PERSONAL NOTES

Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 22, 27 January 1931, Page 13

PERSONAL NOTES

Mrs. Lan MaeCrae and family, who have been staying with Mrs. Arthur Duncan, Murphy street, returned to Wairarapa yesterday. Miss Nancy Grace, who has been the guesfc of Miss Margaret Dalziell, Hob- j son street, Feturned to Wanganui today. Miss Sheila Todd, Wellington, will leave for Christehurch to-night. Miss Lorna Brodie, Wellington, is the guest of Mrs. J. A. Bctts, .Masterton. ' \ Miss J. Fell, , Lower Hutt, is the guesfc of Dr. and Mrs. Archer Hosking, Mastcrton. Mrs. M. Macdonald, Hill street, has returned to Wellington after a holiday spent in Auckland. Miss Linda Barnctt has returned to Duncdin after a visit to Wellington. Mr. and Mrs. C. M. Turrell, Halswell street, will leave for the South tonight. ; Miss Esther Denniston, New Plymouth, is spending her holidays at Lower Hutt. . Mrs. Neil Gow has returned to Wellington after a visit to Dunedin. Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Jones, Wellington, are spending a holiday at Queenstown. Mr. and Mrs. Maurice Turrell, Bolton street, will leave to-night for the South Island. Colonel and Mrs. James, Auckland, will leave Wellington to-night for Christehurch. Mrs. and Miss Earp,, Tawa Flat, have left, for a visit to Kotorua and Bay of Plenty. Mrs. R. H. Hooper and the Misses Hooper, of Kelburn, left on Sunday for h, visit to Eotorua, Taupo, and Wairakei. Mrs. H. W. Simmonds returned to Wellington on Sunday by the Monowai, ,-ifter spending a year in Great Britain and South Africa. ,Miss E. J. Carrad, Wanganui, is spending a holiday in Auckland. Miss Hflintz, Petone, was among the passengers who arrived in Wellington by the Monowai on. Sunday. Mrs". Alan Loekett, Gonville, Wanganui, and her small son are the guests of Mrs. J". Martin, Eoseneath. Miss A. Outtrim, Wellington, is visiting the .Sounds. Mr. and Mrs. .T. B. Biva.n, Welling-1 ton, will leave to-night for.the South Island. Among the New Zcalanders recently in London 'The Post's" representative mentions the following Wellington people:—Mr. Frank L. Bush, Mrs. and Miss Cameron, Mrs. F. D. Clayton, Miss Patricia Clayton, Mrs. L. B. Dufl'y, Colonel Bernard Freyberg, V.C., Mrs. J. A. Taylor, Misses W. and M. Taylor, Mr. H. Banks, Mr. and Mrs. Pat Ward, Dr. B. O'Began,. Miss A. Duncan, Mr. G. F. Davies, Mr. C. Turner, Mr. T. T. Bollons, and Miss G. Pearson. Advice has been received that Miss Thora" C. Marwiek, formerly on' the staff of Victoria College, has been awarded the degree of PhD., London. Miss Marwiek was recently, made a Fellow of Leeds University) where she is now carrying on wool research in the Textile Physics Department. A marriage of interest to many friends took place quietly on Saturday last,-when George William, only son of Mr. and Mrs. G. E. Atkins, Kingston-on-Thames, Surrey, England, was married to Helen Leah, daughter of the late Clifford Dawson, Auckland, and Mrs. Leah Dawson, The Terrace, Wellington, and granddaughter of the late Captain Thomaß Dawson,Connty Dewy, Northern Ireland. ..-.- ; _. The death took place at her residence, 12, Tinakori road, to-day, after a short illness, of Mrs. Amelia Ann Thom-son,-widow of the late Mr. A. B. Thomson, who-was for many, years a wellknown member of the;, staff of the General Assembly Library, Wellington. Born in London 83 years ago, the late Mrs. Thomson came out to Victoria with her parents in 1875. She was married in Australia and afterwards left for New Zealand. Mr. and Mrs. Thomson lived in Greyinouth at first, but later they removed to Napier, where for many years Mr. Thomson was headmaster of the Napier public school. Mr. Thomson subsequently joined the staff of tie General Assembly Library. He predeceased his wife in. 1921. The late Mrs. Thomson was of a quiet, philanthropic disposition, and in an unostentatious way she performed many acts of kindness and thoughtfulness. Her three surviving | sons are Mr. F. D. Thomson, C.M.G., 'Permanent Head of the Prime Minis- : ter's Department, Mr. H. D. Thomson, Under-Secretary of the Immigration ' Department, and Mr. A. M. Thomson, manager of the Northend branch of the i Bank of New Zealand, Wellington. Mr. ; F. D. Thomson^ only recently returned with the Prime Minister from the Imperial Conference. The funeral of the 1 late Mrs. Thomson will leave her late ' residence at 10.30 a.m. to-morrow for ' Karori Cemetery, and will be private.