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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 101, 31 March 1937, Page 13

Mrs R. E. Hewat, formerly of Palmerston North, who will shortly make her home in Australia, is visiting Christchurch.

Miss Rita Lavin, of Hayill Street, Palmerston North, is spending a noliday in Auckland.

Mrs F. Hockley, of Kairanga, and Mrs T. Rowlands, of Karere, will leave for England next week to see the Coronation celebrations.

Mr and Mrs F. Opie, of College Street, have staying with them Mrs R. Stewart, of Karori, Wellington. Mr and Mrs P. Ashcroft, of Napier, left Lyttelton for London to-day. Shortly after their arrival there they will attend the wedding of Mr L>. Walker Ashcroft to Miss E. J. Patrick, of Dunedin, and afterwards they will bo present at the conference of the Rotary International at Nice. They expect to return in November.

The death has occurred, after a fortnight’s illness, of Mrs Alice Mary Acton-Adams, of Clarence Reserve, Kaikoura, widow of Colonel Percy M. Acton-Adams, D. 5.0., V.D., a wellknown sheep farmer with a distinguished military career, who died in November, 1927. She was the youngest daughter of the late Mr Francis ]>. S. Neave, a prominent resident of Canterbury, who, after graduating B.A. at Oxford, came to New Zealand in 1864 in the ship Devonshire,, and did his share in the pioneering work of the province, being particularly interested in education.

Quite a unique wedding idea was carried out at Hastings on Saturday when two brothers, Messrs George and John Caves, were married, the former’s wedding being solemnised in the afternoon and at the latter’s wedding in the evening Mr and Mrs George Caves, the bridegroom and bride of the afternoon, were best man and matron of honour respectively, at the evening wedding.

Blue primroses on view at the Horticultural Hall in London recently attracted much admiration. For several years past there gay little relatives of the demure woodland primrose have enlivened the rock garden in spring and early summer. One of the finest of the “blue” primroses is really a pale mauve blossom. 1 his little flower will he seen to advantage on the luncheon table if given an unobtrusive background of clear crystal or stone-coloured pottery, writes a London correspondent.