SOCIAL NOTES

Timaru Herald, Volume CXLI, Issue 20340, 12 February 1936, Page 12

SOCIAL NOTES

Miss Rae Lancaster, Christchurch, is a guest at the Dominion. Mr and Mrs J. Anderson, Omarama, are at the Grosvenor. Miss Edith Hayes. Arthur Street, has left on a trip to England. Mr and Mrs A. E. Loveridge, Victoria are visiting Timaru and are at the Dominion. Mr and Mrs R. N. Kirk and Miss N. McDougall, Sydney, are staying at the Grosvenor. Dr. and Mrs F. F. A. Ulrich, Elizabeth Street will leave to-day on a trip to the North Island. Miss Wright, Wai-iti Road who -s on a visit to Mrs J. C. Templer, Waimate is expected home to-day. Mrs J. McCarthy and Mrs M. A. McCarthy, Queenstown, are guests at the Balmoral. Mrs F. Anniss and children, Tekapo. who were guests at the Balmoral, have returned home. Mrs Buchanan who was the guest of Mrs Gladstone Robinson, ‘‘Oakwood," has returned to Christchurch. Mrs G. H. R. Ulrich, Wai-iti Road will leave to-day on a short visit to Miss Hunter-Weston, Dunedin. Miss Lorraine Orbell, Waikouaiti, is staying with Mrs J. S. Elliott, Wellington. Mrs Sholto Douglas, who is staying in Geraldine has taken “Ashwick," Fairlie, during Mrs Hamilton’s absence in England. Mrs C. Hayter and her children Orbell Street returned on Monday from “Rollesby”, Burke”s Pass, where they spent the holidays. The Rev. A. C. W. Standage, Mrs Standage and Mr I. W. Standage have returned to Dunedin after a holiday spent in Timaru and Christchurch. Mr and Mrs James Grant, who were staying with Mrs A. Grant, “Aigantight,” Wai-iti Road, returned yesterday to “Gray’s Hills,” Mackenzie Country. Miss Eleanor M. Hetherington, of New Zealand and the Royal College of Art, is highly commended for her work in connection with the competitions for the Rome Scholarships of 1936. Miss Hetherington submitted an excellent carving in wood of mother and child. All the works submitted by competitors for the scholarships of 1936 in mural painting, sculpture, and engraving are at present on view at the Imperial Gallery of Art, South Kensington.

The Countess of Selborne, at present visiting New Zealand on the Otranto, is a much travelled lady, although she has never before been in New Zealand. Her husband, the Earl of Selborne, was High Commissioner and Governor of the Transvaal for five years. Each year the Earl and Countess travel abroad to avoid the English winter. Their home is at Blackmore, Hampshire, wher the Countess is president of the Hampshire Nursing Association. She was a well-known worker for women's rights, and in the “black days" before women were granted the franchise, was president of the Conservative Women's Reform Association. She was also president of the National Council of Women.

Costume balls nowadays are not haphazard affairs (writes a London correspondent). Women intending to dance at the Vienna ball were so determined to wear authentic costumes that the Austrian National Library sent over special plates of the period for them to study. The Great Congress of Vienna, when the Austrian capital was the diplomatic centre of Europe, was one of th? most socially brilliant periods in European history. At the ball the Austrian Minister appeared as Prince Metternich, and the ballroom at the Legation, not unlike a small edition of the State ballroom at the Metternich Palace, was lit by candles and decorated in the manner of 1814. The 1814 frocks and inconsequent little bonnets of those domantic days suit modern women, and have inspired may of the models shown at the winter “collections.” Miss Rosalind Norman, daughter of Sir Henry Norman, formerly member of Parliament for South Wolverhampton and for Blackburn, has chosen an unusual career for a woman. This clover and enterprising young woman, who is skilled in craftsmanship, began by making all kinds of models in her own home. Later she became an expert airwoman—all her family is airminded—and then turned her thoughts towards models of aircraft. Now Miss Norman has her own factory at the Heston airport, where she carries out a large number of orders for these beautiful little models. She has also devised a clever method of delivering them by having a sort of cupboard built into her own aeroplane. She belongs to a clever family. Her father was for several years on the editorial staff of the “Pall Mall Gazette.” He anaugurated the public agitation for the national preservation of Niagara Falls, which resulted in their purchase by the State of New York; he has written several books of travel and some plays, and is a wireless expert. Her mother, the Hon. Lady Norman, daughter of the first Lord Aberconway. was one of the first women to receive the honour of C.B.E.