WANGANUI NOTES

Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 103, 28 October 1939, Page 16

WANGANUI NOTES

FOR DISABLED SOLDIERS

(From "The Post's" Representative.)

The Wanganui branch of the Victoria League held its annual party during the week to raise funds for the Cecil Wray fund. The money so raised by this annual effort is sent to Mrs. Wray to use for the war-disabled men at the Queen Mary Hospital. An embroidered gift and a cake, given by Mrs. N. R. Bain and Miss Gibbons, added considerably to the funds of the bridge party. Mrs. Hay-Campbell was the convener. Among the players were Mesdames R. N. Wilson, F. Wylds, Wilkie, G. Sampson, D. G. O'Toole, J. H. Salmon, G. E. Cutfield, C. R. Davies, H^ H. Christie, F. Nancarrow, J. Allison, G. F. Lomas, P. H. Hartland, A. Walker, J. C. Small, S. Barton, H. O. Taylor, M. Allen, C. S. Young, S. Burnett; Misses Matthews, K. Armstrong, E. Parsons, S. Gilbert, Bayly (2), Hudson-Davis, L. and A. McPhail, and Gibbons; and Messrs. Sampson, Rundle, Wilson, H. Gibbons, G. Gordon, and N. Hay-Campbell. College Reunion. Technical College past students concluded the annual Labour weekend reunion by holding a ball at the school. Bright decorations and the school crest and shields adorned the hall. The committee comprised Mrs. R. A. Goodey, Misses E. Siddall, K. Waters, P. Ryan, and Messrs. G. Thompson, F. Spooner, G. Delves, A. Renz, and A. Hansen. The guests of honour were Mr. and Mrs. I. Newton (principal of the college), Mr. J. R. Tizard (president of the Past Students' Association), and Mrs. Tizard, and Mr. and Mrs. K. Anderson. Among the many present were Mesdames G. Thompson, M. Pedley, M. Carr, S. Hanton, S. Wilkinson, Misses P. La Roche, E. Pratt, E. Sanderson, J. Hanrahan (Wellington), K. Brandon, J. McFarland, I. Grant, P. Moye, F. Clark, P. and D. Gurr, S. Mitchell, M. McAdie, S. Hammond, G. McKenzie;- J. Irwin, H. Grieg, W. God- I dard, and F. Mahoney. , j Post Office Party. Following the official gathering at I the site of the new Wanganui postj office, a number of people were the1 guests of the' Post and Telegraph Department at afternoon tea at Foster's Hotel. Among those present were the Hon. F. Jones, Postmaster-General, and Mrs. Jones, and the Ministerial party, Mesdames O'Toole, N. Morrison, A. R. Donaldson, C. R. White, N. R. Bain, J. D.Crowley, E. B. Gordon (Marton, Takarangi), J. H. Keesing, W. J. Gardner, F. Searle, A. D. Brodie, H. C. Jenkins, G. Jones, A: E. Halligan, W. J. Stone,'W. Calders, C. Graham, A. C. Tucker, N. Wallace, J. G. Harris, T. L. Sperring, and J. Allison. Personal. Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Cameron, of Patea, are visiting Hastings. Mrs. and Miss Curtis, Mrs. J. Johnston, Mrs. S. Newman, and Miss Fookes, Wellington, visited Waverley for the McKenzie —Mathieson wedding. Mrs. D. Gamble has returned to Wellington. Mrs. J. G, Swainson, Pahiatua, is visiting Miss Avery. Mr. and Mrs. F. Cullen have returned from Hastings. Mrs. R. W. Haddow and Miss B. Wilson have returned to" Patea from Wellington. Mrs. H. C. Kearney has been a Wellington visitor to Patea for the Clarke —Clark wedding. Misses A. and D. Kuhju*s have returned to Patea after a trip abroad. Miss .D. .Finlayson,. Wellington, is ithe guest of Miss M. Russell. Mrs. E. Peters, Hawke's Bay, is staying'with-her mottier. Mrs;-F: G.-EU, at Waverley. Miss E. Hanley was met .by the staff of the Taihape Borough Council and presented with gifts. The Mayor paid | a tribute to the manner in*which Miss Hanley had carried out her duties, and wished her happiness in her married life. Miss Strauchon, who has been Plunket nurse at Whakatane, has been transferred to Patea. . Miss Meg Stott, Wellington, is the guest of Mrs. G. A. O'NeilL

The wife of the new General of the Salvation Army is a literary woman. Mrs. Carpenter, when she lived in England with her husband during General Bramwell Booth's lifetime, wa_} solely occupied writing biographies of outstanding Salvationists, says the "Daily Telegraph," London. When General Carpenter and Mrs. Carpenter went to South America in 1933, they travelled to many places off the beaten track and made contacts for the Army. The General's wife plays a very important part in the Army scheme. She goes everywhere with the General and she has her own office at headquarters and her own staff. Mrs. Carpenter is a woman of high ideals and has always been a leader of the Army women.