In and Oat of Town

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20030, 31 August 1939, Page 13

In and Oat of Town

News items intended for publication in this column cannot be accepted unless accompanied by the signature and address of the sender. Notices of engagements require the signatures of both parties, and a charge of 5s will be made for such announcement. Mrs. G. S. Bridge, Puha, is visiting Rissington, Hawke’s Bay. * * * *\ Mrs. E. M. Hutchinson, Cheeseman road, is the guest of her daughter, Mrs. A. C. Bellerby, Waikohu. * * « * Mrs. Frank Auld, Tauranga, is visiting her mother, Mrs. J. S. Allan, Russell street. * * * * Mali K. Liggett, Adair road, is the guest of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Cumming, Hastings. . * *t # * Mr. and Mrs. H. P. Barron, Tolaga Bay, accompanied by their children, ire the guests of Mrs. W. E. GofTe, Ormond road. •* • » Mr. and Mrs. E. R. Beckett, Stout ilreet, accompanied by their son, Mr. J. Beckett, have returned from a ;/isit to the South Island. * * * • Miss Eileen Olding Waikohu, who has been the guest of Mrs. Claude Baigent, “The Willows” Matawhero, 's leaving on Tuesday for her future home in Auckland. 41 * * * Ladv Scott, who was district commissioner of Girl Guides in Assam ••or 13 years, has been visiting her sister-in-law. Mrs. F. G. Lawrence Scott, Normanby, and is spending a few .days in Palmerston North beore go'ipg to Napier. * * * * Although the Queen, entered her fortieth year (this week, it is generally remarked in London how much slimmer, gayer and prettier she has grown recently. Her skin is 'the envy of debun/tamtes half her age, and she has a. perfect muik-ancLroses complexion, which she does not allow to acquire even the slightest tan. * <■ * * Seven English nurses have been appointed to the. staff of the Kawa’cawa Hospital, Bay of Islands. The nurses are Miss E. F. FitzGerald,and Miss Vera Lloyd, Moorfields Eye Hospital, London, Miss J. I. Fitzakerley, Willesden General Hospital, Miss Z. Davies, Prince of Wales_ Hospital, Devcnport, Miss P. O. Brian, Dulwich, Miss Ethel Littler, Royal Masonic Hospital, London, and Miss Joan Hunt, WMsfon’s Hospital, Mitcham.

Mrs. E. Adair is the guest of Mrs, L. T. Burnard, Russell street.

* * * * Mrs. Dan Buchanan, Christchurch, is staying at the Masonic Hotel.

* * • • Mrs. E. A. Muls, Ormond road, is visiting Napier.

* * * • Miss M. Macaulay, Gisborne, is a visitor to Hamilton.

» * * • Mrs. F. Bellerby, Kanakanaia, is on holiday in Rctorua.

Miss Jeanette Blair, Iranui road, has returned from a visit to the South Island. * * * • Miss C. Mead has returned from a visit to Wellington and Palmerston North. * • • • Mrs. Fulton, Rhodesia, is the guest of her cousin, Mr. Brian Bree, Whitaker street. * * + * Miss Jean Newton, Tolaga 'Bay, is staying with her parents, Mr., and Mrs. Newton, Ashburton. * * * * Mrs. C. Brabant, Remuera, Auckland, is the guest of Mrs. T. A. Crawford, Riverside road. * * * * Miss J. Murphy has resumed! duties at the Cook Hospital after spending her holidays in. Pukengahu, Taranaki. * * # • Miss P. de Lautour, Russell street, left to-day for Auckland to stay with her sister, Mrs. W. Pittar, Aldred road, Remuera * $ if * Mrs. B. C. Carpenter, who has been staying with her sister, Mrs. 11. W. Black, Bayly street, is returning to Pukekohe to-morrow. ** * • The funds of the Gioborne branch of the Women’s National Reserve benefited as a result of a miscellaneous sale held. recently in the Parish Ha'll, Derby street, and members are keenly appreciative of the support accorded the effort.

When the Duke and 'Duchess of Sutherland visit New Zealand in their £2l-ton yacht, Sans Peur, at the end of the year, it is expected that they will be accompanied tby Miss Elizabeth Leveson-Gcwer, who is heiress to the Sutherland estates, Mrs. Sloane Stanley and Major Gray Phillips. Miss Leveson-G'ower is regarded as one of the four most interesting debutantes of the year. She has the reputation o'f being one of the best-dressed girls of her age.