SOCIAL NOTES

Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 7, 30 March 1927, Page 4

SOCIAL NOTES

Mr. and Mrs. A. Fernley, of Southport, England, are among the guests at the Grand Hotel. * * * Mr. and Mrs. L. Crosse are Dannevlrke visitors to Auckland and are staying at the Star Hotel. Miss Elsie Williams, of Hastings, is a guest at the Grand Hotel. Mr. and Mrs. Jeunneuxe, of Whangarei, are at present in Auckland and are staying at tlie Star Hotel. * * * Mrs. H. E. Herrick, of Napier, is staying at the Grand Hotel. Mrs. G. A. McDiarmid, of Hamilton, is a guest at the Star Hotel. * * * Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Twunson, of Sydney, are visiting Auckland. They are staying at the Central Hotel. Mr. and Mrs. A. McLean, of Whakatane, are among the guests at the Central Hotel. * * * Misses J. and M. Henning, of Wellington, are staying at the Commercial Hotel. ★ * * Mr. and Mrs. J. Erickson, of Whitford, are at the Commercial Hotel. * * * Mr. and Mrs. E- Fowling of Victoria are among the guests at the Hotel Cargen. * * * Captain and Mrs. M. McGaffin of Havelock North are staying at the Royal Hotel. * * * Miss K. M. Swann of Scotland .is staying at the Royal Hotel. Miss S. M. Meiklejohn of Dunedin is a guest at the Star Hotel. Mr. and Mrs. C. E- Moyers of Adelaide are visiting Auckland and are staying at the Star Hotel. * * * Mr. and Mrs. T. Honeyman cf New South Wales are guests at Gargen * * * Miss D. Roth well and Miss M. Brown, of Dunedin, have returned from a visit to Sydney and are staying at the Royal Hotel, prior to their departure for Dunedin. * * * Miss E. H. Pollock, of Sydney, is among the guests at the Grand Hotel. * * * M. and Mrs. B. Hann of Pasadena, California, are at present touring New Zealand. They are staying at the Hotel Cargen. Miss F. Mcßean of London, is a visitor to Auckland and is staying at the Royal Hotel. Mrs. Chewing, who is in Auckland for the conference of women’s clubs, is staying with her daughter, Mrs. Mitchell, Gillies Avenue. * * * Mrs. W- A. Evans, of Wellington, is a visitor to Auckland as a delegate to the federated women’s clubs’ conference, and is staying at Stonehurst. * * * Mr. and Mrs. Hull are leaving shortly from Wellington to connect in Sydney with the Osterley for England. * * * Guests at the Grand Hotel include Mr. and Mrs. G. O’Connor of Brisbane, Mr. and Mrs. Blackley of Wellington, Mr. and Mrs. Claridge of Sydney, Mr. and Mrs. Mailing of Sydney, Miss E. Watkins and Miss N. Millar of Scotland, and Mr. and Mrs. E- A. Bennett of London. •a * * Staying at the Central Hotel are: Mr. and Mrs. L. A. Gender of San Pedro Mr. and Mrs. A. L. Larson of San Pedro, Mr. and Mrs. H. J. Meek of Dunedin and Mr. and Mrs. C. Jones of Manchester. * * * The visiting delegates to the conference of women’s clubs to take place in the Lyceum to-morrow are as follows: Lady Stout, Mrs. W. A. Evans, M. A Miss E. H. Pellock, of Sydney, is Wellington Lyceum Club); Miss Amy Kane and Mrs. C. R. Adams (of Wellington Pioneer Club); Mrs. Edmonds (Otago Women’s Club); Mrs. R. Tosswill and Mrs. Owen (Canterbury Women’s Club) ; Mrs. Hazlett and Mrs. Chewing (Southland Women’s Club) . Mrs. H. Douglas, Mrs. Greenslade and Miss Egglestone (Waikato Women's Club); Mrs. Goffe and Mrs. C. Seymour (Gisborne Women’s Club); Mrs. J. A. S. McKay and Mrs- B. A. Wolff (Whangarei Women’s Club); Mrs. Wilson and Mrs. Johns (New Plymouth Women’s Club). * * * Viscountess Astor has just gone to Plymouth till Parliament meets, says an English paper. She has been at Sandwich lately with Lord Astor, who needed sea air after a sharp attack of influenza, but now she has to get into harness again. Not that her times at Plymouth, however strenuous they may be, are anything but a delight to her, for she loves every stone of the place. In March Lady Astor contemplates giving a ball for the Rhodes scholars, as she did successfully last year. All her friends are being asked to give dinner parties and invite girls to meet the undergraduates from the Empire and the United States. * * * Cornelia, Lady Wimborne, whose death has recently been announced, was a convinced and ardent Liberal, and in the days when she lived in Wimborne House she entertained a great deal for the party. She belonged to the Churchill family, a daughter of the seventh Duke of Marlborough, and had always lived in the hurly burly of

politics- How well 1 remember her excitement and delight in the great Liberal victory of 1906, when I saw her at a party in a flutter of joy over the triumph, says an English writer. Of late years she had suffered many disappointments publicly, and sorrows privately, and the forced abandonment of the huge house built by her and her husband at Camborne, near Bournemouth, must have been a distress to her.

The Countess of Harrowby and her daughter, Lady Frances Ryder, have taken a house in London for the next few months. Lady Frances Ryder, who is a very keen Imperialist, works at an office in South Africa Blouse, Trafalgar Square, where she devotes herself to the task of procuring hospitality for visitors, especially students from overseas, who have no friends or relations in this country, says a writer in an English paper. She and her mother did this to a great extent during the war for overesas officers on leave or convalescent from wounds. . Her brother, Viscount Sandon, is Unionist M.P. for Shrewsbury. He married Miss Helena Coventry, the grand-daughter of the Earl and Countess of Coventry. : AN ENGAGEMENT The engagement is announced of Ray, only daughter of Mr. and Mrs. M. Hollander, of Christchurch, to Horace, third son of Mr. and Mrs. A. Paykel, of Auckland.

BUBBLES! POLISHED NOSES! There’s a new vogue, it seems, among our younger set. If you’re really smart and modern, not to say rather high-brow, you don’t make up in the street—not a grain of powder, not a thought of lipstick—nothing. You go to the other extreme, apparently, and having scrubbed your face in the manner of the kitchen table, apply a little polish—at least, if one can judge by the appearance of two or three very celebrated young people I’ve met lately. They looked pale, washed-out, and—not to put too fine a point on it —shiny Worlds wouldn’t make me hint at their names, but they had one justification, anyway—they really were young! FISH AND FLOWERS! Have you seen the latest table decoration —little crystal trees, with coloured glass fruits? They are such darlings, and have suddenly become quite a craze. Some 'of them are made to light up, .at dinner-time, inside each tiny fruit, which gives a most fairylike effect to the table. Glass decorations of all kinds are very popular, especially the Venetian glass bowls tilled with coloured glass fruits. Flowers are so expensive, and fade so quickly now that many women keep their rooms warmed all day by electricity, that we are always on the look-out for more permanent ornaments. Shell flowers are lovelier than ever, particularly the larger ones, in shades of pale yellow and cherry-pink —these colours seem the most effective on the pearly shell surface. A friend of mine told me that she found flowers so extravagant that she had replaced them in her sitting-room by a bowl of goldfish, but—perhaps because of the rather hothouse temperature she preferred—the goldfish didn’t sefem to live much longer than the flowers! THE ROYAL TOURISTS Queen Mary is adding yet another to her many “collections” of things. She is making a collection of photographs of scenes and incidents in connection with the present tour of the Duke and Duchess of York, says the “Daily Chronicle.” These are likely to till many albums before the tour ends, and should be extremely interesting from a national, as well as a family, point of view. Some photographs have been sent to the Queen direct from the Renown, showing scenes at Las Palmas and Jamaica, while others have been selected from those appearing in the newspapers. The Queen carefully goes through a large number of papers and tries to see all the pictures published dealing with the Royal tour, obtaining copies of those which attract her special attention. MORE GREEN HATS A hat manufacturer who is busy preparing the spring fashions for men says that these are going to be much brighter than masculine modes of former years. The plum-coloured hats which have been worn during the last few months by followers of the Brighter Clothes’for Men cult are being succeeded by yet gayer millinery in rich green shades, says an English writer. At least on a hatter, I noticed, has a window # of the new headgear already on show*. It will be amusing if Michael Arlen should prove responsible for making men as well as women devotees of the green hat. “SHREDDO" Beef Suet Is Already Chopped! Apart from the convenience and saving of labour can you remove the indigestible skin and chop rough suet so finely? Of course you cannot, and fortunately do not need to try when “SHREDDO” can be bought at your grocers—moreover, it keeps.— 6.