In and Out of Town

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20070, 17 October 1939, Page 9

In and Out 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. Hyla ‘.Bennett, Waikohu, is (he guest of'Mrs. 11. B. Drummond, Aberdeen road. Miss June Strouts, Wanganui, is staying with her sister, Mrs. H. G. Kemp. “The Willows,’’ Matawhcro. Mr. and Mrs. O. T. Williams, Ruatoria. were the guests of Mrs. W. R. B. Willock, Hcta road, at the weekend. Miss Shona Williams, Filzherbert street, who has been visiting Wellington, is at present staying with her sister, Mrs. A. C. Birch, Marlon • * # • Miss Jill Williams, Fitzherbert street, has returned from Wairoa, where she visited Mrs. Michael Williams and Mrs. Paul Williams. * * * * The Rev. K. Liggitt, who lias been attending the annual Waiapu Diocesan synod, in Napier, returned on Saturday, accompanied by Mrs. Liggitt. * * * * Mr. and Mrs. Lionel Spence, Waipaoa station, left yesterday by plane for Palmerston North, en route to Auckland. Nurse Trixie Stoddart, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. R. L. Stoddart. of Willowby, Ashburton, is the winner this year of the Eli Hamilton memorial prize, awarded to the most popular nurse at the Christchurch Public Hospital. The prize is awarded by vote of the nurses. * * i With the intention of writing a book on her travels in the South Seas, Mademoiselle R. Ch. Urban, a French journalist, arrived at Auckland by the Maetsuycker. Mademoiselle Urban is a graduate of the Sorbonne University and worked for some time on an illustrated paper in Prague. She is also a correspondent for a Paris newspaper and is an artist as well. She has several books to her credit.