SOCIAL NEWS

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22320, 18 January 1936, Page 19

SOCIAL NEWS

Mrs. G. A. Ward, of Tauranga, is at the Central Hotel.

Miss Betty Pcmntney, of Remuera, jg spending a holiday in Gisborne.

Miss Sutton, who has been staying at Glenalvon, has left for Cambridge.

Miss Barbara Nolan, of Papatoetoe, has returned from a visit to Paihia.

Miss Aubrey McNeill, William Street, Devon port, has returned from Hamilton.

Mrs Gordon Logie, Burrow's Avenue, Parnell, has returned from a visit to Christchurch.

Mrs. J. A. R. Wilson, of Wellington, accompanied by her husband and son, is at Glenalvon.

' Mrs. E- G. Whitley, Kerr Street, Devonport. has returned from a visit to New Plymouth.

Mrs. Geoffrey Henderson, Dromorno Road, Remuera, has returned from a holiday visit to Taupo.

Mrs. C- F. Rosser, of Gardner Road, Epsom, has returned from a visit to Rotorua and Tauranga. \

Misses Midson (2), of Brisbane, and Miss M. L. Mathews, of Sydney,, are at the Hotel Stonehurst.

Mrs. K. F. Rixon has returned to Hastings after a visit to Mrs. M. Rixon, at Mangapa-i, North Auckland.

Mrs. E. H. Aphorp, of Hamilton, who has been, visiting .Mrs. 0. M. Rattray, returned on Thursday.

Mrs. Maurice Fell and Miss Ann Fell, of Wanganui, arrived in Auckland yesterday and are at the Station Hotel.

Mrs. Wrey Nolan, of Gisborne, is the guest of her sister, Mrs.' H. S. Lawrence, of Fendalton, Christchurch.

Mrs. James Patterson, of Te Aroha, and her daughter, Mrs. Percy A. of North Auckland, are visiting Wellington.

Mrs. R. C. Auketell, who has been the guest of her mother, Mrs. Bagley, of Parnell, left for Wellington last evening.

Miss Edna Mouat, who has been spending a fortnight's holiday in Auckland, will return to Napier to-morrow evening.

Mrs. Robert Seldon and Miss Betty Seldon will return to New Plymouth tomorrow evening after a fortnight's visit to Auckland.;

Mrs. Garnet Latta, of Hamilton, and Miss Jessie Mackereth, of Cambridge, who have been visiting Auckland, have returned to the Waikato.

Mrs. C. Martyn, Mountain Road, Mount Albert, has returned from Russell and is leaving to-day to spend a holiday at her cottage at Cockle Bay.

I At the Esplanade Hotel, Devonport, are: —Mrs. J. Montgomery, Misses A. and E. Spinetto . (England), Mrs. G. Bishop and Mrs. Rennie (Te Awamntu) and Mrs. M. Ring (Hinuera).

At the Station Hotel are Mrs. A. Blank (Christchurch), Sirs. Norman Sinclair (Palrnerston North), Mrs. A. M. Stephens (Sydney), Mrs. Perrin and Miss Perrin (India), Mrs. E. M. Danneford and Miss Danneford (Rotorua).

The Misses Evelyn and Beatrice Follett have started the first air-travel bureau in Australia, which they have called "Air Centre." Here air travel may be booked throughout Australia and overseas. .In addition to making various bookings for air travel, Air Centre boasts an air library, also the only one of its kind in Australia. Miss Evelyn Follett has her "A" licence certificate, and was the second woman to gain this certificate in Australia. When she wanted to train at Mascot, the Sydney airport, some 10 years ago, a round-table conference was held by the Sydney Aero Club as t() whether they would train women as pilots, and only after considerable discussion was it resolved to make the experiment. Captain Frank Follett, managing director of Adastra Airways, one of the best-known commercial air services and flying schools - in the country, is a brother of these enterprising young women. ; ...