IN TOWN AND OUT

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 255, 18 January 1928, Page 4

IN TOWN AND OUT

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Mr. and Mrs. J. Bicknell left town to-day by car en route for their future homo in Hastings.

Miss Lillian Gilmore, of Christchurch, who has been spending a holiday in Auckland, left this morning for a visit to tj.e Waitomo Caves.

Mrs. F, Jagger has gone into residence in Mrs. H. O. Nolan’s house, Mount St. John Avenue.

Mrs. Julius Williamson and family, of Takapuna, are leaving by motor for Rotorua on Friday.

Mr. and Mrs. Robert Finlayson, of Reinuera, have taken a cottage at Milford for the summer months.

The Very Rev. G. R. Barnett, dean of Hamilton, and Mrs. Barnett, are staying at the Esplanade, Devonport.

Mi*, and Mrs. Ferner have returned from' Rotorua, where they have been staying during the holidays.

Mr. and Mrs. J. Prendeville, of Wellington, spent a few days in Auckland, en route to Russell, where they will spend a holiday. Mrs. J. Knight, Mrs. Ross Campion and Miss June Campion, Wanganui, are the guests of Mrs. Thomas Thomson, Panama Estate, Otahuhu.

Miss Ethel Upton, of Waimai, is the guest of Mrs. Northcroft, Parnell.

Miss L. J. Spence and Miss R. Ross are visitors to Timaru.

Mrs. IT. S. Robinson has returned from a holiday visit to Wanganui.

Mrs. L. P. Leary is on a visit to Waiwera.

* * * Mrs. Keeble has returned from a visit to Rotorua.

Mr. and Mrs. Frank Abbott, who returned by the Tainui, have taken up their residence in Miss Horton’s house, Remuefa Road. Miss Horton, who is at present staying at the Hotel Cargen, is sailing for England early in February.

Miss Elaine Be Chair, Dame Clarissa Reid, Mrs. Horncastle and Mrs. Bennett have returned to Auckland from a visit to Rotorua and are staying at the Grand Hotel.

Miss Alwyn Austin, of Tasman, Nelson. has returned home after an extended holiday spent in Russell, Bay of Islands, and Auckland.

Miss Anita Bridge has returned to Christchurch from Auckland, accompanied by her sister, Mrs. Guy Chapman. * * * Miss Marjorie King, who has been spending a holiday with relatives in Devonport, has returned to Wellington. * * * Mrs. F, G. Bilton, of Remuera, who with her son is spending a holiday at the Waingaro Springs, is returning to Auckland at the end of the month. * * * Mr. and Mrs. Webb, of Christchurch, and Miss Leveridge, of Napier, are staying at the Royal Hotel. Guests at , the Hotel Cargen include Mrs. and Miss Alma Baker, of the Me,lay States; Mrs. A. McDonald, of Edinburgh; Miss Heron, Miss Jv. McEtninney, Miss L. Windeyer, Mrs. E. Janes and Miss Lucas, of Sydney; Mrs. and Miss Norris and Miss E. Lysant, of Newcastle. At the Star Hotel are Mr. and Mrs. N. E. Davis, of Sydney; Mr. and Mrs. W D. Ferguson and Mrs. Yeats, of Wellington; Mr. Mrs. R. A. Reid, of Wanganui; and Mr. and Mrs. George King, of Kohukohu. * * * Mrs. Hall and Miss Mack, of Hamilton, are staying at the Grand Hotel. Mr. and Mrs. P. R. Giblin, of Wanganui, are at the Central Hotel. Guests at the Commercial Hotel elude Mr. and Mrs. R. Blund, of Vancouver. Miss Sylvia Wilson, who has been visiting Auckland, has left for the West Coast with Miss Winifred Bodle. * * * Mr. and Mrs. F. W. Manton and Miss Bitty Manton have returned to Wellington after a visit to Auckland. Miss B. Bassett, of Sydney, is spending a holiday in Auckland, and is the guest of Mrs. Lintott, Fairview Road,. Mount Eden. * * * * Her Excellency Lady Alice Fergusson, alter having inaugurated the League oi Mothers successfully in Dunedin, in tends to carry on the work in Southland, thus making a chain of branches from the North to the South. It is hoped that the league will largely take the place of the Women’s Institutes in the Old Country, for it is a bond of union among women and draws them together at regular and stated times. The meetings are usually held in some church schoolroom or small town hall, \s ith a definite subject to talk about. This is followed by tea and a sociable hilf-liour, which proves thoroughly enjoyable to mothers of small children, making new friends for them, and giving them a change of thought and environment.

Sister Simpson has resigned from the staff of the Franklin Memorial Hospital.

Mrs. Morton, of Kelburne, Wellington, has returned from a visit to her daughter, Mrs. Eric Dumbleton, Auckland.

Mrs. Richardson. Miss Noon, Miss Sinclair, Miss Garrett and Mrs. Hopkins were among the passengers who returned from Norfolk Island yesterday afternoon on the Hinemoa.

Mrs. P. S. Garling, Mrs. IT. M. Allen, Misses Heather and Lilian Garling, of Sydney, and Miss V. Beban, of Taihape, are among the guests at the Commercial Hotel.

Miss Alston Thorn, of Christchurch, who has been spending a holiday in Auckland, left last evening for a visit to Waitomo Caves.

Miss R. Sinclair, who has been a visitor from Christchurch to Auckland, has gone to Waitomo for a week. Mrs. W. Morrison, of Dunedin, who has been the guest of Mrs. Fox, of Epsom, has returned home. • * • Mrs. H. Herbert has left Auckland, where she has been the guest of her sister-in-law, Mrs. H. Patrick, for a visit to Wellington.

Mrs. li . McLean, of Dunedin, who has been spending a long holiday in Auckland, left last evening for the South.

Miss Maud Atkinson, of Timaru who has been staying with her. mother Mrs. Atkinson, of Remuera Road, is returning home to-morrow.

Mrs. W. Coleman, of Wanganui, is spending a holiday in Auckland, and is the guest of Mrs. Paterson. Remuera Road. i

Miss W. Armstrong is a visitor from Christchurch to Auckland, and will go on to Rotorua at the end of the week

Mrs. H. Murray, of Christchurch, is staying in Auckland for a few weeks.

Miss Jean Macindoe left town for Wellington last evening,, and will spend a week in the Southern city as the guest of Mr. and Mrs. A. Duncan.

Miss Enid Smith, of Wellington, is the guest of Miss Barstow, of Epsom.

Miss Bunting, of Masterton, and her sister, Miss Laura Bunting, of Wellington. have taken up their residence in Auckland.

The Sydney papers recently reported the marriage of Miss Ruby Ziehlke, daughter of the late Dr. Ziehlke, to Mr. J. T. Baker, of Barellan, New South Wales. The bride was for some years wheat-buyer for the firm of Louis Dreyfus and Company, Sydney, and is said to have been the only woman in the State to hold such a position. The wedding was a wheat one, the bride being given away by the managing director of the Farmers’ Milling Company, while the chief decorations at the reception hall were ears of wheat.

Mrs. Gladys Sandford, who recently made an adventurous trip across Australia in a motor-car, with a lady companion, now intends to attempt the Cape to Cairo journey by car with another lady as companion. The route to be followed is that known as the “All Red.” She will take «a film camera, and will subsequently make a world lecture tour. Mrs. Sandfdrd will leave Auckland for Australia shortly, en route to the scene of her adventure.