SOCIAL NOTES.

Waikato Times, Volume 102, Issue 17134, 22 June 1927, Page 5

SOCIAL NOTES.

Mrs J. Atkinson has returned from j visit to Rotorua. » * * •

Mrs D. Griggs, of Te Awamutu, was a recent Tfsitor to Auckland.

Mrs R. Guy has returned to Hamilton.

Mrs R. Hannon, of Cambridge, has returned from a visit to Auckland. > * » *

Mrs Yarndley, of Stratford, is visiting Te Awamutu. 0*• . *

Mrs B. Meek is the guest of Mrs A W. Perkins, Remucra.

Mrs J. Lewis, of Auckland, is visiting her daughter, Mrs G. G. L. Taylor, at Cambridge.

Mrs W. Ring, who has been on a holiday to Auckland, has returned to her hon>'' - 1 Hinuera.

Mrs Mervyn Wells, of Cambridge, has returned to her home after a visit to Auckland.

Mrs E. H. Hart, of Cambridge, has been in Auckland for a few days.

Miss Frost, of Auckland, is a recent visitor to Cambridge.

Miss Frazer, who has been the guest of Mrs J. R. Gray, at Eltham, has returned to Hamilton.

Mrs A. J. Bond, who has been visiting Auckland, where she was the guest of Mrs A. R. Abbot, has returned to Hamilton.

Miss S. Payton has returned to Rotorua after a holiday in Auckland.

Miss Edna Langmuir, of Te Awamutu, who has been the guest of Miss Marjory Miller/ at Spreydon, Christchurch, has returned to the north.

Misses Ruth and Nina Scott will broadcast from IYA, Auckland, tonight. , The former will sing the Waltz Song from "Romeo and Juliet" and 'My Heart is Like a Singing Bird," and the latter will be heard in the elocutionary items "Little Tan Shoes," "Obsession," and "Supplanted."

Windsor Castle, where the King and Queen stay occasionally, requires more servants than any other residence in the kingdom. When the Court is in residence there the staff amounts to about three hundred. All these are under the charge of Mrs Amelia Rawlings, who surely must be Britain's busiest housekeeper.

Kew is almost overwhelming in its beauty just now (writes a London correspondent), and many people who have not visited it before at this joyous period of the year are struck -with amazed delight at its gorgeous spring livery of pink, purple,, cream, and white blossoms with which the flowering trees and shrubs are smothered. Among those who were attracted by its glories recently were Princess Mary and Lord Lascellcs, who walked through the gardens in the afternoon.

"There is a growing tendency to break away from the usual two or three tiered wedding cake," said an official of an English catering Arm. "We frequently have orders for cakes that resemble pieces of sculpture and introduce an ornament that will illustrate a hobby or profession of the bride or bridegroom — e.g., tennis racquets, cricket bats, motor cars, and aeroplanes carried out in sugar are often used. We can, if required, make the most elaborate cake within a week, but naturally we prefer several weeks' notice. Some of the wedding cakes have 501 b of ingredients. Designs can be copied from drawings. An elaborate model we have made for display purposes of the wedding cake made for William of Orange and Mary, for instance, was copied from a drawing."

It will not be decided whether the King and Queen will be able to pay that visit to Canada which they so long to make until ihe Puke and Duchess of York return (remarks an English exchange). It is so long since they have travelled far afield and the King, in particular, wants to go to Canada.

Miss Alison Borlay, who has arrived in New Zealand from Melbourne, will have something to tell her compatriots in years to come that will he singular. She has been attending a school in China at a very high elevation. The climb requires six bearers and occupies three hours, and by this means Miss Borlay attended school each day. The contending forces met in the valley, and Miss Borlay and her fellow school associates witnessed a real battle. Aeroplanes and artillery were in action. The battle lasted six hours, during which period the school attendants were in constant fear that they might be attacked, but the retreating force was pursued and the school was left untouched-