ENGAGEMENTS

Dominion, Volume 29, Issue 303, 18 September 1936, Page 4

ENGAGEMENTS

KING —CANN. The engagement is announced of Elsie May, only daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Cann, England, and Edward George King, only son of Mrs. G. A. King, Wellington, and the late Lieut-Colonel King, D. 5.0., N.Z.S.C. PERSONAL Mrs. G. Donald. Featherston, is visiting Wellington. Miss Norah Gray has returned to Wellington from a visit to Wanganui. Miss Ngalre Smith, who has been visiting Cambridge and Wellington, has returned to Christchurch. Miss Eva Card, who has been visiting Wellington, has returned to Featherston. Miss Joan Crump, Wellington,, is visiting her parents, Dr. and Mrs. C. H. Crump, Dargaville. Mr. and Mrs. I. McLaren and Miss McLaren are Masterton visitors to Wellington. Miss Ruth Flitch, KhandaUah, is Visiting Mrs. H. Ffltch, Fendalton, Christchurch. Miss Ada Mottram is spending a fortnight’s holiday in the South Island. Mrs. J. A. Redpath, Christchurch, is visiting her daughter, Mrs. Walter Norwood, Lemnos Avenue, Karori. Mrs. H. lan Simson, Hawke’s Bay, Is visiting her daughter, Mrs, Norman L. Mackie, Hatton Street, Karori. Mrs. P. N. Jeffreys, Christchurch, accompanied by Miss Jeffreys, arrived at Wellington yesterday from the south. Miss Mary Enright, Christchurch, who has been visiting Hawke’s Bay, is now staying with her sister, Mrs. C. Malfroy, Murphy Street. Mr. and Mrs. F. D. Clayton, Hill Street, Wellington, have returned from a visit to their daughter, Mrs. Q, Rathbone, Napier. Mr. and Mrs. Nigel Haggitt will leave Wellington next Tuesday night for Auckland where they will take up their residence. Mr. and Mrs. W. Wilson, St. Hellers Bay, Auckland, have motored to Feilding, where they are visiting their daughter, Mrs. E. Pearce. Miss Barbara Logan, who has been spending a holiday with her aunt, Mrs. R. J. Grant, New Plymouth, has returned to Wellington. The following delegates from the English-Speaking Union left Wellington . yesterday to visit the newlyformed Hastings branch: Mrs. E. D. Good, Mrs. Hay Mackenzie, Miss E. Black, Mrs. J. K. Preston, Mr. J. W. Black. Mrs. T. Prouse, Rolleston, who celebrated her ninety-fifth birthday anniversary this month, is one of the oldest surviving white women born in New Zealand. She has never seen a motion picture or heard a “talkie.” Her father, Mr. David Dick, an Irishman, came to New Zealand in the ship Bengal Merchant, and took up a section at Walnui-O-Mata, Wellington. It is more than. 65 years since Mrs. Prouse left Wellington for Canterbury. She and her husband settled at Oust. Mr. Prouse died in 1008, and of late years Mrs. Prouse has lived with her daughter, Mrs. Gaffney, Rolleston. She has a family of five daughters, and two of her sisters are still living. CITIZENS’ DAY NURSERY Many matters vital to the institution were dealt with at the meeting of the Citizens’ Day Nursery, at which Lady Gray presided. . • A sub-committee met during the month to discuss renovations, and as a result the nursery was closed for a fortnight to allow some necessary painting and paperhanging to be done. Lady Gray had been able to arrange for the relaying of some old paths, thus ensuring a dry passage for the children, even in wet weather. Mrs. Zander, for some years past a kind and energetic member of the committee, l.eft for Australia this week, bearing with her the good wishes of her fellow-members. Special thanks were voted to Dr. Kennedy Elliott for giving free treatment to a member of the staff and to girls of Marsden School for a supply of groceries, also to the Queen Margaret Girls’ Club for parcel of clothing. Many of the mothers explained how much they and their children missed the kind and comfortable refuge of the nursery during the renovations. It was stated that visitors are always welcome. and the smallest gift (such as a pound of rice) is a direct help towird providing the daily hot dinner. Thanks were expressed to all who had in any way helped the nursey.