THE SOCIAL ROUND

Sun (Christchurch), Volume IV, Issue 936, 9 February 1917, Page 4

THE SOCIAL ROUND

Mrs and Miss Denshire (Ashburton) are in town for the Opera season. They are staying at the Clarendon. Mrs and Miss Craig (Auckland) are at Warner's.

Mrs and Miss Freda Phillips (The Point), who have been in town for a few days returned home to-dav.

Mr and Mrs Bethel! (Pahau Pastures) and their two boys are at Warner's. Mrs and Miss Gillies, who have been in Christchurch for some time, are returning south to-day.

Mrs Wicksteed and her son arrived from Wellington this morning and are at the Clarendon. Miss M. Ward (Wellington) is the guest of Mrs John Aitken, Esplanade,, Sumner.

Miss Hilda Fryer (Christchurch) who has just returned from England, left for the north by last evening's ferry.

Mrs Jas. Reid (Darfiold) ami her two little sons are in town for a few days. They are going down to Sumner shortly and will stay at the Marine.

Mrs aud Miss Darling ("Stonehurst," Auckland) are staying with Miss Campbell (Sumner). They have been the guests of honour at various teas and bridge parties. On Thursday Mrs Stedman (Webb Street) gave a bridge afternoon for them and prizes were won by Mrs P. Hervey and Miss Darling.

The engagement, is announced of Lieutenant Eric. A. 11. Whitcombe, R.F.A., son of Mr G. IT. Whitcombe, Christchurch, and Miss Nancy Templeton, only daughter of Mr D. H. L. Young, of Crutherland, Lanarkshire. Lieutenant Whitcombe has been on active service at Salonica for the past year. In a letter received in Christchurch

from England, reference is made to the singing of Miss Kara Lee-Rennell at MiGeorge Robey 's concert at the Palladium, London. This young Christchurch vocalist made a huge success of her number, but was unable to give the encore demanded owing to the great length of the programme. Afterwards, Mr Henry Ainsley, the distinguished English actor, personally congratulated Miss Loe-Ren-nell and signed her programme, the latter being quite a coveted honour in artistic circles at Home.

"Women are not, wanted in England just now,'' said the Rev.E. Eliot Chambers in his address given at the Overseas Club last evening. He was referring to the large number of girls and women flocking Home to do war work. "The Old Country has enough mouths to feed and there, are, thousands of women there already to carry on the work that is to bo done. It is a significant fact that the talk about putting the people on rations is now an established fact."