The Social Round

Southland Times, Issue 23599, 29 August 1938, 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 persons] 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 Lawrence Tibbett, of New York, were recent visitors to The Hermitage, Mount Cook. Mrs Norman Speight, of Dunedin, with her two sons, is the guest of Mrs C. J. Speight, Wether Hill, Ohai. Mrs J. Williams, of Dunedin, with her two daughters, is staying with her mother Mrs Robert Story, Venlaw Miss Daphne Smith and Mr L. W. Smith, Shirley, Gladstone, leave tomorrow morning from Dunedin by air to spend a holiday at Auckland and Rotorua.

Mr and Mrs J. W. Smith, Shirley, Gladstone, and Mr and Mrs Robert Collingwood, Dee street, Wellesley, left on Saturday for a holiday at Lake Wanaka.

Mr and Mrs W. N. Bond, Dunrobin, who have been the guests of Mrs Marmaduke Bethell, Pahau Pastures, North Canterbury, have returned to Christchurch and are staying at Warwick House.

Mrs R. Kennedy, Drummond, is the guest of her sister, Mrs I. M. Grieve, Galway street. Mrs W. E. Lindsay, also of Drummond, has been staying with her sister, Mrs Grieve, and has returned to the country.

The efforts of the Cabaret Club have been marked successes this season, and another equally successful function was held in Elmwood Garden on Saturday evening. More than 50 couples danced in a happy atmosphere provided by bright fires and bowls of flowers. Miss Jean Begg, national general secretary of the Young Women’s Christian Association in India, Burma and

Ceylon, who recently arrived in New Zealand and Miss Margaret Begg (Dunedin) are the guests of their sister Mrs J. Lorimer, Edgeware road, Christchurch,

Mr and Mrs C. R. Hart, Albert street, entertained a number of friends before the cabaret on Saturday evening in honour of Dr and Mrs O. J. Yule, Beatrice street, who with their son, David, leave next Saturday for Auckland en route to Canada, the United States and England. Other hostesses for Mrs Yule included Mrs A. H. Robins, Beatrice street, and Mrs G. M. Todd, Alice street

Shirley Flaus, of Invercargill, won the tap dancing event at the Dunedin Competitions Society’s festival on Friday evening. The event was for children under 10, and the judge, Miss Gwen Gibbs, of Palmerston North, said that the work was very clever for such young children. The beating was clear and light, and the placed competitors had a definite rhythmic sense. Beverley Wix, of Green Island, was second, and Joan Kean, of Dunedin, was third.

Mr and Mrs John Evans, of Invercargill, visited Cardiff for the National Eisteddfod (says the London correspondent of The Otago Daily Times, writing on August 6). Mr Evans left

North Wales for New Zealand when he was eight years of age. He went back 27 years ago, when he married, ana then returned to the Dominion with his wife. Both are enjoying revisiting familiar scenes and meeting old friends. They will sail for New Zealand in October.

Sir Cyril Ward and Lady Ward, Christchurch, have taken a flat in London, and the former is engaged in business activities while there. Sir Cyril Ward and Lady Ward and Miss Theresa Ward arrived at Greenock by the Franconia

early in June. On their way to England they visited Fiji, Honolulu, San Pedro, Balboa, New York, and Boston. From Greenock they made a motortour of Scotland, and then came to London, by the English Lakes, Manchester, Liverpool, Chester, Shrewsbury, Oxford, arriving about the end of June. In August they intend to make a short tour on the Continent, and afterwards to visit friends and relations in different parts of England. At file end of September they will leave for New Zealand, probably by the Strathmore, which is due at Wellington on November 21.