SOCIAL AND PERSONAL

New Zealand Times, Volume LII, Issue 12194, 20 July 1925, Page 5

SOCIAL AND PERSONAL

Mr and Mrs Orbell, who have been motoring in Taihape and Wanganui, have gone on to the Wairarapa, en route for Wellington. Miss Best is travelling with them. Miss A. Barton (Featherston) is paying a round oi visits in Canterbury.

Mrs Thomson (Palmerston North) is visiting her mother, Mrs Krull, in Wanganui.

Mrs A. Gray has gone to New Plymouth for a holiday. Miss Betty Allen (New. Plymouth) was here lately for a short stay. Mrs C. P. Brown (Wanganui) is visiting Wellington. Mrs R'. W. Holmes has gone to New Plymouth, where she is the guest of Mrs Newton. King. Miss Ruth Hawken (Hawera) is off shortly to England for a trip. Mr N. Hawken goes w'ith her.

•Mr and Mrs H. C. White (Te Ma. hanga, Hawke’s Bay), who have been travelling in the South Island for some weeks, are .at'present in Christchurch.

Dr and Mrs Milne, Temuka, Canterbury, are shortly going to Otaki to live.

Mrs and Miss Fox (Hawke’s Bay), who were recently in Wellington, hare gone out to Mount Cook.

Mrs Norman Beetham (Wairarapa) is at Mount Cook with a party. . Miss Hughina MacDonald (Invercargill) is making a stay in Christchurch on her way home from Hawke’s Bay. Her engagement was recently announced to Mr Hugh Webb, of Assam.

Miss Phillippa 'Nairn (Hawke’s Bay) is visiting Mount Cook. ' The engagement is announced of Marv Valentine Loftus (Molly), eldest daughter of Captain and Sirs L. T. Lucas. Kingsgate, Thanet, England to Donald Willett, third son of the late Mr J. H. Ehsor, of Rydal Downs, Okuku, and of Mrs J. H. Ensor, Cashmere Hills. Christchurch.

Mrs Clifford Thompson (Dannovirke) is paying visits in Canterbury.

During their bicycle trip across the south and east of France last autumn, Mr and Mrs J. A. Neame (Wanganui) went from Royan (on the Bay of Biscay) by Anzouieme, Toulouse, and Cascassonne to Narbonne (on the Mediterranean). and thence to Arles, Marseilles, and Diine to :Nice. They spent 6dme weeks in Northern Italy, and were at Chamonix for the winter sports, and at San Remo, during the spring months. Following three weeKe in Paris. Mr and Mrs Neame. spent a month in Jersey on their way to England. Mr Neame hopes to attend tho Liberal Summer School. held at Cambridge at the end of July, and in August, with Mrs Neame, to make a cruise to Norway and the Baltic. Mr and Mrs Neame are ardent gardeners, and keenly interested in new and rare plants. Bicycling enables them ■to see and study many beautiful varieties which often pass unnoticed. . The engagement is announced of Miss Eila Perirhyh, eldest daughter of the late Mr C.. C. Hutton, and Mrs Hutton; of St! John’s Hill, Wanganui, to Mr T. R. Wright, elder son of Mr and Mrs F. R! Wright, “Nga Nikau,” Levin. The engagement is announced of Miss Grace Trolove, only- daughter of Mr G. M. Trolove. “The Downs.” Blenheim, to Mr Dick W. Lethbridge, second son of Mi' and JMfrs G. Y. Lethbridge, Mahoe, Waipawa, Hawke’s Bay. ' The big hall which is being arranged in Auckland for the entertainment of the visiting American Fleet by the Navy League and tho Victoria league will he held in the Town Hall on August 13th.'and takes the form of a powder and patches dance. The old-fashion-ed dances, which are such:a favourite at these balls, will be repeated, anil the stately minuet will be a feature of the evening. v. At the last meeting of the New Plymouth Plunket Society mention was made of the certificate of merit awarded at the baby competition organised by the National Baßy Week Council, London, to little Dorothy Preston, of Havelock North, a Plunket baby, and grand-daugoter of Mrs Courtney, or New Plymouth. The secretary was instructed to convey to Mrs Courtney the congratulations of the'society, With the request that she forward them to Dorothy’s mother. The nurses reported having visited in a country district a baby 11 months oldi weighing only 111 b, ’ and as the conditions in the home through overwork and ' illness did : not tend • to help this child they brought it into New Plymouth for .treatment. After a short discussion it was unanimously decided that the society pay for the keep of the haby fmtil the nurses consider it fit to be returned to its mothei'. The president mentioned this was not the first instance of its kind, but in other instances members of the committee had individually paid for the care and keep of such babies. The meeting then decided to create a fund’ to carry out this good work: When an bid couple celebrated their diamond wedding at Wallsenb, England, not long ago. the old lady wore the dress in . which she was married’ in 1865. The Auckland Lyceum Club celebrated its sixth anniversary last evening I when a birthday party was held. The ceremonial rites were carried out by j the president,. Miss E. Melville, cut- ! ting the Huge white ,and pink birthday cake after lighting the six candles with Which it was decked. Miss Melville, in a few well-chosen words, congratulated the club on its very successful career and on its standing in the city as a woman’s organisation.. Miss Sadie Bennett,(Hawke’s Bay) is ! in Wellington. She will.join the Tahiti for San Francisco. I The engagement is announced 1 of ; Winifred Margaret, elder daughter i f i Mr and Mrs T.' Knowles, of Whan- | garei, to Rdger E. B. Squire, Bank of I Sew Zealand. Kaikohe, younger son of ■ Mr anj Mrs C. Squire, of Palmerston South. ! Dr and Mrs Doctor (Wairarapa) are ' coming to Wellington to live as Dr Doctor has bought a practice here. 1 They have lately returned from England. >