PERSONAL

Manawatu Times, Volume 62, Issue 21, 26 January 1937, Page 11

PERSONAL

Mrs. A. E. Hansel, of Palmerston North, is speuding a holiday at Paraparaumu beach. Miss J. Riley has returned to Palmerston North after spending a vacation with her parents at Pihama, Hawera, Miss Hilgendorf, formerly matron of the Y.W.C.A. hostel, is visiting the city and renewing old friendships. Mrs. Arthur Bendall, of Grey street, is making satisfactory progress after her recent severe illness. Mrs. M. Finlay son, Almadale, Cheltenham, has as her guests Mrs. M. Nicolson and her two sons, of Brooklyn, Wellington. Mr. and Mrs. L. J. Plank, of Elmira avenue, who have been on a motor tour of the North Island, have returned home. Mrs. G. E. Stevens, Fitzherbert avenue, accompanied by her son, left yesterday to spend a few days with her sister, Mrs. Bates,. Wanganui. Mrs. B. F. Barlow, who is an inmate of the Palmerston North Hospital, is making satisfactory progress, her friends will be glad to learn. Mrs. R. A. Fuller, Victoria avenue, and Miss Grace Fuller (Christchurch), who have been spending a holiday at the Marlborough .Sounds, have returned to Palmerston North. Captain G. M. McCaskill, Mrs. MeCaskill (Miss Gwen Gibbs) and their son. who have been holidaying in Rotorua and Waikanae, have returned to Palmerston North. Mrs. Edward Barker, who with her small son has been visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. H. E. Gunter, Church street, left on Saturday on her return to Motueka, Nelson. Miss M. R. Miers, Palmerston North, 'accompanied by Mr. and -Mrs. J. Miers, who have been touring Taranaki province, have returned from Ohakune, where they have been the guests of Mrs. G. Goldfinch for the GoldfinchClancy wedding. Mrs. S. Bayliss and family, of Grey street, accompanied by Miss Joy Wilson, of Feilding, have returned after an extensive motor trip in the South Island. The party took advantage of the aeroplane trips to the Franz Joseph and Fox glaciers and to Mt. Cook. At the meeting of the Palmerston North Townswomen’s Guild yesterday Mrs. A. E. Mansford made feeling reference to the passing of Mrs. E. M. Griggs, stating that the guild had lost one of its most valued members. The late Mrs. Griggs had been a friend to the guild and to everyone. Always ready and willing to give of her best, she had been an asset to any organisation to which she had belonged; the guild, and in fact the city, was the poorer for her passing, Mrs. Mansford said. All members had been deeply grieved by the death of Mrs. Griggs. The motion was carried in the usual •w r ay, members standing a moment in silence. The secretary was authorised to convey the members’ sympathy by letter to the bereaved relatives.