The Social Round

Southland Times, Issue 24233, 17 September 1940, Page 8

The Social Round

The lady editor will be pleased to receive for publication in “The Social Round” each day items of social or personal news. Such items should be sent in promptly and should be fully authenticated. Engagement notices must bear the signatures of both parties. Correspondence is invited on any matters affecting, or of interest to, women.

Miss M. Crawford, Don street. is the guest of Mrs G. Armitage, Wendon. Miss June Bath, Elies road, will leave today for Christchurch.

Misses M. and N. Baird, Ritchie street, who have been spending a holiday in Queenstown, returned home yesterday. Mrs J. Deegan, Earnslaw street, returned on Saturday night from a holiday in Dunedin. Mrs R. M. Hutton-Potts, Russell street, will return today from a visit to Christchurch.

Miss Eileen Mehaffey, Grey street, returned on Saturday from a holiday in the north.

Miss J. E. Griffiths, Christchurch, will arrive in Invercargill tomorrow and will-be a guest at the Grand Hotel for a few days. Miss Nessie Moncrieff, New Zealand secretary for the Young Women’s Christian Association in China, has arrived at Wellington from Sydney and is the guest of Mrs H. W. Newell.

Mrs Noel McGregor, Mount Linton, accompanied by her small son, who travelled from Auckland to Dunedin by air, has returned home. She was accompanied by Miss Margaret Ewan. Auckland.

Mrs J. Norton, of Te Awaiti, Picton, and formerly of Stewart Island and Bluff, is the guest of her sister, Mrs L. J. Bradshaw, Janet street, Invercargill.

Cousin Betty, of The Southland Times, entertained the Little Southlanders who took part in “Toad of Toad Hall” at morning tea on Saturday in H. and J. Smith’s tea rooms. Presentations were made by the performers to Cousin Betty and Mr M. Chaplin, producer.

About 40 members of the Garden Circle of the Southland Women’s Club enjoyed a visit to Lennel yesterday

afternoon, where hundreds of daffodils are in full bloom in a perfect setting of lawns, trees and shrubs. Many prize blooms were admired, also the cherry blossom which is at present in flower. Mr and Mrs F. G. Hall-Jones welcomed the visitors and after tea and a tour of the garden, Mrs Brumby thanked Mr and Mrs Hall-Jones for their hospitality. Not many people can be living still who have talked with men who fought at Trafalgar. One of the few is the Dowager Countess of Jersey, D.B.E. Writing to The Times recently, she recalled a visit to Greenwich Hospital when she was a child, with her father, Lord Leigh, and the talk with an old pensioner who had been Nelson’s servant at the time of the battle. Later, at Avignon with her parents, she met a Frenchman, then a guide at the Palace of the Popes, who had fought at Trafalgar, and been a prisoner of war in England. Lady Jersey, who is now 91 years of age, spent three years in New South Wales when her late husband was Governor there from 1890 to 1893.