SOCIAL NEWS

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22896, 26 November 1937, Page 3

SOCIAL NEWS

Mrs. T. A. Parsons (Wellington) is at tho Esplanade Hotel. A 1 rs. Phillip Bonham, of Hamilton, is paying a brief visit to Auckland. The Dowager Ladv Swaythling will leave Auckland by tho Awatea 011 Monday for Sydney. Mrs. Aubrey Schloss (Wellington) and Miss Marshall (Melbourne) are at the Grand Hotel. Mrs. 1). H.. Carpenter (Sydney) and Miss Dorothy Edmonson (Wellington) are at the Station Hotel. » •Miss Beryl Robinson, of Clonburn Road, Uemuera, left recently on an extended visit to Australia. Mrs. Tythe Brown returned to Wellington on Wednesday from a nine months' visit to Great Britain and Australia. Miss Sarita McLaughlin, who has been abroad for two years, has returned to her home at 1 Dilworth Avenue, Remuera. Mrs. Edna Lewinson (New York), Mrs. W. J? Hobbs (Sydney), and Mrs. D. M. Todd and Mrs." R. B. Ash (Wellington), are at Hotel Cargeu. Mrs. Arthur Tait, who has been on a motor tour through the Taranaki and Hawke's Bay provinces, returned to her home in Otorohanga this week. Mrs. W. D. Nicholas, of Paeroa, and her daughter, Margaret, who have been 011 a three months' trip to Tahiti, arrived in Wellington 011 Saturday. Miss E. M. Nutsey, lady superintendent of tho Auckland Hospital, left by air on Wednesday for Wellington to attend the annual conference of the New Zealand Registered Nurses' Association. Tho Countess of Orford will leave this morning to spend a.holiday fishing at Lake Ilotoma. She will bo accompanied by her daughter, Lady Ann Walpole, and her guest, Miss Juliet Ridley. Lady Aeland, St. Albans, Christchurch, who has been visiting Great Britain and the United States, left Vancouver on Wednesday by the Niagara for Auckland after spending three weeks at San Diego. She was accompanied by her husband, Sir Hugh Aeland. The old girls of Wellington College throughout the Dominion will be gratified to learn that as a result of their efforts to establish a memorial to the late Mrs. Ena Dawson, for many years president of the old girls' association, the "Old Girls' Association Ena Dawson Scholarship" lias now been established, and is included in this year's prize-list, carrying an annual value of £lO. Mrs. B. M. Gillespie, who will retire at the end of this month from the position of matron of tho Karitane babies' hospital. Cashmere, Christchurch, was entertained by the sisters and nurses of tho staff at a very pleasant fancy dress party given at tho hospital. On behalf of the nursing staff. Matron Gillespie was presented with a tapestry toilet set. M iss M. Kathleen Thomson, of Queen Alexandra's imperial Military Nursing Service, and formerly of Auckland, left England recently for Hongkong, having been transferred from Aklershot to China for a period of three years' service, wrote our London correspondent on November 6. She is travelling on the troopship Dilwara and expects to arrive at Hongkong on November 20.