PERSONAL AND SOCIAL

Otago Daily Times, Issue 26543, 19 August 1947, Page 2

PERSONAL AND SOCIAL

Miss N. Pinder left on Saturday on a visit to Christchurch. Mr and Mrs George Chaffee, jun., returned on Sunday from a visit to Mount Cook. Mrs C. Speight, of Southland, who has been the guest of Mrs H. J. Ryburn, of Knox College, returned to her home yesterday. Members (if the staff of Arthur Barnett, Ltd., were entertained by the company at a ball in the Concert Chamber recently, when the guests were received by Mr and Mrs Arthur Barnett, jun. The hall was attractively decorated with small lights, balloons, and the large "Arthur Barnett horse ” made of silver tinsel. During her war service on the Dutch hospital ship Oranje, Miss M. E. Webb, occupational therapist at the Public Hospital. represented the Joint Council of the Red Cross and St. John Ambulance Societies of New Zealand, and not of Australia, as was previously stated in this column. Mr and Mrs C. R. Smith, of Maryhill terrace, left on Saturday for Welllington, where they will be the guests of their daughter, Mrs J. Nelson, of Eastbourne. Mr Smith will attend the conference of the New Zealand Electrical Federation to be held in Wellington this week. Fourteen hundred invitations have been sent out to nurses who trained at Wellington Hospital, inviting them to a

gathering to be held as part of the centennial celebrations of the hospital in September. The gathering is being sponsored by the Wellington Hospital Nurses’ Reunion Association. To help the food for Britain funds, Mr W. Russell-Wood gave a studio recital recently The programme was varied, and was presented on an attractivelydecorated stage. Contributing to the programme of verse-speaking, sketches, and monologues were the following:— Mesdames M Poulter, W. Taylor, A Turnbull. Misses Avis Manly, E. Peat, D. Martin, June Cooper, G. Umbers, G. Botting, Cynthia Kean, M. Boyle. A. Holloway, D. Faithful, Mary Gray. Winsome Marshall, -Shirley Miller, B. Noonan, P. Lennox, Dawn McAra, June Wilson, A. McAllan, J. McAuliffe, Jocelyn'Attewell, Marjorie Munro, Lois Pope, Messrs R. McKenzie, T. Jones, J. K. Dolan. Masters Ken McFarlane, G. Bruce, L.' Rush, Roland Stewart, Billy Chambers, W. McAuliffe, M, Finlay, W. McLean, Neil Churcher, and Harold Campbell. At the conclusion of the programme Mr Rus-sell-Wood contributed several enjoyable recitals.