NEW PLYMOUTH ITEMS

Taranaki Daily News, 28 January 1933, Page 4 (Supplement)

NEW PLYMOUTH ITEMS

Mrs. Courtney entertained at bridge yesterday afternoon. Mrs. B. M. Wilson and Mrs. E. Foden are visiting Wanganui for a few days. Miss Mary Greenwell returned last evening from several weeks’ holiday spent in the South Island. Mrs. J. C. Morey returned yesterday from a visit to Whakatane. Mrs. J. Black has arrived from Auckland on a visit to Mrs. A. W. Diprose. Miss Gwen Griffith has etumed from a holiday at Wellington. Miss Grace Avery left yesterday morning on a visit to Waverley. Miss Audrey Hassel left on Thursday to spend several weeks in Auckland. Mrs. Guy Hardenberg, Hawera, was a visitor to New Plymouth this week. Miss Rita Edgecombe has returned . from a holiday spent at Auckland and Tauranga. « < . ' Miss K. Campbell returns to Auckland, this week-end. Miss Alison Pritchard has returned •to Dannevirke after a visit to Miss C. Leatham. ‘ ' Mrs. Kaye, who has been the guest of her sister, Miss Rundle, leaves on her return to Auckland to-morrow. Mrs. C. Honeyfield returned to Patea yesterday. Miss C. Thompson leaves on a trip to the South Island.. Mrs. Wickstead, Auckland, leaves to-, day on her return north. Miss B. Hawkins returned last night from a holiday spent in Hawke’s Bay and Wellington. Miss E. Eaton visited Hawera on Wed- ' nesday for the wedding of Miss Sybil Washer. Miss Nancy Mortimer-Jones, who has been visiting Mrs. R. J. Matthews, has returned to Havelock North. Miss D. Griffiths, who has been the guest of Mrs. D. Blackley, left on her return to Rotorua yesterday. Miss Ettie Grover entertained at bridge on Thursday evening in- honour of her guest, Miss Jean Kent. Mrs. H. E. Carey and Miss Biddy Carey return to-morrow from 'a motor tour of the north. Mrs. J. A. Doctor, Wadestown, Wellington, has been the guest of Mrs.. W. J. Reid and returns .home to-day. Mrs. T. Stewart, Colombo, is visiting New Plymouth and is the guest of Mrs. J. C. Nicholson. . Mrs. Glen Morgan, Christchurch, arrived on Thursday on a visit to her mother, Mrs. M. Atkinson. Madame Winnie Fraser, Christchurch, who has been visiting New Plymouth, leaves to-day for Wellington. Miss Audrey Hasell left on Thursday ' * or Auckland Ettie~Grover leaves to-day for Auckland, accompanied by Miss Jean Kent, who has been her guest and is . returning home. Miss Freda Surrey, Waharoa, who has been spending the holidays with her father and sisters at Pukeho, left yesterday morning on her'return. Mrs. Cogan, Dunedin, who has been . staying at New Plymouth as the guest '. of Mrs. G. Bradbury, returns south this week-end. - Mrs. M. Campbell, Miss M. Campbell and Mrs. Holmes are expected to return this evening from a tour of the South '. Island; ' \ Mrs. A. Isdale, who has been spending a holiday here with her mother Mrs. P. J. White, has returned to Wai- ‘ roa. Mrs. A. E. Mayo, Coventry, England, is a guest at the White Hart Hotel; also Miss Dorothy Shirley, Miss Mary Reid and Miss Barbara Thomlin, Sydney. The death is announced of Miss Jessie Lennox at the age of 102, states a Lon- / don writer. She was a friend of David Livingstone, and travelled with Mrs. Livingstone from Durban to the mouth of the Zambesi River, and witnessed the meeting between Mrs. Livingstone and her husband. Miss Lennox entered the : Nightingale Training School for Nurses in London, and worked there for several years. She was one of the six nurses chosen by Miss' Nightingale for .. work at Neiley Hospital/the first hospital to be appointed by the War Office. For 18 years she was at the Sick Children’s Hospital at Belfast. She died at .Edinburgh, where she had been residing. When the Scottish Wat- Memorial was opened in Edinburgh in 1927, Miss Lennox was one of the most honoured fe guests. She was received by the King and Queen and the Prince of Wales. .More sombre fashions appeared at Trentham on Monday for the final day of the Wellington Racing Club’s Summer meeting, the cold wind making wraps a necessity for those who had ventured out hopefully in summer wear. Others had anticipated a chilly day, and wore light tweed ensembles and tailored suits, states the Post. Black and white was again a very popular and also very smart colour combination, and was in many cases accompanied by a vivid red scarf or bag. Some rich blues and bright greens were also seen, and there were many variations of the two-colour vogue, red being relieved with white or sometimes with white and bjue. Hats . were mostly small, though the’few filmy garments worn were usually accompanied by wide-brimmed ones. A party was entertained at luncheon by the president, Mr. Eric Riddiford, and the stewards, Mrs. Riddiford wore a red frock with touches of white, a black coat with astrakhan collar, and a red hat. Lawn tennis enthusiasts will be interested to learn that Miss May Andrew, of Cashmere Hills, Christchurch, is to marry Dr. Gregory Myers, younger son of the Chief Justice of New Zealand. Miss Andrew is the second daughter of Brigadier-General A. W. _ Andrew, who saw extensive service in the Indian Army, and Mrs. Andrew, of Kitson Terrace, Cashmere Hills. For a number of years Miss Andrew has figured promin- ■ / ently in tennis circles in Canterbury. With Miss Melva Wake she was the holder of the New Zealand doubles championship and has frequently been in the finals of the Canterbury provincial lawn tennis championships, and was a former holder of the singles title. She held the singles championship at Opawa from. 1927 to 1932, and is the present holder of the Opawa doubles champion- / ship with Miss N. Reid, and the mixed doubles with Mr. R. R. Roberts. Immediately after the ceremony they sail for England. —- ■