SOCIAL NEWS

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23487, 26 October 1939, Page 2

SOCIAL NEWS

5 ' ~ Mrs. B. Whitcombe. of Wellington, • 'is at the Grand Hotel. -- Mrs. A. G. Bryan, of Renniera, has : ~ returned from a short visit to Rotorua. } Miss Phyllis Peacocke, of Onslow Road, has returned from a visit to ; Rotorua. • • ■ 1 Miss May Dransfield. of Victoria ; ? Avenue, has returned from a visit to" , Rotorua. Miss Christine Secconibe. of Warnock Street, has left by aeroplane for j Palmerston North. ' Mrs. Owen Rainger, of Roslyn Avenue, Remuera, returned on Tuesday from a week's visit to Rotorua. Mrs. E. C. O'Halloran, who'was formerly Miss P. Scott-Young, left by the limited express last night for Wangauui. Mrs. Guy Hansard, Seaview Road, Itemuera, has returned to town after staying; at her cottage in the 'iVaitakere Ranges. I Mrs. Rolf Payne, of Biltniore House, » Remuera. returned on Tuesday from a month's holiday at her summer house . at Lake Rotoiti. I Mrs. Trevor Davis. Martin Avenue, . Remuera, and her sister, Miss P. Kell, have left to spend a fortnight in Rotorua and Hawke's Bay. : Mrs. Murray Benjamin, Waiata - Avenue, Remuera, who was a visitor to ' Wellington for the spring races, returned to Auckland this week. Mrs. R. Turnbull, Miss M White (Timaru), Mrs. C. C. Mrs. McCarty (Palmerston North) and Mrs. R. Foster (Hamilton) are at the ' Station Hotel. Mrs. F. C. Taylor, of Cornwall Park ■ Avenue, and Mrs. J. W. Wark, of 1 Grange Road, Epsom, have returned ; from a visit to Taupo, where they were ' the guests of Mrs. H. V. Coe. .-of ■ Orakei Road. • Mrs. W. Lee Martin, wife of the Minister of Agriculture, the Hon.\YL ; Lee Martin, is visiting Hamilton. She i is accompanied by Mrs. A. H. • Cockayne, wife of the Director-General ' of Agriculture. They are staying at,the ■ Commercial Hotel. : , The monthly assembly meeting of the Problem Club was held on Tuesday at the Penwomeivs Club rooms.; An address on nutrition was given by Mrs. E. H. Roche. Pianoforte solos w^F 0 given by Mrs. Reginald Reed and violin ■ solos by Mrs. Dixon. i ' Miss Helen MacCormick, of Epsoni, L is waiting to be called up for, tlie • Women's Auxiliary Air Force in a confidential capacity as a decoder orPP ot " ter of maps. She expects to train for a month out of London, wrote our Lon--1 don correspondent on October 6. Miss Margaret Bart rum, who is attached to the research department at the Ruakura State Farm, is spending a holiday at Russell, Bay of Tslnnas. She will return to her home in Renin i Avenue, Takapuna, on Saturday, an leave for the Waikato on Sunday. i Mrs. A. E. Moore, of' Auckland, is at present in London undertaKi r, voluntary war work. Since her arriva in England in July she has been travel- .. ling in France, Norway and Swea • ! She happened to be on her way, _ Russia at the outbreak of the war, i but fortunately was able to cancel t part o'. ! her tour; wrote our London respondent on October 6.