PERSONAL AND SOCIAL

Otago Daily Times, Issue 23354, 20 November 1937, Page 26

PERSONAL AND SOCIAL

Miss Shand left during the week for Wellington to attend the wedding of her niece, Miss Eleanor Monro.

Miss True Neil, who was a visitor to Christchurch during race week, was the guest of Mrs P. A. Elworthy, Gordon’s Valley. South Canterbury, before returning home.

Mr and Mrs Alaistair Stalker, of Mosgiel. have commenced a tour of the North Island, and at present are the guests of Mrs M. J. Forde. of Wellington.

The Otago School of Dancing, under the direction of Miss Gwen Webster, will hold a recital this evening in His Majesty’s Theatre. The items will include “The Huntsmen,” with the dancers dressed in brown strides and lemon blouses and leggings; “ Valse Fantasque,” featuring green organza frocks, pink trimmings, and pink fans; “ Circus Days,” with performing clowns; and many other brightlydressed and attractive items.

The Dowager Duchess of Norfolk, who will arrive in New Zealand next week, accompanied by her daughter, Lady Winifride Howard, is a baroness in her own right, the barony being created 446 years ago in the reign of Henry VII. She succeeded her father, the fourteenth Baron Herries, in 1908, four years after her marriage to the Duke of Norfolk, the premier duke and earl of England. He was the fifteenth Duke of Norfolk, and one of his titles, Earl of Arundel, dates back to the year 1139. He died in 1917, and was succeeded by his son the present Duke of Norfolk, who was married in January this year. The visit to the Dominion of the Dowager Duchess is of special interest to Marlborough and Canterbury, where -some of her relatives live. Her cousin was the late Mr H. D. Vavasour, Ugbrooke, Marlborough, formerly one of New Zealand’s leading pastoralists. While in New Zealand she will visit Mrs Vavasour at Ugbrooke. Mrs Vavasour’,-' daughter, Mrs Frank Reid, of Fendal•ton, Christchurch, will go to Marlborough early next month to renew acquaintance with the Duchess and Lady Winifride. The Dowager Duchess of Norfolk’s sister is the wife of the Rt. Hon. Sir Eric Drummond, British Ambassador to Italy since 1933, and heir-presumptive to the Earl of Perth. He is a brother of Rear-admiral the Hon. E. R. Drummond, commodore commanding the New Zealand station.