SOCIAL NOTES.

Waikato Times, Volume 113, Issue 18875, 20 February 1933, Page 5

SOCIAL NOTES.

Lady Boulton, of Surrey, England, who has been visiting Hamilton, left for Rotorua on Saturday. * * * * Mrs A. E. Manning, of Hamilton, and Mrs T. C. List, of New Plymouth, left to-day for a holiday in Rotorua. * * w • Mrs Myra Booth has returned home from a visit to Morrinsville, where she was the guest of Mrs C. M. Cummer. * * * * Women are not admitted to the Tokio Rotary Club, but Mrs Mollison (Amy Johnson) became a member by being made a "superman.” She told the story at a luncheon of the Capetown Rotary Club, and said that when she was in Toldo, after her flight to Japan, she .was to be invited to a luncheon of the Tokio Rotary Club. The difficulty of her sex arose, however, but then the members solved it by electing her as a “superman," a status which her badge of membership shows.

Half a million copies of Lewis Carroll’s masterpiece, “Alice in Wonderland,” with a special introduction by Mrs Franklin D. Roosevelt, have been Issued by the National Home Library Foundation, which has its headquarters in Washington. The book is one of the twelve that the foundation lias issued so far in its educational compaign to place the world’s best literature in every home at a nominal price. The foundation makes no profit and pays no regard to the nationality of authors.