NEW PLYMOUTH ITEMS.

Taranaki Daily News, 4 December 1926, Page 18

NEW PLYMOUTH ITEMS.

PERSONAL PARAGRAPHS. Miss Jessie Home is visiting Otane. * * * * Mrs. Rex. Brewster lias returned from Auckland. =:> « * « Mrs. J. C. Maxwell left this week for Palea. *,•- * - , Miss Helena Venables, Hamilton, is on a visit to New Plymouth. « # =& * Mrs. IF. Warren (Fiji) is the guest of Mrs. R. H. George. * * * * Mrs. Johns was hostess at bridge for Miss Briant on Tuesday evening. r** # . ♦ Mrs., Newman and. Miss Hemptap arc spending a holiday in Auckland. * # * =» Mrs. Burdekin (Wellington) is staying in New Plymouth. ♦ # # * Miss Bessie Bayly has returned from Wanganui. ’ Mrs. Courtney is giving a white gift tea party for the friends of Miss Gwen Bayly, this afternoon. -• # * * * Miss Tansley. who has been the guest of Mrs. E. Griffiths for a few days, returns to Christchurch to-day. « « « * Mrs. Arthur Avery, who has been visiting Wanganui and Hawera. returned to New Plymouth during the week. *’♦ * * Miss Briant (London), who has been the guest of Mrs. Barthorp, leaves for Auckland early in the week. « * * » Miss E. Warren, of Christchurch, who •■.as been spending a few days here, left for Auckland this week. : * * * * Miss 0. Shaw returns to-night from a visit to Hamilton and Palmerston North. • *= * * * )Z Mrs. Armstrong and Miss Eva Armstrong are spending a holiday in AuckJ % z * * Mrs. Mack jest (London), who lias been visiting America, arrives by the Niagara next week to stay xirth’her sister. Mrs. '■-. E- A.? Walker. : [ $ $ $ Miss Salmond, the newly-appointed principal of the Craighead Diocesan School, of Timaru, will arrive by the Remuera toward the end of January. • * * * A wedding of interest was celebrated by the Rev, Monsignor McKenna, at St. • Patrick’s Church, Masterton. on Tuesday evening, when Miss Kathleen Bunny, . third daughter of Mrs. Bunny and the late Mr. A. R. Bunny, of Masterton, was married to Mr. Stuart Stanley McMinn, whose parents reside in Scotland. The bride was given, away, by her uncle, Mr. Edward P. Bunny, of Lower Hutt, and wore a gown of white georgette with silver beads and the customary veil and blossoms. The bride was attended by her sister, Miss Nora Bunny, who wore a frock of apricot georgette with ■ gold tissue and trimmings to match, while Mr. J. Stockman, of Masterton, was best man. The wedding reception was held at the residence of the bride’s mother, in Bunny Street. ♦ ♦' * ♦ Madame Winnie Fraser is paying a return visit to New Plymouth next week, under special engagement to the Choral Society, in order to take part in the production of Coleridge-Taylor’s "Hiawatha.” Madame Fraser is the Dominion's leading and most popular soprano. She has sung the ‘Hiawatha” music for several of the leading societies of New Zealand with great success and her appearance in this pictur- ’ esque work with the loc:tl. society is being keenly anticipated, as much by those who heard her recently, as by those who missed that opportunity. Madame Fraser’s study in England 1 and ?■' on the Continent has greatly enhanced her position among the Dominion’s voe- ; alists. and the keenest-critics ha.ve nnreservedly praised her great artistry. “ » * * # ' Miss Kiity Chaytor, daughter, of Sir . Edward Chaytor, 1 formerly •commandant of the New Zealand Forces, was recently . married to. Captain Eric Gooch, of the ’ First and Second Life Guards, in Dur- : ham.

ENGAGEMENTS. Tlio engagement is announced of Miss Maisie EkdahJ, eldest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John C. Ek'daUl,.of Ilawera. to Mr. D. L. Overbye, of ITa.wcrii, only son of Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Overbye, of Edon-' dale, Auckland. * «=s'*’■ The engagement is announced in the Otago Daily Times of France© Flora, second daughter of Dr. E. N. and Mrs. Merrington. of Fii>t Church, Dunedin, to Lawrence Alfred, second con of Dr. Charles and Mrs. Npi-th; at, George. Street, Dunedin. / \

NURSES BUREAU. For some time past the need of a recognised bureau of registered nurses, in New Plymouth has been an urgent, one. and it is gratifying to know that at last the matter is receiving serious consideration. and that there is every possibility of such a bureau being officially commenced in the near future. .The benefit of such a bureau is threefold—(l) to the patient requiring ‘immediate, nursl ing attention: (2) to the medical profession: and (3) to trained nurses. AH trained nurses in the district will have the opportunity of regi feering witli the ■ u ben done, will ensure the prompt supplying of hnrsing assistance when desired. The engagement is announced, and the Li’rr’agf will shortly take place. •>f Ruth, younger daughter of Mr. and Mrs. H. J. Jt’n-.afo, Cambridge Terrace. Christehurcb. to Dr.-JJ, E. Brown. .A .