SOCIAL NOTES.

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXV, Issue 18191, 15 February 1929, Page 3

SOCIAL NOTES.

Mr and Mrs G. I!. Pike, Nile Street, are spending a holiday in Invercargill. Miss K. O'iiiien, ‘ Orbell Street, has returned from Dunedin. Miss Mather, England, is staying at “The Bungalow,” AVai-iti Road. Miss Grace Wilson has returned to Alburv after a. short visit to Waimate. Miss B. Meehan, Sefton Street, is on a visit to Christchurch. Countess Thelma Metaxa is staying at the Hydro, where she will spend a few days. Mr ana Mrs Lethbridge, and Miss Lethbridge, Dunedin, have been staying in Tetnuka. Miss Mai Scott, “Cannington,” will arrive to-day to stay with Mrs Simon Mackenzie, “Otumnrama ” Mr and Mrs A. W. Rainger, Auckland. have been spending a holiday at the Hydro. The Misses Garland, Christchurch, have returned home after a visit to Waimate. Mrs A. Hayhurst, “Aslifield” Temuka, has returned from a visit to her daughter (Mrs Fell). Blenheim. Miss Sinclair, who lias been on a visit to Mount Cook, has returned to Napier. Mrs George Gould and Miss Gould, Christchurch, are the guests of Mrs H. Elworthy, “Graigmore.” Mr and Mrs Maurice Harper, and Miss Betty Harper, Waitawa, have leturned from the river. Mrs Cat tan and her niece, Dunedin,

will arrive to-dav to stay at “The Bungalow.” Wai-iti Road. Miss Twomey, “The Bungalow,” W ni-iti Road, left yesterday for Mount Cook. Mrs E. Inman and Miss Mary Inman, Cattle Valley, will leave to-day for Dunedin. Mr and Mrs Papprill, Christchurch, arrived yesterday to stay at “The Bungalow.” Wai-iti Road. Mrs Rolleston, Christchurch, who has been staying with Mrs F. ,T. Rolleston, LeCren’s Terrace, will return home to-day. Dr. and Mrs L. S. Talbot. To Weka Street, will leave to-morrow, the former to attend the Medical Conference at Wellington. Miss Lucy Nottingham, of the staff of the Westport Hospital, will arrive to-day to stay with Mrs F. A. Raymond, Beverley Rond. Miss Richmond, a well-known Wellington artist, and Mr H. Atkinson, who a’e staying with Mrs Edgar Jones, “Otiritiri,” will return to-day to Wellington. Among visitors at Lake Taupo were Lord and Lady Hampden, Hon. Barbara Brand, Colonel Frv-Biggsen, Lord and Lady Hillingdon and daughter, Miss Martin-Smith, and Lord and Lady Cavendish, all of whom speak in the highest terms of this magnificent “angler’s paradise.” Dr. and Mrs Elliot, Wellington, are giving a ball at the Cabaret on February 22nd, which will be the grand finale of the functions connected with the Medical Conference. Mrs Walter H.*s3p is entertaining the visitors and a few local friends at a “The Dansant,” and Dr. and Mrs W. Young are giving a cabaret dance during the week. Yesterday afternoon Mrs Walter Raymond gave a very enjoyable afternoon party at her home in Park Lane, in honour of Mrs S. G. Raymond, who recently returned from England. The house was decorated with carnations and roses, and pink and red roses were on the tea-table. Mrs Raymond wore a bois-du-rose jumper suit, with a black hat with a flat pink flower at the side, and the guest of honour was in red, georgette with a mole-coloured hat. Distinguished visitors who have recently arrived in New Zealand are Major Macßae and his family. His brother is chief of the big clan whose ancestral home is in Ross-shire. Major Macßae, whose home is in Buteshire, is travelling with his wife, Ladv Mar- I garet Macßae, and their daughter. The Macßaes have recently been the I guests of Mr and Mrs Donald Mac- I donald, of Edendale, whore Lady ‘ Margaret met many Scottish friend’s of her girlhood days.. It is interesting to note that the four nurses who were honoured with the great responsibility of nursing the King represented the four nations of the British Isles. Nurse Purdie is English, Nurse Gordon is .Scottish. Nurse Black is Irish, and Nurse Davies j is Welsh. His Majesty would not have any other nurses, they had tended him before, and he greets them as friends. Lord Dawson of Penn, who selected them for this responsible work, pays them a very great tribute. They are all women of experience, and served in tlie hospitals behind half a dozen battle fronts scattered over the globe, and all have been decorated. Nurses Black and Davies are on the staff of the London Hospital. Nurse Gordon was trained at St. Thomas’s Hospital before the war, and Nurse Purdie at Westminster Hospital. These four women are now the most famous nurses m the world. For years they have been known to the great specialists of London, but only now have they become known to the general public.’