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Manawatu Standard, Volume LXI, Issue 138, 13 May 1941, Page 7

Mrs I?. D. Knight, of T.ongburn, has returned f«u a visit to Napier.

Miss Grace Mills, of Church Street, is visiting Tc Awamutu. Miss Betty inglis, of Fjtzhcrbcrt Avenue, left yesterday to spend a holiday in Dunedin. Mr and Mrs F. Slater, of Palmerston North, have returned from a fishing trip to Whanguroa Harbour. Miss Joyce Wellwood, of the sta/T of the Intermediate School, is spending the holidays in the South Island. Mrs A. Mall, of Palmerston North, and Mrs l. Jlurt.y, of Christchurch, are visiting their mother, Mrs J. B. Moodic. of Maoterton.

Mrs O. Stcans. of Remucra, Auckland, is :> visitor to Palmerston North, for the Steam;—jJicvvn wedding, and is the guest of Alt and Air.- W. Gut,ten, Napier Road.

'I he Manawatu Scottish Society held a pleasant inglcsidc in the Cosmopolitan llall on Saturday night. ’I lie Monte Carlo was won bv Private August and Alisa \\ right, and the Ducky Gay Gordons by Mr Sharp and Miss Anderson. Air Sinclair was AI.C. "■

The weekly. A.N.A. Club dance was held at Miss Gwen Gibbs’s studio on Saturday night and was well patronised by members ot the Air Force, a number coming Irom Wcraroa. The hostesses were Airs M. C. McGregor and Miss R. Gillies, and the pianist Miss I'. King. Mrs J. Kennedy, convener of the gardening circle of the Townswomen’s Guild, was presented with a birthday gilt by fellow members at their meeting yesterday. Prizes were presented to Airs Curruthers lor having won most prizes during the year and to Airs Whitehead us runnerup. On Saturday memhi rs of the Manawatu Auxiliary Service Corps gave practical help to residents in the flooded areas at Itokowliitu by taking a quantity of vegetables, gic.vvr on tlicir own plot, to a central point where those in need could help themselves to as much as they requited. The vegetables included 10 sacks ol carrots, and more were distributed yesterday.

the 6Sti, anniversary of their wedding was celebrated recently by Air and Airs IV. IJ. R, Dale, of Christchurch, parents ol Air B. J;. Is. Dale, of Palmerston North. Mrs Dale was born in Wellington in Tjss, her patents; Air and Alls George Green Buck, bung early pioneers, having arrived in 1542 Mr Dale is 87 years of age, and was born iri Condon in 1854. \\ itli his parents, Air and Airs William Dale, lie arrived at Lyttelton in 1856, in the ship Kgraont. Of Mr and Airs Dale’s family of seven sons, five are living. I here arc 14 grandchildren and cigliL great-grandchildren. Mr and Airs I'-. K. S. Dale attended the celebrations.