SOCIAL NOTES

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXVIII, Issue 19861, 26 July 1934, Page 12

SOCIAL NOTES

Mr and Mrs Brown (Otautau) are staying at the Dominion. Mr and Mrs D. O’Connor (Christchurch) staying at the Empire.

Miss Priddle, England, is the guest of Mrs G. Macdonald, Geraldine. Miss Nancy Hall, Te Weka Street, left yesterday on a visit to Culverdon. Mrs I. Hjorring, Oamaru, has left to make her home in Christchurch. ’ Mrs F. W. Grayburn, Geraldine, has left to attend the annual conference of Women’s Institutes at Wellington. Miss Nora Firth. Christchurch, will be Mrs Stone-Wigg’s guest at Waihi School, Winchester, for the Hunt ball. Mr and Mrs J. E. Triggs, who were the guests of Mrs A. Jones, Beverley Road, have returned to Ashburton. Mrs G. Waters, Mt. Nessing, is visiting Wellington as a delegate to the conference of Women’s Institutes. Mr and Mrs R. R. Beauchamp, Tekapo, will arrive to-day to stay with Mrs G. Webster. Nelson Terrace, for the Hunt Ball and races. Mr James Ensor, Rakahuri, Rangiora, will be the guest of Mr and Mrs J. Priest, Trafalgar Street, for the Hunt ball and races. Mr and Mrs J. C. Guinness, “Farmleigh,” Ealing, and Miss Helen Rich, Christchurch, are the guests of Mrs Edgar-Jones, Otiritiri. Miss Margaret Mac Lean, Waimate, will arrive to-morrow to stay with Mrs L. E. Finch, Park Lane for the Hunt Club festivities.

Mrs J. Gibbs, Wellington, who is the guest of Mrs F.T. Washbourn, Wichenford. Grant’s Road, will return home to-day. Miss Helen Gunn. Christchurch, who has been on a trip to the East Indies, the Phillipine Islands and Japan returned to New Zealand yesterday by ’the Marama. Miss Nancy Deans. North Canterbury. and Mr Michael Godby, Christchurch, will be the guests of Mrs H. B. S. Johnstone, Springbank, Otaio, for the Hunt Club festivities. Mrs Sinclair-Thomson, The Crossing, Woodbury, who has been visiting Captain and Mrs Colin SinclairThomson, Wellington, prior to their departure for England returned home yesterday. Mrs Alister Mackenzie, Clayton Station, Fairlie, has left to attend the annual general meeting of Women's Institutes at Wellington. She is a delegate from the Sherwood Downs Institute.

Mrs William Raymond. Pleasant Point, has returned home after spending a few days with Mrs F. A. Raymond, Wai-iti Avenue. Miss Vivien Raymond has left on a visit to Mrs Paul Brcdrick, Martinborough. Miss L. D. Allen, who has been staying with her parents, Sir James and Lady Allen has returned to Christchurch. and will leave shortly with Miss Betty Nancarrow, for a trip to Hongkong.

Miss Jean Batten arrived at New Plymouth airport at 11.5 a.m. yesterday from Palmerston North, the trip taking two hours. A large crowd gave her an enthusiastic welcome. A round of entertainments has been arranged till Miss Batten leaves for Hawera tomorrow.

“The gentle frou-frou of the petticoat is to be heard once again in the land,” states an English fashion writer. “Taffeta petiicoats are to rustle importantly. Flounced and frilled, they are to be adorned in the Victorian manner with ruching and faggoting. They are also to be composed of a quite Victorian number of yards of material.” The Hon. Brenda Pearson set a new fashion for brides at her marriage to Mr Paul Willert at St. Mark’s Church, London, last month. Instead of the usual wreath or coronetal headdress, she wore a beautiful diamond tiara designed in a key pattern, the gift of her mother, Viscountess Cowdray, to hold her long tulle veil in place. The jewels shone almost like a halo in the June sunshine, says the “News-Chron-icle,” and in the church, where the chancel lights caught the stones, they could be seen gleaming even from the back of the church. Much interest was created by the “.illumined curtains” seen at a recent reception given by Margaret Lady Moir, at the headquarters of the Electrical Association for Women in London, states an exchange. The curtains were of silver satin, and by means of a cunningly contrived lighting spread a soft radiance right through the rooms. When lit by sunlight lamps the effect was exactly like daytime, while by an artistic use of colour lighting the tints of flowers, furnishings, or dresse could be enhanced in a marvellous manner.