SOCIAL AND PERSONAL

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 83, Issue 42, 20 February 1939, Page 2

SOCIAL AND PERSONAL

. Mrs. J. Parkes was a week-end visitor to Wanganui. Mr. and Mrs. «J. McDonald, Invercargill, were in Wanganui during the week-end. Miss A. E. Bray and Miss L. Bray, i Wellington, were recent visitors to I Wanganui. » ¥ * * Mrs. C. Steedman, who has been visiting Wellington, has returned to her home in Taihape. Miss Joyce Treloar, who has been visiting her mother, Mrs. F. Treloar, Nelson Street, has returned to Wellington. Miss Grace Meuli, of the Palmerston North Hospital, has been visiting her mother, Mrs. J. Meuli, Carlton Terrace. » * * * Miss Hinemoa Steedman, of Taihape, is visiting Auckland and is the guest of her aunt, Mrs. E. K. Asher, Grafton Road. - Miss Bakewell, of the Wanganui Hospital, left on Saturday for a holiday in New Plymouth.

Mrs. Widdowson left Wanganui on Saturday with her husband, Dr. H. L. Widdowson, who is to attend the medical conference in Christchurch. According to an overseas exchange Miss Elaine Hamill, the New Zealand actress, whose parents formerly resided in Taihape, is now doing television work in London. Miss Gibbons, of “Hikuiangi,’’ accompanied by Mr. Hope Gibbons, win leave on Wednesday for Auckland to attend the 95th birthday gathering of her aunt, Mrs. Phillip Mcßae. News has been received of the death at Brussels, Belgium, last week, of Miss Jessie Knapp, a wellknown teacher, at one time a member of the staff of the Wanganui Girls’ College. A very capable member of the teaching profession, Miss Knapp also taught at a school u. Palmerston North and the Gisborne High School, retiring in 1923. Afle. her retirement Miss Knapp went abroad and travelled extensively in Europe. She was a member of a well-known family in Nelson. ENGAGEMENT. Wellington—Shute.—The engagement is announced between Stella Audrey, younger daughter of Mr. and Mrs. G. E. Shute, of Auckland, and George William, younger son of Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Wellington, of Stratford.