THE SOCIAL ROUND.

Sun (Christchurch), Volume V, Issue 1358, 20 June 1918, Page 2

THE SOCIAL ROUND.

Mrs 'W. A. Moove (Dunedin) is visiting relatives in Christchurch. Mrs and Miss Orbell (Dunedin) are hmougst the guests at the Clarendon. Miss Bucham (Christchurch') is the guest of her sister, Mrs A. Moffett, InvcrcargUl. ~ Mrs M. Betliell (Pahau Pastures) is lu town, and leaves to-night for the jfforth Island. Mrs T. S. Graham (Dunedin) is staying with her daughter, Mrs P. B. Haggit t, Mcrivale vicarage. Mrs Pavies (Akaroa) has returned from a trip to Sydney, and is staying at iho United Service. Mrs Ewon Troutbcck (Napier) has gone lo ITorotaunga to reside while her husband is iu camp, and lias taken Lady Ward's iiouse there.

Mrs .T. Bond, who came up to Christ rhurch for the wedding of her brother Mr L. F. Castlehow to Miss Wood, yes tcrday, returned to Dunedin to-day.

Miss L. Brandon, A.R.R.C, is now lit the New Zealand Military Hospital, Hornehurch, where she is taking a course in massage and orthopedic treatment. Previous to this she was acting matron at the New Zealand Officers' Convalescent Home, at Brighton, England. Miss Brandon was one of the first nurses from New Zealand to go on military service, she being one of the original six chosen to - accompany the Expeditionary Force to Samoa in 1914.

Yesterday afternoon the committee of the Lyttelton Red Cross Sewing Guild met in the Borough Council Chambers Under the presidency of the Mayoress (Mrs W. T. Lester) for the purpose of caving farewell to Mrs J. G. Beswiek, who, with her husband, late postmaster at Lyttelton, is leaving the port for Tauranga at the end of the month. Afternoon tea was sumptuously proTided. Mrs Lester, who is president of the local branch of the Red. Cross Society, had much to say regarding the many good qualities of Mrs Beswiek, and of her untiring energy during her residence in Lyttelton on behalf of the guild. No doubt Mrs Beswiek would still continue to devote her spare moments to Red Cross work. She took that opportunity of thankjug her, on behalf o? the guild, for the time she had so ungrudgingly spent in making comforts for the soldiers and in other work in connection with the guild. Mrs Beswiek, in responding, thanked Mrs Lester for her expressions cf good will, and said that she was very Borry indeed to leave Lyttelton, where Khc and her husband had made so many .friends.

On Tuesday evening a bright and lappy gathering of girls met at the Y.W.C.A. building in Latimer Square for, a social time. The girls represented the "cafetaria contingent," by which is meant the large number of girls who have become members since the cafetaria and rest room in High Street were opened, and whose experience of the association is confined principally to that portion of it. The institution, however, wants them to share in all it lias to offer, and so arranged a party for them in the Latimer Square hostel, Mrs A. Kaye (president) and Mrs Callender acting as hostesses. The rooms looked very cosy and inviting with their pretty furnishings and bright fires, and the large number'of girls who attended had a jolly time over games, chatter, Biippcr, and song. During the evening Mrs Kaye made a brief speech, welcoming them to the association, and express, ing her pleasure at, the fact that the now rooms especially had become =o useful to them. She mentioned that ?t liad been found necessary to increase the price of tea, coffee, and cocoa supplied, owing to the increased cost of those commodities, but reminded the girls that by purchasing the coupons (10 at a time) the cost was very greatly reduced. The evening was brought to ;1 close with the association hymn and the benediction.