PERSONAL NOTES

Evening Post, Volume CXX, Issue 148, 19 December 1935, Page 18

PERSONAL NOTES

■ : MrSi Frank Hay, who has been the guest of Mrs. Davis at Palmerston NoEth, returned to Wellington yester- - dayMrs. Lawrence Rudkin, Christchurch, accompanied by her family, intend touring in the North Island. They will •rriye in Wellington on Tuesday. Mrs. F. Williams is a Wellington visitor to Auckland, and is the guest of Mrs. S. Goldie, Herne Bay. f Mrs. G. Dixon, Remuera, Auckland, who has been visiting Wellington, has left to visit her brother at Otaki College before returning home. Miss Ngaire Joyce, St. Albans, Christchurch, will arrive in Wellington tomorrow to join her mother. They will take up residence here. ■■ Sir Nesbitt and Lady Armstrong, Tauranga, are the guests of their son-in-law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Cliff, Freyberg Street, Lyall Bay. Mrs. Stronach Paterson has returned to Wellington after a visit to the north. Miss Joyce Neumegen, Auckland, is visiting Wellington. Numerous delightful farewell parties have been given for Mrs. Frank Guinness, Karori, who is leaving Wellingtonshortly to take up her residence in Auckland. Mrs. George Mills, Heretaunga, who has been paying a, brief visit to Hawke's Bay,"has returned' home. Miss Irene ' Stone,- Christchurch, is the guest of Mrs. H; B..1 Ginger, Hataitai.'.'■ - .-. •• .■• Mrs.' H. Gerard, Miiritai, recently entertained a-few'friends at a dinner party at the Royal. Oak Hotel. The party included Mesdames Gerard, White,. Wilkinson, Palmer,. Russell, Appleton, Holloway, and Johns. ; ' Mr. and Mrs. Derrick Gould, Fendalton, Christchurch, will spend the -Christmas holidays with Mr. and Mrs. »D. S. Elworthy, Holme Station, Pareora. ''Miss Sylvia Moss, Wellington,' left last evening for the West Coast, where she intends visiting the glaciers and -lakes of interest there. )■■ Following on the announcement of ■ the engagement of Major Austen Bertram Knight, M.C., to Beatrice Anna, elder daughter of the late Mathew Holmes, M.D., F.R.C.S., formerly of ..Wellington, and of Mrs. Holmes, of ." 41a. Qnslow Square, London, "The Post's" London representative states • that'the wedding is to take place on ~ December 19. The ceremony. will be performed at.Brompton Parish Church, | ; and Mrs. Holmes will hold a reception at 42 Lowndes Square. Miss Holmes . and her fiance met first at Malta four years ago. Their future home will be in Hampshire, where they have bought a beautiful-Old thatched cottage. - Miss Veronica Ward, Christchurch, arrived in. Wellington yesterday on her way to: Napier-to: join the Rotorua for London. "'-''" •■',' - ; ■ : ■ '*" Mrs.c.and; Miss Featherstone (Northwood), Mrs:-Ware; (London), Mrs. Buttar (Edinburgh), Mrs. and Miss H. ! Acton Adams (Tipapi)j Mrs. and Miss Sylvie Scott (Christchurch), Mrs. J. D. Muir (Auckland), Mrs. Norman Taylor (Melbourne), Miss Margaret Shand (Dunedin); Mrs. G. B. Holmes (Christ-church),-Mrs. D.,. Holderness (Auck? land), and Dr. Elizabeth Gunn (Wanganui) are staying at the Midland Hotel. Mrs. W. J. Poison (Stratford), Miss N. Jones. (Dannevirke), and Miss D. Jones (London) are t staying at the Royal Oak Hotel. Mrs. A. ■ Oliver (Portsmouth, England) is staying at the Hotel St. George. Mrs. W. .F. Robb (Gisborne), Mrs.. F. Gatley (Palmerston North)„Mrs.,W.'. J. Wade (Sydney); Miss.E. Paulin (Auckland)*- Mrs. E. J. Lunscombe (Blenheim), Mrs. F. R. Deacon and Miss G. H. Graham (Christchurch) are staying at-the"Empire Hotel. ,