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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 373, 6 June 1928, Page 4

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Miss E. C. Mullins, of Dunedin, is visiting Auckland. * * * Mr. and Mrs. E. Main, of Matamata, are at the Albert Hotel. Mrs. F. Beehan, of Hamilton, is in Auckland for the races. Mrs. Brabazon, of Whangarei, is in Auckland for the races. * * * Mr. and Mrs. V. Rickard, of Cambridge, are at the Royal Hotel. Mrs. W. H. Frye, of Hamilton, is spending a few days in Auckland. Mrs. E. C. Brewis, of Hamilton, is spending a few days in Auckland. Mrs. J. Henderson, of Hamilton, is spending a short holiday in Auckland. Miss Nan Lawson, of Auckland, is visiting Mrs. M. Simmonds in Hamilton. Mr. and Mrs. R. S. Scott, of Wanganui, are spending a holiday in Auckland. Mrs. M. and Miss E. Rosenthal, of Melbourne, are staying at the Hotel Cargen. Mrs. Colin Taylor, of Hamilton, is the guest of Mrs. Frank Mackay, in Remuera. Miss Jean Richmond arived in Auckland from Sydney by the Maunganui yesterday. * * * Mrs. W. Cummer, of Auckland, is the guest of the Misses Jolly in Lake Road, Hamilton. Miss N. Scott, who has been visiting friends in Hamilton, returned to Auckland on Saturday. * * * Mrs. C. Warren, of Auckland, is the guest of Mrs. H. Valder, in Edingthorpe, Cambridge. Miss Leah Keesing, of Wanganui, is visiting Auckland, where she is the guest of her sister. ♦ * * Mr. and Mrs. John Deans, of Christchurch, left yesterday by the Aorangi on an overseas trip. * * * At the Central Hotel are Mr. and Mrs. Carter, of Sydney, and Mrs. J. H. Finney, of Masterton. Miss R. Munro, of Auckland, is the guest of her aunt, Mrs. Munro, at Rualtura Farm, Hamilton. Mrs. Allan Bond, of Te Awamutu, is visiting Auckland and is the guest of Mrs. W. Kirby, of Mount Eden. * * * Mrs. L. Blundell, of Wellington, and Mrs. Noel Nelson left by the Aorangi yesterday for a visit to Canada. * * * Mrs. J. Knight, of Wanganui, is the guest of her daughter, Mrs. Thomas Thomson, of Panama Estate, Otaliuhu. Miss Alina Knight, of Epsom, accompanied by Mrs. W. J. Vaughan, returned by the Aorangi after a visit to Sydney. Mrs. F. Raymond Charlton has returned to Auckland after a three months’ motor tour of the North and South Islands. * * * Guests at the Grand Hotel include Mr. and Mrs. G. H. Gregory, of Ceylon, and Mr. and Mrs. G. B. White, of North Auckland. Miss Jean Graham, of Sydney, was a passenger by the Maunganui yesterday. She will spend several weeks on holiday in Auckland. * * * Mr. and Mrs. Devenish-Meares, of Christchurch, left by the Aorangi yesterday for Fiji, where they intend ■spending some weeks. Miss Garland, of Auckland, is at present in Hamilton. She is one of the assistants in the Government’s Health Department at the Winter Show.

Paymaster-Lieutenant H. D. Norman, of H.M.S. Philomel, with Mrs. Norman and family, who have lately arrived from England, and have been staying at Ventnor, have gone into residence at Calliope Road, Devonport. Mrs. McConnell, of Papakura,, has been the guest of Mrs. H. J. Greenslade, in Hamilton, during Show Week. Mrs. McConnell was the judge of the art needlework section of the Winter Show.

Cambridge visitors to Auckland for the races include Mrs. R. Hannon, Mrs. W. Williams, Mrs. A. H. Nicoll. Mrs. C. Nixon, Mrs. N. Banks, Mrs. Fisher, Mrs. E. Peake, Mrs. C. Peake, Mrs. F. Adams, Mrs. W. Garland, and Miss Clemow.

Mr. and Mrs. H. J. Kelliher will leave Auckland by the Limited on Thursday evening to connect with the Tamaroa en route to England and the Continent. They will also visit Egypt and Japan before returning to New Zealand.

Countess Lutzow has come over to England from her beautiful hpme in Czecho-Slovakkia for the season, and is going to entertain at a house she has taken in Great Stanhope Street. For years she has spent the summer in this country, and in the old days, before the war, her husband Ivid a stable, of horses at Newmarket. She was one of the first to entertain Kubelik, whom her husband had known as a boy before his musical talents were discovered. Countess Lutzow is very fond of animals and her friends, instead of sending her Christmas cards, give her animal toys as souvenirs; some give her animals in silver. When the number began to grow her husband had a Noah’s Ark made in silver, an*s it stands in the centre of her dinner t/ible at all her big parties. Nearly two hundred of these animals stand all round the centre of her table.