PERSONAL NOTES

Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 10, 13 January 1933, Page 11

PERSONAL NOTES

Mr. and Mrs. A. Leslie MacFarlane and Mrs. MacFarlane's father, Mr. Georgo Richardson, Christchurch, are tho gucsta of Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Richardson, at Eeretaunga. • Mr. F. Freemantlo and Miss Freemantle, who have boon touring- New Zealand, left this afternoon for Sydney on their return to England. Sir William and Lady Perry, Masterton, arrived in Wellington yesterday, and are staying at tho Royal Oak. Miss Nolle Scanlan, who has been visiting Palmerston North, has returned to Wellington, Mr. and Mrs. Gibson Stott, Hill street, who have been visiting Auckland, will return to Wellington on Sunday. . Mrs. Sydney Dyer, Napier, has returned homo after a visit to Mrs. P. V. Wators, Karori. Mr. and Mrs. McVilly returned to Wellington yesterday after a visit to Auckland. - Miss Gwen Reid, Raroa road, who has been visiting her aunt, Mrs. M. Ahlfield, Auckland, has returned to Wellington. Mrs. Bryan Todd, Karori, is visiting her mother, Mrs. David Buddo, Christchurch. Miss Marjorie Maefarlane and Mrs. Eldon Napier, Auckland, have arrived in Wellington to play in tho Nunncley Casket tennis matches to-day. Mr, and Mrs. W, L. Moore will leave Wellington this evening for Christchurch, where they' will be the guests of Mrs. Jolin, Moore, Fendalton. Mrs. Alex Lawson, Wellington, who has been visiting the South Island, is at present staying in Ca'ristehurch. Mr. and Mrs. John P. Colwill have roturned from a holiday visit to Auckland, and the Thermal districts. Mrs. Field Porter, Reuiuera, Auckland, is staying with her sister, Mrs. A.. N. Burns, Central terrace. Miss Flora Popo has returned to Weiiington after a,holiday, visit to New Plymouth. Mrs. H. Waters, Cashmere Hills, Christehurch, is spending a holiday in Wellington. Mrs. Harold Goggin, Fendalton, Christehurch, is the guest of Mrs. David McNaugbton, Karori. '■ ■ Mrs, John Mopre has returned to Christchurch'' after a visit to the Noi'th Island. . . ' The world 's_ record for attendance jit all-night Parliamentary sittings is said to bo'held by Dr. Jane Waterston, whoso,death in Capo Town, at the ago of 90 was recently announced. 'Tho.late Dr. Watorston sat through every allnight debate since the Union in 1910. Through her bedroom window sho could sco the'lights of the, debating chamber, and. if it remained illuminated after about a quarter-past 11 she would hasten across. Tho first woman to win tho Craven Scholarship at Oxford is Miss Barbara Flower, who -is. only 20 years of age (states a correspondent). The scholarship^is -worth: -■£, 4o for four years. Women .seldom enter for it because they have to facp.a .special form of Latin and Greek verse, which; Miss Flower had to 'translate into Greek and Latin and then into English. She is considered pno of tho v most brilliant scholars at Lady Margaret Hall. Outstanding among British women is Dame Helen Gwynne-Vaughan, G.8.E., D.8.E., LL.D., of Glasgow, who is by profession - a Profesßor of Botany at London University, and is a recognised authority on fungi. She was awarded the Trail Medal of the Linnean Society for researches on protoplasm, is a member of the Home Office committee on. employment of women police, and occupies a. seat on the senate of London University. , M,rs. M. Wilkin, Auckland, is among the guests at the Royal Oak Hotel. Mrs.*'l. Poole, Dunedin, is visiting Wellington, and is staying at the Grand Hotel.