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SOCIAL AND PERSONAL

Mr, Mrs and Miss Focko are on a visit to Christchurch. Dr and Mrs Young and Dr and Mrs Gibbs are in Wanganui for the Medical Conference. Miss Dawson, who has been staying with Mr and Mrs Norman Grant, has returned to Dunedin. Mrs Harry Gore goes to Wanganui on Monday, where she will be the guest of Dr and }lrs Porritt, Miss Dorothy Harding, who has been staying with Mrs Massey, in Tinakori road, returns to Auckland to-day. Dr, Mrs, and Miss King, who arrived by the Malwa from England, are staying at Miss Malcolm’s, on the Terrace. Miss Hilda Chapman is the- guest of Mrs Holdsworth in Dunedin. She will bo one of the bridesmaids at Miss Holdsworth’s wedding on March 12th. The engagement is announcel of Miss May Pilmer, daughter of Mr Pilmer, of Hapua, Masterton, to Mr Pavitt, of Masterfon. Miss Beauchamp has returned from a visit to her sister, Mrs J. Macintosh Bell, in Canada. She spent a, few days in

Auckland with her aunt, Mrs Derry. Mis Bell is leaving Canada to join her husband in Siberia. Mrs B. M. Baird and Miss Baird Auckland, who have been visiting Mrs C. E. M. Hawk, Lower Hutt, left by the Manuka oh Thursday night for Hobart. The engagement is announced of Miss Mary Scobie Mackenzie, second daughter of the late Mr M. J- S. Mackenzie and Mira Scobie Mackenzie, Wellington, to Mr Eobert Halliday, Sidderdalo, Rhodesia, South Africa. Mrs James Hislop is accompanying her husband (the Under-Secretary for Internal Afiairs) on his visit to the South Island. They left by the Mararoa last night, ' and will be away four or hve weeks. Mrs H. M. Gore has returned from the Masterton Show, where her . daughter gained first prize for the best rider under twelve, tying with little Miss Perry. Mrs A. Harris was also a visitor to the show. Her daughter was riding in the ladies contests. The Crown Princess of Eoumania (Princess Marie of Edinburgh! is a perfect needle woman, and not only embroiders exquisitely, but creates her own designs. Many of the beautiful creations in which she appears have no stitches in them, but are simply pinneddogether by her own clever fingers, -and the folds are always perfect. At the Y.W.C.A. rooms, Auckland, on Sunday a warm welcome was extended to VSM Elsie Griffin, who is. on her way from Melbourne to Dunedin to take up the duties of general secretary .of the Dunedin Y.W.cl. Miss Gnffin is weU known in Auckland,, where sho resided until two years ago. U lO attended the Auckland University, and was one of the most popular mistresses of the Auckland Grammar School during the time she taught in that college. About 50 membeia assembled to meet Mias Griffin, who

gave a brief address- on "Individual Responsibility/* and afterwards recounted some of her in Melbourne ot the wonderful happenings there during the past twelve months in connection with the association. In a building almost as dingy and badly equipped as the AucJjland one sho found there a group of members. To-day there are some 900 members, and a splendid esprit de corps, with crowds of girls most enthusiastic. »

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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXVII, Issue 8361, 22 February 1913, Page 12

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Tapeke kupu
533

SOCIAL AND PERSONAL New Zealand Times, Volume XXXVII, Issue 8361, 22 February 1913, Page 12

SOCIAL AND PERSONAL New Zealand Times, Volume XXXVII, Issue 8361, 22 February 1913, Page 12

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