SOCIAL NOTES

Timaru Herald, Volume CXLIV, Issue 21064, 16 June 1938, Page 10

SOCIAL NOTES

Mrs Bowker. Christchurch, is staying with Mrs C. S. Bruce, Douglas Street.

Miss Maud Wilson, Bidwill Street, is on a visit to her brother, Mr L. Wilson, Dunedin.

Mrs A. A. Scott, Bid will Street, has left on a visit to Mrs H. Scott, Dunedin.

Mr and Mrs J. W. Adams. Wai-iti Road, have returned from a visit to Dunedin.

Mrs Downes Roberts, Middlemarch, arrived yesterday on a vis’t to her mother, Mrs Simon Mackenzie, “Otu-

Mrs A. Curnow. Christchurch, who has been spending a few days with he: mother, Mrs C. J. LeCren, Grey Road, returned home yesterday.

Miss Torry Lamb and Miss Marian Lamb, who have been visiting thenparents, Mr and Mrs A. Lamb, Hart Street, have returned to Wellington and Dunedin respectively.

Miss Enid Edgar Jones, who has been staying with her sister, Mrs Malcolm Miller, Wellington, has returned to stay with Mrs J. C. Guinness. “Farmleigh,” Ealing.

Mrs Guinness, Galashiels, Sefton Street, has returned from a visit to Mrs E. R. Guinness, Geraldine. Miss Hermon, England, who has also been staying with Mrs Guinness has returned to Mayfield.

The engagement is announced of Doreen Myra, youngest daughter of the late Mr J. Roddick and Mrs R. Roddick, of Hermon Street, Timaru, and Reginald, youngest son of Mr and Mrs Thomas Taylor. Nile Street, Timaru.

Miss Margaret Lindsey Williams, a well-known Welsh artist has painted a portrait of Queen Mary for the Royal Academy. The sittings took place at Marlborough House, London, the residence of Queen Mary. On one occasion to enable the artist to complete the picture in time for the exhibition her Majesty sat for two and a half hours, which is the longest Royal sittii* ever known. The picture was accepted and has a place of honour in the Royal Academy.

One house in town was not enough for Gracie Fields, though it is an attractive, red-bri<-k house, set back from the road in an acre of garden. And the garden is laid out in Italian style, with the exception of the slides and amusements for the many children who visit her. Her second town house is in Chelsee and was bought several years ago from Augustus John. Then she has a villa in Capri, which she is to visit later this month; and a cottage on the south coast of England.