SOCIAL AND PERSONAL.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1582, 28 October 1912, Page 2

SOCIAL AND PERSONAL.

Wanganui Girl Scouts. The Girl Pence Scouts held their first entertainment in the Town Hall, Castlecliff, on Thursday evening and despite the bad weather there wns a packed house and the concert was a huge success. About .£lO was cleared. The wand drill by tho Girl Scouts was very good, especially that by the 12 small children, and Mrs. Connor, drill instructress, is to be congratulated upon their progress. The president, "Miss l'inlay, and vice-presidents, Mesdames Cresswell and Imlay-Sandcrs expressed their appreciation of the work done by the Scouts. Several people assisted with the programme, among them being Mesdames Neil and Suisted, Miss Foster, Missis. Suisted, I'. Bailey, Ailcbeson, Xeil, Vale, Misses Thehna, and Marjorio ■Birrs, and Miss Muriel Xeil. The displa.v of stretcher drill was also good, and considering the organisation is so young the organisers of the movement are to be congratulated on their efforts which speak for themselves. Miss N. Cresswell, district secretary, morlted very hard and was responsible for much of file success of the entertainment. A five minutes address by Br. Dunn was given. Children's Party. A children's plain and fancy-dress partv was given by Miss liorlase in the Goring Street Hull on Saturday afternoon. Quite a number of the children were in fancy dress, and a set of Lancers, taken part in by 80-peeps and Boy Blues, was one of tho distinctive proceedings of tho afternoon. Thero were, in addition, all the other picturesque characters that are to be seen at such parties. There were a number of elder pupils belonging to Miss Borlase's dancing classes present, and they devoted themselves to dancing with the very littlo ones, and playing games with them. About half-past live or six tho children had tea, anil then moro games and dancing, after which they were escorted home by mothers, fathers, and elder folk generally. Miss Borln=e wore n soft black frock, and assisting her with the entertainment of her small guests were Mr,s. Roskruge, Mrs. Grey, Mrs. Garnet Holmes, Mrs. Morton-Clark and her daughters, and several others. Desolation in the Gardens. Ruin and desolation in the gardens have been left in the wako of the storm that raged in, Wellington and the surrounding'districts on Saturday afternoon. Gardeus that were tho joy of their owners, with the beauty that had been achioved by months and months of patient. toil, were ravaged, and their glory utterly destroyed in a few short hours, In somo cases hardly a flower was left of all the wealth of bloom that-had been glowing so bravely only tho day before. Fences and trellis work, upheld by climbing roses and vines, were blown down, sum-mer-houses overturned, and strong trees uprooted. Everywhere branches were lying on the ground, and great wounds showed among the branches of those on which the winds centred themselves. In somo cases orchards were stripped bare, and fruit trees left lying prone upon the ground. It was h pitiable sight that faced many people yesterday when they summoned up courage to find out what was left them, and it will be some lime before tho gardens recover from the havoc that has befallen them.

Miss Helen Fulton, who has been visiting Mrs. Haywnrd at the Hutt, left for tho south on Friday by tho Maori.

Mr. and Mrs. C. Pharazyn (Sydney) are in Wellington and are staying at tho Royal Oak.

Mrs. James Rodger, who is spending tho summer visiting relatives in tho 'south of Scotland, intends returning 'by the Malwa, which sails from London on November 1.

Among the guests at present staying at tho Occidental Hotel are: Mr. and Mrs. Coulter (Masterton), Mr., Mrs., Miss, and Master Perrett (Blenheim), Mr. and Mrs. Green (Taurango), Mr. and Mrs. Lindoff (Palmersfon North), Mr. and Mrs. Price (Wnnganui), Dr. and Mrs. Lumsden, Captain Morrison (Napier).

Miss Zoe Holmes (Masterton) is spending a few days with her sister, Mrs. P. P. Webb, Orosby Terrace, before leaving for Australia.

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