PERSONAL

Dominion, Volume 30, Issue 24, 23 October 1936, Page 4

PERSONAL

Lacy Carncross and Miss Sybil Carncross have returned from a visit to Masterton. Mrs. H. H. Ostler is staying at the Majestic Hotel, Palmerston North. Mrs. N. T. Gooder is spending a holiday in the Wairarapa and is the guest of her cousin, Mrs. Neil MaKay. Miss Rosalind Arkwright, Marton, is the guest of Mrs. P. Marshall, Lower Hutt.

Mrs. A. P. Whitehead and Miss A. J. Whitehead. Stokes Valley, are visiting Christchurch. Miss Nancy Teschemaker, Marlborough, is staying with Lady Elliott, Kent Terrace.

Mrs. Ken Kennedy will leave Wellington to-day for a holiday at Dunedin.

Mrs. P. Entrican. Wellington, is the guest of Miss M. Kincaid. Fendalton. Christchurch. Mrs. W. H. Finlayson, Wellington, is spending a short holiday with Mrs. A. F. McKenzie, “Olrig,” Hastings.

Dr. and Mrs. Alan Park returned to Wellington by the Rangitiki on Wednesday after eight months spent in England and America. ■ Mrs. E. M. Silk, Wanganui, and Miss Alison Pearce, Wellington, are visitors to New Plymouth for the golf tournament.

Miss Winifred Gate, who has been living in South Africa for some years, will return to New Zealand by the Makura for a visit. She will stay with her mother at Kaikoura. Miss Nancy Galpin, Marton, a former Massey College student, who graduated D.Sc., Edinburgh, with a thesis on growth gradients in wool, has been awarded a grant by the Scottish Board of Agriculture. Dr. Galpin is in the research department of Edinburgh University. Miss Russell-Fergusson. who is better known as Scotia, the Scottish Bardess of the Gorsedd, has returned to Wellington from a tour of the north, and will sail for Sydney by the Awatea on October 30, in continuation of her world tour.

After spending several weeks in New Zealand, during which time she visited Rotorua as the guest of the Government, Queen Salote of Tonga, accompanied by the Prince Consort, Prince Tuigi, and party, left Auckland by the Matua for Tonga yesterday. Miss Naomi Goldsmith was guest of honour at an enjoyable afternoon in the palm lounge of the Hotel St. George yesterday. She wore a navy ensemble trimmed with white and a fur coat and hat to match. Those present were: Misses Evelyn and Diana Goldsmith, Valerie Carr, Sheila Coates, Pearl Telfer, ■ Valerie Caselberg, Pat McLean, Coralie Cane and Adrienne Beere. Mrs. C. K. Wilson, Pio Pio, Dominion president of the Women’s Division N.Z. Farmers’ Union, is visiting Wellington and will be presiding at meetings of the Dominion officals to be held ths week. Other members of the advsory hoard who will be coming to Wellington are Mrs. C. C. Jackson, Koruaranga, Dominion treasurer; Mesdames Duncan Simpson, Marton; J. C. Wickham, Wanganui; H. A. Nutt, Motukarara (Dominion vice-presi-dents) ; T. R. Barrer, Masterton; Helen Harris, New Plymouth; B. E. Evans, Timaru; and A. Forsyth, Nelson (Dominion Advisory Board members).