SOCIAL NOTES.

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXV, Issue 17869, 31 January 1928, Page 3

SOCIAL NOTES.

Mr and Mrs Bernard Tripp, Orielton, have returned from Dunedin. Mr and Mrs Sinclair-Thompson are expected at the Bungalow to-day. Mrs W. H. Orbell, Levels, and Mrs C. L. Orbell, Pentlow, are expected back from Christchurch to-day. Miss Lee, who has been spending a holiday at Arthur’s Pass, has returned to Timaru. Mrs Neilson and Miss Islip, Elizabeth Street, who have been staying in Dunedin, returned home on Saturday. . , , . ■ . The Misses Herbert, Auckland, have returned from the Hermitage, and are staying at “Kelso.” Mr and Mrs Ibbotson, who have been spending the holidays here, ipotored back to Dunedin on Sunday. Mr and Mrs Ivor Bristol and their family have returned to Stew Point from Sumner.

Dr. and Mrs Marshall MacDonald and their family,' have returned to Dunedin after a stay in Temuka. Mrs William Raymond and her family, Nile Street, have returned from their farm at Pleasant Point. Mrs R. L. Wigley and her family, Highfield, have returned from the Hermitage. Mr AV. England, Christchurch, is visiting" Mr and Mrs AV. Hopeweil Budd, Preston Street. Miss Melva AVatson, Menvale, Christchurch, is visiting her aunt, Mrs W. Hopewell Budd, Preston Street. Mr and Mrs Alex lamb and family, Trafalgar Street, have returned from a holiday snent in Christchurch. Miss Doris Meyer, “Highway,” Hook, is staying a few days with Miss Maisie Martin, at “The Grange.” Mrs J. Lynch and Misses O’Meeghan, motored to Omarama for the week-end.

Mr and Mrs F. M. Dennehy, who have been visiting friends in Timaru, have returned to the West Coast.'

Mr and Mrs A. AA T . Werry, Reefton, who had been visiting Mrs Ferguson Reid, Kakaliu, have gone to Christchurch. Miss Arolia M. Hardcastle has received 'an appointment on the staff ot the' Epsom Gilds’ Grammar School, Auckland.

<*ir and Mrs J. C. Wood and family, Rhodes Street, have returned from Hae-Hae-Te-Moana, where they have been spending the holidays. Dr. and Mrs Blackmore and Misses Blackmore, who have been some weeks at-the are motoring to Christchurch to-day; Mrs Fowler and Misses Fowler, who have been staying at the Bungalow for some weeks, are motoring to Christchurch to-day. Mrs J. Forbes and her children, who have been staying with Mrs G. P. Wood, AVai-iti Road, will return to Waiuku. Auckland, to-day.

Miss F. M. Browne, of the staff of the Kowhai Junior High School, Auckland, left by Monday’s express en route for Auckland, after spending her holidays in Canterbury and the \Vest Coast. jiicnaeacon and Mrs Hansell and the Misses Hansell, who have been staying, with Mrs A. S. Elworthy, Holme Station, returned last week to Wellington. Mrs Derek Gould, Christchurch, who was at Holme Station, has also returned home.

Guests at the Bungalow are: Mrs L. A. AVaters (Lyttelton); Mrs Barns, Mrs Olds (St. Albans); Dr. Blackmore and Mrs Blackmore, Misses Blackmore (2) (Cashmere); Mrs Douglas Anderson (Christchurch); Mrs Gardener (Papanui); Miss Ford, Miss Dunning, Mr and Mrs Sams (Balmoral Station); Misses Buss (Christchurch); Mrs and Miss Johns (Belfast).

A 7 isitors at A 7 ictoria House, Gerldine, last week included: —Mr and Mrs H. C. Miller (Sydney), Mr and Mrs S. Thompson, Mr and Mrs H. Thompson, Mr and Mrs H. Clapham, Mr and Mrs L. Crampton, Mr and Mrs J. A. Cook, Mr F. Sincoclc, Miss Dorothy Hodges (Christchurch), Miss Barron (Timaru), Nurse Bain (Tycho), ltev. T. L. A. Crampton (Dunedin), Mr Charles Gray (Invercargi'l), Mr and Mrs J. R. Paterson and family (Dunedin).

‘Miss Asta Crowe, eldest daughter of the late Sir Eyre Crowe, is private secretary to Sir Colville Barclay, British Minister at Budapest. ; Miss Cynthia Seymour, now Lady Milne Cheetham, wife of the British Minister at Copenhagen, was for some time after the war private secretary to Sir George Clerk at Prague. Several other women have held or are holding positions as private secretaries in Legations, including Miss Irene Boyle, who is with Sir Ronald Lindsay in Berlin. These ladies, however, are not members of the diplomatic service, although they enjoy certain diplomatic privileges. The United States and Bulgaria have appointed women as official diplomats, but so far Britain has not opened the ranks of the service to our sex. The following is a list of visitors to the Hermitage during the past week:—Australia —Mr and Mrs L. G. McGibbon, Misses M. and R. McGibbon, Mr K. McGibbon, Miss Harvey, Miss Dwyer, Mr G. 11. Bostock, Miss iW. Bostock, Miss E. J. Smith ‘[(Perth); Miss Stanley (Caulfield. ; Victoria); Miss H. de la AVarr, 11. Jackson (Sydney); Rev. Purton [(Brisbane); Mrs Rlddell-Stanley (Melbourne); A. AV. Cooper (Adelaide); M. J. Martin (Queensland). AVellington—Miss Mi A. AA 7 est, Miss A. Booth, Professor and Mrs D. C. 11. Florance. Honolulu—Miss A. 11. Parker, Mrs R. D. Walbridge, Miss E. C. Jordan. England—A. K. Bulley, A. L. Bulley, 11. M. Atkinson, Mr and Mrß R. J. Colman (Norwich). Christchurch—Mr and Mrs F. Thomson, Mr and Mrs 11. Chapman, R. M. Adams, F. N. Adams, F. Britton, Miss S. Britton, F. Bradshaw, A. V. Iladdrell, D. Hutton, H. I. Walls, A. Britten, Mr and Mrs lies. Auckland—J. Durrien, Mrs P. Lovegrove and son, Miss L. AVinstone. Dunedin —Mr nnd Mrs G. E. AA 7 right, Ethel Bults. U.S.A.—A. Fitch (San Diego), D. H. Haslam. Scotland — Mr and Mrs W. Frew and son (Strathaven).