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M:ss M. Burmester is a Stratford j visitor to Auckland. Mr. and Mrs. Dyhberg, of Napier., j are at the Royal Hotel. Mr. and Mrs. W. R. Grath, of Sydney, are staying at the Central Hotel. < Mrs. TV\ Ambury, of Auckland, is i visiting New Plymouth. 1 * - * t Miss Pratt has returned to Auck- j land after a holiday in New Plymouth, j * * * 1 Mr. and Mrs. L. Jackson are “Well- i ington visitors to Auckland. * * S* Miss F. Wood, of New Plymouth, is I -| a visitor to Auckland. Mrs. T. Lawson, who has been i spending a holiday in Auckland, has . returned to Stratford. j * * * 1 Mrs. F. P. Jeffries, of Stratford, has returned home after a visit to Auckland. 1 Mrs. F. K. Hunt has returned to ( town after visiting Invercargill and j Christchurch* At the Hotel Cargen are Mr. and Mrs. McGrath, and Miss S. Jeffcoate, : of. Sydney. The Misses M. A. and L. M. Early have left town for a holiday in the South. * * * Mrs. M. Wright and her daughters left town yesterday for a visit to Rotorua. Miss Ethel Barry, of Christchurch, is at present in Auckland. Mr. and Mrs. D. McGregor have taken up their residence in Arney Road, Remuera. Mrs. C. E. Robinson and Miss Ethel Robinson are Dunedin visitors to Auckland. Dr. and Mrs. Charles Short, of Christchurch, are staying at the Star Hotel. Mrs. F. G. Pouth and Miss Philpot have returned to Wellington after a visit to Rotorua and Auckland. Miss E. M. Anderson has returned to town after a visit to Stratford, where she was the guest of Mrs. W. Bonner. Mrs. Calders has returned to Wanganui after a visit to Auckland, where she was the guest of Mrs. Spinks, St. Andrew’s Road, Epsom. Mrs. W. Mason has returned to Wellington after a holiday in Auckland as the guest of Mrs. R. Creighton, of Barnell. * * * Guests at the Grand Hotel include Mr. and Mrs. H. Sexton, of Melbourne; Miss C. Gorbell and Mrs. G. Venner, of London: Miss J. Hutton, of Dunbar, Scotland; Mr. and Mrs. Lewis, Mr. and Mrs. R. rinee, and Miss Prince, of Sydney: Miss arker and Miss Harton, of Napier. BRIDE-ELECT HONOURED A very enjoyable party was given for Miss M. Walker in the Manurewa Methodist Church on Monday evening by her fellow members of the senior Bible class on the eve of her approaching marriage. There was a large attendance of members of the class and friends of the guest, and a very happy evening was spent in musical Items and community games. Mrs. White, leader of the senior Bible class, presented Miss Smith with a memento as a reminder of the happy times spent in connection with the class work, and wished her every happiness. The guest suitably responded. Musical items were given by Mrs. Pilcher and the Walker family/ and a dainty supper was served by the members. THE SHORTHAND-TYPIST HOW TO “MAKE GOOD” Intelligent shorthand-typing is so potent a via media to better things that a mere feminine onlooker, dedicated to domesticity, may be forgiven for expressing surprise at the average girl’s failure to realise the fact. Circumstances of late have brought me into illuminating contact with the deficiencies of this overcrowded feminine vocation, in which so few succeed in tarrying off the really covetable prizes of worth-while promotion. I have been amazed to find how many of these litI tie ladies are abysmally ignorant of the most rudimentary laws of punctuation. and spelling. An incredible proportion of them, quite obviously, have but the vaguest idea, if any, of the difference between a colon and a semicolon. Dots and dashes are an unknown Morse code. Commas, plentifully besprinkled in just the wrong places, reveal a startling lack of any sense of context. And they all, apparently, bear a peculiarly inherent grudge against full stops. A teacher friend assures me that the little shorthand-typists are not wholly to blame; that democratic education, in these sketchy times, does not include definite lessons in spelling and punctuation in its curriculum. If this is a fact —and sad experience would seem to prove it so—then it is up to the shorthand-typists to repair the inefficiencies. Yet even the most ambitious of them are extraordinarily re-