SOCIAL NEWS

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22917, 21 December 1937, Page 3

SOCIAL NEWS

Mrs. Nelson Levien will leave to-day for a holiday in Tauranga. Airs. Arthur Almond, of Whangarei, is spending a holiday in Auckland. Mrs. George Kent, Fairfax Road, Epsom, will leave this morning to spend Christmas at Rotorua. Miss Tory Johnson, Carlton Gore Road, will leave this evening to spend a holiday in Dunedin. Mrs. K. D. Orr (Pukekawa), and the Misses E. and K. Price (Thames), are at the Central Hotel. Mrs. H. H. Partridge, of Glendowie, will leave this week on a three weeks' cruise in the Hauraki Gulf. Miss L- Clouston, headmistress of St. Cuthbert'e College, will leave by the Awatea to-dav for Sydney. Mrs. Alan Smalley, of Hamilton, is visiting her mother, Mrs. Ernest Williams, Bracken Avenue, Epsom. Mrs. Caryl Davies, of Hobart, Tasarrived by the Awatea yesterday to take up her residence in Auckland. Miss F. George, of Mission Bay. will leave to-day for Cambridge, where she will be the guest of Miss Blanche S wayne. Mrs. J. Craig and Miss G. Jones, of Grey Lynn, leave to-day by the Awatea on an extended holiday in Sydney and Melbourne. Mrs. Edgar Elliott and her two daughters, of Remuera Road, left last night for Dunedin to spend the summer holidays there. Mrs. J. H. Frater, Bassett Road, Remuera, accompanied by her family, will leave on Thursday to spend the holidays at Russell.

Miss Margaret Kinder, of Port Waikato, will return to New Zealand from Australia by the Niagara, due in Auckland on December 27. Mrs. E. A. Woodall and her son Lindsay arrived by the limited express from Wellington to visit her parents. Mr. and Mrs. G. S. Kent, of Epsom Mrs. E. J. McFarland and Miss Mary McFarland, Brighton Road, Parnell. will leave to-morrow for Stratford, where thev will stay with the Rev. K. J. McFarland. Miss Olwen Burton, of Epsom, Auckland, who has been studying music under Mr. Cyril Smith, one of London's best-known pianists and teachers, will leave by the Akaroa on December 28, on her return to New Zealand. The final meeting for the year of the Auckland branch of the Women s League of the British Israel World Federation was held on Thursday afternoon. The vice-president, Miss Sommerville, presided. Mrs. H. Kaspar gave a most interesting account of the Coronation ceremony. Afternoon tea was served. Lady Hardwicke will arrive from tbe South bv aeroplane this afternoon and will stay with Mrs. Paul Cropper. Vincent Avenue. Remuera, before leaving by the Mariposa on Friday for Sydney. During the war Lady Hardwicke was instrumental in organising concert parties for the entertainment of the men in Hornchurch.

Mrs. Liston (Melbourne)., Mrs. John Cuttle, Mrs. Ghee. Mrs. John Fuller. Mrs. L. W. Glover, Mrs. and Miss Ingham, Mrs. J. T". Kerr, Miss N. Morrison and Miss G. M. Dent (Sydney). Mrs. A. T. Longland, Miss Lvn James (Brisbane), Mrs. T. Rogers (Penang). and Misses Marian and Alice Burr (San Francisco), are the the Grand Hotel Mrs. Philip Savill, formerly Miss Rona Richardson, of Auckland, will leave England by the Akaroa on December 28 to spend six months with her parents, Sir George and Lady Richardson. She will then join her husband, who recently received an appointment in the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, wrote our London correspondent on December 1. Mrs. Ryall (England). Mrs. Z. Balkind and the Misses Balkind (Australia), Mrs. F. J. Reardon (Melbourne). Mrs. H. G. Thornthwaite (Sydney). Mrs. J. Gale (Canterbury), Mrs. E. Hardwick (Okoroire). Mrs. C. R. Lyons (Christchurch), Mrs. Hamlyn (Ruatoria), Miss M. Doyle (New South Wales), and Miss E. Wimperis (Cambridge), are at the Station Hotel. Members of the Auckland evening branch of the Loyal Temperance Legion were the guests of Mrs. Hugh Kasper at an enjoyable Christmas party. Items were given by Miss Gloria McMinn. Miss Barbara' Riley, Master Ronnie Leece and Miss Connie Burns. Presentations were made to Miss Cowan, the leader, and Miss Rowley, the pianist. Each child also received a present and a bag of sweets from the Christmas tree.