SOCIAL JOTTINGS

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 16703, 21 July 1928, Page 13

SOCIAL JOTTINGS

(By " Yvonne.")

Miss Hope Gaddum was 11k 1 guest of the Alisscs Busby this week while visiting the coast for the Tokomaru Bay Golf Club ball.

Mrs. C. Tiffen and Miss -lessie Tiffon have gojic to Honolulu, where the former is to attend the I'.(n-T'nt-ifit Conference.

Miss Cecil Barker is the guest of Mrs. James Reeves, Tolnga Bay.

Mrs. \Y. A. Howie returned this week from a holiday visit to Auckland.

Miss Nancy Martin, of Auckland, has been the guest of Miss Corson for a fcAV days. Miss M. Gardner, of Hawke's Bay, is the guest of Mrs. L. Maclean, Puha. Mr. and Mrs. E. C. Levvey left today for Wellington, and Mrs. Levvcy is later visiting Christ church for several weeks. Next week with its many attractions is being keenly anticipated by numerous racegoers and lovers of amusement. With two days' races, the Golf Club's annual ball, cabarets, dances, and Miss Fthne Paltridgo's revue u most enjoyable time will lie spent, by enthusiasts. The following week will lie notable for the Hunt Club's annual ball on Friday night, and the Hunt Club race meeting on Saturday. The Tokomaru Bay Golf Club held their ball on Monday evening this week, and at Tolaga Bay a similar event took place last night. Miss Wyn Cogswell, of Napier, has been visiting Gisborne.

Miss Hodges, principal of the Girls' High School, Palmerston North, is indisposed, owing to an injury to her ankle as a result of a fall from her bicycle. She hopes to be back at the school shortly. Overseas visitors to Mew Zealand are Mr. and Mrs. O. Stirling, of Sussex, England. They arc on a world tour, and will spend about six weeks in the Dominion. Mrs. .1. G. Coates and the wives of the Cabinet Ministers and others were the guests of the Pioneer Chili, when a pleasant time was spent. The club rooms were decorated with spring flowers and violets, some fine hydrangeas and red japonica.

invitations have been issued by their Excellencies the GovernorGeneral and the Lady Alice Fergusson, for a ball at Government House on Wednesday, July 2.">.

Lord and Lady Strathspey, formerly of Christehureh, with the Hon. .loan Grant, of Grant, have now returned to London from Buckingham, where they went to visit their son at Stowe School, where he was ill with pleurisy. He has now quite recovered.

Her Excellency Lady Alice Fergusson has signified her intention of being present at the Victoria University College Dramatic Club's production of H. If. Davies' three-act comedy, "Cousin Kate," in the Town Hall, Wellington, on Saturday, .Inly 21.

Maoris are noted for their fondness of picturesque Christian names (says a Wanganui paper). A Maori baby burn in Wanganui last Christmas was given the unusual but pretty name of Mere Kirihimete, which means Merry Christmas. The registration of the child's birth took" place only a week or so ago.

The abyssmal ignorance of fathers in the care of their very young progeny is traditional, a fact which even the humorous papers recognise, but the prize winner is certainly a Maori of Oamaru, if Dr. Helene Easterfield is to be believed. At a meeting of the Plunket Society she told a scandalised assembly of ladies of a proud Maori who, on hearing of the birth of a son in the Oamaru Hospital, brought round a bag of bananas for the infant's consumption. Now Zealand friends were very much in evidence at Lady Jellicoe's second afternoon reception on May 30 (reports the Auckland Star's London correspondent). Among the well-known New Zealand men were: Sir Joseph Ward, Sir Thomas Mackenzie, Sir William Hall-Jones and Captain Southey, who, though not a New Zealander, will be remembered throughout New Zealand as Lord Jellicoe's very able aide de camp. Among the ladies were: Mrs. Elliot, of Wellington, who was dressed in beige lace; Lady Myers and Mrs. Anthony Carr, of Auckland, who wore black georgette and lace. Lady Jellicoe, dressed in grey georgette, received her guests at the top of the lovely staircase which is such a feature of 80, Portland Place. Lord Jellicoe, genial as always, helped her by seeing that everyone was served with tea. Lady Gwendoline, in primrose georgette, and Lady Norah, the debutante daughter, in figured crepe-de-chine, were also helping their mother. The guests were entertained in the drawing room by a programme of delightful songs by a man whose name no one seemed 'to know, yet whose voice was infinitely better than many heard at Covent Garden.

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The bridge circle assembled this week at Miss Nancy Stock's home, where an enjoyable evening was spent on Tuesday. The tables were grouped in the fire-lit drawing-room, where vases of golden jonquils 'and violets graced the mnstelpieee and tall vases of deep pink roses added colorful charm to the room. v

At the conclusion of the competition the winners proved to be Miss Nancy Stock and Miss Nell I'i'ttar. The guests were then served with supper in the dining-room, where a bowl of spring bulbs and greenery was prettily arranged on the table. The hostess was wearing a becoming frock of ninon, patterned in pink

roses and trimmed with collar, and veslette of jade green georgette. Among those present were Misses M. Broadhurst, C. Bright, N. Puflett, E. Crawshaw, N. Pillar,' M. Muir, D. Hamilton, A. and S. Ormond, P. Seymour, M. Maeaulay, B. and S. Chrisp, M. and E. Hegarty.

On Thursday afternoon the Misses Pasley invited a number of friends to bridge, and the popular game was played throughout the afternoon in the drawing-room, delicious afternoon tea being served during an interval. Vases of jonquils and foliage were used in decoration, ami a bright lire dispelled the cold atmosphere which predominated outdoors. Miss Flm.'i Pasley was smartly Crocked in black crepe-de-chino contrasted with a vesteo of royal blue crepe-de-chine.

Miss Kathleen Pasley wore a charming frock of saxe blue crepella with collar and cuffs of ecru lace. Miss Norma Pasley was attired in a dress of mauve crepe Africane trimmed in a darker tone of the same shade.

The guests included Mrs. R. Muir, and Misses L. Chrisp, N. Pyke, M. Jackson, M. Bridge, G. Crawshaw, N. Pittar, R. Matthews, D. Hamilton, and N. Hooper.

Mrs. L. Maclean, of Puha, was hostess at a bridge party at her home on Wednesday afternoon, when four tables were in requisition. The drawing-room and dining-room, where the tables were arranged, were gay with bowls of golden wattle and flnme-huod Iceland poppies and purple irises, and in the morning room, where afternoon tea was served, flowering wattle formed a delightful bank of color.

Mrs. Maclean received her guests wearing a becoming frock of satin channelise in a lovely shade of brown.

Her guest, Miss M. Gardner, of Hawke's Hay, wore ; i smart jumper suit of apple green knitted silk. The guests included Mesdames Robson, W. Graham, R. Scott, E. B. Brown, R. Maclean, L. Cotterell, Humphreys, A. Pittar, .1. Appleton; and Misses R. Scott, .1. Marshall, J. Graham, N. Gotten 11, and A. Gray.