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Dominion, Volume 32, Issue 262, 3 August 1939, Page 4

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Mrs. Mark Wilton. Upper Plain, Is staying at the Kent House Rest Home, Ala’sterton. Lady Reed, Wellington, is a visitor to Wanganui. Mrs. AL Rundle and Mrs. Noble Campbell are Palmerston North visitors to Wellington.Miss K. Lissiman, Blenheim, is visiting Wellington. Mrs. W. Helmore, Wairoa, is visiting Mrs. George Helmore, Fendalton, Christchurch. Mrs. S. Richmond has returned to Blenheim from a visit to Wellington. Miss Leslie Beetham, Masterton, will be the guest of Commander and Mrs George Dennktoun, Peel Forest, at their Christchurch flat for Grand National Week. Mrs Charles Beadel, Christchurch, returned home at the -beginning of the week from a visit to her daughter, Mrs. A. Avery, Hawke’s Bay. Mr. and Mrs. L. B. Bolton Moss, Flyin" Officer E. B. Waters, Wellington, and Mrs. Herbert P. Lawry, Palmerston North, will b? North Island visitors to Christchurch on Saturday for the Purchase-Levvey wedding. Mr. and Mrs. D. Riddiford, Featherston, are visitors to Wellington.. Mrs. G. M. S. Kelly, Mrs. Fernie and Miss Fernie are Hastings visitors to Wellington. Miss J. Johnston, Kelburn, who has been visiting Mrs. I. V. McKenzie, Alasterton, has returned to Wellington. Miss Tui Hardy-Gibson, Wellington, whose marriage to Mr. Leigh Hay-Chap-man is planned for early September, is being farewelled by friends prior to her departure for Napier. Joint hostesses at a “kitchen” party were Miss Marjory Anscombe, her sister, Mrs. Penlington, and Mrs. Bulte. Later in t-he week Miss Nell Kendall and.Jhw Berestford entertained. Miss Sylvia Moss, who is now in Sydl- - will shortly travel overland to Perth, where she intends to spend several months. Before leaving Wellington she was for some weeks the guest of Mrs. David Calder, Kelburn. Miss Valda Daysh, youngest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Daysh, Carterton, arrived at Wellington by the Wanganella yesterday from Sydney. She will spend a holiday at her home prior to her marriage to Mr. Norman 1 Sutherland, of Northern Ireland. Mrs. Alan Burt and her daughter, South Featherston, have returned home after spending a few days with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Blatchford, Training Farm, Masterton. Going Abroad Mrs. L. H. Herd has left Wellington for two months’ trip to Samoa to visit her sister-in-law, Mrs. J. Herd. LIBRARY HOSTS ENTERTAIN OVERSEAS VISITORS A very pleasant afternoon was held at Kirkcaldie’s tearooms on Monday, when the director of the Country Library Service, Mr. G. T. Alley, and the Wellington City Librarian,* Mr. Joseph Norrie, were hosts at an afternoon tea party in honour of Miss Al. J. Powell, 0.8. E., M.A., A.L.A., and Miss F. Street. Those invited included two past-presi-dents of the New Zealand Library Association, Messrs. T. D. H. Hall, C.M.G., and W. J. Gaudin; Mrs. A. D. Mclntosh; Dr. C. E. Beeby, Assistant-Direc-tor of Education; Dr. G. 11. Scholefield, Mrs. Hamilton and Mr. W. S. Wauchop, from the General Assembly Library; Miss J. W. Rawson, from the Country Library Service; Miss A. Woodhouse and Mr. C. R. H. Taylor, from the Alexander Turnbull Library; Miss K. C. Reid and Mr. H. G. Miller, from the Victoria University College Library; Miss A. Denton and Mr. C. S. Perry, from the Wellington Public Libraries. Mr. T. D. H. Hall welcomed the visitors and both Miss Powell and Miss Street replied suitably. Both women have had a long and interesting experience in adult educational work in Great Britain, Miss Powell being in chargeof the Surrey County Library Service, while Miss Street is interested in a number of forms of adult education and has had extensive secretarial experience in connexion with the British Parliament. They will Shortly leave for the south, but will return to 'Wellington before they finally return home.