SOCIAL NEWS

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22346, 18 February 1936, Page 3

SOCIAL NEWS

Mrs. L. H. Pettit, of Hamilton, has left for a trip to Gisborne. Mrs. D. W. Woollams is an Auckland visitor to the Wairakei Hotel. Mrs. Vere Windsor, Glenfell Road, Epsom, is spending a short holiday at Rotorua. Mrs. Morris Yock, of Brighton Road, Parnell, has returned from a visit to Wellington. Mrs. 0. Bailey, of Epsom, is the guest of her daughter, Mrs. W. R. Dobbs, at Great Barrier. Mrs. Victor Usher, of Heme Bay, has returned from a camping holiday at Beachlands.

Mrs. L. Rocard, of Balmoral, left by the Aorangi last night on an extended visit to Australia.

The Misses D. and 0. Armitage, of Tauranga, left by the Aorangi last night for Sydney.

Mrs. C. J. Hawken and Miss Hawken, of Mokoia, and Mrs. Rutherford, of Stratford, are at Hotel Cargen.

Mrs. G. Hartshorn, Princes Street, left by the Aorangi last night to take up her residence in Melbourne.

Dr. Jessie Maddison, of Auckland, is the guest of Mrs. Norman McLean, Hawkestone Street, Wellington.

Miss Cecil Upton, Remuera Road, who has been the guest of Miss Joan Reeves, of Kawau, has returned home.

Miss W. Straughan, of Wellington, and Miss G. Rattray, of Mount Eden, are spending a holiday at Campbell's Bay.

Flying-Officer H. L. Tancred and Mrs. Tancred, of Ireland, are the guests of Mrs. G. H. L. Tancred, Ladies' Mile, Remuera.

Mr. and Mrs. Walter Kramer, of Zululand, South Africa, are touring New Zealand and are at present in Auckland.

At the Central Hotel are: —Mrs. R. McKegg (Rarotonga), Mrs. G. J. Brown (Wellington), Mrs. A. J. Hardie (Tauranga).

Mr. and Mrs. F. W. Cave, of Epsom, returned from England and Canada by the Aorangi and are staying at the Grand Hotel.

Miss Ruth Stevenson, of Mount Eden, who has been spending a holiday at Mansion House, Kawau, has returned to Auckland.

Mrs. A. W. Rea, of Fiji, arrived in Auckland by the Aorangi yesterday. She is accompanied by her daughters, Vega and Barbara.

Mrs. W. Slaughter, Rahiri Road, Mount Eden, and Miss Margaret Slaughter left yesterday for an extended holiday in the South.

Mrs. A. de Jongh, who, with her husband and children, has been staying at Hotel Titirangi, left on her return to Australia by the Aorangi last night.

Mrs. Horace Scott, of Cheltenham, left yesterday by motor-car for Wanganui, where she will be the guest of Mrs. Arthur Munro for two or three weeks.

At the Station Hotel are:—Mrs. B. E. H. Isaac (British Columbia), Mrs. E. Miller (Dunedin), Mrs. H. E. Goodwyn (Rotorua), Mrs. H. H. Young (Wellington).

Mrs. Ernest E. Neumegen and the Misses J. and E. Neumegen, Grafton Road, who have been staying at- their summer residence at Takapuna, have returned home.

Mrs. W. J. Turner, wife of Commissioner W. J. Barnard Turner, of the Salvation Army, Chicago, arrived in. Auckland yesterday by the Aorangi on a month's visit to New Zealand.

At Hotel Cargen are Mrs. D. S. Wylie and Miss M. McConnell (Sydney), Mrs. W. A. Gray and Mrs. A. B. Ritchie (Melbourne), Mrs. M. Cuzens and Miss F. Cuzens (Queensland).

Mrs. Norman Chapman, of Remuera, who has suffered a severe illness, left by the Aorangi last night for a holiday in Australia. She was accompanied by her mother, Mrs. J. Telfer, who has been in New Zealand for nearly three months.

The first meeting for the year of the Remuera branch of the Auckland Methodist Women's Missionary Auxiliary was held last week. Mrs. ToddSmith presided. The speaker, Mrs. McBean, gave an account of the auxiliary conference held at New Plymouth.

Among the guests at the Royal Hotel are Mrs. Tebbs (England), Mrs. R. Watson, Mrs. R. Bradley, Miss J. Buchanan, Miss N. Davidson and Miss E. Davis (Sydney), Mrs. C. d'Auvergne (Waingaro), Miss M. Murray (Taihape), Mrs. Marsack (Palmerston North), Mrs. Cannon (Wellington).

Lady Buckleton and her daughter, of Wellington, intend to leave for New Zealand on February 29, wrote our London correspondent on January 25. Miss Buckleton has been studying beauty culture ever since she arrived in England and now she is taking an intensive course with a specialist in matters of health as associated with beauty.

Overseas visitors at the Grand Hotel include: —Mrs. H. M. Bernst (New York), Mrs. W. A. Hamilton, Miss Lydia HamiPton and Miss Mary Ambrose (Canada), Mrs. A. Patrick (Seattle), Mrs. Hibbertson, Mrs. R. Morgan, Mrs. N. F. Marlow and Miss ]E. R. Knox (Sydney), Miss Evelyn Gardiner (England), Mrs. Walter Allen (London), Mrs. F. G. White, Exeter (New South Wales).

Two prospective brides have recently loft England for New Zealand, wrote our London correspondent on January 25. One is Miss Freda Amos, of Rhyl, North Wales, who is to be married to Dr. Maurico J. Kelly, of Raglan. Miss Amos is a graduate of the University College of North Wales, Bangor. It was while cruising in the Mediterranean a year or two ago that she met Dr. Kelly, then ship's surgeon on the holiday liner. The other is Miss Elsie Priest, of' Liverpool, who is to marry Mr. J. Cadenhead, of Christchurch, whom she met while orn holiday at. the Isle of Man 18 months ago.