PERSONAL

Dominion, Volume 30, Issue 153, 25 March 1937, Page 4

PERSONAL

Visitors to Wellington Miss May Hopcroft, Hastings, is visiting Wellington. Mrs. Nisbet Smith, New Plymouth, is spending a holiday in Wellington. Mrs. Alers Hankey, Takapuna. Auckland, arrived in Wellington yesterday. The Lady Angela Dawnay arrived from Auckland yesterday to spend a fortnight in Wellington. Miss Elsie Mitchell, Mahora, Hastings, is visiting Wellington en route for England. Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Neale, Christchurch, -will arrive to-morrow to spend Easter in Wellington. Miss Estelle Brice, Christchurch, who has been visiting Nelson, is now in Wellington and is th e guest of Mrs. R. J. Gard, Northland. Mrs. T. Gwynne-Jones. wife of Surgeon - Commander Gwynne-Jones, H.M.S. Achilles, has arrived in Wellington from Auckland for a short holiday. Captain Irvine G. Glennie. R.N.. and Mrs. Glennie arrived from Auckland yesterday and are staying at Antrim House. Mrs. L. J. Loftus, Rawene. North Auckland, is touring the North Island and is at present the guest of Mrs. E. P. O’Donnell, Wellington. Misses Pat Wilson and Ursula Amos, Christchurch, will arrive in Wellington to-day to take part in the New Zealand lawn tennis junior championships. Mrs. D. L. Johnston, wife of Lieu-tenant-Commander Johnston. H.M S. Achilles, arrived from Auckland yesterday to spend a fortnight in Wellington. Mrs. Ralph Sketch and Miss Sydney Bickerton Fisher will leave Auckland by car to-day for Wellington. They will stay at Mrs. Morton Paterson’s home, Wadestown.

On Holiday Mrs. F. C. James, Wellington, is staying in Auckland. Mrs. E. M. Ryall, Wanganui, visited Auckland before leaving for Sydney by the Aw’atea. Mrs. A. M. Burrows and the Misses M. and N. Burrows, Eltham, are spending a holiday in Auckland. Mrs. C. Pollock and family, Stratford, are spending a motoring holiday in Auckland.

Mrs. Agmen-Smith, Papakura, is the gfiest of Mrs. G. Martin, New Plymouth.

Mrs. W. E. Caldow, Rongotai, has left Wellington for New Plymouth and Cambridge. Mrs. S. Bargh, Petone, is the guest of Mrs. H. Guilliard, Hollywood Terrace, Waipukurau, for the McßrideGuilliard wedding. Mrs. F. O. Anderson, Napier, will arrive in Christchurch this morning for the wedding of her son, Mr. Waldo Anderson, to Miss Ranee Broughton, which will take place this afternoon. Other Napier visitors for the wedding will include Mrs. Campbell, Mrs. H. W. Brown and Miss Thelma Williamson.

Miss May Palmer, a New Zealander who makes her home at Jersey in the Channel Islands, is visiting New Zealand. She was well known as a nurse In Wellington before the war, and during the war served in France, where she was the matron of a hospital. In 1923 Miss Palmer accepted a position in the Sudan, which she fulfilled until 1925. Her work there was centred among the men out on the Gazelra, employed on the building of the Great Sennar Dam across the Blue Nile. Easter Holidays Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Gaisford, Dannevirke, left from Wellington last night for the south. Lady Roberts, Lower Hutt, has returned to Wellington from a visit to Dunedin. Mr. and Mrs. Geoffrey Goodwin, Lower Hutt, will leave to-day for Taupo and Rotorua. Misses E. C. and M. Abbott, “Kincora,” Pahautanui, will spend Easter in Christchurch. The Misses Diana and Betty Waters, The Terrace, will spend Easter at Otaki. Miss Betty Waters will leave Wellington on April 15 for Sydney. Returned Home Mrs. F. W. Freeman, Cashmere, Christchurch, has returned home after spending a holiday in Wellington with her sister, Miss Althea Cookson, lady superintendent of the Wellington Hospital. Miss May Blackmore, who has been spending a holiday at Wellington, has returned to Horrelville. Mrs. S. P. Spiller has returned to Napier after a fortnight’s holiday spent in Wellington. Mrs. C. Stuart, Pahautanui, and Miss N. Wood, Normanby, have returned home after a three weeks’ holiday in Nelson. Mrs. V. O. Wallburton, who has been spending some weeks in Wellington, left last night on her return to Christchurch. Returned to Wellington Mrs. W. E. Parry has returned to Wellington from the South Island. Mrs. Douglas ’Whyte, Karori, returned to ’Wellington from Dunedin.

Mrs. N. I. Joyce, Thompson Street, who has been visiting in the South Island and staying with her parents, Mr. and Airs. R. F. “Wallis, Gore, returned to Wellington yesterday.