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Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 101, 20 July 1927, Page 4

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Mr. and Mrs. F. McLaren, of Te Aroha, are among the guests at the Commercial Hotel. Mrs. and Miss D. Jury, of Cambridge, are staying at the Commercial Hotel. Mrs. A. J. Porter, of Calliope Road, Devonport, is the guest of Mrs. T. G. Williams, Waihi. Mrs. W. B. Hooper and Miss Hooper, of the Grand Central Hotel, Hamilton, are guests at the Commercial Hotel. Mr. and Mrs. Claude Harrison, of Wellington, are paying a visit to Auckland. Mrs. E. M. Thomas and Miss Thomas, of Christchurch, are at present in Auckland, and will leave for Sydney this week. Mrs. H. Raymond is a Christchurch visitor to Auckland. Mrs. R. X. Abbott, of Wellington, is j at present paying a visit to Auckland. • Mr. and Mrs. Noel Adams have returned to Wharekawa after a visit to | Auckland. Mr. E. C. Gage, Chief Telegraph Engineer, Auckland, and Mrs. Gage, have returned from Wellington. The Misses C. and F. Murray, who have spent some time abroad, have returned to Auckland. Miss Jean Donaldson, of Wellington, is the guest of Mrs. Hardy, Grafton Road. Mrs. C. A. Kitchener, of Wellington, is the guest of Mrs. R. McKenzie, Parnell. Miss Kathleen Thomson has returned from Gisborne to join a party from Hamilton, consisting of Dr. and Mrs. Brewis, Miss R. Brewis, Mr. S. Brewis and Mr. and Mrs. Mac Diarmid, who are leaving on a holiday trip to the East. The party leaves by the Marama on Friday next and connects with the Marella at Sydney, en route for Java and Singapore. The Auckland branch of the National Council of Women will hold its monthly meeting in the Old Grammar School buildings on Monday, July 25, at 7.30 p.m. A jazz evening will be held by the Mutual Club in the club rooms, Ngapuhi Chambers, Lome Street, to-mor-row, Thursday evening, at 8 o’clock. ★ * * At the Star Hotel are Mr. and Mrs. C. Clarke, from Wellington. Mr. and Mrs. H. W. Morris, from Queenstown, South Africa, are on a visit to Auckland. They are staying at the Grand Hotel. Guests at the Star Hotel include Mrs. D. G. Shepherd and Mrs. W. H. Ball, of Wellington. Among those staying at the Albert Hotel are Mrs. and Miss J. B. Johnston, from Te Aroha. At the Central Hotel are Mr. and Mrs. W. Morton, of Wellington. Mrs. M. B. Fitzsimmjpns, of Taihape, is at the Star Hotel. Sir Edwin Mitchelson, M.L.C., and Lady Mitchelson left for Wellington by the Limited last evening. * * * Dr. and Mrs. Gibbs went South by the Limited last evening. * mm Mrs. Hope Lewis arrived from Wellington on the Limited this morning. * • * Miss Duffy was among the passengers who arrived from Wellington by the Limited this morning. * * * Misses Mary and Peggy Butler, of Wellington, are now living in Paris, in a charming hotel in the Latin Quarter (an exchange states). Miss Peggy Butler is one of the few New Zealand sculptors who have won distinction abroad. Though she has not been studying in Paris, she has had three pieces of work accepted at exhibitions, which is most unusual for anybody who has not studied there. One was accepted by the “Salon des Beaux Arts,” another by "The Salon des Artistes Francaises,” and for the “Salon des Tuileries” you have to be invited to exhibit. Some who saw her work in the other exhibitions, "invited her to exhibit m this salon, and the piece of work, the head of an old Breton woman, was sold. Miss Butler’s work has received splendid criticisms, and Bourdelle, one of the greatest sculptors in Paris, likened her work to Despaiu, who is the front rank sculptor of busts in France. Since her triple success, Miss Butler has been besieged by art papers for news of herself and her work, but she is quietly pursuing her studies, rather dodging the publicity.

AN ENGAGEMENT The engagement is announced of Sister Rosemary Darby, only daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Patrick Darby, 20 New Street, Ponsonby, to John, second son of John Casey, Raupo, Northern Wairoa.