The Social Round

Southland Times, Issue 23990, 4 December 1939, 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.

Their Excellencies, the GovernorGeneral and Viscountess Galway will arrive in Dunedin on the afternoon of Friday next. On Friday evening her Excellency will attend a dedication service of the Toe H League of Women Helpers, which is to be held in First Church. On Saturday Lady Galway will open a fete which is to be held at the residence of Lady Ferguson for the purpose of raising funds for uniforms for members of the St. John Ambulance Brigade. The same afternoon she will accompany his Excellency when he officially opens the new Truby KingHarris Hospital at Anderson’s Bay. They will leave for Invercargill on the following afternoon.

The engagement is announced of Joan Beryl, only daughter of Mr and Mrs C. Haberfield, Invercargill, and Alexander Innus, fourth son of Mr J. H. Milne, of Invercargill, and the late Mrs Milne. Mrs H. Cuthbert, Duke street, is spending the week-end in Dunedin.

Mrs A. J. Bradshaw, Spey street, returned on Friday from a visit to Christchurch.

The Garden Circle of the Women’s Club has arranged an outing to the Rose Gardens for this afternoon.

Mrs W. Gibb, Palmerston South, is the guest of her son, Mr R. Gibb, The Schoolhouse, South Hillend. Mrs George Cruickshank, Auckland, who is on holiday in Invercargill, paid a short visit to Miss Dalrymple, Waianiwa, last week. Mr and Mrs G. I. Moffett, Dee street, who have been for a four months’ holiday to the North Island, returned home at the week-end.

Mrs John Miller, who has been visiting Scotland, arrived in Sydney on Friday, and will stay with her two sons there before returning to Invercargill. Mr and Mrs W. N. Bond, “Dunrobin," who were the guests of Miss Elworthy, Timaru, have returned home accompanied by Miss Barbara Bond, Christchurch.

An Australian traveller, Mrs E. Falkiner, Sydney, passed through Auckland this week on her return home after a four months’ holiday in the United States, states an exchange. Speaking of her trip, Mrs Falkiner said that on her

journey to America, Mrs Lawrence Tibbett, wife of the famous singer, who with her husband visited New Zealand in August last year, came on board the steamer at Honolulu. Only the day before, Mrs Tibbett had suffered the loss of her 11-year-old son through an accident with a surf board.