SOCIAL NOTES

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXVIII, Issue 19946, 2 November 1934, Page 12

SOCIAL NOTES

Miss N. Ellerington, Paeroa, is a guest at the Dominion.

Miss E. Marshall, Invercargill, is staying at the Dominion. Mr and Mrs H. M. Boyd, Christchurch, are guests at the Grosvenor.

Miss Ada Inman, Cattle Valley, returned from Dunedin on Wednesday. Mrs Gladstone Robinson, “Oakwood,” has returned from a visit to Dunedin. Mrs C. W. Wood, Beverley Road, will leave to-day to attend the races at Christchurch.

Miss Dorothy Barron, “Ranui,” Grey Road, will leave to-dy to stay with Mrs C. Ronaldson, Christchurch. Miss Joan Hargreaves, Kakahu, will leave next Wednesday, to stay with Miss Elizabeth Harris, Christchurch. Mr and Mrs Mclllwain, Balclutha, arrived yesterday to stay with Mrs A. L. Bishop, Totara Valley. Mr and Mrs James Grant, Grey’s Hills, Mackenzie Country, will leave to-day for Cup week in Christchurch. Mrs Moreland and Mrs J. Studholme, Christchurch, are visiting Timaru and are at the Grand. Mrs J. W. Court and Miss Crisp, Auckland, left the Grand yesterday on a visit to Mount Cook. Miss Hester Wigley has arrived from Tunedin to spend a holiday with her parents, Mr and Mrs R. L. Wigley, Highfield. Mr and Mrs F. G. Norton, Riversdale, Greymouth, arrived yesterday to stay with Mrs F. Sumpter, Wilson Street. Mrs E. G. Kerr, “Ardgour,” Sealy Street, will leave to-day to be the guest of Miss Halmai Loughnan, Christchurch, for the races. Miss Helen Montague, who has spent some weeks in Timaru and Mount Cook, is leaving to-day for Christchurch, where she will be the guest of Mrs H. F. Johnston. Mr and Mrs C. L. Orbell and the Misses Sylvia and Janet Orbell, Pentlow, will leave next Wednesday to attend the Agricultural and Pastoral Show at Christchurch. The Rt. Hon. Arthur Meighen, Leader of the Senate in the Canadian Government, passed through Auckland on the Niagara, accompanied by his wife and daughter. Mr Meighen will act as official Canadian representative at the Melbourne Centenary celebrations. Still retaining faculties for the full appreciation of life, Mrs James Rutherford, sen., New Plymouth, the mother of Lord Rutherford of Nelson, on Monday celebrated the ninety-sec-ond anniversary of her birthday. New Plymouth has good cause to be proud of* this fine old lady, one of the few pioneers whose memory extends back to the rigorous days of early settlement, states the “Taranaki Daily News.” The years have done little to dim her perceptions or shake the stability of her character. The same force of personality marks her now as it has throughout a full life. Mentally and physically she is a splendid example of the sterling material that was the basis of the hard-won successes of the first colonists. In 1842 at the age of ten years Mrs Rutherford came to New Plymouth, as Martha Thompson in the sailing vessel Bank of England. She landed at Auckland, which she later left for New Plymouth. In 1866 she married the late Mr James Rutherford, a Scot, who had come to New Zealand at the age of four in the ship Phoebe Dunbar. After living at Foxhill, Havelock Marlborough) and Pungarehu, the Rutherford family finally settled at New Plymouth. There were 12 children, eight of whom are still living.