SOCIAL AND PERSONAL

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 83, Issue 32, 8 February 1939, Page 2

SOCIAL AND PERSONAL

Mrs. O. Holst, Gonville, was a recent visitor to Wellington. Mrs. Norman Lethbridge, of Te Xwamutu, is visiting Wanganui. Mrs. W. E. Broderick, Maxwell, is .-'siting New Plymouth. Mrs. Howard Jackson, Carterton, is visiting Wanganui. ♦ • • • Mrs. H. Austin is an Auckland visitor io Wanganui. Mrs. A. Gracie, Marton, is visiting Wellington. - • • • Mrs. C. Whitney was an Auckland visitor to Wanganui yesterday. Mrs. D. G. Ewen, Lower Hutt, is visiting Wanganui. Mrs. E. E. Bond, Taihape, is visiting Wellington. Mrs. D. Holden and Miss Holden, Hastings, are on a short visit to Wanganui. * ¥ * * Mrs. D. Sims, Waipukurau, is visiting Wanganui. Mrs. O’Shaughnessy, Seatoun, Wellington, and formerly of Wanganui, is revisiting the city as the guest of Mrs. T. R. Ellis. Mr. and Mrs. H. Newrick, Wanganui, are holidaying in Napier.

Mrs. O. B. Bartrum and Miss R. Dartrum, Makirikiri, have left on a visit to Christchurch. Mrs. H. C. Veitch and family, St. John’s Hill, who have been spending a holiday at Otorohanga, have returned. Mrs. Ashcroft has arrived in Wanganui to take charge of the prepara:ory department of the Girls’ College. Mrs. R. A. Goodey left Wanganui last night to join her sister and brother-in-law. Mr. and Mrs. T. E. Collins, of Rongotea, on a tour of the South Island. Miss Karen Holst. Carlton Avenue, has returned to Wellington after spending the vacation in Wanganui. Miss Montgomery Moore, Wanganui, is spending a holiday in Christchurch. She has been the guest of Lady Acland. “Chippenham,” St. Albans, and is now staying at Warwick House. Mrs. McFadden, Wicksteed Street, has returned after a delightful holiday of several weeks in the South Island, during which she visited Dunedin. Eglinton Valley, Mount Cook and Central Otago. Miss H. Blacker, of the teaching staff of the Wanganui Girls’ College, who was granted six months’ leave of 1 absence, has returned from a trip; which included the Dutch East Indies,! Singapore and China. Miss Trevor Hunter, who has been on a month’s visit to Sydney, returned to Wanganui yesterday. When in Sydney Miss Hunter attended the summer school for dancing teachers conducted by Miss Frances Scully, who visited Wanganui last year as examiner for the Royal Academy of Dancing, and the School of Ballet conducted by Anton Dolin, leading male dancer in the Covent Garden Russian Ballet. Two Canadian girls, Miss Jean

Campbell, of Vancouver, and Miss Helen Macdonald, of Kingston. Ontario. who have been appointed to the staff of the Young Women’s Christian Association in New Zealand, arrived at Auckland by the Aorangi on Sunday. Miss Campbell is to be the assistant national secretary of the association, and Miss Macdonald will take the position of physical director at Wellington. Miss Macdonald is a graduate of McGill University of Montreal. and has also studied at MacMaster University, Hamilton, ana Queen’s University, Kingston, and also spent three years at the Summer School, Columbia, New York.