WOMAN’S WORLD.

Taranaki Daily News, 8 April 1922, Page 6

WOMAN’S WORLD.

PERSONALS. Mrs. Horner has returned to Patea. Mrs. Fairhall is visiting NelsonMiss Roch left this week for Wellington. Mrs- 0. Samuel has returned to Wellington. Mrs. J- C. Nicholson is visiting AuckMrs. H. Stocker has returned from Christchurch. Miss Stafford (England) is on a visit to New Plymouth. Mrs. T. G. Thomson has returned from a short visit to Wellington. Miss Beryl Barthorp is spending a few weeks in Wanganui. Mrs. T. A. Milroy is spending a few days in Hawera. » • • • Mrs. E. Carthew was hostess at a foxtrot party last Wednesday. Mrs. Milroy, senr., arrived from Auckland yesterday. Mrs. Waterston has gone on a visit to Christchurch. Mrs. Cook (Blenheim) is staying with Mrs. Corney. Mrs. D- S. Millar leaves on Tuesday to spend two or three weeks in Christchurch. Mr. and Mrs. T. Wilson are the guests of Captain Wilson. Mrs. B- Crompton Smith (Havelock North) is staying with Miss E. Percy Smith. • • • • Miss Constance Leatham, who has been spending some months in Christchurch, returns to-night. Miss Edna Greatbach, who has been spending a holiday in Christchurch, returns to-night. Mrs. W. J. Chaney gave a most enjoyable afternoon tea last Tuesday for Miss Brown. Mrs- Livermore (Auckland), who has been visiting her friends in New Plymouth, left yesterday for Taihape. Miss Brewster and Miss D. Simpson, who are playing in the Taranaki —Auckland tennis match to-day, left by the Rarawa on Tuesday. * VICTORIA LEAGUE. On Monday evening next, the second of the Monday evenings of the Victoria League will take place. Mr. Malcolm Fraser will give an address on “The Peculiarities of the New Zealand Flora”, which should provide a most interesting subject, and one that will appeal to everyone. Rev. 0. Blundell will also give a short item, and an interesting meeting is expected. On Wednesday afternoon next the league will provide a “nyusical tea afternoon” similar to those which were so much enjoyed last year. The afternoon will be fully floral, as beautiful chrysanthemums and autumn leaves will be on sale, and there will be musical items.

WEDDING. ROPER—WHITE A pretty wedding of considerable local interest was solemnised at Whiteley Memorial Church, New Plymouth, on Tuesday, April 4, when Miss Nellie White, youngest daughter of Mr. and Mrs- J. T. White, was married to Mr. Robert James Roper, son of Mr. C. Rof4jr, of Nelson. Rev. W. J. Elliott conducted the ceremony, and the choir, of which the bride was a member, assisted in the service. The bride, who was given away by her father, wore a dainty hand-embroidered ivory crepe de chine and georgette dress, with silver trimmings* Her veil was hand-embroidered, and crowned with a circlet of pearls, with orange blossoms at the sides. The beautiful shower bouquet that she carried was made of white roses, dahlias, heath and maidenhair fern. Miss Doreen Cannnigton, of Nelson, cousin of the bride, and Miss Myrtle Thompson were the bridesmaids, and Miss Betty Wjhite made a charming little flower girl. The chief bridesmaid wore a dainty dress of pale heliotrope crepe de chine and black georgette hat, with heliotrope streamers, and carried a bouquet of heliotrope and pink flowers and ferns. Miss Thompson’s dress was lemon crepe de chine, handembroidered, and her hat black tulle, trimmed to correspond. She also carried a lovely bouquet of lemon flowers. Miss Betty White was daintily dressed in salmon pink crepe de chine, nad wore a pink hat and carried an early-Victorian posie. The bridegroom’s gifts to the bridesmaids were gold pendants and chains, and to the little flower girl a gold circle brooch. Attending the bridegroom were his brother, Mr. Len Roper, of Wellington, as best man, and Mr- Jack White, brother of the bride, as groomsman. The bride’s gift to the bridegroom was a silver wristlet watch. Relatives and guests were entertained by Mr. and Mrs. J. T. White at. their home in Young Street prior to the departure of the newly married couple on their honeymoon tour, which will be spent motoring in the South Island. The bride travelled in a fawn tailored costume, with • brown hat trimmed with lemon, and wore a silver tail fox fur, the gift of the bridegroom. The happy couple were the recipients of many beautiful and useful presents and cheques, and the good wishes of many friends accompany them to their future home in Nelson.