PERSONAL AND SOCIAL

Otago Daily Times, Issue 24909, 7 May 1942, Page 3

PERSONAL AND SOCIAL

Mr and Mrs W. O. McKellar left yesterday on a visit to Hanmer Springs. Lady le Fleming left by air yesterday on a visit to Wellington. Miss Janet Murchison, of Timaru. is visiting Mrs W. E. Hunt, of "Waitoru Downs," Southland. Mrs H. Edbrooke, of Darfield, is at present visiting Dunedin, and is a guest at Wain's Hotel.

Mrs E. R. Garden and Mrs W. H. Tucker will leave to-day with their families for a holiday at Wanaka. Mrs A. Lorimer Hogg arrived on Tuesday from Palmerston North to visit her parents, Mr and Mrs J. Strachan, of Manor place. Mrs Edward Steele, of Oamaru, arrived yesterday for a visit to Dunedin, and is a guest at Wain's Hotel.

Mrs O. More, of Wellington, arrived on Tuesday, and will be the guest, for a few days, of her sister, Mrs R. W. Dick, of Grendon street, Maori Hill. The Mornington E.P.S. aid post in the Mornington bowling pavilion (entrance from English avenue) will be open on Saturday afternoon for public inspection.

Miss E. A. Hardy, daughter of Mr and Mrs J. L. Hardy, of Alexandra, left, by the through express last Tuesday for Hawera, where she will commence her nurse's training in the Hawera Public Hospital.

Mr and Mrs E. L. Ussher, who have been guests of Mr and Mrs C. A. Hill, of Mornington. will visit Oamaru this week, where they will be the guests of Mr and Mrs H. H. Stedman, before returning to their home at Sumner, Christchurch.

A few months ago the Union of Jewish Women of New Zealand provided an ambulance for members of the Auxiliary Territorial Service in Palestine. Since then, the union has concentrated on equipping two ambulance trailers, which are now ready for use, and will be given to the Home Guard in New Zealand.

Miss Mary Enright, a solicitor, who for the last three years has been secretary to the directorate of the State Advances Corporation in Wellington has been temporarily appointed associate to Mr Justice Fair, Auckland, to replace Mr Nigel Taylor, who is to return to camp. Miss Enright, whose father is a member of a well-known West Coast family, was educated in Auckland.

Miss Rosina Buckman, the New Zealand singer, who has been in England for the last 25 years, has on three different occasions been dispossesed of her seaside homes in North Wales by the Government authorities, who required the properties for defence purposes. Her husband, Maurice d'Oisly, singer, and an examiner for the Royal Academy of Music, is now serving in the British Army. A book afternoon was held by the Austral-Girton Club on Saturday in the Otago Pioneer Women's Memorial Hall, when Miss Frances Ross presided. Reviews were given of the following books: "King's Nurse, Beggars' Nurse" (Sister Catherine Black), by Miss C. White; "There'll Always Be an England" (S. P. B. Mais), prepared by Miss F. Pacey and read by Miss Owen; "With Love and Irony" (Lin Yutang), Mrs J. S. Thomson; " Scenes from Clerical Life" (George Eliot), Mrs P. Milburn; "China in Peace and War" (Madame Chiang Kai-shek), by Mrs F. J. Moore; "The Country of the Binted Firs" (Sarah Orme Jewett), Mrs J. Samson. The sum of £5 was given to the All Purposes Fund, and the club decided to work this year for the Red Cross.

A double wedding, at which the bridegrooms were members of the 2nd New Zealand Expeditionary Force in the Middle East, and the brides were both American girls on the teaching staff of the American College for missionaries' children at Assiut, Egypt, took place on March 4 in the college. The bridegrooms were Staff Sergeant Norman G. Goffin, of Christchurch, his bride being Miss Lyn Smith, of Cutler, Illinois, and Stanley J. Palmer, of Wellington, who was married to Miss Florence Funk, of Ness City, Kansas.