SOCIAL NEWS

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23022, 27 April 1938, Page 5

SOCIAL NEWS

Mrs. J. Cunningham, of Wellington, is at the Central Hotel. Miss S. Caw (Sydney) and Mrs. K. M. Niall (Melbourne) are at the Grand Hotel. Mrs. W. G. Offer, Grange Road, Mount Eden, has returned from a visit to Rotorua Miss Moiry Gifford, Sarsfield Street, Home Bay, has returned from a visit to Rotorua. Miss Rita McGruer, of Victoria Avenue, is at present spending a holiday in Rotorua. Mrs. F. M. O'Connor, of Heme Bay, who has been visiting Rotorua, returned home on Monday. Mrs. I). L. Johnston has returned from a visit to Wellington and has taken a flat at Courtville. Mrs. Malcolm Robh, Maungakiekis Avenue, Epsom, who has been visiting Rotorua, returned on Sunday. Mrs. Otto Brahne, of Alverstone Flats, will sail by the Matua on May o on her return to Nukualofa. Mrs. A. A. Roberts, Kingston Avenue, Mount Roskill, has returned from a holiday visit to Rotorua. Mrs. J. B. Downie, of London,, is visiting Auckland and is the guest of Mrs. G. A. Hardley, Cintra Flats. Mrs. George Morris, Park Road, Titirangi, accompanied by her husband, returned on Monday from Rotorua. Mrs. G. W. Carter, Clifton Road, Takapuna, accompanied by her husband and two children, is visiting Rotorua. The Misses Patricia and Nancy Dawson, Upland Road, Remuera, have returned from a short visit to W aingaro. Mrs. J. R. Kingston, St. Heliers Bay Road, has returned from Wairakei. where she had been spending the Easter holida.vs. Miss D. G. Thacker, of Melbourne, is visiting Auckland and is the guest of Mrs. W. S. Daniel, Princes Street, Northcote. Mrs. J. T. Young, of Te Awamutu, and Mrs. S. McCullough, Papatoetoe, left yesterday to spend a holiday at Titirangi Hotel. Mrs. N. Mac Arthur, Okahu Street. Orakei, and Miss Marion Imrie, of Orakei, will return to-morrow from a visit to Rotorua. Miss Rosetta Moses, of Selwyn Avenue. Mission Bay, returned yesterday from Wellington, where she visited Mrs. Sidney Moses. Lady Ward and Miss Theresa Ward, of Christchurch, will leave Auckland by the Franconia on Thursday on a visit to Great Britain. Mrs. L. Home and Miss Peggy i Home, Hollywood Avenue, Epsom, who spent the Easter holidays at Rotorua, • are now visiting Taupo. Mrs. J. T. Aspden, of Queen Street, J Northcote, has returned from an ex- | tended visit to her daughter, Mrs. H. i J. Cooper, at Katikati. Miss Joan Fox, of Remuera Rnad, | and Miss Amy Mac Arthur, St. Heliers i Bay, returned ou Monday from Roto- j rua, where they spent the week-end. Mrs. L. E. Mellsop, of Panmure, 1 accompanied by her husband, returned j on Monday from Rotorua, where she had been spending the Easter holidays. Mrs. Ik?wis Walker, Palmer Crescent, Mission Bay, who has been spending a holiday in Rotorua, returned last week. She was accompanied by her husband. Mrs. J. Sutherland, of Sydney, who has spent five months in Rotorua, will return by the Wanganella on Thursday. Mrs. Sutherland is accompanied by her husband. Miss Elizabeth Frater has arrived from Wellington and is spending a fortnight's holiday with her mother, Mrs. J. H. Frater, Bassett Road, Remuera. A meeting of the Belmont-Bayswater branch of the League of Mothers was held recently. An interesting talk was given by Mrs. White dealing with the work of the league. Afternoon tea was served. Mrs. A. K. Duthie, Liverpool Street. Epsom, who has been caravaning at Hanurana, Rotorua, accompanied by her husband and Mr. and Mrs. Robert Reid, of Bayswater, returned to her home on Monday. Dr. Caroline Croasdale, mistress at the Normal College in Troy, New York, is visiting New Zealand for the first time as a passenger on the Franconia. She left yesterday morning for a motor tour of Rotorua and Waitomo. Mrs. E. A. Lepper, of Northcote, has returned after an absence of five weeks, having spent a fortnight with her sister, Mrs. E. W. Barnard, at Raglan, and three weeks with her daughter, Mrs. W. M. Bain, at Rangiriri. Mrs. G. Durrant and Mrs. Durrant (Nelson), Mrs. G. McLachlan (Hamilton), Mrs. J. E. Colchester (Cambridge), Mrs. B. S. Darnell and Miss Darnell (Wanganui), Mrs. M. Fuller and Miss A. Sampson (Wellington) are at the Station Hotel. At the muuml meeting of the Kohimarama-Mission Bay Woman's Progressive League Miss Alice H. G. Bastcn was elected honorary vicepresident. Miss Basten was a foundation member of the league when it was established in 19?''. Lady Poynt. wife of Sir Hugh Poynter, of Sydney, who is accompanying her husband on a business trip to England, is a passenger on the Franconia, which arrived from Wellington yesterday. With her are her two (laughters, Miss J. D. Poynter and Miss S. L. Poynter. The members of the Matakana branch of the Women's Christian Temperance Union arranged a luncheon in honour of Mrs. Hugh Kasper. Later, Mrs. Kasper addressed the meeting 011 methods of the Women's Christian Temperance Union in New Zealand and abroad. Mrs. E. Roke presided. The president of the Returned Army Nursing Sisters' Association, Mrs. P. J. North, laid a floral wreath qn the Cenotaph on Anzac Day. It was >a replica of the New Zealand Arniv Nursing Sisters' badge, with silver fern leaves enclosing a red cross. A wreath of poppies was laid by the honorary secretary, Mrs. L. R. Haworth, and Mrs. F. 0. Webster.