PERSONAL NOTES

Evening Post, Volume CXXVII, Issue 19, 24 January 1939, Page 14

PERSONAL NOTES

Commodore and Mrs. H. E. Horan and Miss Sheila Horan will leave Wellington at the weekend for a holiday visit to Rotorua. Mrs. A. de B.Brandon, Hobson Street, will leave for a visit to her daughter, Mrs. Birch, Dannevirke, and will later stay with Mrs. Herrick, Hawke's Bay. Mrs. Lamartine Dwan, Kerikeri, will visit Hawera and Wellington before leaving for Sydney. Miss Patricia Gilmer, Wellington, who has been spending about six months in England and on the Continent, left from Tilbury on January 6 by the Rangitiki, which is bound for Auckland, states a message from "The Post's'\London correspondent. Mr. and Mrs. T. R. Lawson, Talavera Terrace, who have been making a holiday visit to Sydney, returned to Wellington yesterday by the Awatea. Miss Kathleen Cameron, who recently returned from England, is visiting Mrs. Donald Cameron, Glendhu, Wairarapa. Mrs. T. E. Y. Seddon and her family have returned from Rotorua, where they had a house for the holidays. • Professor and Mrs. James Shelley, who visited Christchurch for the marriage of their son, returned to Wellington at the weekend. The Misses Nora and Judith Firth, Christchurch, have been visiting Wellington for the races. ' The Rev. and Mrs. T. R., Richards, • Wellington, are visiting Hastings, where they are the guests of Mr. and 1 Mrs. Mervyn Richards. Mr. Richards will officiate at the Richards—Gloyn wedding. Mrs. J. H. Frater, who has been visiting Wellington, has returned to her home in Remuera, Auckland. Canon and Mrs. Stephen Parr, College House, Christchurch, arrived at Wellington yesterday, after spending a year abroad. Miss Alison Parr and Mrs. O. Parr came to Wellington to meet them. Mr. and Mrs. T. F. Latham, Wanganui, ■wfho have been visiting relatives* in Canterbury and Dunedin, have left for Blenheim, where they will be the guests of Mr. and Mrs.. C. G. Teschemaker, Avondale. They will later visit Hawke's Bay, where they will be the guests of Mrs. J. Ormond, Wallingford, for the Herrick—Ormond wedding. Mrs. Wyn Scammel, Wellington, returned by the Awatea yesterday after a month's cruise to Fremantle and all the Australian ports. Mrs. T. Revell and Miss Ngareta Humphrey, Auckland,, are visiting Mrs. Pat Ward, Martinborough. Miss Ethel Trewavas, Motueka, is spending a holiday in Wellington, and will visit Palmerston North before returning home. Mrs. James Tattersfield, Auckland, who has been making an extended tour abroad, will arrive at Wellington by the Taniaroa on Thursday. The death has occurred at Milford-ori-Sea of Miss Winifred L. BoysSmith, formerly of Otago University, states "The Post's" correspondent, Writing from London on January 5. Miss Boys-Smith had been living in England for some years.. At one time she was a voluntary worker on the staff of the Rothhamsted Experimental Station, where she was engaged upon work in connection with illustrations for tlie British Empire exhibit. Miss BoysSmith was 73. ' 1 : Miss J. Bell, Kaikohe, who has been visiting Wellington, has returned home. Mrs. M. Ferguson, Auckland, has left by car for Te Kuiti, and will later) visit Wellington. Mrs. S. C. Gillies, Wellington, and Mr. Ronald Gillies will leave for the south tonight to attend the wedding of Miss R. Foden-Jbnes to Mr. Alex. Grigor, which will take place in Christchurch tomorrow. Miss Hazel Neil, Christchurch, is visiting Wanganui, and is the guest : of Miss Gladys Tonkins, Liverpool Street. Mrs. W. T. Yeatman and Miss -Marjorie Yeatman, Onehunga, who have been visiting Wellington, have returned home. ... Guests at the Empire Hotel are as follows:—Miss B. Warburton (Brisbane), Miss K. O'Donnell and Miss G. O'Brien (Taranaki), Mrs. J. J. McDougall (New South Wales), Mrs. T. W. Lees (Western Australia), Mrs. J. McLeod and Miss McLeod (Sydney), and Miss F. Finlayson (Auckland). Those staying at the Midland Hotel include Lady Wigram (Christchurch), Mesdames C. Daniels (Hawke's Bay), Norman Baker (Sydney), J. R. Trey- .... vaud (Melbourne), W. H. Read (Wahroonga, New South Wales), G. Knowles, T. Staple (Sydney), J. Black, A. Stokan, M. M. Rowe, S. and'E. Mitchell (Victoria), Misses B. Mulgreeney and M. . H. Sutton (Sydney), J. Chadwick, P. H. Ford, and H. Golden (Victoria). Mesdames W. O'Callaghan (Hawera), G. Collins (Wanganui), L. H. Ainsworth (England), M. Wahfeld and H. Meves (Seattle, U.S.A.), Hugo Meaves (Los Angeles), E. L.' King, D. Blacklock, J. N. Green (Sydney), Faulkner (Melbourne), Qrumpston (Canberra), D. P. Howells (South Africa); W. J. Humphries and Perl Boundy (England).