The Social Round

Southland Times, Issue 23146, 12 March 1937, Page 9

The Social Round

The Lady Editor will be pleased to receive for publication in “The Social Round” each day items of social or personal news. Such items should be sent In promptly and should be fully authenticated. Engagement notices must bear the signatures of both parties. Correspondence is invited on any matters affecting, or of interest to, women.

Mr and Mrs E. G. Lane, of Oamaru, are visiting Invercargill. Miss Peggy Unwin, Timaru, was the guest of Mrs G. Pinckney, Glenaray, Waikaia, for a few days recently. Mrs W. A. Oliver, Hollywood Terrace, returns tomorrow from Tokanui, where she has been the guest of Mrs A. B. Moffett.

Mrs Harold. Wills, Manaia, who has been staying with her aunt, Mrs J. J. McCrostie, Grey street, leaves this morning on her return home. Mrs T. R. Carter and Miss Norma Carter, Auckland, have been the guests of Mrs Kitto, Bowmont street, and Mr and Mrs W. Drysdale, Seaward Downs. Mrs Malcolm Robertson, of Christchurch, and Miss Rodgers, of England, are the guests of Mrs James Robertson, Lewis street. Dr and Mrs O. J. Yule, Beatrice street, leave tomorrow to spend a holiday in Christchurch and on the West Coast.

Miss Mama Service (Dunedin), will leave by the Arawa on March 27 from Wellington, en route to London, where her marriage to Mr Hugh Macdonald, formerly of Invercargill, will take place on her arrival.

Recent guests at Laurel Bank, Queenstown, included Mr and Mrs Walker (Dunedin), Mr and Mrs Gordon (Christchurch), Mr Palmer and Miss Blanchard (Auckland), Mr Robertson (Dunedin), Miss Sibbet (London) Mr and Mrs Kerr (Myross Bush), Mr and Mrs Russell and Mr Russell jun. (Waipori Falls), Mr and Mrs Gillanders and Mr and Mrs Giller (Invercargill), Mr Escott (Christchurch), Miss Dash and Miss Anderson (Dunedin), Miss Mcßain and nephew (Gore), Mr and Mrs Boyes and child (Invercargill), Mrs Ireland and Messrs Ireland (Palmerston South), Mrs Smith and Miss Taylor (Winton), Mrs Menzies (Dunedin). Miss Warren, a Scottish woman who last June was in New Zealand and who travelled the length of the country, recently gave a lecture at the Overseas League, London, on “New Zealand," wrote the London correspondent of The Press on February 20. She had a full hall and Mr H. T. B. Drew was in the chair. The lecture was much enjoyed. Miss Warren showed a great knowledge of New Zealand, and was very enthusiastic about the beautiful scenery and the hospitality which she experienced everywhere. The lecture was illustrated chiefly by slides made from her own photographs. These were excellent, not only from the photographic point of view, but because of the special angles from which they were taken. Well-known Visitor

Known as she is personally to so many New Zealanders who have received such kindly hospitality at her hands in connection with her work with Lady Frances Ryder in London, Miss Celia Macdonald is assured of a very warm welcome to our city, states “Diana” in The Evening Star, Dimedin. As I sat talking with her in the home bl her hostess, Mrs North, I felt that we could not be grateful enough to this charming woman for all she has done for New Zealanders when they go to England to further their studies. So many land in London with few or even perhaps no friends, and the hospitable doors at Cadogan Gardens are open to them if they carry a letter to Lady Frances Ryder. She told me of one instance of a very young man from South Africa on his first trip from home on a ship. The son of an exchange teacher who had received hospitality, he just rang Miss Macdonald and said: “I’m here, and I’ve got a week’s leave.” This was a problem, but he was at once asked to tea and the same day sent off to .spend a week in a country home. One can imagine what this meant to a shy boy who had no other contact in the great city of London. Her description of the work' now being done among German Rhodes scholars, too, shows the great international value of the friendliness shown. For some years German Rhodes scholars have again been received at Oxford, and as Lady Ryder was specially asked by the Rhodes Trust to snow hospitality to these students who arrive each year to enter the university, these young men have come to the flat in Cadogan Gardens and been hospitably received by hostesses all over Britain. Now the German students, to show their appreciation, have arranged to receive British students into German homes, and each year at the long vacation a number of students go to Germany. Could any better work be done towards international understanding? Miss Macdonald is making an extended tour through South Africa, Australia, and New Zealand, and will sail on her return on April 7 by the Rangitata to be in London in time for the Coronation. She has come principally to enjoy a well-earned rest, for a family of between 1600 and 1700 eager young colonials passing through your hands each year, as you can well imagine, is no light task. Wears Clan Tartan Although Miss Macdonald has not visited Skye for many years, she has a strong clan feeling, and was delighted, at a reception given in her honour by the Clan Donald in Melbourne, when two pipers ushered the procession into the hall On such occasions as these she wears a sash of the clan tartan and fastens it on her shoulder with a white heather badge, into which she puts real white heather when she has it. The dress tartan of the clan is red and green, with a thin black line to distinguish it as the chieftain’s family, and the hunting tartan is of two shades of green with white squares.

Two grandchildren of Keats’s sister Fanny were last heard of living in Madrid.