WESTPORT NOTES

Grey River Argus, 28 August 1939, Page 11

WESTPORT NOTES

(Our Own Correspondent.) Monday, 28-9.26 a.m.; 9.40 i Tuesday, 29-9.58 a.m.; 10.12 P.nn Wednesday, 30—10.28 a.m., 10.4 PThursday, 31 —10.58 a.m., 11. x IShipping-. WESTpoRTi August 26. The Poolta is in port loading coal for Bluff Oamaru, Ly tel ton Miramar, expecting to be despatched on Monday. from WelThe Kartigi ls . ex P® ete^ n J°^ a l for iir,Pton on Tuesday to load coal wi New Plymouth, Auckland and Poit--1S The Karetu returns from Wellington about Thursday to again load coa for Wellington. , The Kiwitea is expected fom Auckland about 4th proximo to load coal for return to Auc * T The Rata is expected horn laia kohe about Wednesday to load coal for Tarakohe and Nelson.

P mT Knight has returned from a holiday visit to Nelson. Miss y G. Strachan returned yesterday from a holiday visit to 88 Valley Sir Theodore Rigg, Director of the Cawthron Institute, Nelson, who has been visiting Westport, returned by plane yesterday. . Mr 4 H. Crawley, president of the Nelson Rugby Union, arrived in Westport yesterday by plane. 1 Mr P. C. Allen has arrived from Wellington to join the Westport staff of the Union Steam Ship Company. Mr R. Bush is a visitor to Westport for the Seddon Shield match. Messrs J. Anderson, Spencer, Moore and Haase arrived from Nelson last evening for to-day’s Seddon Shield match. „ , Mr and Mrs Stribley, of Christchurch, are visiting Westport as the guests of Mr and Mrs McCrae, Peel Street. Mrs'Gerald Greer, accompanied by Miss Tui Greer, of Palmerston North, , is spending a short holiday with Mr and Mrs Joe Morgan, Queen Street. Messrs P. J. Rodgers, B. R. Veysey, G. Veysey and J. C. Brown, of Nelson, are visiting Westport. Mrs Lovell (nee Miss Grace Shaw) is visiting Westport for the Seddon Shield match. Mrs Lovell was previously a resident of Westport. Miss Molly Mullan,, who is leaving next week for England, to continue her studies, was the guest of Mrs A. A. Wilson, at an afternoon in the latter’s home yesterday. There were 25 guests, including many ex-students of Nels’on Girls’ College, and a particularly pleasing feature of the gathering was the presentation to Miss Mullan of a past students’ blazer. AU joined in wishing the guest a very happy trip and success in her further educational studies. Debutante Ball: ’me Wnue Star Football Club is to oe congratulated on me success or its annual .Debutante Hall, which was neiu last evening in the Theatre Koyal, attracting a large attendance or uancers unu oiuooxers. ine nan, lasleiuiiy decoraica wnn greciu-iy ana ciub colours, vas sei oif with wen arranged stage appointments, wnerc j sat the Mayor and Mayoress, Mr and' Mrs J. Kilkenny, to whom the de-' butantes were in turn presented, and Mrs Irene Ryan, the Matron of Honour. At approximately 10 p.m. the presentation ceremony began, appropriate music being played by Mrs Curtis’ orchestra. The procession was led by the two little flower-girls, Miss Gracie Methven and Miss Marylon Williams. The debutantes were Misses Madge Douthett, Madge Parkinson, Patricia Lutton, Zelda Bucknell, Moyna Hansby, Patricia Gardiner, Margaret Kerr. The debutantes were attended by Messrs L. Blunt. R. Naylor. R. Fountaine, C. McHerron A. Daily, R. Regan and R. Kilkenny. Tributes to the younger generation were paid by Mr J. Kilkenny. Mr J. Lake •was M.C. for the presentation ceremony and Messrs C. M. Robertson and H. Pain M’s.C. for the dancing. A dainty supper was served by the ladies’ committee, to whom a special vote of thanks was accorded.