NEW PLYMOUTH SOCIAL

Taranaki Daily News, 21 December 1929, Page 6 (Supplement)

NEW PLYMOUTH SOCIAL

Mrs. Cyril Blundell leaves by Tuesday’s boat for a holiday at Auckland and Kawau. a a 4> 4» Miss Alexander returns .from Waikato this evening. » * * * Miss Pansy Whitton will motor to Auckland on Monday. * a * • Mrs. Wade, who arrives in Auckland by the -Ulimaroa on Tuesday, is expected home for Christmas. i ft ft 4» « Mrs. Goodall, Auckland, is staying with Mrs. lan Roy for Christmas. •» $> # * Mrs. E. L. Humphries and Miss J. Mackay gave a large bridge party on Saturday evening. * * * # Mrs. Todd, Otane, arrives on Monday to stay with Mrs. George Home. ■ « ft ,f) a Miss Rauriia List, in company with Mrs. Howard Williams, sailed by the Marama for Sydney .yesterday morning, en route to England; # * * * Mrs. Hunter, Tauranga, is staying .with i her mother, Mrs. Kirk by’.. o . Mrs. Courtney gave a bridge party for Mrs. E. A. Walker at the Chequers ou Monday afternoon. , ... Mrs. J. R. Cruickshank returned home from Palmerston last evening. « o.w # Mrs. Greig gave a bridge party for Mrs. Butchart on Monday evening. # * . * . ■ ■ * Mrs. Trevor Simpson, Auckland, will motor to New Plymouth in, tlio weekend to stay with Miss Constance Leath am. 1 . « 41 4> fl Miss Phyllis and Miss Avis Greig , entertained at bridge for Miss 0. Shaw and Miss 0. Firth on Tuesday evening. • * * * Miss Fitzpatrick, To Arolia, is the guest of Mrs. Geoffrey Strang. #** - ♦ Mrs. C. Waterston, accompanied by Miss S. Torlesse, leaves on Christmas Eve for a motor tour to Lake Rotoiti. ft * ft * ' Mrs. Oscar Blundell will leave on Tuesday to attend the wedding of her son at Masterton. #*a . * Miss J. Ramson returns from Wellington on Monday. # a fl * Miss Maureen Adams arrived last night and is the guest of Mrs. George Home. # * * • Mrs. S. Gill, Masterton, who will be staying a month in New Plymouth, is expected to arrive on Christmas Eve. » 41 >» Mrs. J. McLeod is spending a. few days in Hawera. fl fl # Mrs. Keeling and her family' will leave on Christmas Day for a motor trip to Palmerston and Hawke’s Bay. a a fl * Miss Marjory Sladden returned' l home from Hawke’s Bay on Tuesday evening. a « fl fl Mistf Alison Greig is expected home on Monday evening from Auckland. a .• a ' «", fl Mrs. A. R. Thompson entertained at bridge for Mrs. Butchart on Thursday evening. > a a * * Mrs. W. N. Ewing left this week, to spend a holiday with her daughter, Mrs. 0. C. Stephens, Temuka. a ' «' ’ * fl Miss Joan Sladden returned from Wellington on Thursday evening. # ■» « fl Mrs. Robb. (Roxburgh) and Mrs. T. W. Cook (.Christchurch) are staying with their mother, Mrs. Corney. a> « fl fl Mrs. Rex, Brewster left by motor for Rotorua and National Park yesterday. « fl fl fl Mrs. Atkinson leaves on Sunday to spend Christmas with her, son at Alton. « o fl fl Mrs. F. Wilkie, Rotorua, is spending a Sioliday with her mother, Mrs. Chong. a o fl fl Mrs. Wilkes leaves to-day for Auckland. fl ft fl Mrs. Randell leaves during the weekend for’Stratford, where she will take up temporary residence. a a * * Miss Esse McMullan arrived on Thursday to stay with her sister, Miss I. McMullan. fl fl fl * Miss’ Elsie Rutherford, Opuhake, was the guest of Mrs. Greig on Wednesday evening. a - ■» o fl Visitors from Inglewood to New Plymouth for Journey’s End included Mrs. Faris, Mrs. McAllum and party, and Mrs. 1. Grant. a fl ■ fl fl Mrs Ken. Webster is spending the Christmas holiday camping at Raetihi. Her house will, be taken by Mrs. Nancarrow and Mrs. Jack Glenn. a fl a Visitors from New Plymouth to the Hawera races this week included Mesdaines V. Duff, R. T. McQuade, Kirkby, W. D. Graham,. Walton, C. Grainger, E. P. Webster, L. A. Nolan, W. H. Moyes, J. McLeod and Misses C. Moyes, M. Sladden and I. McMullan. fl 0-0 fl Mrs. Bullock and her family are epending Christmas with Mrs. Harkness at Tariki.

Aliss Claudia Weston is the guest of Airs. Small, Hawke’s Bay.

Mrs. Tomlin was entertained at tea nt . the Chequers by the committee on Wednesday and presented with a bouquet of carnations and a silver cigarette case.

Miss Joan Simmons gave an enjoyable birthday party on Monday at the Hygienic. Thirty friends were invited to tea. After tea all adjourned to the parents’ residence, where there were games and dancing. A « # fl Three Hawera ladies, Mrs. Page, Mrs. O'Callaghan and Miss McLean, interested in the formation of a women’s club in Hawera, motored to New Plymouth on Monday and lunched at the Chequers with Mrs. C. H. Weston, Mrs. Brewster and Miss Andrews. * * ft * Mrs. Paget, Wellington, is staying at her beach cottage at Ngamotu. Mrs. Abraham, Stratford, arrives at her cottage to-day. A a fl fl A very enjoyable house party and dance' was given at the Nurses’ Home on Tuesday evening in honour of the four candidates for the State final examination, Misses Barbara Sumner, Eileen Bolton, Nancy Thomas and Veda Wootten, all of whom passed with over 75 per cent. The hostesses for the evening were the “semi-fiiL Is,” who will be sitting the final examination next year. Sister Ross "had assisted to arrange a very, effective scheme of floral decorations, and a pleasant evening was spent with charades, games and dancing. . «> a a a Miss Pearson, Puniho, will leave this morning on a motor tour of the thermal district. fl * # . O’ Mrs. A. M. Mac Diarmid will arrive in New Plymouth on her return from her trip abroad on Boxing Day. • * * *

Aliss V. Sanderson left for Stratford last Sunday. ft ft * *

Airs. P. F. Atkinson motored to Marton on Thursday.

Airs. B. Grayling arrives on Sunday to ■ spend Christmas with her mothc I ’. Mrs. Wheatley.

Airs. Slieat and Miss Fcarn entertained the boy sopranos of the Westmin ster Glee Singers on Wednesday i orning at Pukekura Park. Boating on the lake and a game of cricket were greatly .enjoyed by tho boys. # • ft * ft

Miss h Parrott arrives from Hamilton on Monday to spend the school vacation with her sister, Airs. J. H. Shcat.

Miss Gwen Stephenson and Miss Eileen Horner will be spending a short holiday at the mountain. ; a « ft

Aliss Shirley Roberta, daughter of Air. and Mrs. T. E. Roberts, Patea, had a very successful scholastic year at the New Plymouth Girls’ High School. Besides being dux of the school, she was first in her form for languages, mathematics, and science, and carried off the Old Girls’ Cup for excellence in school work.

Mrs. J. A. Hobart, of Auckland, is visiting her mother, Mrs. Purdue, of Upper Westown, New Plymouth.

Eden Phillpotts, the famous novelist and dramatist, was married in England recently. Hie bride is Miss Robina Webb, youngest daughter of Mrs. Webb and tho late G. F. Webb, of Exeter. Their wedding took place in Exe.ter on October 17, but not a word was said of it, even to their most intimate friends. Their engagement was announced at the end of August.

It must have happened many times before that- a son has undertaken to give his mother away upon the occasion of her re-marriage, remarks an English exchange. But the youngest of them all to have taken on such an office must be Viscout Ipswich, whose mother married Major Gavin HumeGore, at Whittlcbury, in Northamptonshire. Lord Ipswich is a Harrow schoolboy of fifteen. He was granted special leave'for the ceremony.

Speaking at the prize-giving ceremony of St. Margaret’s College, Christchurch, Archbishop Julius, in the course of his remarks, said: "Remember, girls, remember that women are not at the very top. If you want- a really good dinner you have to get a man to cook it, and if you want a dress to go to court in you have to get a man to make it. But it is women who make that wonderful institution, the home. I pray that, however accomplished you may be in other directions when you grow up, you will always foster happiness in the home. ft 4) ft ft

The death of Airs. Shand, widow o.f Mr. James Shand, the well-known pastoralist of Abbotsford, near Outran), recalls memory of the early days of Otago (says an exchange). Tho eldest daughter of the late George Duncan, in these days a flourmiller and later a wellknown business man in Dunedin, Airs. Shand was born at Opoho in 1855 on tiic property later known as. Job Wa : n's property. Sho was christened by Dr. Burns in First Church, being taken there by her parents in a sledge, the customary means of conveyance in those days. Airs. Shand was one of a family of ten, of whom five are still living—-George and Alfred Duncan, in Melbourne, wellknown as civil engineers; Airs. Mary Hume, in San Francisco; Edwin and Arthur Duncan, also in San Francisco, retired business men. She leaves a surviving family of six—Mrs. R. S. Reid, of Dunedin; Airs. David Cowan, of Christchurch (with whom she spent her last years); Aliss Priscilla Shand, of ban Fi'ancisco; Mr. Milne Shand, manager of Wright, Stephenson and Co., Christchurch; Mr. Edwin' Shand, pastoralist, of Palmerston North; and Mr. Georg J Shand, stock inspector, of Tapanui.

Princess Mary’s New Home. It is understood that Princess Mary and the Earl of Harewood will shortly tsay at Harewood House, near Leeds, which now passes into their possession on the death of the late Earl of Harewood (says an English paper). It must not be taken from this that they will make this their country home in future, since Princess Mary has a marked preference for Goldsborough Hall, which she has converted into a perfect model of what a country residence should be. Harewood, however, is an extremely beautiful home, and one well worthy to house the only daughter of Their Majesties. It was built during the second half of the eighteenth century for the first Earl of Harewood by Carr, the famous York architect, at a cost of upwards of £120,000, and is both spacious and beautifully proportioned. It is filled with pictures and art treasures of every possible description, and the King and Queen were both greatly impressed with it when they first stayed there some years ago. Among the artists represented there are Reynolds, Heppner, and Lawrence, while the gem of the place is the wonderful collection of Sevres china, which has been valued at something like a quarter of a million sterling. Hesitant Judges. When, as recently described in The Post, a panel from the London Pro--vision Exchange was asked to deliver judgment on bacon made from New Zealand frozen pork, the judges refrained from classing the bacon. Commenting on this, the Scientific Liaison Officei- at the High Commissicncr’s Office in London says: —“The report is very disappointing in that the judges would not class the bacon, and this was the main object of the experiment. It was apparently impossible for them to forgot that the raw material was frozen; and indicates what we are up against in the established state of affairs. All three judges are well-known merchants in the bacon trade, so thatI suppose they found it difficult to admit publicly that good bacon can be produced from-frozen pork. I am, however, not leaving the matter as it is, but shall approach the judges individually to try and alter their decision. One important result has been shown up, however. Class A bacon which is tank cured was judged by them to be the best. This indicates that it is impossible to detect tank cure from dry cure. Members of the staff who received samples are unanimous in their opinions that the bacon and ham are first rate. Many place it on a par. with best English ” A Warning.

An Australian lady writes as follows in tho Adelaide Observer:— “To find quiet from life’s rush she and her husband went to the seaside, and for two days lay on banks of seaweed, just dosing and reading while the sun simply poured down on them. ‘lt was heavenly,’ she said, ‘such a rest.’ Two days after her skin became very irritable, grew worse and worse, until she came out in a rash, then even worse than that. ‘lt mighthave been chickenpox,’ she said. So hey! for the doctor, who pronounced it iodine poisoning from damp seaweed. Absolutely dry seaweed does not have that effect. Now that we are on the verge of the seaside season, it is as well for mothers to note this and keep the children off the seaweed. Personally, I think the safest thing to do is to' take a large pice of waterproof sheeting and place that on the sand before °sitting down. A rug can, of course, be used, over it, but is not necessary.” A Depressing Prospect. "Back to the Victorians” is the slogan of autumn dress designers. The latest show in England proves that the cycle is complete, states n writer in an exchange. Tube dresses have gone, and frills and flounces are back in favour. “It is the greatest revolution for 20 years,” said a representative ' of one firm. "Victorianism has been modernised to provide for the absence of voluminous underclothing nowadays. Modern misses have not seen anything like the new models. They were in their cradles when. their mothers wore similar designs. The era of the dressmaker is coming back, since these models cannot be made by a machine. From the rear many of the new evening dresses make the wearer appear stripped to tho waist, excepting a rope of jewels, from-which the whole dress hangs. The front view discloses only the neck.” ENGAGEMENTS. The engagement is announced of Gladys Alay, youngest daughter of Airs, and the late Air. H. Rawcliffe, Princes Street Extension, Hawera, to George Robertson, eldest son of Air. and Airs. G. R. Horsburgh, Te Ngahere, HaweTa. A ft ft ft The engagement is announced of Mabel Lash, eldest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. T. H. Lash, Wharehuia, Stratford, to Clive Dowdle, second son of Air. and Airs. J. Dowdle, Hawera. ft ft ft . * The engagement- is announced of Mary, only , daughter of Airs. Hamilton and tlie late Dr. Hamilton, Richmond, Nelson, to Alex Cassie, of Newall Road, Tumahu, youngest son of Mr. and Mrs. -Cassie, New Plymouth. # ft ft * The engagement is announced of Leila Eileen, third daughter of Air, RobertBurrows, of Egmont Village, to-James Issac, eldest son of Mrs. and the late Mr. J. H. Olsson, of Waitara.