NEW ZEALANDERS IN ENGLAND.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 21198, 2 December 1930, Page 17

NEW ZEALANDERS IN ENGLAND.

THE PRIME MINISTER. A WEEK’S SOCIAL ROUND, LONDON, October 23. Mr and Mrs Forbes found time to rest a litle at Chequers last Saturday and Sunaay in preparation for another busy week. In addition to the work of the Conference, 1G .'vVt 110 has found his time most fully occupied. It will be remembered that a presentation ot steel engravings of all the British i rimei Ministers was recently made to the Wew Zealand Government by Mr Ernest Makower. At Claridges, on Monday, Mr Makower entertained the Prime Ministers of New Zealand, South Africa, and Lanada at luncheon. Other guests were: (I Under-secretary of the Department of Overseas Trade, Lord Phillimore, Lord Dawson of Penn, the Dean of Westminster, Sir Eyre Crowe, Sir Robert Witt, Dr Mortimer, Mr Van Gruisen, Mr Bunting, Colonel Hobson, and Mr John Makower. Gn thi g particular occasion Mr Makower took the opportunity of presenting similar sets of steel engravings to the Governments of Canada and of South Africa. In the evening Mr and Mrs Forbes cl a § lr , Muhammad and Lady Shaft at the Carlton Hotel. Mr Ramsay MacUonald and Miss MacDonald were also guests at the dinner. Later on in the evening all the Imperial Conference delegates and their ladies concentrated upon the reception given by the Marquis and Marchioness of Londonderry at Londonderry House, Park lane. Nearly a thou* sand guests were entertained at the famous family mansion.

During-the afternoon of Monday Mrs fcorbee and Lady Sidey were at SirKobert and Lady Hutchison’s tea party. Sir Robert is the Chief Whip of the Liberal ii • Referring to this particular gathering, the woman editor of the NewsLbronicle says:—

Many of the women remarked to me how much they enjoyed the homeliness ot it. It is lovely to see'an Englishwoman s home as it is lived in every day, and to be able to talk to people long enough to feel you are really makmg friends with them,” one prominent guest from the dominions told me. CHILD WELFARE. It was on the whole a very seriousmiuded partyfor most of these women are actively interested in .their countries welfare. Lady Sidey, the wife of New Zealand Attorney-general, is president of the Free Kindergarten Union of New Zealand, and also vice-president of the Society for the (Health of Women and Children. Sir Truby King has made New Zealand specially famous for enlightenment in the care of children, and Lady Sidey told me that the Duchess of York, when she stayed at Government House there, bad many long talks with him on the subject, H.R.H. has been much guided by hL advice in the bringing up of Princess Elizabeth. SEVERAL SHOWS.

Mr Forbes joined the party of the Con ferenee delegates who, on Tuesday morning, visited the Motor Show. Sir Her bert Austin was Mr Foibes’s particular guide. The visitors saw all that it was possible to see from 9 to 10.30 a.m, Mrs Forbes lunched at Harrod’s on Tuesday as the guest of Lady Woodman Burbidge. Mrs J. H, Thongs was also a guest. The occasion was in connection with a display of Empire woods which not only Harrod’s, but seven or eight other large stores,.. have arrangedAfter lunch a tour of the stores was made. In the afternoon, Mrs Forbes and Lady Sidey attended the “ at home ” given by Mrs Philip Snowden. On Wednesday the Prime Minister was the guest of the British Dairy Association at luncheon at the Agricultural Hall. Afterwards he made a tour of . the show', and at tea he met a number of the British farmers who recently toured New Zealand. In the evening be was a guest at the Salters’ dinner in the city. Mrs Forbes lunched with Lady Holdsworth and dined at the Ladies’ Empire Club. This evening (Thursday) the Prime Minister attends a dinner in the Middle Temple Hall, and Mr and Mrs Forbes then go on to a semi-private reception at the Royal Empire Society’s headquarters. To-morrow there is the New Zealand Women’s Association “ at home ” at the Rembrandt Hotel, at which the ladies of the New Zealand Delegation will be the principal guests. _ In- the evening Mr and Mrs Forbes dine privately with Mr Leo M. Myers. • On Saturday Mr Forbes attends the Air Ministry's display at Croydon, and on Sunday he and Mrs Forbes and members of his party will visit Oxford. LADIES’ “AT HOMES.” Mrs Forbes has been enjoying the round of social activities, though she is naturally not sorry to have the opportunity of making her own day’s programme. Such an opportunity has come to-day, and she and other ladies of the delegation are using one of the Daimlers set apart for the delegation to drive to many of those places of interest to the normal tourist. At the luncheon given at Harrod’s on Tuesday by Lady Woodman Burbidge each of the guests was presented with a handsome handbag. Mrs Forbes explained that at the receptions and dinners she was attending the guests were not entirely dependent on conversation for their entertainment. At Mrs Snowden’s reception there was a programme of music and singing. At the Ladies’ Empire Club dinner, where Mrs Forbes sat next to Dame Meriel Talbot, Miss Beatrice de Holthoir provided a programme of six items consisting of original monojgues. At this function Lady Jersey was in the chair. At the Victoria League reception Mrs Forbes had the pleasure of meeting a number of former New Zealanders, and when she lunched with Lady Holdsworth sha met there Mrs Salmon, daughter Of the late Mr Massey, A TUDOR HOME. ” The Gate House,” Great Stanmore, the property of Mr Samuel Wallrock, is a place of considerable beauty. Here on Saturday Mr Wallrock. who is president Si the National Sweet Pea Society, and Mrs Wallrock entertained a number of the ladies or the Imperial Conference delegation to lunch. These were;—Mrs SoulilD> 'Sr 6 tk® Australian Prime Minister, Mrs Brennan, wife of the Attorneygenera! for Australia; Mrs Moloney, wife of the Minister of Markets, Australia; Squires wife of the Prime Minister °f Newfoundland: and Lady Sidev Mr and Mrs Wallrock’s “Tudorised” was $* e first they had ever seen. X ai r U .7 tln i, hall lias been made from an old Tudor barn. The gardens are renowned for their extent and beauty.