SOCIAL NEWS

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21879, 15 August 1934, Page 4

SOCIAL NEWS

Mrs. S. Wlieatley, Hamilton, is at the Central Hotel. Mrs. E. McNair is spending a few days in Palmerston North on her return from a visit to Wellington. Mrs. 0. R. Farrer, Hamilton. Mrs. W. Smith, Whangnrei, and Miss L. Bernola, Kaponga, are at the Station Hotel. Mrs. W. A. Crawford, Dunedin, who has been in Auckland for the winter months, went South by the limited last evening. Colonel and Mrs. H. P. Shaw, Tauranga, who have been the guests of Mrs. A. W. Perkins, Garden Road, Remuera, are spending a few days at the Station Hotel before returning home. At the fortnightly meeting of the Victoria League Dramatic Circle the play "Truth About Bladys" (A. A. Milne) was read. Thoso taking part were:—Misses Louise Jourdain, Edniee Noble, Eileen Adkins and Mary Tyree, and Messrs. Townlev Little, C. G. Moffatt, Brian Betts and Robert Carter. The Rev. Mother Marie Anna Piche, Superior-General of the Grey Nuns, Sisters of Charity, Montreal, has received from His Majesty King George V. the decoration of the Order of the British Empire. The aged nun is the first woman in religious orders in Canada to receive such an honour. An address on " The Ideals of the League of Nations " was given by Miss E. M. Newton to the Women's Study Class at the Higher Thought Temple. The speaker dealt with the many activities undertaken with great success by the League. She urged all present to give it their wholehearted support and to strengthen the League by becoming members of it and so increase its power for good all over the world. Afternoon tea was served at the close of the meeting and several new members were enrolled.

Contessa Edda Ciano, the eldest daughter of Signor Mussolini, is on a holiday visit to her friends, the Italian Ambassador and Donna Antonietta Grandi, at the Embassy in Grosvenor Square, wrote our London correspondent on June 28. There is no political significance in the Contessa's presence in London, and no set programme of public functions has been arranged. Someone, who knows the Contessa said: "She has her father's dark, piercing eyes, and a nice smile. She is not very tall, but everybody finds her charming." She has a quick mind and a lot of determination. She is 23, has one son, born in October, 1932, and a daughter, born last December. Her husband is Count Galeazzo Ciano, a good-looking young diplomat, attached to the Italian Foreign Office in Rome. He was for a time Consul-General in Shanghai. He is the son of Count Ciano, President of the Italian Chamber, one of Signor Mussolini's most trusted friends.