SOCIAL AND PERSONAL

Press, Volume LXXV, Issue 22676, 3 April 1939, Page 2

SOCIAL AND PERSONAL

Mrs Percy Hall (The Haldons, Seddon) will be a visitor to Christchurch for the wedding of her sister, Miss Nancy Buchanan, in Easter week.

Miss Patricia Foster (Woodford, Papanui road), who has been for a trip to Melbourne, will return home this week.

Miss Noeline Benjamin (Heaton street), who has been staying with Mrs W. E. Alexander, New Plymouth, is visiting Wellington before returning to. Christchurch. Mr and Mrs w! B. Cunningham (Timaru) left on Saturday for a trip to Sydney. Misses B. and K. McNeill and Bessie Teviotdale (Invercargill), who have been visiting Christchurch, have returned home.

Mrs W. L. Cunningham (Castle Downs, Southland) is visiting relatives in Christchurch.

Mrs A. H. Tocker (Murray place) returned on Saturday from a short visit to her mother, Mrs J. D. Sievwright, Wellington. Colonel and Mrs Chaytor and Mrs Colin Mac Donald (Blenheim), who visited Wellington for the Government House garden party, returned to Marlborough by aeroplane. Miss Jean Stewart, principal of Nelson Girls’ College, left on Saturday to. join the Arawa for a trip to England. Dr. Helen Deem, medical advisier to the Plunket Society, has returned from a visit to Australia and is staying with her parents, Sir Thomas and Lady Easterfield, Nelson.

Miss Sadie Barnett (Christchurch) is a visitor to Dunedin for the Gil-kison-Bain wedding, which will take place to-night. Sir Harry Twyford, until recently Lord Mayor of London, has been renewing old friendships in Nelson, where, as a young man, he spent some years in the Eastern Extension Cable Company’s office at Wakapuaka. Mr Evan Leggatt, a retired officer of the company, and Mrs Leggatt entertained Sir Harry at a 5 o’clock party. Misses Gwen and Mary Pither (Masterton) are visiting Christchurch and are staying at the Federal Hotel.

“Inquirer” asks when the Central School at Waiuku, Auckland, was opened. The lady editor of “The Press” would be grateful if any reader could supply the information.

Miss Joyce Nathan (Wellington), whose marriage to Mr O. A. Y. Johnston, road, will take place in Wellington on April 20, was one of two guests of honour at an afternoon party given on Friday by Mrs Warwick Blundell, Lower Hutt. Another party, at which Miss Nathan and Miss Isobel Young were the principal guests, was given at Heretaunga by Mrs Dan Webster and Miss Jean Webster.

The staff of the Masterton Hospital entertained Dr. Archer Hosking, who is retiring from the position of medical superintendent of the hospital, and Mrs Hosking at a farewell party last week. Dr. Hosking has been medical superintendent for 34 years and the first trainee under him at the hospital presented him, at the party, with a wallet and cheque on behalf of the Masterton nurses, and with an alburp of photographs from the hospital staff. Miss Barnett (Wellington) and Miss Wilkinson, former matrons of the hospital, were amongst the guests. Miss Pamela Phillimore, 21-year-old heiress, who had been twice previously engaged, was married Igst month to Mr Gilbert Alastair Cockburn, aged 20, who arrived at St. James’s Church, Spanish place, for the wedding with his right arm in splints—the result of an accident. She is a daughter of the late Captain Paul Phillimore, 17th Lancers, and was a ward in Chancery until her twenty-first birthday.