SOCIAL AND PERSONAL

Taranaki Daily News, 18 December 1926, Page 18

SOCIAL AND PERSONAL

Miss Humphries has returned from Wellington.

Mrs. Dodgshun arrived from Auckland this week, and is staying at “KirigsIcigh.”

Miss Lois Greig lias .returned from Wellington. '• ■

Miss T. Adams arrives from Mirtoh to-day to stay with Mrs, AV. R. Wade.

Mrs. Imlay Saunders has returned to Wanganui. Miss, Phyllis Greig has.returned from Whakatane.

Miss Marjowe Sladden returns from Marton to-night.

Mrs. Brewster and Mbs’, p. Samuel have returned from Auckland'.

Mrs. F. G. Evans’ has returned from Hamilton. i * * • * Miss Agues Wilson hah'returned from Auckland. ••■ * •

Mies W. Kelly has returned 'to Awa kino.

* * * * Miss M. Willis has returned to Great ford.

• • •. •_, • Mrs. W. H. Skinner returns from the South Island on Monday. ' 'Miss Nina Capel has -. iStprned from Christchurch. * .- * Mrs. Harper Lepper returjis from Auckland to;d»y. -. ". •' \ • i * Miss Sybil Carthew is . visiting' her aunt, Mrs. E. Perry, Christchurch. • * ' //.- • '

Mrs. Alien arrives to-night front Duh-, cdin. * * * Mrs. Wybourne has returned to Waverley. ■.• • • • Mrs. .and Miss HuiYter (Wellington) are staying at Marsland View. '# * * • Mrs. Lysons has returned from Hamilton. • * • Misd lizard leaves next 'Tuesday for Auckland. .

Miss Giblin leaves fod Wanganui pext Tuesday.

Miss Lilian Smith left for Tauranga on Friday. >

Miss Margaret Johnson ie'aves for her holiday next Tuesday.

Mrs. H. Abraham (Khandallal:) Is spending Christmas with her mother, Mrs. James McKellar.

Miss McLean left for Wanganui yesterday, and later on spends a holiday at Franz Josef Glacier. ' •

Mrs. Joe Banks and Mrs. Gibbons (Cambridge) were visitors here this week.

Mr. E. A. Adlam, of. Waipuku, is Visiting Mr. and Mrs'. G. A. Adlam', Leach Street. -1

Miss Helen Matthews (Thames) arrives on Monday to stay with Mrs Walter Bavlv.

Mrs. J. Morton leaves early in the ■week to spend Christmas in Wellington. ' .. ~ • •■• •• • -.

Miss Gwen Didsbtfry (Auckland), who is the guest of Mrs. Barthorp, returns to Auckland on Tuesday. i - • * • •

Miss Jessie Alexander (Dunedin), is spending her vacation with her mother, Mrs. W. A. Alexander.

Mrs. Hugh Baily was hostess at an afternoon tea party for the Misses Jackson, on Monday: ■ * '* • •

Miss D. Baker leaves for Auckland on h-'nday to stay with Mrs. R. H. Bartley. * * * *

Mrs. Crump and Mrs. Harwick-Smith (Elfham), have taken Mrs. Sheat’s house for the holidays.

; : Mrs. Hatherley. Miss Alollie Hathec’ey ’ . and Miss Marjorie Bryce, who have been here for a day or Swe,. hard returned to Wanganui. ....

*" .4 : • 4 1 *•* ' {.' Miss Sirnson'. . Jiuiyes, for,, Auckland : * early week,) ’ ' ■ > ’ • • iri“' •’ i Mrs. Leo Horrocks and family, of Auckland, a rived .from'. Wanganui fb ; ; day, and will spend, tlie Jioljdavs here'. Mrs. T. A. Edwards, Canterbury, ar- • rives on the mail train to-night to . spend a holiday with her mother. Mrs. G. S. Leitch.

Mrs. A. Still, of Wellington, motored up to Inglewood ,to spend the holidays with her daughter.

Lady Menzies, of Menzies, and her daughter. Lady Marjorie Dalrymple, -w.ho have been the guests of Mrs. F. S.'Hpdr sou. were entertained at morning tea at the Women’s Club on Monday.

Miss Alison Greig was hostess at a “d’oyley” bridge party for Miss Gwen Bayly on Tuesday. Miss 0. -Shaw gave a “handkerchief” party last night, and Miss Barthorpe and the Misses Cholmeley give a (‘blue drawing 'room”, party this afternoon, also for 'Miss Gwen Bayly.

The noynnjittee of the New Plymouth Old Girls Association entertained Miss Tizard to tea at the Women’s Club ou Thursday afternoon and a verv enjoyable hour was spent over the tea cup. During the afternoon Miss Tizard was decorated by the Mayoress with a badge of the Old Girls’ Association .a'ud Miss Douglas presented her with a small gift on behalf of the old girls. «*. * •

According to tjm Daily Mail. Mr Edwin <hry W,, ,;h-e. .(i.lm ..'p.pdueer, offer

ed the Queen of Rumania LSOCO to act for one day as the Queen in the film of Tolstoy’s ‘’Resurrection” during her visit to the States. The film is being made at Hollywood, California. Mr.' Carew made the offer through the Rumanian Legation in Washington and as a guarantee of good faith posted a cheque. He sent; the proposal after a tiilk with .Mr. Douglas Fairbanks, who told him - that during liis hecent tour in (Europe (the Queen, In a- talk with him, expressed a desire th establish a fund for needy Rumanian children. Mr. Carew suggested that, the Queen could devote the £5OOO tq siieh a fund. • • • •

Ail interesting engagement recently announced in London is that of Lieutenant Thomas Edgar Halsey, R.N., and Miss Jean Brooke. Lieut. Halsey, elder con of Mr. and Mrs. Walter' Halsey, is-a grandson of the veteran Sir Frederick Halsey, of Gaddesden Place, Kernel Hempstead, to whose baronetcy he is second heir, and nephew of Sir Lionel Halsey, the Prince of Wales’s Comptroller. Miss Brooke is tho eldest daughter of Captain Bertram Brooke, Tuan Aludah of Sarawak, who is a brother of itlie Rajah) of Sarawak and heir-presumptive of the Raj of that romantic land. . • ; ’*'' ♦ ' *

Under the headline “New Zealand in Town,” the Daily Chronicle observes:— “Sir James and Lady Tarr, the new representatives for New Zealand, have already made many- public appearances; and are making tijc'mselves very popular in London. .Education has always been Sir James Parr.’sfetish;-, because of his energies New Zealand has (gained much of the reputation which makes her ahead of most countries educationally.) If Sir Japies works in that Strand office as ho did in Macriland he will achieve Bonders f his ‘Antipodean England: and I gather that the influence of his energies is already being felt.”