SOCIAL NEWS

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23130, 31 August 1938, Page 5

SOCIAL NEWS

JM iss T. Southernwood, of Auckland, will leave this evening for Wellington.

Miss Natalie Graham is the guest of Mrs. H. R. Jenkins, Waiata Avenue, lieinuera.

Miss Jean Menzies, of Epsom, has rot iin led from a visit to the Chateau Tonga riro.

Mrs. A. Dibble, of Sentinel Road, Heme Bay. is spending a holiday at Springsidc, Helensville.

Dr. Elaine Gurr and Mrs. Ax ford Commons have returned to Auckland from a motor trip to Ilotorua.

Mrs. W. Moyle, of Christchurch, arrived in Auckland yesterday. She is tho guest of Mrs. W. Carson, Benson Road, llemuera.

Mrs. H. Richardson (Blenheim), Mrs. A. H. Richards (Wellington) and Miss .Lois Pettigrew (Morrinsville) are at tho Station Hotel.

Miss Jocelyn Paterson, of Haydn Avenue, One' Tree Hill, returned by the Maunganui this week after spending a holiday in Australia.

Miss Grace Hubbard, who has been a member of the Hamilton Library staff for the last three years, has resigned. Miss Hubbard is to be married.

INI iss Francos 31. Powell, of Auckland, has returned to London from Oxford, where she has been taking a Vacation Course, wVote our London correspondent on August 8.

Mrs. E. M. I. Billington, of Auckland, lias completed an interesting tour by motor-coach of the Continent, visiting 11 different countries, wrote, our London correspondent on August 8. Mrs. Billington will go to the south of England lor a quiet rest.

Mrs. Shalcross Battersby, of Burwood Crescent, Jlemuera, sailed by the Maunganui on Monday for Sydney, where she will join the Strathaird en route to India. She is accompanied by Mrs. F. Carnaby, of Grafton, who will be her guest on a five months' holiday visit in Calcutta.

News has been received that Miss Una Powell, a former student of Canterbury College and holder of the 1935 Sir William Hartley scholarship. luin passed the examination for the Diploma of Education at London University. Before going to London, Miss Powell studied for two years at Newnham College, Cambridge, where she gained the mathematical tripos. While in London she took a special course of study in vocational guidance.

Two New Zealanders, Mre. George? Cox, of Auckland, and Mrs. C. E. Carter, of Napier, had the great good luck while visiting Balmoral to meet Anton Walbrook and Anna Neagle, all in costume, making the coming big film, "Sixty Glorious Years," wrote our London correspondent on August 11. The New Zealanders were asked if they enjoyed "Victoria the Great," and when the Dominion was mentioned Mr. Wal brook and Miss Neagle were all the more pleased to meet them.

Mrs. A. S. P. Brookfield, St. Heliers Bay, Auckland, travelled from New Zealand via Suez and arrived in London in time for the private view of the Royal Academy. She was present at the' Empire dinner of the Royal Horticultural Rose Society, at the Savoy Hotel, and was also among the guests at the reception which the High Commissioner and Mrs. .Jordan held at the end of July. At the end of September, .Mrs. Brookfield will leave for New Zealand by the Strathmore, wrote our London correspondent on August 8.

Mrs. Walter L. Eastbury, of Auckland, had an interesting tour by train across the United States and Canada after landing from the Mariposa at San Francisco, wrote our London correspondent on August 8. With her husband, Mrs. Eastbury will spend a month in Devonshire, with Exeter as headquarters. Then a tour will be made of the Cotswold country. Return passages have been booked by the Akaroa, leaving Southampton on October 28, so that Auckland should be reached at the beginning of December. Mrs. Eastburv's father was for many years, until his death. Yeoman Warden at the Tower of London.