PERSONAL AND SOCIAL

Otago Daily Times, Issue 24855, 3 March 1942, Page 3

PERSONAL AND SOCIAL

Mrs R. Werner left during the weekend for Christchurch.

Mr and Mrs W. A. Saunders left yesterday on a visit to Queenstown. Mrs J. Fleming Douglas is visiting Kokonga. Dr and Mrs Carswell will return to-day from a holiday in Queenstown. Miss Joan Tennent has returned from a visit to Auckland.

Miss Coreen Ogston has returned from a visit to Karitane.

The Hon. Mrs Patrick May is at E resent visiting Dr Douglas, of Oamaru, efore returning to Christchurch.

Mrs W. R. Lloyd Williams, of Alexandra, is spending a holiday in Dunedin.

Mrs A. .C. Matheson was a passenger by plane to Wellington on Saturday last.

Miss Nancy Hartmann, of Hawke’s Bay, who has recently returned from abroad, is at present staying at Leith House.

Mrs Selwyn Kenrick, Mrs Trevor Mace and Miss Barbara Mace arrived from Auckland on Friday and are the guests of Mrs Ida Miles. The five little Dionne quintuplets, with their sister Paula, have recently formed a Brownie Six, arid a teacher in their nursery is to be their Brown Owl They received their uniforms on their recent birthday, and chose the “Sprites” for their six emblem. A happy kitchen evening was tendered to Miss Ruth Nisbett. whose marriage is to take place next Saturday, by Miss Doris Henderson, at her home in Bayfield road, Anderson’s Bay, last Thursday. Many useful presents were received by the prospective bride.

Miss Lina Jones, a teacher at the Methodist mission’s head ■ station, Roviana, Solomon Islands, has arrived in Auckland. She was one of an amateur crew of, 11 who sailed a 19-ton mission schooner 1000 miles from the islands to Australia to escape the advancing Japanese./ ‘The death has occurred at the age of 94 of Mrs Sarah Bade, widow of Mr Thomas Bade, formerly of Auckland. Mrs Bade, who was the daughter of Mr William Atkins, was the first white child born at Howick- and was a descendant of early Indian Mutiny pensioners. She was married to Mr Bade at Remuera in 1867, and w r ent to live at Remuera when there were only four houses there. During the Maori Wars Mr Bade was with the Army Service Corps engaged in transport work between Auckland and the Waikato. Mrs Bade is survived by her only daughter and five of her seven sons. V'V