PERSONAL

Manawatu Times, Volume 62, Issue 33, 9 February 1937, Page 11

PERSONAL

Miss Molly Allen, of Waitara, is visiting Palmerston North and will proceed to Wellington.

Misses J. and A. Ferguson, of Toko, are visiting Palmerston North.

Mrs W. Coombes, of Palmerston North, was a recent visitor to New Plymouth.

Miss Janet Hare, of Gisborne, is on a visit to her aunt, Mrs Gordon Hare, 4 ‘Wavertree,” Feilding.

Miss Constance Smith, Wellington, is the guest of tho Misses G. and K. Buchanan, of ‘‘Mayfield,” Cmininghame.

Mrs M. A. Macleod, ‘‘Dunvegan,” Taonui, is on a visit to her daughter, Mrs Charles Elliott, of Paremata.

Mrs W. Stephenson, of Auckland, with her daughter, Opal, is on a visit to her mother, Mrs L. E. Lalihg, Wellington street, Feilding.

Miss Lila Warren, of Wanganui, who has completed her hospital training, arrived yesterday to take up an appointment at Palmerston North.

Miss C. Harris leaves for her homo in Christchurch to-day after spending a holiday with friends in Palmerston North.

Mrs John Duncan, of Taihape, is spending a few days with her sister, Mrs Charles Williamson, Waituna, before going on to visit her mother, Mrs David 8011, ‘‘Strathspey,” Feilding.

Viscount and Viscountess Elibank, who visited New Zealand in October, are making a stay at Brighton, England, where Lord Elibank is recovering after an operation, which he underwent on his recent return to London from Canada, New Zealand, and Australia.

Muriel Robinson has attended school for six years without once being absent, and to keep up this fine record she has walked 7000 miles. She lives at South Side near Barnard Castle, a lonely spot with no vehicle to give her a lift to school.

A lively romantic comedy called “Tho Orchard Walls” by Dr. Merton Hodge, the New Zealand dramatist, author of ‘‘The Wind and the Rain,” was presented for the first time at St. James’ Theatre, London, recently. Miss Irene Vanbrugh played the leading part, Mr Raymond Massey was producer and Mr Henry teherek was manager, the first venture of the kind of this wellknown agent. The comedy, which is highly spectacular, has been rewritten from an Hungarian play and the scene changes from London, to Venice, and thence to Vienna.

Mr. and Mrs. Maurice Smith arrived from London last week by the Tamaroa. Mr. Smith is a partner of the London legal firm of Wray, Smith, and Halford, of which Mr. Cecil Wray, well known in Rugby football circles, is the senior partner. Mr. Smith is a s6n of the late hfr. G. Harold Smith* °f Pahiatua, who occupied a seat in the House of Representatives in 1916-19. Mr. and Mrs. Smith were recently married, and tho visit to New Zealand is part of an extended honeymoon. They arrived at Pahiatua to visit Mrs. G. Harold Smith on Saturday evening.