ROTORUA.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XLV, Issue 21, 23 November 1910, Page 68

ROTORUA.

November 18. Tennis. Saturday, the 12th, was an ideal day for the opening of the tennis season. Mr Birks (president of the club) and Mrs Birks were ‘‘At Home” to the elub members and visitors at the pretty kiosk in the Sanatorium Gardens. A delicious afternoon tea was provided. The three grass lawns in the gardens were more pronouncedly inadequate than usual on this particular opening day, quite a number of new’ members having been enrolled. Amongst Mrs Birks’ guests in the kiosk were: Dr. and Mrs Crooke, Mrs and Miss Empson, Mrs Flower, Mr and Mrs Robinson, Mrs Barley. Mrs Glanville-Hicks, Mrs Redwardl, Misses Haw’kesworth, Malfroy, Lundon, Auld, Corlett, Clarke, Murray, Hardie, Wylie, Messrs Algie, Hampson, G. Empson, Bayfield, Melville, Luck, Hawkins, Miller, Williamson, Drs. Bertram and Hay. A meeting of the Tennis Club was held on Wednesday evening, when it was decided to hold a series of matches in the club. Efforts are being made to acquire more courts in the gardens. Personal. Mr and Mrs Adamson, of Wellington, are visiting the thermal district, and at present staying at Waiwera House. Mr and Mrs E. Colson, of Auckland, are here. Lieut.-Col. Wolfe is in Rotorua. Mr and Mrs Grace, of Palmerston North, are staying at Brent’s. Miss Barker (Christchurch) is visiting here, and staying at Grand Vue. Amongst visitors here just now from England are: Mr and Mrs Cranswick, Mr C. Cranswick, Miss Stubbings, Mr Treanor, Mrs and Miss Browning, Mr Sinclair, Mr Hilton Smith. Mr Spenser Watts, of Sydney, is staying at the Grand. Mr and Mrs Butcher, of Strathmore, and Mr and Mrs A. Butcher, of Kaiapoi, are here. Miss Headland, of Oamaru. is visiting Rotorua. Mrs Hickson, of Ellerslie, is the guest of Mrs A. Braithwaite at present. Miss Pownall, matron of the Sanatorium, and Miss C. Smith have returned after a month’s holiday in Wellington.

RATA.