PERSONAL AND SOCIAL

Otago Daily Times, Issue 26846, 10 August 1948, Page 2

PERSONAL AND SOCIAL

Mr and Mrs Forsyth Barr are visiting Christchurch for the Grand National. Mrs R- C. B. Greenslade has left for an extended holiday in Australia. Mr and Mrs Arthur Barnett are visitors to Christchurch for the races.

Mr and Mrs' Arthur Nichols, of Maheno, are visiting Christchurch for the races. Mr and Mrs W. Cunningham, of Dipton, are on holiday in Christchurch. Mr and Mrs Donald Reid are visiting Christchurch for the Grand National meeting.

Mr and Mrs Allan Speight, of Redcliffs Station, are spending a holiday in Christchurch.

Miss Blanche Gibbs, of, Gore, is the guest of Mrs A. A. Fairbairn, of Lane End, Montpellier.

Mr and Mrs Edgar Orbell are visitors to Christchurch for the Grand National. Mrs R. Sarginson, of Wellington, who was in Dunedin for the Scorgie-Watt wedding, has returned home. Mr and Mrs Stewart Faulks, of Wanaka, are spending a holiday in Christchurch for National Week.

Miss Joan Ostler, of Wellington, is the guest of Mrs C. W. S. Jerram, of Hawthorne avenue, Mornington.

Miss Sylvia Thomson, of Highgate, has returned to Dunedin, after completing her Karitane training course in Christchurch. Dr A. K. King and Mrs King, of Lower Hutt, who have been guests at the City Hotel, returned home yesterday. - Miss Veda Wyatt, of Sydney, who will arrive in Dunedin by air to-day, will be the guest of her aunt, Mrs E. Morrison, of Queen’s drive, Musselburgh. Mrs O. C. Stephens, of Clyde street, left yesterday for Balclutha to judge at the play festival of the South Otago area of the Drama League, A general meeting of ex-nurse trainees of the Dunedin Hospital has been arranged for August 12. at 7.45 p.m. in the lecture room of the Nurses’ Home. It is hoped to form a social club to keep nurses in touch with old associations.

Mrs J. Thomson, of Macandrew Bay. was the speaker at the monthly meeting of the combined women’s committee of the National Party, which was held at the party centre on Thursday afternoon. Mrs Thomson gave an interesting talk on “ The Legal Rights of Women in New Zealand.” Mrs J. Campbell, chairwoman of the St. Kilda women’s section, presided.

At the annual general meeting of the council of the New Zealand Red Cross Society held in Dunedin Miss E. L. Wilkin was unanimously elected to the position of “ Councillor of Honour ” of the New Zealand Red Cross Society, which is the society’s highest award. Miss Wilkin occupied the position of advisory director of Otago voluntary aids for seven years and was also centre commandant for Otago until 1944. In 1946 she wafe made a vice-president of the New Zealand Society. At the present time she is vice-president' of’the Otago centre and is a member of the Dunedin sub-centre executive.