The Social Round

Southland Times, Issue 23832, 1 June 1939, Page 15

The Social Round

The lady editor win be pleased to receive for publication “™ e o J° cl b a ’ affecting, or of interest to, women.

Miss Yvonne Smith, Holywood terrace, left yesterday to spend a holiday in Pembroke. Mrs W. Kennedy, Thomson street, will be a visitor to Dunedin at the week-end. Mrs W. E. Hazlett, Filleul street, is going to Dunedin on Friday to attend the race meeting.' Miss Noeline Young, Glencoe, is spending a holiday with her sister, Mrs F. Chisholm, Fortrose.

Mrs C. J. Speight, Wether Hill, Ohai, arrives from the country today to pay a short visit to Mrs E. S. Nichol, Duke street. Miss N. McPhail, Dunedin, returned home yesterday after being the guest of Mrs R. Frampton, Pomona street,' for the Taylor-McStay wedding. Mr and Mrs Stewart Faulks, Bembroke, and their guest Miss Jeffie Kennedy, of, Melbourne, will be visitors to Dunedin for the races. Mrs F. Chisholm who has been staying with her mother, Mrs W. Young, Glencoe, will return to her home in Fortrose today. Mrs W. Elliott, provincial president for Otago of the Women’s Division of the Farmers’ Union, who arrived in Invercargill last evening, is a guest at Deschlers Hotel during her short stay. Mr'and Mrs W. E. Hunt, Titipua station, Dacre, will leave for the north on Tuesday, June 13, and will sail from Wellington the following Friday for Australia, where they will spend one month’s holiday.

The names of two New Zealanders appear as speakers in the official programme of triennial conference of the Associated Country Women of the World, to be held in London from May 30 to June 10. Miss Enid Bell (Wellington) is to take part in the roundtable conference to discuss Local History” and “Preservation of the Countryside,” and Mrs Primmer (Dunedin) is to speak on “Work of the Women on > the Land.” New Zealanders are also to | be invited to express their views on “The Education of the Outback Child i by Correspondence Courses. More than 1000 delegates, representing 30 , countries, are to attend. In addition to the conference itself, there will be an interesting round of social ments. The president of the A.C.W.W. as it is briefly known, Mrs Alfred Watt, will take the chair at the ceremonial opening in Central Hall, Westminster. Mrs Watt, a Canadian, visited New Zealand in the course of a world tour. She founded the Women’s Institutes of England and Wales in 1915, and established the A.C.W.W. in 1929. While the Queen is away from England the Duchess of Gloucester will deputize for her at many functions. Ascot will see her with the Duke of Gloucester entertaining in the Royal Box. There will not be the customary carriage procession from Windsor, Castle when the meeting opens on June 13, but on each of the three days the Duke and Duchess will be present with a party to give that Royal touch j to Ascot without which much of the meeting’s traditional charm would be lost. The Duchess also attended the private view of the Chelsea Flower Show instead of the King and Queen, and on Derby Day, May 24, she went to Epsom with the Duke. June brings a crowd of debutante parties, charity ls, film premieres, agricultural shows, regimental and Empire society dinners, luncheons, and concerts. On June 1 she will accompany her husband to a brilliant ball at the Mansion House in aid of the Lord Mayor s Fund for the rebuilding of Bart s. The Duke will take the salute for the King at Trooping the Colour on the King’s official birthday, June 8. On June 17, the day after Ascot ends, they will see the opening of the Aidershot Tattoo, after dining with General Sir John Dill at Government House. On June 20 they will be at the International Horse Show at Olympia.