SOCIAL NOTES

Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 2, 24 March 1927, Page 4

SOCIAL NOTES

Miss Edith M. Scott, of Seattle, and Miss Mae Howard, of Tacoma, are at Stonehurst. Mesdaraes *W. H. Hiett and G. Scott, of Dunedin, are staying: at Stonehurst. Mrs. Trevor Simpson and Mrs. Hardcastle returned to Auckland recently by car, after visiting New Plymouth. Mr. and Mrs. Norton Francis, and family, of Christchurch, expect to leave from Auckland next month for a trip to Europe.

St. James’s Church, Piccadilly, London, was the scene of a picturesque wedding recently, when Miss Kathleen Sullivan, daughter of Mr. Alan Sullivan, the Canadian novelist, and herself a journalist and writer, was married to Mr. Henry Philbrick Nelson, a young New Zealand doctor.

Mrs. Williams, who has been visiting New Plymouth as the guest of Mrs. R. Gray, has returned to Auckland.

Miss Home and Dr. Home, of New Plymouth, leave by the Tahiti this week for England, via America.

Admiral of the Fleet Earl Jellicoe and Countess Jellicoe have let their London residence in Portland Place until the beginning of April. They were at St. Lawrence Hall, Ventnor, until the middle of February, when they left for the south of France, accompanied by the Ladies Gwendoline and Myrtle Jellicoe.

Mrs. E. E. Taylor (Christchurch), Mrs. W. M. Lawson (Palmerston North), Mrs. Perryman (Foxton) and Mrs. K. M. Evans (Wellington) are among the guests at Stonehurst.

Mrs. Charles Smith is at present spending a holiday in Wellington.

An important Act, called the Social Reforms Act, was promulgated by the Maharajah of Bharatpur as part of the celebration of the Maharani on November 6, to be in force from January 1, 1927. The Act enables widows to contract a second valid marriage ; and their children to inherit property.

The ladies who were presented to her Royal Highness after the recent review at Dunedin were:—Lady Statham, Lady Sim, Mrs. J. J. Clark, Mrs. Taverner, Mrs. Hayward, Mrs. W. Begg, Mrs. Douglas, Mrs. Sincock, Mrs. Scott, Mrs. Wilson, Mrs. Tapley sen., and Miss Larnach.

Miss A. W. Whitelaw, an Aucklander, who was principal of Wykeham Abbey Girls’ College, England, for some vears, returned to New Zealand by the Ruahine, and was the guest for a few days of her sister, Mrs. J. D. Gray, Rona Bay, Wellington, before returning to Auckland.

“ In comparison with Greece, we, in this country, may be said to know nothing of poverty. It is announced from Athens, that, owing to lack of funds, the director of the asylum at Corfu has had to release two hundred lunatics,” is drily remarked- by a writer in “ Time and Tide.”

An old-age record was created at the London Bankruptcy Court, when Mrs. Eliza Davison, of Gunter Grove, Chelsea, a brisk old lady of 93, attended for public examination. She is the oldest debtor who has appeared in the court for this purpose. Her only debt was a claim for £129 for repairs to property at. Fulham belonging to her daughter in Australia. No assets were disclosed.

Mrs Colbeck, the Misses Colbeck and Mrs. Alexandra leave by the Niagara next week en route for England and the Continent.

The Society of Musicians will entertain Miss Phyllis Lett at a reception at the Lyceum Club rooms on Friday evening.