SOCIAL NOTES

Timaru Herald, Volume CXLIII, Issue 20720, 6 May 1937, Page 10

SOCIAL NOTES

Mr and Mrs Tait, Lower Hutt, are staying at the Empire. Mrs Lloyd, Ashburton, is the guest of Miss L. Blewman, Geraldine. Mrs F. Haskins, Geraldine, has returned from a holiday visit to Wellington. Mr and Mrs Inglis, Invercargill, are guests at the Dominion. Mrs A. McMillan, Dunedin, is staying at the Grand. Mr and Mrs W. Machin, Christchurch, are registered at the Grand. Miss Fane, England, is staying with the Misses Rogers, Nile Street. Mr and Mrs F. Throp and Mr and Mrs R. Throp, Dunedin, are staying at the Grosvenor. Mrs James Hay, who Is the guest of Mrs W. H. Walton, Park Lane, will leave to-day for Fairlie. Mrs R. B. Bell, “Arden,” Wai-iti Road, has returned from a visit to Dunedin. Miss E. Edwards, Coopers Creek, has returned home from a holiday spent on the West Coast. Mrs 3. H. Howell, "Matata,” Cave, is staying with Miss Loo Cartwright, Orbell Street. Mrs F. H. Pyne, who has been staying with her daughter, Mrs Ynyr Robinson, Peel Forest, has returned to Christchurch. Mrs Andrew Guild, "Strathearn,” Temuka, will arrive to-day to spend a few days with Mrs M. A. Raymond, "Clovelly,” Nelson Terrace. Mrs Redmond Neill and Miss Josephine Neill, “Barossa,” Mt. Somers, will arrive to-day to stay with Mrs Sinclair-Thomson, “Tire Crossing," Woodbury. Miss Barbara Bond, Christchurch, will arrive to-day to stay with Miss Elworthy, “Pareora Cottage,” LeCren’s Terrace. Miss Alice Cane, Christchurch, and Miss Mary Bond, "Dunrobin,” Southland, who are Miss Elworthy’s guests will leave for the south to-day.

Mrs Alfred Watt, who recently visited New Zealand and other parts of the world on behalf of the women's institutes and the associated women of the world, told an overseas correspondent much the Dominion Impressed her. As far as scenery went, there was nothing in her whole journey that was finer. Her enthusiasm included the inhabitants, too, and she felt that »he could return any day and meet friends.

At the ancient city church of St. Mary Woolnoth, Lombard Street, London, on April 10, the marriage took place of Eleanor Mary, only daughter of the Bishop of Wellington and Mrs H. St. Barb; Holland, to the Rev. Frederick Levison, second son of the late Sir Leo Levison and Lady Levison. The ceremony was performed by the Lord Bishop of Coventry, and the Rev. W. E. S. Holland (uncle of the bride).

Mrs Ellie Wharton Kirke, who received an M.B.E. in the 1936 New Year’s Honours’ List, has just presented to the War Memorial Museum at Canberra a letter written to her by the Duke of Windsor when he was Prince of Wales. When Prince of Wales, the Duke of Windsor accepted one of the four Gallipoli medals struck to commemorate the landing of the Anzacs at Gallipoli. Others were presented to King George V and King Albert of the Belgians. The letter which the Duke wrote in appreciation of his gift is the one which Mrs Tirke has presented to the War Memorial Museum, to be with the fourth medal —which was struck specially for her —and which she presented to the Museum last year. Mrs Kirke, as a girl of 13, attended a fancy dress ball in Brisbane as “The Daughter of the Regiment,” and danced with the young Prince George (late George V), when he visited Australia as a midshipman in H.M.S. Bacchante.