SOCIAL NEWS

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22901, 2 December 1937, Page 3

SOCIAL NEWS

Mrs. H. E. Vail (Australia) is at the Grand Hotel. Miss Stennett and Miss Winiata (Rotorua) are at Hotel Cargen. Miss Edith Sanders, Laurie Avenue, Parnell, has returned from a holiday at Rotorua. Mrs. B. S. Bennett was a passenger -by the Ruahine, which left yesterday for England. Mrs. W. Mac Donald Ford and Miss Dorothy Ford will leave for Rotorua this morning. Mrs. H. G. R. Mason returned to Auckland by train yesterday morning from the South. Miss Joyce Nixon, of Lauriston Avenue, Remuera, returned this week from a visit to Tonga, Mrs. H. P. Shaw, of Tauranga. who has been visiting Auckland, will return home to-day. Mrs. Nance C. Neal was a passenger for London by the Ruahine, which left Auckland yesterday. Mrs. Claud Williams, of Coventry, Gisborne, is visiting her mother, Mrs. C. W. Egerton, Orakei Road, Remuera. Mrs. H. W. Glynn and Miss W. Glynn, of Auckland, were recent visitors to the Hermitage, Mount Cook, and Queenstown. Mrs. Eric Macdonald, Orakei Road, and Miss Beryl Christian, Thome's Bay, Takapuna, have returned from a tour of the South Island. Mrs. C. A. Adams, of Lautoka, Fiji, arrived by the Monterey and is at present staying with her mother, Mrs. Henderson, of Mount Albert. Miss Muriel Rolfe, of Buckinghamshire, England, who has been visiting Auckland, is at present the guest of Mrs. C. R. Clemson, Thames. Mrs. A. L. Stedman, Woodley Avenue, Remuera, will leave this week for Wellington to meet her son, Mr. Alan Stedman, who is returning from England. Mrs. A. W. Webster, of Devonport, returned this week _ from a visit to Japan. Her sister, Miss Janet Koch, of Auckland, who met her in Sydney, also returned this week. Mrs. A. Bond (Te Awamutu), Mrs. C. George (Nelson), Mrs. V. Scantlebury (Tauranga), Mrs. K. Boyes (Rotorua), and Miss M. Ramage (Tauranga), are at the Station Hotel.

Mrs. David Grahame, of Brisbane, with her children, Hamish and Rosemary, will arrive in New Zealand bythe Wanganella next Tuesday to spend some months with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. A. E. Manning, Hamilton, Waikato. An address entitled "Life's Problems" was given by the president, Mr. F. Johnston, at the last meeting of the Badiant Health Club, held this week. Mr. Johnston described life as a complex problem which could be summed up in three phases, physical, mental and spiritual, with numerous subdivisions. At the weekly meeting of the Mothers' Club of the Y.W.C.A., held yesterday, an address was given by Mrs. Beta MacCullay Stone dealing with her recent travels abroad. The thought for the month was presented by Mrs. E. Baker. Hostesses were Mesdames E. Rogers, Kinley and Beuth. Mrs. E. Hoy presided. Mrs. J. R; Rooper and Miss S. Rooper will arrive at Auckland from London, via . New York, this evening by the Port Hobart. Mrs. Rooper is the , wife of a director of the Port Line, who arrived "at Wellington from Sydney by the Awntea Inst week and reached Auckland on Monday. Mr. Rooper was manager of the Port Line in Wellington 17 years ago.