Social Items

Marlborough Express, Volume LXXVI, Issue 243, 15 October 1942, Page 3

Social Items

Miss Dulcie Stratford has returned from a visit Ito Christchurch and Wellington. Miss Shirley! Johnstone is spending a holiday ftn Southland. Mrs H. Parscjms, of Ward, has returned from a j visit to Christchurch. Mrs T. S. M^askew is visiting Mrs L. Rollason at ) Kekerangu. Mrs J. H. T.jaylor, of St. Andrews, is visiting her / daughter, Mrs Alan Griffen, in Wellington. The friends \of Mrs C. L. Hunt, of Aotea, Awatere!, will be pleased to liear that she /is well enough to return to her holme after being in the Lister Hospital/for some weeks. Her mother, Mrs tjV. Dorman, of Happy Valley Station,-, Wellington, is now staying with her. Mrs G. N. . Morey has returned from a visit tc? Takaka. Miss K. Bar'ry has returned after visiting Dunedin. Miss Juditlq Shalders, who has been the gu'est of Mrs E. West at Springlands, has returned to Wellington. Miss Jean Wootton has returned from a visit to Nelson. Mrs E. W. Rollason, of Kekerangu, is spending a few days in Blenheim. Mrs E. Batty has returned to Blenheim after a visit to Mrs J. P. Batty at Paeroa. Mrs John Newtown, of Greymouth, who has been visiting Mrs W. Eden, has now returned to her home. Miss Olive Knight has returned from a visit to Nelson. Mr and Mrs L. McLauchlan are visiting Wellington. Mrs E. R. Neale, the Mayoress of Nelson, has returned home after a visit to Blenheim. Mrs W. Hart has returned from a visit to Wellington. Miss M. Costello is visiting Wellington. Miss Peggie Stack has returned to Blenheim after visiting Mrs J. A. Nicol, Seatoun, and Mrs Charles Taylor, Gonville, Wanganui. Miss Jean Jordan, who is shortly leaving Blenheim to make her home in the north, was the guest of honour at ah afternoon party given by Mrs C. G. Whiteford and Mrs J. Broughan at the residence of the form'er. The drawing-room was gay with bowls of Iceland poppies, freesias and nemesias. During the afternoon I a competition was won by Miss Joyce Mills. A dainty afternoon tea followed, after which Miss Jordan was asked to accept a small gift from her friends. Those invited were: Mes- > dames T. McDonald, N. Parkes, A. G. Wicks, F. Wright, V. Jackson, H. M. Thompson, R. Sowman and D. Thomson and Miss Mills.