PERSONAL

Manawatu Times, Volume 62, Issue 31, 6 February 1937, Page 15 (Supplement)

PERSONAL

Miss Grigor, Park road, is vMtlng Hawke’s Bay. Mrs. A. E. Rodgers and her so'* are back in Feilding after a holiday visit to Napier. Among those camping at Foxton beach are Mrs. Linda Bennett and her daughter. Mrs. Sheehan is an Auckland visitor to Feilding and is the guest of Miss M. Westcott. Mrs. J. S. Tingey, Feilding, and Miss Hilda Tin gey are spending a few days in Wellington. Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Bramwell left Feilding on Thursday to stay awlille at their beach house, Plimmerton. Miss Betty Eliott, of Feilding, is spending a holiday of some weeks pacing a round of visits in tho Masterton district. Aliss Jean Blackwood accompanied by her father, Mr. J. Blackwood, left on Thursday evening on a visit to Tauranga. Miss Barbara Evans, of Palmerston North, will adjudicate in the Highland and national dancing classes at the Woodville Show to-day. Miss Alarcella Grace, of Palmerston North, left on Wednesday to spend a holiday with her mother, Mrs G. T. Grace, at New Plymouth. Miss M. Forrest, Weston avenue, has returned home after a holiday spent at Raumati beach. Her sister, Mrs Knight, of Masterton, is her guest. Mr and Mrs *A. A. Langley and family, who have been spending the holidays at Te Awanga, Hastings, have returned to Palmerston North. Miss B. Retter has returned to Palmerston North after spending a holiday at Waikiki. Her sister, Mrs. C. Cammick, of Auckland, is at present her guest. Lord and Lady Waleran, who have been spending a lengthy holiday in New Zealand, sail for England from Auckland by the Aorangi on February 23. Miss Ava Symons (Airs. Prouse) the woll-known violinist of Wellington, accompanied by Mrs. Phil Nathan and Miss I. Bristow, were visitors to the city yesterday en route to Morere Springs. Mr. and Mrs. Gilbert HassalT, of Feilding, togethor with Mr. and Airs. Jack Buchahan, of Cunninghams, and their families are spending a hsliday at Paekakariki. An interesting visitor to New Zealand at present is. Miss Alacdonald of the Isles. She is a member of a famous Scottish family, tho head of which is Sir Godfrey Middleton Bosville Macdonald, who is the fifteenth baronet and the twenty-second Chief of Sleat, and who has been Clerk of the Peace and County Clerk of East Riding of Yorkshire since 1932. Miss Macdonald, who lunched at Government House on Wednesday, left the same evening for Auckland, but will probably return to Wellington later on. Mrs. Eva M. Seward, of Ealing, London, who is touring New Zealand and who will visit Palmerston North in the near future, has arrived in Auckland after spending six weeks in the Bay of Islands. Mrs. Seward is a member of the Royal Empire Society and Overseas League, president of Ealing Townswomen’B Guild, which she formed, vice-president of the Ealing Girl Guides, and founder member of the Electrical Association for Women (England), and member of the Associated Country Women of the World, and is deeply interested in all social welfare movements. There were more than 200 guests at a “five to seven’ * party given at the Mayfair Cabaret, Wellington, recently by Mr and Mrs H. P. F. Blundell for their daughter, Miss Barbara Blundell. It was one of those parties which have become very fashionable lately overseas, where they are known as “cocktail dances,” an orchestra And space for dancing being provided. An unusual “five o’clock” ensemble was worn by Miss Barbara Blundell. It consisted of a ground length slim black ring velvet skirt over which was worn a tunic of floral lacquered satin in shades of jade green, rose, and white. The tunic had long sleeves and was cut away from the centre of the waistline in front down and round to a fish-tail point at the back, where it was almost as long as the skirt over which it was worn.