LOCAL AND GENERAL

Chronicle (Levin), 23 September 1946, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Yicc-Itcgal His Excelleney the Governor- , General, attenclcd by Flight ■ Iieutenant Michael Cole. was pres- 1 cnt at the annual conference of 1 Boy Scout Commissioners held in Kawatiri Guest House, Raumati South. Personal ■ i' MK and.Mrs. IViaap. of- Welling;ton, who' have been stayii^ . a J"T'weedmuir'X Otaki, have returned to Wellington. The wedding took place at St. Paul'.s Church, Paraparaumu, by the Rev. Rickells, on September 4, of Ethel Noel Wilson, only daughter of Mrs. I. I. Hickson, Paraparaumu Beaeli, to Maxwell Keith Wilson, youngest son of Mr. and Mrs. J. Wilson, Paraparaumu Beach. Miss K. North and Miss V. Bargrove,.late of Otaki, New Zealand nureing sisters on the staff of the famous C.M.S. Hospital at Hangehow, are taking a post-graduate eourse in Wellington preparatory to Iheir return to China. Miss North, who was decorated with the Royal Red Cross for wai* services in Hong Kong, wears the badge of the R.S.A. She joined the Q.A.N.S. and was attaehed to the Royal Scnts, Middlesex Rcgt., Winnipcg Grenadiers and Royal Canadians during the bitter days in Hong Kong. Miss Bargrove continucd to serve in the hospital for eight months under Japanese occ.upatton. When the hospital was finally commnndeered by the Japanese she spent two and a-half years beliind barbed wire.