SOCIAL NOTES.

Waikato Times, Volume 102, Issue 17223, 5 October 1927, Page 5

SOCIAL NOTES.

Mrs H. Prime is visiting Auckland. Mrs T. Gray, of Cambridge, is visiting Auckland. • • • • Mrs Longuet, of Wellington, was a recent visitor to Hamilton. • * * » Mrs Neil McLean, of Auckland, is a visitor to Cambridge. • • * • Miss Aspden, of Putaruru, is spending a holiday in Auckland.

Mrs Gordon Frascr, of New Plymouth, is a guest at the Hamilton Hotel.

On Thursday the annual sale of work organised by St. Peter's Cathedral Guild will be held in St.. Peter's Hall. The function will be opened by Bishop Gherrington. Various competitions have been arranged, and dainty morning and afternoon teas will be served.

Miss I. Robinson, who has filled the post of exchange clerk at the Te Aroha Post Office for the past five years, was presented with a tea-ser-vice on Saturday by the officials. Mr Noake (postmaster) made the presentation. He wished Miss Robinson every happiness and hoped she would not lose touch with the staff with whom she was very popular.

Last week Mr and Mrs Neilsen, of Matangi, gave an evening to their daughter, Eileen, on the occasion of her birthday. The party was held in the Matangi hall supper-room, which was artistically decorated in rose and silver and with branches of weeping willow. The supper table at which a delightful' supper was enjoyed was beautifully arrayed with anemones, primroses and ranunculus. Dancing and games were enjoyed by the many guests and the evening passed all too quickly.

Miss Nola Luxford, New Zealand's sole screen star at Hollywood, has married again (says an exchange). Her husband on this occasion is William Bauernschrnidt, junr., a wealthy business man of Baltimore, where the New Zealand girl will make her home. Nola Luxford is a Palmers!on North girl, who was educated in Palmerston North and at the Wanganui Girls' College. With her first husband, Maurice Luxford, another Palmcrstonian, she went, to California, meeting with success in the movies.

There is a close tie between Malta and the Rumanian Royal Family, Queen Marie having spent part, of her girlhood there during the lime that her father, the Duke of Edinburgh, was Commander-in-Chief of the Mediterranean Fleet. While Prince Nicholas was serving in the Benbow in 192-4 the -Queen of Rumania visited Malta, and stayed at Government House with the then Governor, Lord Plurner, and Lady Plurner. * » • «

Mrs S. Lewis, of Cambridge, entertained a number of guests last Thursday at a gift afternoon in honour of Miss Armstrong. The room was decorated with Iceland poppies and magnolias. Those present were: —Mesdames Armstrong, J. Cox, S. Armstrong, Gibbons, Bryce. Sutherland, L. Harvie, Allen, F. Kingsford, Grummitt, K. B. Cox, J. Ferguson, C. Hunter, Rout, A. 11. Nicoll, Floyd, M. Wells, Souter, L. Peake, B. Christophers, Butler. F. Swayne, Sawcrs, H. Bowland, E. -Wallis, E. B. Lee. Tod. Gascoigne, McArthur. Hart. M. Anderson, Ritchie, Wing, Home, G. Lundon, A. Chitty, E. E. Roberts, Mackereth, B. Wilson, G. G. Taylor, Baltimore, A. Ganc, A. Richardson, 0. Gane, Misses Cox, A. Armstrong, Swayne, Jordan (Tc Kuiti), M. Christophers, Gwynneth, Brann, I. Garland, Short, S. Brann; 11. Taylor, Butler, Thomson, Mackereth, A. Souter, Wilton, Brabant, J. Thomson, R. Souter, Peake, and J. Souter.

A pleasant feature of Goldsborough Hall (near Knaresborough, in Yorkshire), where >thc Queen recently spent some days with Princess Mary, is its privacy. The house is almost entirely screened from public view by a long, high wall, overhung with tall trees, and the entrance from the village street to the courtyard is effected by passing through a plain brick archway. Built in the early 17th century, the Hall contains some very fine Jacobean work. In recent years, especially since Princess Mary became its mistress, many modern amenities have been introduced, but without interference with its old-world charms.

ENGAGEMENTS. The engagement is announced of Irene Florence, only daughter of Mr and Mrs W. T. Sanders, of Ngahinapouri to Walter John, eldest son of Mr and Mrs Stewart Reid, also of Ngahinapouri. The engagement is announced of Doris, youngest daughter of .Captain Duder, of Hinemoa Avenue, Devonport, Auckland, to Leslie, son of Mrs G. Roberts, of Hora Hora, Cambridge.