SOCIAL AND PERSONAL

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 83, Issue 46, 24 February 1939, Page 2

SOCIAL AND PERSONAL

Mrs. J. Webb, Taihape, visited Wellington this week.

Mrs. J. Pearce and Miss Pearce, Patea, are visiting Wanganui. Mr. and Mrs. G. A. Weir, Southland, are visiting Wanganui.

Miss Margaret Hansen is a Wanganui visitor to Wellington.

Mrs. C. M. Strouts and Miss J Strouts, Nelson Street, went to Wellington this week.

Mr. and Mrs. G. M. Currie, of Kai Iwi, are staying at Foster’s Hotel for race week.

Mr. and Mrs. F. Bonner, Manga weka, are in town for the races.

Mrs. A. Wilson, of Marotiri, Foxton, is the guest of Mrs. W. L. Young, Hatrick Terrace, for the race meetings.

Mrs. T. H. Lowry, of Hawke's Bay is the guest of Mrs. Russell Grace. “Arles,” Wanganui East.

Mrs. Douglas Brown, of Wellington, is the guest of Mrs. F. Treloar, Nelson Street.

Mrs. R. E. Lockwood, of Riccarton, Christchurch, arrived in Wanganui on Wednesday to attend the races. Mrs. Whitlock, Wanganui, visited her daughter, Mrs. Arnold Heath, at Hawera. last week-end.

Mrs. Morgan Watkins, who is at present living at Castlecliff, will leave next month for Sydney, where she will in future reside.

Mrs. D. A. Lilburne, Wanganui, is visiting Wellington with her husband for the annual Dominion opticians’ conference.

Mrs. Stan. Gill. Westland, who has been visiting relations in the Rangitikei, Taihape and Hawera districts, has returned to Wellington on a visit to friends.

Mrs. Gordon Hoare (nee Maud Brewer) will arrive in New Zealand, from England, next month on a visit to her relatives in the Waitotara and Waverley districts.

Mrs. W. Watters, Wanganui, who spent a holiday at New Plymouth, has left to visit Inglewood, before going to Wellington. Miss Marion Wither, M.A., formerly senior assistant at lona College. Havelock North, and later of the staff of the Wanganui Girls’ College, has been appointed to the staff of the Waimate High School.

Miss Joan McGrath arrived from England by the Rangitiki last week, and is spending a short holiday in New Zealand with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. G. F. McGrath, Liverpool Street.

Mrs. Guy Abbott, of Auckland, and formerly of Wanganui, is revisiting the city and is the guest of Mrs. T R. Ellis. Mrs. Abbott, who will leave for the north at the week-end accompanied by her husband, who is attending the annual Dominion opticians’ conference in Wellington.

Lady Cahn, of England, who with her husband. Sir Julien Cahn, was in Wanganui a few days ago, is president of the Nottingham Women’s Cricket Association, is fond of swimming, and hunts four days a week. Sir Julien and Lady Cahn have a private golf course at their home.

The marriage was celebrated in London on February 6, after a short engagement, of Mr. Raymond Blackburn, son of a London doctor and partner in one of the city’s oldest law firms, and Miss Barbara Robison, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. G. G. S. Robison, of Wellington. The bride is a well-known fashion artist, and inherits her talent from her mother, who, as Edith Bendall, was a wellknown New Zealand artst.

Lady Wylie, of Wootton Ridge, Board’s Hill, Oxford, accompanied by her husband, Sir Francis James Wylie, and Miss K. D. Wylie, arrived at Auckland on Monday by the Aorangi, after spending three months in Australia with a married daughter. They will leave for England by the Tamaroa, from Wellington to-day. Mrs. E. Beaglehole, who' has been living in Pangai, a small native village of Vavau in the Tongan Group, for the past two months, arrived at Auckland on Sunday by the Matai with her husband, who has been doing research into the life of the natives. With Dr. Beaglehole, who is a lecturer in psychology at Victoria University College, she returned to Wellington on Monday.

Savouries for Race Day. There will be a delicious assortment of appetising savouries at Dustin’s, Ltd., this week-end. Try them for your race-day luncheons •or parties.*