SOCIAL NOTES.

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXV, Issue 18520, 18 March 1930, Page 3

SOCIAL NOTES.

Mr and Mrs P. Laurie, Wai-iti Road ; have returned from Christchurch.

Mrs W. Evans, North Street, has returned from a visit to Dunedin.

Miss Gladys Manchester, Mill Road, Waimate, has returned from Oamaru.

Mrs Jack Peter. Geraldine, who has been staying with Mrs R. F. Hill, Mere Mere Street, returned home yesterday.

Miss Peggy Unwin, Church Street, left to-day to stay with Mrs Pitts, Waimate.

Mrs Alister Mackenzie, Clayton Station, is the guest of Mrs Simon Mackenzie, Otumarama.

Mrs O. Stephens, Temuka, will leave to-day on a visit to Mrs Ewen, New Plymouth.

Miss Olive Halstead, Merivale, Pleasant Point, leaves to-day on a visit to Hastings, North Island.

Miss Edith McKenzie, Timaru, arrived hove yesterday, after spending a holiday in Auckland and Rotorua. Miss Dorothy Davies, Wellington, who is staying with the Misses Hassell, Nile Street, has returned from a visit to Dunedin.

Mr and Mrs Staveley, who spent the week-end with Mrs W. D. Revell, Jackson Street, left on Monday for Coromandel.

Mrs Henry Harper, Grassy Hills, Kurow, who spent the week-end with Mrs W. H. Orbell, Levels, returned home on Monday. Miss Innes-Jones, England, who has been spending some weeks at Cadogan, Sefton Street, will leave to-day for Christchurch.

Mrs J. Adam, Waimate, and Mrs A. Bell, Waihao Downs, have returned from an enjoyable holiday in Christchurch.

Miss Peggy Chapman, Salisbury, and Miss Loo Cartwright, Orbell Street, left yesterday to stay with Mr L. Chapman at “Dunglass” Cattle Valley.

Miss M. Weston and Mr F. Weston, Timaru, arrived home yesterday after spending a holiday in Auckland and Rotorua.

Miss Valange, Dunedin, and Miss C. Williams, Dunedin, stayed at the Grosvenor on their way back from Christchurch, and left for the south yesterday.

Mr J. Russell Brunt, J.P., Christchurch, who will attend the annual conference of the New Zealand Justices at Timaru, will arrive to-day and will be the guest of Mrs Harvey J. Brunt, Harper Street.

The Rev. Clyde Carr, accompanied by Mrs Carr, left yesterday for Wellington, where they will attend the swearing-in of the new GovernorGeneral at 4 o’clock on Tuesday. They will return on Wednesday.

Mr and Mrs J. M. Harland, of Port Chalmers, who have been spending a holiday of six weeks in Timaru with Mrs C. Snow, of Church Street, and with Mrs C. Howe, of King Street, will return home on Thursday. The High Commissioner and Mrs Wilford entertained at the theatre, and at supper at the Savoy Hotel after the performance, the representatives of the Overseas Dominions at the London Conference (writes a London correspondent). Among those invited were the Hon. J. L. Ralston and Mrs Ralston (Canada), the Hon. J. E. Fenton (Australia), Mr and Mrs C. E. te Water (South Africa), Professor and Mrs T. A. Smiddy (Irish Free State), Sir Atul and Lady Chatterjee (India), and Commander A. W. S. Agar, V.C. Last Saturday the High Commissioner, Mrs Wilford and Miss Wilford were asked to Mrs Philip Snowden’s “At Home.” This week’s invitations include luncheon with Mrs Sydney Webb at the London School of Economics; reception at Admiralty House; dinner at the Savoy, arranged by the British Association of Refrigeration, when (with General Ryrie and Senor Uriburn), Mr Wilford will reply to the toast “The Pioneers of Meat Freezing and Export.” Mrs Wilford has been invited to go to Windsor with the wives of the Delegates to the Naval Conference.

Dame Sybil Margaret Dowager Viscountess Rhondda, D.8.E., who will be visiting Australia in a week or two, gains fame from both her late husband and her daughter, the present Laoly Rhondda, both masterful people. Lord Rhondda, first of his line, was David Thomas, a Welsh coal magnate who did great work during the war as British food controller; incidentally killing himself with overwork in doing it. In gratitude Britain continued his peerage through his daughter Margaret, then Lady Mackworth, who not only inherited her father’s title, but his several director and chairmanships, thirty in all. (One, that of Lysaghts, has Australian interest). Asserting her manly rights Lady Rhondda tried to take her seat in the Lords, but was rebuffed by that conservative preserve. Sybil Lady Rhondda is content to live quietly in the old home of the Thomases at Llanwern, Monmouthshire. She was before marriage, Miss Haig, of Pen Rhon, Radnor, Scots by name but Welsh by birth. Lady Rhondda is her only child.