SOCIAL NOTES

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXVII, Issue 19804, 21 May 1934, Page 12

SOCIAL NOTES

Miss J. R. Barr has returned from Dunedin. Mr and Mrs Kennedy (Auckland) are staying at the Dominion. Mrs C. W. Mackenzie and the Misses Mackenzie, Geraldine, have returned from a visit to Hanmer. Mr and Mrs Gillies. Fail-lie, have returned from a short visit to Wellington. Miss Margaret Webb, Christchurch, arrived yesterday to stay with Mrs F. G. M. Raymond, Beverley Road. Miss Nell Armstrong, who has let her house ill Chalmers Street, left yesterday for Christchurch. Mrs M. Sutherland, LeCren Street, has returned from a visit to Christchurch. Mr and Mrs J. W. Hayes, ‘'Centrewood." Waimate, have returned from a visit to Hanmer. Miss Bromley Cocks. Christchurch, is staying with Mrs B. E. H. Tripp, “Orielton.” Miss Buckland. who has been staying with her sister, Mrs L. H. Orbell, Winchester, has returned to Akaroa. Mr and Mrs Butcher (Poolburn) are visiting Timaru, and are at the Dominion. Mr and Mrs A. J. Jamieson, who were at the Grand, returned to Christchurch yesterday. Mr and Mrs Herbert Hill, who were at the Grosvenor, have returned to Christchurch. Mrs J. L. Watson and Miss Asser (Auckland) who were at the Grosvenor, have left for the north. Mr and Mrs H. A. Spence, and Miss Betty Spence, who were at the Empire, have returned to Central Otao. Mr and Mrs W. D. Hall (Ranfurly) who were at the Empire, have left for the south. Mrs E. J. King, of Beckenham, Christchurch, who has been the guest of Mrs F. Metson, Livingstone Street, will return home to-day. Miss Elspeth Barton, Heretaunga, will leave on May 28 on the first stage of her trip to Bermuda, where she will visit her sister, Mrs Quin. Miss Katie Gillies, who has been spending the holidays with her mother, Mrs Gillies, Craigie Street, will return to Dunedin to-day. Mrs J. O. H. Tripp, Kurow, who has been spending a few days with her mother, Mrs R. L. Orbell, "The Croft.” Park Lane, returned home yesterday. Miss G. V. Howey will leave Christchurch at the end of the week to join the Tainui, sailing on May 29 for England, where she intends to reside. Mrs C. Cresswell, Lismore, who has been staying with her mother. Mrs J. Matheson, "Tignafeile,” Wai-iti Road, has returned home. Misses Strange and Miss Whitesides, who have been staying at Beverley House, Wai-iti Road, returned to Christchurch yesterday. Miss Aspinall, Christchurch, who was the guest of Mrs F. A. Raymond, Wai-iti Avenue, left on Saturday to stay with Mrs Andrew Guild, “Strathearn,” Temuka. The Rev. C. Harper, formerly vicar of St. Peter’s Church, Wellington, and now vicar at Ford, Northumberland, England, and Mrs Harper, are staying with Miss Tripp, Orari Gorge. The engagement is announced of Roger Charles, youngest son of Mr and Mrs Charles William Clifford, of Market Drayton, Shropshire, England, to Betty, younger daughter < ' Mr and Mrs C. R. Kiver, of Christchurch. Mrs A. Louw, Tweekuil Estate, Malmesbury, South Africa, who has been staying with her mother, Mrs J. Matheson, “Tignafeile,” Wai-iti Road, left on Thursday on her return home. Mrs Matheson will accompany her as far as Sydney. The United States has made another flattering offer to Miss Joyce Wethered, the well-known English golfer, to induce her to leave her native country. She has been invited to take up a post as woman secretary to a club in Florida at a large salary. This would entail living in one of the millionaires’ hotels at Miami, and probably acting as hostess to women golfers, as well as giving displays of her wonderful playing skill. Although the golf season at Miami is only a short one, however, the offer does not seem to have appealed to Miss Wethered. An interesting visitor from England will arrive in New Zealand by the Mataroa next Wednesday in Miss Marie Salinger, who is a member of the Operatic Association of Dancing of Great Britain, as well as an Associate of the Imperial Society of Teachers of Dancing. She comes direct from London, where she follows her profession, teaching many branches of the art, including all the latest methods in operatic, ballroom, tap, musical comedy, etc. Her successes as a teacher have secured for her engagements not only in her own country, but also on the Continent.

Madame Schiaparelli, one of the famous dress-designers of the day, whose originality and chic have made her a foremost leader of the Paris couture, has been gathering fresh laurels. She is now to design gowns for forthcoming British-Gaumont Films. Interviewed recently in London she said she had designed both for French and American films, but was particularly pleased to be working for British pictures, since some of her most successful materials, and particularly woollen fabrics, were of English manufacture. To deal with the work she had extended her premises and increased her British staff.