SOCIAL AND PERSONAL

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 83, Issue 44, 22 February 1939, Page 2

SOCIAL AND PERSONAL

Mr. and Mrs. H. E. Lewis, Dunedin, are visiting Wanganui.

Mr. and Mrs. R. K. Lainge, Cambridge, are visiting Wanganui.

Mrs. Paul Latham is a Wanganui visitor to Hawera.

Mrs. Beaumont Bates, J.P., College Street, has returned from Auckland.

Mrs. George Nelson, Wanganui, is visiting her daughter at Rotorua.

Mrs. and Miss Carey were Wanganui visitors to Wellington this week.

Miss E. McLean, Wanganui, was a recent visitor to Wellington.

Mrs. W. Gilbert, Wanganui, is visiting Wellington.

Miss Olive Dowsett, Auckland, is visiting friends in Wanganui. Mrs. H. Inman, Auckland, is the guest of Mrs. H. R. Jones, College Street,

Mrs. Lethbridge and Mrs. Lattey were week-end visitors to the Chateau.

Mrs. S. J. Goodey, of College Street, who has been visiting Hawera, has returned to Wangamj.

Mr. and Mrs. W. G. McKnight, of Nukumaru, left for Dunedin yesterday with their daughter, Beth McKnight, who is entering the Otago Training School of Massage.

Mrs. C. A. Thorpe, Seatoun, Wellington, and Miss Joyce Sutherland, Napier, are the guests of Mrs. B. Hoar, Gonville Avenue.

Mrs. J. B. Elliot, accompanied by Miss A. K. Elliot, who is chief librarian at Timaru, are guests of the Braeburn Hotel.

Among those who journeyed to Wanganui from Wellington for the Cameron—Blyth wedding yesterday, were Mrs. and Miss Presham, Mr. and Mrs. W. Ballinger, Miss C. Spurdie, Miss Rees-Jones and Mr. M. Spurdie.

Mrs. Craig, Wanganui, was a visitor to Wellington for the 21st. birthday celebrations of Chilton St. James School.

Nurse Bouskiil, of Auckland, who has many friends in Wanganui, is at present visiting Mrs. 'G. Darbyshire, Wairere Road. Trained at the Wanganui Public Hospital about 30 years ago, Nurse Bouskiil served four years with the troops during the Great War and later acted as matron of a hospital in England.

Mrs. J. Alcorn, of Wellington, and Mr. and Mrs. T. J. Spurdie, who came to Wanganui for the Cameron —Blyth wedding have been spending a few days with Mr. H. J. Cameron, "Glenmore,” Turakina.

After ten years’ service with the Wanganui Education Board as senior typiste, Miss M. McKinnon was farewelled by the board this week and every good wish expressed for her married happiness. She was granted a month’s leave on pay.

After spending two years abroad, Miss Gwen Nelson, a New Zealand artist, has arrived in New Zealand. She held an exhibition of her paintings in Bond Street, London, the week after the international crisis, and sold seven pictures.

A shortage of typists is causing some public works undertakings to be held up. This information was contained in a letter received by the board of Canterbury Agricultural College, Lincoln, from the Public Works Department in answer to an inquiry about, the delay in starting urgently required buildings at the college. The letter also stated that there was a shortage of draughtsmen, but this shortage had to some extent' been

Visitors to Wanganui for the Cameron—Blyth wedding included Mr. and Miss Swinburne (New Plymouth), Mr. and Mrs. J. Aitken (New Plymouth); Mr. and Mrs. A. Balmer (Ashhurst), Mr. and Mrs. D. Balmer (Ashhurst), Mr. W. Pareshow (Ashhurst). Mrs. B. Spelman (Ashhurst), Mr J. Blyth (Ohakune), Mrs E. T. and Messrs. M. and B. Beaven (Carterton), Mrs. Miss and Mr. Jim Cousins (Colyton), Mr. H. Blundin (Halcombe).

Dr. Mary Thornton, of Collins Street, Melbourne, has been elected a Fellow of the British Association of Radiologists for her original work on the radiological aspects of metastases of cancer. She is the first woman in Australia and New Zealand to obtain this distinction. Dr. Thornton was the radiologist at the Wanganui Public Hospital during 1936-37. Prior to coming to Wanganui she held a similar position at Dunedin.

The Johanson —Barrington bridal photographs were taken at Tesla Studios.*