Hotel Cargen.

Mr. and Mrs. Wilfred Jackson, Orinond, Gisborne, are the guests of Archdeacon and Mrs. H. A. Hawkins, Howick.

Mrs. George Mills, Heretaunga, and Miss Helen Wliyte, Wellington, are spending a holiday at the Chateau Tonga riro.

Mr. and Mrs. Walter King, of Lingarth Road, Remuera, have returned to Auckland after a motor tour in the North Island.

Mrs. Owen Rainger, Roslyn Avenue, Remuera, ■ left Wellington by the Marama on Saturday to spend a holiday in Australia.

Mrs. M. J. Bailes, Timaru, Mrs. J. S. MacDiarmid, Tauranga, Airs. Wallis, Wellington, Mrs. W. J. Patersou, and the Misses Walker, Alfriston, aro at the Station Hotel.

_At the fortnightly meeting of the Victoria League Dramatic Circle "The Romantic Young Lady," a play translated from the Spanish of G. Martinez Sieira, was read. Those taking part were Misses Win Kent, Gwen Jones, Edmeo Noble, Decima Corringham and Mary Pilkington and Messrs. Townley Little, Moffat, Howard Newcombe, Jack Cochrane, Robert Carter and Harry Gower.

Mrs. H. C. McCoy and Miss M. McCoy (Auckland) have reached London after travelling through Italy, Germany and -France, wliero they had a very delightful tour, writes our London correspondent on June 12. They anticipate doing a very considerable amount of motoring in England and Scotland, and they will spend a short time in Dublin. They will return home via America in September.

The Mangere East school committee held a progressive card evening in the Mangere East Hall at which there was an attendance of over 40 bridge and five-hundred players. The room had been decorated with streamers and bowls of golden wattle. The winners of the bridge prizes were Mrs. Gordon and Mr. J. M. Key and the winners of five-hundred were Mrs. Jackson and Mr. G. Luslett.

Miss Paddy Naismith, who was for a time chauffeuse to Mr. Ramsay MacDonald, Prime Minister of Great Britain, is now an air hostess on the staff of the British Air Navigation Company. Chosen out of 200 applicants, Miss Naismith's duties include ensuring the comfort of passengers and advising them on passport and customs affairs. She is herself a keen airwoman, and was in the aeroplane which came third in the latest King's Cup race.

After 15 years 011 the committee of the Mothers' Helpers League in Wellington Mrs. Coleridge, daughter of the Anglican Bishop of Wellington, has resigned her position for health reasons. It was Mrs. Coleridge who first suggested the organising of the Mothers' Helpers League, to afford relief to harassed and over-worked mothers _ of young children, and at the same time raise the status of the domestic workers. The helpers relieve mothers who wish to do business in town without taking their children, and v the members do lighter kinds of housework for certain hours of the day at a nominal fee.