PERSONAL

Manawatu Times, Volume 61, Issue 43, 21 February 1936, Page 11

PERSONAL

Miss E. Brown, Dunedin, lias been on a visit to lier sister, Miss G. Brown, Bcattio street, Feilding. Mrs M. Gaist'ord and Miss Joan Gaisford, of Fitzhorbert West, left this week on a motor holiday to the north. Miss Mildred Hamilton and Mis B. do V. Blathwpyt, of. Gisborne, are at present tho guests of Mr and Mrs L. J. Plank, Elmira Avenue. Mrs F. Harris/of Walton, who has been visiting her parents, Mr and Mrs H. J. D’Atli, Palmerstoh North, returns home on Monday evening. Misses Flora Conway, Cheltenham, and Marea Bailey, Kiwitea, were among visitors to Hastings this week for the polo ball and wedding of Miss Miricl Small and Dr. Sydney Smith. Mrs E. L. Bennett, formerly of Park road, and now of Karori, Wellington, is visiting Palmerston North and is the guest of Miss K. Owtram, Kanfurly street. Members of the Business Girls' Club were delighted to have their president, Mrs M. H. Oram, at lunch yesterday and to know that she had recovered after her recent illness. Miss Margaret Oram accompanied her mother. On Monday they leave for Christchurch, where Miss Margaret Oram will enter Canterbury College University to continue her studies. Miss Phyllis Bentley', an author w’hoso new book, “Freedom, Farewelll” has just been published and favourably reviewed, is yet another woman of letters who was educated at Cheltenham Ladies’ College, states the Press. Other distinguished authors who have learnt their lessons at that good school are Miss D. K. Broster, Miss Margaret Kennedy', Miss I. A. K Wylie, Miss May Sinclair, and Miss Sylvia Thompson. Miss Bentley', who is 41 years of age, is a Bachelor of Arts. She published her first book iu 1918. She was born in Halifax, where her family was connected with the woollen textile industry and she still lives there.

Advice has been received that Miss Jean McLeod, a yoqng Christchurch musician, has been awarded a twoyear scholarship, valued at £l5O a year, tenable at the Royal Academy of Music, Loudon, states tho Press. Miss McLeod will leave for London in July to take up the scholarship, which is the first of its kind to have been awarded in Now Zealand. Although only 19 years of age, Miss McLeod has had a distinguished musical career. .She gained her A.T.C.L. when she was 14 years of age, and her L.T.C.L. when she was 15. In 1932 and 191 M she won the pianoforte championship at the Christchurch Competitions, also the Christchurch Competitions Society’’s scholarship, valued at 7 guineas. In 1935 Miss McLeod gained- her L.R.S.M. with 18(5 points out of a possible 200. She also passed the harmony examination with distinction and was granted a fellowship of the Trinity College of Music, London.