SOCIAL NEWS

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 22027, 6 February 1935, Page 4

SOCIAL NEWS

Mrs. Gladys Samson, Bay of Islands, is on a holiday visit to Auckland.

• Mrs. Bad ford, ITokitika, left by the Aorangi yesterday on a visit to America.

Mrs. J. B. Henry, Auckland, is the guest of Mrs. T. W. Wardrll, To Whiti, Masterton.

Mr. and Mrs. Peter Findlay, Dunedin, are at the Esplanade Hotel, Devonport. \

Mrs. P. F. J. Sellars and her son have returned to Lyall Bay after a visit to Auckland.

Mrs. L. G. Gimblett, of Northcote, returned yesterday from a holiday at Napier and Wellington.

Mrs. Alexander Gillies and Miss Jane Gillies, Wellington, and Mrs. 10. G. Pottinger, Tuakau, are at the Hotel Cargen.

The Hon. Mrs. Ralph Vane is spending a few days in Wellington prior to leaving for the South Island on a sketching tour.

Miss Helen Burnett, who has been spending a fortnight at Takapuna, has returned to her home in Great South Road, Remuera.

Mrs. W. J. Truscott, Corbett Scott Avenue, has left by motor for Rotorua, where she is the guest of her sister, Mrs. F. C. Bunyard.

Mrs. W. Bain. Paeroa, Mrs. F. J. Bain, Morrinsville, Miss M. Williams, Hastings, and Miss S. C. Gordon, Hamilton, are at the Station Hotel.

Mrs. Lionel Maxwell, Kenya, Africa, and her sister. Mrs. D. Grosvenor, have returned from Northland, Waimate 'North, Bay of Islands, where they have been the guests of Mrs. Gladys Samson.

Miss Ruth Putnam, Wellington, has come to Auckland to meet her sister, Miss May Putnam, who is arriving today by the Otranto from England, where she has spent the past nine or ten months.

At a special meeting of the Morrinsville branch of the Baptist Women's Missionary Union, a presentation of a copy of H. V. Morton's new book, "In the Steps of the Master," was made to the retiring president, Mrs. G. N. Garlick. Mrs. Garlick is the wife of the Rey. G. N. Garlick, who has accepted a call to Wanganui, and who left Morrinsville by train on Monday evening. Ever since she came to Morrinsville seven years ago, Mrs. Garlick has held the office of president of the local branch of the union, and several ladies spoke in appreciation of her services.

Discussing the work and ideals of tho Women's Division of the Farmers' Union the Dominion president, Mrs. W. 11. Ward, said that the most pressing work for the division to undertako now was the matter of adult education, a matter in which New Zealand lagged far behind many other countries. Cultural education must be provided for persons living in the backblocks, and the division must see that the work was done by specialists. Mrs. Ward expressed her appreciation of the Girls' Educational Week, held recently in Christchurch and in Dunedin, and hoped the movement would spread.