IN TOWN AND OUT

Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 47, 18 May 1927, Page 4

IN TOWN AND OUT

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Sir William and Lady Hall-Jones, o£ Wellington, are visiting Auckland and are staying at the Central Hotel.

Colonel and Mrs. L. W. Lewer, of London, are staying at the Royal Hotel.

Miss O’Halloran, of Auckland, is a visitor to Hawera, where she is the guest of Miss Page. Mr. and Mrs. H. Conway are Napier visitors at present in Auckland.

Mrs. M. Wells has returned to Cambridge' after a visit to Auckland. Miss Brann, of Cambridge, is at present spending a holiday in Auckland.

Mrs. Halliday is a Cambridge holi-day-makers at present in Auckland. Mr. and Mrs. H. J. Court were recent Auckland visitors to Timaru.

Mr. and Mrs. Val Forbes have returned to Timaru after a six weeks’ holiday in Auckland and Rotorua.

Mr. and Mrs. D. Gardiner, of Taumarunui, and family, who have been touring Australia, have returned to New Zealand and are staying at the Royal Hotel.

Mrs. C. B. Buddie, of Remuera, is the guest of Sir Harold and Lady Beauchamp, “The Grange,” Highland Park, Wellington.

Nurse Missen, of the Auckland Hospital staff, has been recommended by the examiners for the hospital gold medal. Nurse Dunnett has been likewise recommended for a prize of books. Mrs. James Bell, has returned to Wellington after visiting Auckland.

Mrs. D. A. Tole, of Victoria Avenue Remuera, is at present spending a holiday in Helensville.

Mrs. A. Travers Black, who has been the guest of Mrs. H. Dargaville for some months has returned to Sydney. Mrs. Harper Bell, who for some time has been residing at the Hotel Cargen, will leave by the Tahiti from Wellington for a visit to San Francisco.

Mr. and Mrs. H. R. Coolte have returned to their home in Domain Drive, Parnell, after a holiday visit to Wellington.

Mr. and Mrs. S. Darragh, of Tauranga, are guests at the Central Hotel.

Mr. and Mrs. T. Jones, Tokaanu, are imong the guests at the Central Hotel.

Mr. and Mrs. Le Quence, of Sydney, are among the guests at the Central Hotel.

Mr. and Mrs. H. W. Morris, the mayor and mayoress of the city of .Queenstown, South Africa, are spending a holiday in New Zealand and while in Auckland are at the Central Hotel. Mrs. P. Rowe, of Mosman, and her two sons, are staying at the Grand i lotel. Mrs. M. C. Caldwell, of Los Angeles, is a guest at the Grand Hotel. Mr. and Mrs. Stamp-Taylor, of Wellington, are staying at the Grand Hotel Mr. J. Linklater, M.P., and Mrs. Linklater, of Palmerston North, are among the guests at the Grand Hotel. Mr. and Mrs. J. T. Knight are Palmerston North visitors to Auckland and are at the Grand Hotel. Mr. and Mrs. T. R. Johnson, of London, are staying at the Grand Hotel. Mrs. A. E. Kitchen, of Whangarei, is in Auckland to meet her son, Dr. Ray Kitchen, ship’s surgeon on the Port Hardy. Mrs. Kitchen is staying at the Hotel Cargen.

Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Taylor, and Miss Taylor, of Melbourne, are at the Hotel Cargen.

Mr. and Mrs. Donald Murray, of London, are among the guests at the Hotel Cargen.

Mr. and Mrs. W. Sutherland, of Syd ney, are at the Central Hotel.

Miss H. F. M. Court has been appointed to the head of the costing and accounts department of the British House of Lords. This is the first time a woman has had any administrative position in connection with this very conservative body, and the appointment is regarded as a good augury.

Violet farming is flourishing in England as well as in the South of France. Two enterprising women, the Misses Allen-Brown, were showing pink and white as well as the more usual purple violets, double and single, that they grow on their violet farm at Henfield, at the British Industries Fair. “It’s a strenuous life,” one of the Misses Allen-Brown impressed on a “Westminster Gazette” writer. “Six-thirty in the morning is the latest one can be out and about. There is no specially busy time. Violets take as much looking after in the summer as in the winter. Some years we get no holidays at all. Violets are much more trouble than children.”

It is always so with fashio?is; the very popularity of a craze suggests its doom, says a London writer. Thus flesh-coloured stockings are passing out of fashion in favour of a gunrmetal shade, which looks very well with black patent leather shoes. ''n connection with stockings, one London store has devised an ingenious advertising scheme. It takes the form of an offer of silk stockings at is lid a pair, combined with one free mending. An invisible mending department has been organised and any buyer can take her stockings back to the shop and demand that they shall be mended once free of cost. Probably the scheme will prove self-supporting, as clients of the firm will learn to use the invisible mending department instead of doing their own darning.

If vou have an obstinate grease spot on a carpet mix a tablespoon of crude Fuller’s earth with a similar quantity of lump-magnesia, and make it into a stiff paste with boiling water. Spread it, while still hot, over the grease-spot, and let it remain until perfectlv dry: then sweep the carpet with a stiff brush, and the loosened grease will come away quite easily.

If you are living where hot winds prevail, soak several pieces of canvas or cheese-cloth in a tub of water an-d hang them over doors and windows. Instead cf a hot wind, you will then get a cool breeze.