In and Out of Town

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20056, 30 September 1939, Page 12

In and Out of Town

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Miss Helen Veitch, Pehiri, is the guest, of Miss Colleen Blackburn, Domett street.

Mrs. N. V. Ballinger, Palmerston North, is staying with Mrs R. W. J. Edwards, Iranui road.

Miss Laura Fitzgerald is staving with Mrs. E. W. M. Wallis, “Bushy Knoll.” Hangaroa.

Miss Edith Whitfield left .to-day by plane .for Wellington on transfer to tlie head office of the A.M.P, Society.

Miss F. Morse, who has been the guest of her aunt, Mrs. N. cleLautour. Opotiki, is returning to Gisborne at the week-end.

Mrs. Hagan, Stanley road, left yesterday to make her home at Northcote, Auckland, as Mr. Hagan is stationed at the naval base now. * ' # Mrs. E. Mcßeath has arrived at Hamilton from Gisborne to take over rehearsals of “The Runaway Girl,” the forthcoming production of the Hamilton Operatic Society.

Many friends in Gisborne wijl be interested to learn that Miss Hazel Nolan, who was on holiday in England when war was declared, is engaged in war work in connection with t'he A.R.P. in London.

Mrs. J. L. Reeves, who has been visiting, her daughter, Mrs. Spencer Speedy, Herbertville, and also her sister, Mrs. A, • Robson. Poukawa, Hawke’s Bay, has returned to Tolaga Bay.

Mis,s Greed Meredith, principal of the Narowal Mission School, Punjab, India, who has been attending a retreat at the Frederick Wallis House, Lower Hutt, is visiting her neice, Sister N. S. Creed Meredith, at t'he Oaro public works camp, Marlborough.

(Miss Joan St. Clair Stobart, who narrowly escaped death when the Atlantic liner Athenia was torpedoed by a German submarine a few weeks ago, was married some days later to Lieut. J. F. G. Crichton, of Aldershot; 'The bride’s grandmother, Mrs. M. A. Stobart, was.condemned to death os a spy by the Germans in the last war, but the sentence was quashed at the last moment and she was set free.

, Miss J. M. Allan, Palmerston North, is the guest of Mrs. R. K. Murphy, Muriwai.

■ Mrs. E. Ewart Brown. Ormond road j left yesterday on a visit to Wanganui.

Miss Rona Moore, Nelson, is the guest of Mrs. F. A. MeFadyen, Whitaker street.

Miss D. Clinch, Western Australia, is staying with Mrs. H. R. Kendon, Whitaker street.

Mr. and Mrs J. Gardner have returned to Hihiroroa station after visiting Wainui Beach.

Mrs. Lipscomb, Sydney, New South Wales, is staying with her brother and sister-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. F. McKenzie, Ormond.

Mrs. N. deLautour, Opotiki. is arriving at Gisborne at the weekend to stay with heir sister, Mrs. R. Morse, "Waikanae," Grey street.

Mr. and Mrs. N. G. Thomas, Tolaga Bay, were the guests of Mrs. J. C. N. Thomas, Owen Road, while on a brief visit to Gisborne this week.

Mrs. Aeton-Adams has returned to Christchurch after visiting her son-in-law and daughter, Mr. anti Mrs. Norman Loisel. Tolaga Bay.

Mrs. W. G. Madaurin', accompanied by her niece, Miss M. Maclcy, Waikato, returned to her home, “Waipura,” Hexton, yesterday, after visiting her daughter, Mrs. B. C. Watkins, Ruatoria.

Mi'ss Joy Sharp, of the nursing staff of the Wellington Hospital, who has been on extended sick leave with her parents in Wairoa and relatives in Gisborne, is returning south at the week-end to resume her duties.

Nova Pilbeam, the former child film “star,” who is now 19 years of age, hais become engaged to marry Britain’s youngest film director, the 27-year-old Penrose Tennyson, a greatgrandson of the poet, Lord Tennyson.

The Misses Doris and Sybil Waldegrave, Palmerston North, who have been on holiday in England for some time, have takeq up air raid precautions work for the duration of the war and are at present stationed with an ambulance in London.

Miss Eileen McCarthy, of the Gisborne telephone exchange, left by plane on Monday on a month's holiday and intends to visit Christchurch, Tirnaru and Wellington on her return journey.