PERSONAL NOTES

Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 135, 5 December 1938, Page 14

PERSONAL NOTES

Mrs. Molesworth arrived on Saturday from England to spend Christmas with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. A. H. Miles, Hobsori Street.

Mrs. Vincent Ward arrived at Wellington yesterday by steamer express from the south. Miss Beatrice Humphries, Lower Hutt, who has been spending a holiday at Waikanae, returned to Wellington on Saturday.

Miss Mary Rochfort, Khandallah, is visiting Hastings.

Guests at the Hotel St. George include Mesdames S. P. Warburton (Bradford), J. S. Jessep (Wairoa), C. Doherty (Sydney), and Miss R. Brooke-White (Christchurch).

Mrs. J. S. Hewitt (Manganiane), Mrs. R. W. Matthews, Mrs. W. J. Gilbert, and Miss J. Matthews (Wanganui), Miss R. Hardie (Taihape), are slaying at the Royal Oak Hotel. Mrs. W. Kennedy and her daughter, Mrs. Wilson, will arrive in Wellington from Wanganui on Saturday, and will stay at the Hotel Cecil. ■

Mrs. Robert Bruce, Devonport, is visiting Wellington for the Toe H Dominion Conference of the League of Women Helpers.

' Mrs. Noel Buchanan, Nelson, is visiting Christchurch to meet her daughter-in-law and granddaughter, Mrs. George Buchanan, and Miss Shirley Buchanan, who returned on Saturday from England.

Sisters M. J. C. Kay, A. Graham, and J. Gordon, of the Chalet Hospital, Dunedin, will leave from Wellington by the Awatea tomorrow en route to Johannesburg.

Mr. R. J. Richards, headmaster of Christ's College, Mrs. Richards, and family, who have been visiting England, will return to the Dominion on January 20. •

Miss Jessie Kirkness, Auckland, will be a member of the party of nurses which will leave Wellington tomorrow by the Awatea for Johannesburg, South Africa.

Miss Gay Booth, Hobson Street, who has been spending a month at Waikanae, has returned to Wellington.

Mrs. H. Hawthorne, president of the Wellington provincial executive of the W.D.F.U., will leave by the Mariposa in the middle of December for Hawaii, where she will spend three months.

Mr. and Mrs. E. H. Hargreaves and Miss April Hargreaves, Christchurch, who have been on a world tour, have arrived at Wellington from South Africa and are staying at the Empire Hotel.

Miss Beryl Grierson, Lower Hutt, will leave by the Awatea tomorrow en route for South Africa. She is one of the twenty nurses going to Johannesburg.

Miss Betty Whelch, Wellington, is visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. G. E. Whelch, Akaroa.

Mrs. R. G. Chambers, Wellington, is visiting Auckland.

Mrs. L. M. Ross, Wellington, is visiting her daughter, Miss Phyllis Ross, of Christchurch.'

Mrs. F. A. Nixon, Fendalton, Christchurch, who has been visiting Britain, returned to New Zealand by the Akaroa, which arrived at Auckland last week.

Mrs. N. Bellringer, of New Plymouth, is visiting Wellington and is staying at the Grand Hotel.

Mrs. K. H. Dowick (Fielding), Mrs. W. Blue (Sydney), Mrs. E. H. Hargreaves, and Miss A. V. Hargreaves (Christchurch), and Miss Hosford (Sydney), are among the guests at the Empire Hotel.