SOCIAL NEWS

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23065, 16 June 1938, Page 3

SOCIAL NEWS

Miss Peggy Coote and Miss Rita Taylor will leave early in .July for a two months' holiday in Suva.

Mrs. J. A. Watson, St. Stephen's Avenue, Parnell, will leave by the Port Jackson 011 June 22 to visit England.

Mrs. Wilfred Jolbeck, Market Road, Remuera, will leave Wellington b.v the Mataroa on Saturday to spend six months in England.

Mrs. Ralph Bunny, of Masterton, accompanied by her husband, passed through Auckland yesterday to spend a holiday at Bay of Islands.

Mrs. Preston Holt (Wellington), Mrs. W. White (Wairarapa), .Mrs. T. Fitzgerald (Gisborne), and Miss H. Trench (Tauranga), are at the Central Hotel.

Mrs. M. Laider (England), Mrs. P. de Varth (Wellington), Mrs. H. H. Clark (Hamilton), Miss Mary McLean and Miss Mvnette Watson (Christchurch) are at the Station Hotel.

Miss Kathleen Lambert has returned to Opotiki after a visit to Auckland. She was accompanied to Opotiki by Miss Phyllis Lambert, of Hamilton, who will* be her guest for a few days before going on to Gisborne.

Mrs. Nicol Hamilton, of Auckland, and her husband, have left for Paris. On their return they will go to Scotland to stay with friends, and they will visit the Glasgow Exhibition, wrote our London correspondent 011 May 28.

The only woman in the United States doing a job for which few women are equipped is Miss Helen Billiard, who sketches trees and plans gardens. At present A! iss Billiard is designing the landscape for the New York World s Fair in 19:59. A countrywoman, her home is the little town of Schuylerville, in New York State.

After touring Kngland by caravan, Mr. and Mrs. P. F. Nash, of Auckland, will leave at the end of .Tune for Oslo and tour the whole of the Continent. Thev will winter in the south of France and Italy, returning again to England early in the New Year, wrote our London correspondent on May 28. Later, they will make plans for their Canadian tour and a visit to Captain Barrett, Mrs. Nash's brother. At present, Mrs. Nash is at Margate, visiting her mother, whom she has not seen for 26 years.

Mrs. Boot, and her husband, the "Rev. Sydney L. Boot, of Northcote, Auckland, have left London for Edinburgh to attend the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland as delegates from New Zealand, wrote our London correspondent on May 28. From Edinburgh they will go to Glasgow to see the exhibition, and then they will tour in Ireland. On their return to England they will stay with Mr. and Mrs. A. H. Boot, at Hillingdon, Middlesex, and will visit Belgium and France in July and August.