PARAGRAPHS FROM WANGANUI

Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 52, 29 August 1940, Page 16

PARAGRAPHS FROM WANGANUI

(From "The Post's" Representative.) Mrs. Gordon Christie has returned to Wellington after a visit to her parents. Mr. and Mrs. J. Farr. Miss Shirley Nancarrow is visiting Auckland. Miss M. McCarthy, Wellington, visitled Wanganui for the Campbell—McCarthy wedding. Other guests included Mr. and Mrs. J. Campbell, Mr. and Miss Campbell (Dannevirke), and Mr. and Mrs. F. Ellery (Feilding). Miss M. Clouston has returned from a holiday in Nelson. Miss Joan Hughes, Wellington, is visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. N. Hughes, Kohi. Mr. and Mrs. J. Wynn, Whenuakura, are visiting Wellington. Mr. and Mrs. M. Bremer, of Waverley, are spending a holiday at Paraparaumu. Mr. and Mrs. H. Meads are Bulls visitors to Wellington. Mr. and Mrs. F. W. Wilson, of Hastings, are visiting Bulls and New Plymouth. Miss A. Bunny, Lower Hutt, will visit Mrs. Alec Hatrick this week. Mr. and Mrs. T. Latham and Mr. and Mrs. H. G. Carver are visiting the Chateau.

Dancing Examinations.

Miss Josephine Bradley, vice-presi-dent of the Imperial Society of Ballroom Dancing, London, has been in Wellington only a short while, but during her stay has conducted official society examinations as well as ballroom dancing classes. Miss Peggy Barnard (Napier) and Miss Betty Signall (Wairoa) have been examined by Miss Bradley and are now Associates of the Imperial Society of Teachers of Dancing. Miss Bradley will leave shortly for Sydney, but will return to the Dominion in November, en route to New York. Brooklyn Patriotic Committee Busy. Mrs. J. I. Goldsmith presided at Na meeting of the Brooklyn Patriotic Committee last night. The chairman reported that the following amounts were paid into the funds of the Wellington Metropolitan Committee: —£12 10s, proceeds of a concert held and organised by Mrs. Wilson; £8 10s, from a social afternoon held at the home of Mrs. S. Tingey, Thompson Street; and £543 19s 9d from a picture entertainment given by Mr. Ranish of the Vogue Theatre. The children of the Brooklyn School gave valuable services in connection with the picture evenings, having sold £518 Is worth of tickets. In response to an urgent appeal by the Wellington Metropoliton Patriotic Committee for Christmas parcels for the First, Second, and Third Echelons, the local committee was appealing to the citizens of Brooklyn for gifts of funds and kind. A bridge evening will take place at the Masonic Hall on Saturday, September 14, and as the proceeds are for Christmas parcels the committee hopes that a large number of bridge players will be present. Mrs. Cracknell v/ill be in charge of the local collectors for the street day on Friday. Victoria League "Shop Day." Members of the Victoria League are reminded of the "shop day" which will be held in the league room tomorrow. All interested are asked to assist the funds by taking and buying goods. Popular Games Evening. Many old girls of the society and former residents of the hostel were among those present at a successful games evening held at the Girls' Friendly Society Hostel last night. I Over 90 guests and residents were ' received by the hostess, Miss N. S. Gleeson, matron of the hostel. Bright fires were burning and beautiful spring flowers were arranged in the lounge and dining-rooms, where the games took place, a popular one being the "beetle game," an English innovation introduced by Miss Gleeson. In competing for the "beetle," the winners of the many tables played off finally in a game of escalado. The hostess was assisted by a committee, consisting of Misses Jean Johnston tary-treasurer), Jean Hunter, Gladys Clark, Cora Watt, Julie Price, Ivy Cook, May Nichol, Edith Whitfield, and O. McHardie. The proceeds from the evening will go towards purchasing a new radio for the hostel. Townswomen at Eastbourne. A large number of visitors from six other guilds visited the Eastbourne branch of the New Zealand Union of Townswomen's Guilds (Inc.)- for its second birthday recently. The official party consisted of Mrs. J. Pow (Dominion president), Mrs. P. Kinsman (Dominion secretary), Mrs. E. J. Brownie (Dominion treasurer), Mrs. E. Wise (patroness), and Mrs. Cogdale. They were presented with flowers by Mrs. Humphreys. The president, Mrs. F. Craig, welcomed the guests and thanked the officers for their work during the year. Mrs. Stagg, convener of refugee war work, reported that several large parcels of garments had already been forwarded to headquarters and that more were coming in. Mrs. Robinson, convener, reported on drama circle activities. Mrs. Pow and Mrs. Wise made brief speeches, in appreciation of the guild's work. The Petone singing circle entertained with a bracket of songs, Mrs. •R. Carte recited, Mrs. E. Rae (Petone) gave a character sketch, and the Petone drama circle presented a comedy. During afternoon tea the birthday cake, given by Mrs. Craig, was cut by Mrs. Pow. A special ceremony took place before afternoon tea when the baby daughter of the first president and founder, Mrs. Cogdale, was enrolled as the first member of the junior auxiliary. Brisk business was done at the "bring and buy" stall conducted by Mrs. L. Macklin. The proceeds are to be used for war work. World Conference of Youth. Mr. J. R. Marshall gave an interesting talk to the Y.W.C.A. Business Girls' Lyceum Club on Monday night, describing the world conference of Christian Youth held at Amsterdam a year ago and to which he was a delegate. One thousand and five hundred young men and women of seventy different nationalities attended this conference, with the primary object of regaining the unity of the Church j throughout the world. Many interesting discussions took place between the delegates, who comprised four groups, Continental, Eastern European, Asiatic, and American. Mr. Marshall brought back with him a pair of Dutch wooden clogs as. worn by the Dutch peasants. These clogs had been autographed by many members of the conference, and they aroused much interest when displayed to the Lyceum Club. Miss M. Oxley thanked Mr. Marshall on behalf of the club.