Personal

Manawatu Times, Volume LIV, Issue 7084, 5 December 1929, Page 11

Personal

Mrs. Lucas is a Palmerston North visitor at present in Auckland.

Mr. and Mrs. Owen McElroy, of Feilding, are visiting New Plymouth.

Miss Ethel Law, travelling secretary for Y.W.C.A. is at present in Palmerston North.

Miss Ruby Gillies, of Palmerston North, is the. guest of Miss Jean Graham, Dannevirke.

Miss Ruth Clark, who has bcon tho guest of Mrs. J. G. Scott, Dannevirke, has returned to the South Island.

Mrs. Stanfield, of Dannevirke, is on a brief visit to her daughter, Mrs. G. A. Rotherham, Haitaitai, Wellington.

Miss Ball, who has been holidaying in Napier and Dannevirke, has returned to her home in Langston Avenue, Palmerston North.

Miss Bertha Harris, of Christchurch, is staying with Mrs E. L. Barnes, of Palmerston North, prior to motoring, through to Auckland and district.

Mrs. J. W. Whitehead, of Napier, who has been staying with her Uncle and Aunt, Mr, and Mrs. H. J. Turner, Grey street, Palmerston North, left yesterday by express for Auckland enroutc to Sydney on an extended holiday.

On board the Malolo, at present in Auckland, there are three telephone girls, of whom Miss Dorothy O’Keefe is chief. They control 500 telephone lines'on board the' liner. There is always one on duty, day and night, and they work in shifts of four hours oh, eight hours off. It is their duty to see that no call is kept waiting one minute-

This evening will mark an event to which many have been looking forward for some weeks past and that is the grand dance to be held by the All Friends ’ Club in aid of the Palmerston North Garrison Band funds at the Band hall. Excellent music will bo supplied by the band and a professional orchestra and. everyone should have an enjoyable evening. Miss Jean Muir will judge a fox-trot and a waltzing competition.

Several of tJw girl visito-s on the American ship Malolo made his: ory in Me’bourno wh-’a the vappeared at the Englisihispeaking Union ball wearing evening drees, but with bare legs. As a matter of fact, it was so little obvious that it was detected only by a few of tihe Melbourne guests. Apparently, it .is..quite a frequent thing,for stockings to be discarded in California at ceremonial occasions as well as at sports anid, picnics, but California is looked upon as being less conventional than'her sister States. Nor is the fashion popular with most of the women passengers on the Malolo.