SOCIAL NOTES

Taranaki Daily News, 23 July 1930, Page 13

SOCIAL NOTES

Miss Joan Esse, who was the guest of Mrs. Whitton, returned to Auckland on Sunday. Mrs. Brodie, who was the guest of Mrs. Avern, left on Monday for Wanganui, where she will stay a few days before returning to Nelson. # # « Mrs. Winks, Wellington, is the guest of Mrs. Guild. * # * * Miss Ena Dempsey leaves to-day for Wanganui, where she will be the guest of Miss McNab, before going to Wellington for a holiday. « # # » Mrs. Gordon Mac Diarmid returned to Taihape on Monday, and Mrs. Campbell Mac Diarmid to Hamilton on Sunday. Mrs. Greig, entertained at bridge on Saturday evening. « » « « Mrs. Keeling was hostess at afternoon tea on Monday afternoon. # » « ■» Mrs. Perry is now the guest of Mrs. E. J. Carthew. « * * # Miss Leslie Mac Diarmid leaves Wellington to-day for Palmerston North, where she will be for a month. • » ' * # Mrs. D. K. Morrison entertained at a small picture party in honour of Miss Sheila Mac Diarmid last evening. a # • * Miss Mary Fookes left yesterday on a visit to Auckland. « v a 9 Miss ■ Kitto is visiting Auckland. » >s «= Miss Elsie Cruickshank has returned from a visit to Auckland. a a # » Mrs. C. Jeffries is visiting Auckland and is the guest of her daughter, Mrs. Alastair Stewart. ##a a ' Mrs. N. Ebbett, Masterton, is the guest of her mother, Mrs. E. J. Sole. a a a a Miss Audrey Hasell returned on Saturday from Auckland, where she had been spending a short holiday. a a a a Miss Josephine Whittaker, Timaru, is visiting New Plymouth. . a « * a Miss Grace Avery, New Plymouth, was the guest of Mrs. O’Sullivan for the hunt club ball at Waverley, a a a a , Mr. and Mrs, J. E. McNie, Rapanui, are visiting New Plymouth and Auckland, a a a a Miss G. M. Hall (Kakaramea) also Mr. A. Hockly (Marton) were the guests of Mr. and Mrs, M. J. Hockley of Waverley for the Hunt Club Ball. a a a a Mrs. A. Dwyer, Kakaramea, is visiting friends at Ngaere and Huinga, a a a a' Mrs. F. C. Walton returned to New Plymouth from Wellington on Friday night. a a a a Miss Kitto, New Plymouth, has gone to Auckland for a few days. a w a a There passed away at Wanganui on Sunday, at the ripe old age of 92, Mrs. Alexander Laird, her death severing another link with the early days of both Wanganui and New Plymouth. Mrs. Laird was born near Ayr, Scotland, in 1839. She married Mr. Alexander Laird

in ISGI and they arrived in New Zealand in 1866, settling first of all in Ne w Plymouth. Ten years later they went to Wanganui and their names are associated with the early progress of the settlement and down to the present day. FROCKS AT WAVERLEY BALL. HUNT CLUB’S HAPPY EVENING. The bright decorations together with the pretty frocks harmonised in making a very gay scene at the Waverley Hunt Club’s ball on Friday evening. Although there has been a generation of short skirts, the art of wearing and also of handling gracefully long frocks has jiot been lost. Visitors were present from as far north-as New Plymouth and Wai Lara, while parties .arrived for the week-end from Hawke’s Bay, The ball

was considered quite the best that the club bad ever held. The debutantes were:—

Miss Phyllis Simmons (Patea), frock of white silk moire velvet and a, posy of primroses. Mies Nancy Barrow (Waverley), pale pink taffetas and wrist posy of pale pink flowers. Miss Marjory Nicholson (Levin), white georgette and chenile, wrist posy of pink roses and forget-me-not. Miss Marian Gibbings (Whenuakura), ivory lace and net, uneven hemline, wrist posy of pink flowers, Mies Melva Christensen (Waverley), silver and white lace frilled frock, posy of pink flowers. Miss Irene O’Sullivan (Matapu), silver embossed georgette and silver lace, posy of pink and blue flowers. Among those present were: Mesdames Simmons, black 'georgette; McWilliam, black and floral ninon; Sampson, gold lace; McCrea,, blue taffetas; S. Brewer, silver tissue frock; Mavis (Wanganui), floral taffetas; David Jackson, pale pink satin; Syd. Train, pale pink soft satin; G. Train, pale pink georgette; Fred Train, red silk moire; Richardson, kingfisher blue taffetas; G. N. Pearce, dahlia silk moire; Searle, fawn georgette and lace; Ralph Palmer, black embroidered georgette; Mieses Elsie Rutherford (New Plymouth), black panne velvet; Enid Craig (Wanganui), lemon and floral taffetas; Jean Christie (Wanganui), blue satin; Winnie Bates, blue floral taffetas; Patty' Belton, lemon net; Dorothy Bates, pale green georgette; Winnie Train, green taffetas; Anne Train, white chenile and georgette; Ruth Pease (Hawe'ra), pale pink floral ninon; Diana Roberts, pale pink georgette; Jean McGregor, "red georgette and lace; Ellen WatkiniS,' pale green frilled net; D. Handlay, green georgette and lace; Rosalind Honey field, lemon floral ninon; Heckler,'lemon 1 georgette; Betty Petersen, pale pink satin; G. Beer, pale pink satin; Gilligan/ red lace; Ruth Findlay, white georgette; Vera Sheild, white georgette; Molly Davidson, ; pink taffetas; Marjory Brewer, green georgette with red flowers; Mary Harvey, pale pink and flame georgette; Ruth Alexander, maize l floral taffetas; Joan Coleman (Stratford), gold lace, tangerine bow; Alison Bradmore, lacquer lace; Margaret Alexander,' floral ninon and black lace; Mary Walkinton, pink satin and silver lace; Rosalind Innes-Jones, Te Kuiti, maize taffetas; Clara Walkinton, white soft satin'and net hem; Jessie Alexander, white taffetas; Dora Hawken, gold lace frock; W. Dymock, Taihape, white taffetas and net hem; Margaret Glenslie, white embroidered taffetas; Molly Washer, Hawera, red lace and georgette; Joyce Powdrell, Hawera, green georgette; Sybil Washer; gold and scarlet chenile; Connie Symes, Hastings, flame taffetas; Jean Symes, Hastings, pale pink georgette; Jean Speedy, Waipukurau, lemon and floral ninon; _ Jean Sheild, lemon crepe-de-chine; Beryl Lowrie, Marton, floral tis T sue and. flame georgette; Ada Brewer, Hawera, blue taffetas; Joan Hawken, grey lace; Nest a Mathieson, blue satin and floral georgette; Jean McLaren, Mary Anne blue georgette and silver lace; Duffy, pink moire velvet; Matthews, Gisborne, lemon georgette and net; Hawkins, lemon lace; Young, red satin and gold lace; Cunninghan, yellow net; Betty Ryan, Hawera, blue moire; Fitzgibbon, white lace frock; Fincham, white silk moire; Marjory Besley, embossed brown fish net. ; Among these looking on were: Mesdames Parsons (Waitotara), Wilson (Waitotara), Washer (Hawera), McFarlane, Spratt, Bradmore, C. Christensen, Barrow, Glenslie, Alec. Glenslie, Mathieson, Taylor (Wanganui), Southcombe, Boyne, Brewer, Taylor, Simpson, Grover, Currie, and Misses Lovell, Lupton and Glenslie. DEATH OF MRS. O’BRIEN. EARLY FEILDING SETTLER. The funeral of Mrs. M. O’Brien, Ihaia Road, was largely attended on Monday. Funeral Mass was held by the Rev. Father Kennedy in a crowded church. Father Kennedy also celebrated the last rites. The pall-bearers were Messrs G. Barr-Brown, M. and B. Hickey, A. J. Brennan, R. O’Rorke and R. Julian. Mrs. O’Brien was born in Oxford, England, 67 years ago, and came to New Zealand with her parents, the late Mr. and Mrs. C. Humphries, as'"a child in the ship Woodlark, :to settle in Feilding with the original, pioneers under the English colonising;-company headed by General Feilding. • She • married Mr. M. O’Brien; an officer in the police department, and after his ■■ retirement at Pa-' tea settled on the farm ■at Ihaia. Besides the husband Mrs. O’Brien is survived by five daughters, Mesdames Robbins (Wairoa), -Sloan (Invercargill), Farey (Otakeho), &>.Julian (Opunake), Mulligan (Normanby); and one son, Bernard. Her eldest-sister, Mrs. Aitken, resides in Opunake, and her brothers are Messrs C. .and J. Humphries (Opunake), and .. Thomas Humphries (Tariki). : ■