SOCIAL AND PERSONAL.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 83, Issue 51, 2 March 1939, Page 2

SOCIAL AND PERSONAL.

Mrs. W. Curtis, Selwyn Street, will leave to-day on a visit to Rotorua. Miss L. Harding, of Marton, is visiting New Plymouth. Mrs. Frank D’Arcy, of Te Awamutu, is visiting her mother, Mrs. H. T. Carver, Brunswick. ...» Miss P. Walsh, Pihiatua, is visiting Wanganui. Mrs. J. Standidge, of Karori, Wellington, is visiting Wanganui. * * * * Mrs. G. Fear, Wanganui, is spending a holiday in Gore, where she is the guest of Mrs. E. Rowntree. • e * . Miss Matthews, Glasgow Street, has returned from a visit to Palmerston North. Miss Barnott has returned to Wanganui after a trip to Australia, and a short visit to Hamilton. Mrs. C. G. Ross was a Wanganui visitor to New Plymouth yesterday, for the Nelson —Skeet wedding. Mrs. E. Bretarrgh, '.'.ho has been visiting Wellington, is now in Wanganui, and is staying at Hotel Braeburn. Miss Amy North arrived from Christchurch on Tuesday to spend a fortnight's holiday with her mother, Mrs. A. J. North, Gonville Avenue. Sister R. N. Shadbolt, recently returned from active service in Spain, spent last week-end in Wanganui as the guest of Mr. and Mrs. T. A. Pargeter, of Guyton Street. Among the young people who left Wanganui this week to enter the University in Wellington, were Miss Ruth Guscott and Miss Janet Bogle. Miss Elwyn Low and her guest. Miss Ruth Gower, of Wellington, left yesterday for New Plymouth to attend the Nelson —Skeet wedding. Mr. and Mrs. George White, Linwood, Christchurch, are visiting the east coast towns of the North Island, Rotorua, and Wanganui. Mr. and Mrs. Watson, of Dunedin, who have been visiting Wellington for the conference of opticians, are at present staying in Wanganui as the guests of Mrs. C. Johnstone, Cumbrae Place. Mrs. John Stewart, of Christchurch, who has been staying in Wanganui, as the guest of Mrs. M. B. Hirst. Wanganui East, has left for Palmerston North, where she will make a short visit before returning south. After an extensive trip abroad, Mr and Mrs. A. G. Cross, Hipango Terrace, returned to Wanganui on Tuesday. During their two years' travels they visited England, Scotland, Portugal. France, Italy, and the Unitec States. The guests at the annual banquet of the New Zealand Society on New Zealand Day were given a real taste of the Dominion. On the menu were toheroa soup and saddle of mutton. The latter. North Island milk lambs, were supplied by the New Zealand Meat Board, and were universally praised, states a London correspondent. Miss Eleanor Hiorns and her sister Miss Hiorns, have returned to Wananui after a delightful visit to Auckland. ' Mrs. Wilfred Sanderson and het daughter, of Guildford, Surrey, England. arrived last Friday by the Mataroa. and are visiting Rotorua and the Waitomo Caves on the first stage ot an extended tour of New Zealand. Mrs. G. H. Robertson journeyed down to Wellington early in the week with her daughter, Miss Joan Robeitson, who is entering the university, also to meet her husband on his return from Christchurch, where he attended the medical conference. Visitors in Wanganui for the croquet tournament being held on the Wanganui Club greens, St. John's Hill, include Mr. and Mrs. A. J- Gibbs, ot Patea Mrs. Torstonson, of Palmerston North, and Mrs. Richardson, Kimbolton. ♦ * * * Miss Marie Ney has gone to Belfast to appear in J. B. Priestley's successful play. “Dangerous Corner," which is being staged for a limited run at the Grand Opera House, wrote a London correspondent on February <• Miss Ney was one of the successes in the original London production some few years ago. Calling in at Wellington on Tuesday after a tour of Australia, was Miss Bettv Balfour, the famous British actress who in private life is Mrs. B. Campbell Tyrie. Sh<T had with her her small son, Robert David, who though not yet two years old, has been round the world and experienced the extremes of weather. Miss Balfour has been doing broadcasting work in Australia. She will spend nine days in New Zealand, and hopes to see something of the beautiful scenery in this country before leaving by the Rangitiki for England.