The Social Round

Southland Times, Issue 23437, 18 February 1938, Page 7

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 bo 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 W. Butchers, Fairview, Fimaru, are visiting Invercargill. Miss Marjorie Marshall and Miss Margaret Kerr, Timaru, are visiting the Eglinton Valley. Mr and Mrs J. Trivett, of Rarawai, Ba., Fiji, who are making a tour of New Zealand, are at the Hermitage, Mount Cook. Mr and Mrs J. A. Jamieson, Papanui, Christchurch, who have been visiting the Hermitage, Mount Cook, are now touring the southern lakes. Miss C. Rae, of Gisborne, who has been spending a few days with Mrs A. Edwards, Roy street, leaves by car today for Dunedin. Miss Edith Coxhead, of Berkeley, San Francisco, has reached Dunedin after a tour of the southern lakes, and is the guest of Mrs Lionel Coxhead, Duncan street

Mrs P. W. Gresson, Albert street, has left for Christchurch, where she will be a guest at the Coleman-Gresson wedding, which takes place there tomorrow. She will return to Invercargill on Monday. The wedding was quietly solemnized on Tuesday, February 8, at the home of the Salvation Army officer, Major H. J. Parkinson, Forth street, of Ina, second daughter of Mr and Mrs W. T. Sutherland, Alice street, to Walter Cossgrove, second son of Mr and Mrs A. H. Stott, Yarrow street. It will be with regret that her many New Zealand friends will leam of the death of Mrs A. R. Hare (late .of Blackmount Station, Southland), which occurred at her residence, Bedford Park, London, on December 15, after a brief illness. Mrs Hare, who was a daughter of Canon Millar, of Cirencester, Gloucester, is survived by one sister, a son and a daughter, all resident in England.

A short New Zealand tour is planned by Colonel Frederick and Lady Janet Bailey, who left London at the end of January on a round-the-world voyage of about three months. They travelled overland to Marseilles, where they joined the Strathmore for Australia. After their New Zealand visit they will

eventually return to England by way of America. Lady Janet is the sister of Lord Inchape and of Lady Craigmyle, who, as Lady Margaret Shaw, visited Christchurch a few years ago with her husband, who is chairman of the P. and O. Steam Navigation Company.

Miss Jean Batten has been awarded the gold medal of the International Aeronautical Federation "for the greatest flying achievement of 1937.” There were 22 nations represented at the federation’s conference which made the award. It is considered the highest compliment of the flying world. Interviewed at St. Margaret’s Bay, Dover, where she is writing her autobiography, Miss Batten again denied that she had any plans for a new flight at present, although she was definitely not giving up flying. For the time being she and her mother would stay in England. Some day she would go back to New Zealand to see her father and brothers. Her mother would probably return before she did.

. Notable passengers who will arrive in Wellington on April 10 in the Empress of Britain, which is making a world cruise, include H.S.H. Princess Della Torre e Tasso and her stepsons, H.S.H. Prince Louis Della Torre e Tasso and H.S.H. Prince Raymond Della Torre e Tasso, members of the Italian branch of an Austrian family. Lord and Lady Tennyson, who will join the vessel at Colombo at the conclusion of Lord Tennyson’s toUr of India, Marchesa Olive Perkins d’Amico, Dr D. G. Hall, F.R.C.P., and Mrs Hall, Mr A. C. Maclean, until recently managing director of Maclean’s Ltd., manufacturing chemists, Mr G. H. Whigham and Mrs Whigham, well known in English society, and Professor J. Worm-Muller, of Denmark.

COUNTRY NEWS

WAIMATUKU Miss Unice Crisp, of Invercargill, ■visited Waimatuku recently. Mrs E. Rance and Mrs D. Buchanan have returned from Christchurch. Miss Alice Matchett has left to join the staff of the Dunedin hospital. Mrs H. Gibb, of Woodslea Downs, yisited Waimatuku during the weekend. Miss Jean McChesney, of Invercargill, .was 'the guest of Mrs W. Strang, jun., lor the week-end. Mr and Mrs W. T. Peterson and Miss S. Peterson have returned from a holiay at Port Molyneux. Mrs J. McHardy, of Invercargill, and her sister, Mrs W. Strang, jun., are (visiting Lawrence for the Gale-McAra wedding. ■ Miss Nancy Buxton leaves on Saturday to spend a few months with (relations in Auckland.