PROVINCIAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 23, Issue 284, 27 August 1930, Page 5

PROVINCIAL ITEMS

Miss Lorna Ferguson, of Wellington, is visiting hqr parents, Mr., and Mrs. C. A. E. Ferguson, of Lyndhurst 'Street, Palmerston North.

Miss Amy Phillips, of Feilding, will return tiome this week from a .visit to relatives in the South Island. Miss Struan Macpherson, of Langston Avenue, Palmerston North, will leave on Friday for -“The Chateau, Tongariro,” National Park.

Mrs. Mackenzie Forbes has returned to Palmerston North after a short visit to her daughter, Mrs. Gregor Mackenzie, of Waipukurau. Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Carter, of Amesbury Street, Palmerston North, have returned from a short visit to Plimmerton. Mrs. E. C. Crosse, Broadway Avenue, Palmerston North, who celebrated her hundredth birthday on July 18, is at present seriously indisposed. About a fortnight ago Mrs. Crosse contracted bronchial trouble, but she is not confined to her bed.

' Miss Enid Bell, of Wellington, DeputyChief Commissioner- and Provincial Commissioner of Girl Guides, will arrive at Palmerston North to-morrow for the,conference of commissioners, which opens, that day. Miss Una Hopwood, of Palmerston North, who is touring abroad, has recently been in Scotland, and after spending a few days in London, left for the Continent, where she was to meet Miss Gladys .Seifert, another Palmerston North tourist. , /

Mr. and Mrs. H. Mathewson have taken up their residence in Palmerston North. Before they left Hastings members of the Hastings Croquet Club gave an afternoon tea party at the Ritz to bid tarewell to Mrs. Mathewson, who was a popular member of the club. Mrs. W. Bndg* man, president, in presenting the guest of honour with a bronze vase, expressed the club’s regret at losing Mrs. Mathewson. Mrs. E. Hodder, who has been the guest of Mrs. Brown, at Karori, Wellington, has returned to Lansdowne, Masterton. Mr. and Mrs. E. Tyler, of Rotorua, are visiting' Mrs. A. Tyler, at Martinborough. -Miss E. McDonald, of Martinborough, has returned from Woodville. Mrs. Elkington, of Lowry Bay, Wellington, is the guest of her mother, Mrs. C. F. Vallance, “Kahuminga,” MastertoMrs. Husband, of Masterton, is the guest of Mrs. J. Andrew, at “lea, Masterton. . . . Miss Doris Bruce, of Gisborne, is visiting her mother, Mrs. J. Bruce, of Glasgow Street, Wanganui. . ' The Wanganui branch of the Victoria League intend holding a bridge evening on Friday, August 29. The proceeds will be sent to Mr. Cecil Wray for his work among disabled soldiers in London. Mr. and Mrs. D.-Wylie, of Gonville, Wanganui, entertained a number of friends recently in honour of the marriage of Miss M. Cleeve. The party was a gift evening. Miss Clceve’s future home will be in Hastings. The Aramoho Boating Club Hall, Wanganui, was crowded last Thursday evening, when the Aramoho School held a successful fancy dress social. The programme consisted of country dances, historical, fancy, paper, national and original dress parades, club-swinging, mouth organ selections, etc. . Balloons, streamers, mirrors and fern macle the Waverley Town Hall very pretty for the recent golf ball. The supper room was decorated in tones of yellow with Iceland poppies and spring flowers. Among the Wanganui visitors present were :—Mr. and Mrs. R. Suthland, Mr. and Mrs. Somerville, Mr. and Mrs. J. Davife, Mr. and Mrs. W. M. Gillies, Mr. and Mrs. J. Goss. Mr. and Mrs. Whelen, Mr. and Mrs. Robby, Mr. and Mrs^ MeArtnev Mrs. W. Hunter, Mrs. L. Ward, Misses T. Herd, O. McGrail, E. Wright, B. Montgomerie, Currie.

MADAME MENERE IN MASTERTON. Masterton ladies should on no account fail to visit the great exhibition of highgrade Russian and Canadan Furs which is at present being held in the Central Arcade Hall (upstairs) for a few days only. This is without doubt the largest and flnest collection of furs ever seen in New Zealand. Wonderful .imported coats are being sold at less than is asked in New Zealand for common rabbit. —Advt.