PERSONAL AND SOCIAL

Otago Daily Times, Issue 27012, 22 February 1949, Page 2

PERSONAL AND SOCIAL

Mrs John Ritchie left yesterday by air for Auckland. Dr E. H. McKinnon is expected home from Queenstown to-day. Mrs D. Solomon has returned from a visit to Wellington. Miss Kathleen Grcenslade, of Christchurch, is the guest of Mrs Stanley Greenslade. * ~ . Mr and Mrs Koreneff-Domogatzky, of Wanganui, are guests at Onslow House. Dr lan Rutherford and Mrs Rutherford have left to spend in Nelson. Mrs S. S. Taylor, of Belmont lane, who has been on holiday on the West Coast, is expected home this week. Mrs Leonard Black, of Auckland, who has been a guest at the City Hotel, returned home on Friday. Mrs E. C. Alexander, of Remuera, Auckland, who has been staying with her sister, Mrs I. S. Cantrell, left yesterday by air for the north. At the meeting of the Travel Club .tomorrow Sir Donald Cameron will give a talk entitled “Australian News.” The hostesses will be Mesdames J. Starr and J. Leech. Mrs J. E. Macassey, who has been the guest of Mrs R. S. Black, left yesterday for Christchurch. • Miss Noeline Moody was hostess last week for Miss Doreen Cadwallader, who is to leave shortly for England. Mrs Walter Hislop, of Invercargill, who has been the guest of Mrs’ P. C. Hlslod, of Clyde street, returned home yesterday. Miss Helen Woodward, of Mornington, returned last week from overseas after five years and a-half military and Allied duties in Europe and London. After spending two years in England, Mrs Dorothy Williams is now homeward bound in the Orion, which if due at Sydney on February 24. Mrs Williams expects to arrive in New Zealand early in March. Mrs A. H. Oswin and Miss Rita Oswin, of Auckland, who have been guests at the City Hotel, left yesterday by air on their return Journey. Dr L. Harding and Mrs Harding, of London, who have been the guests of Mr and Mrs Arthur Barnett, left yesterday by ear for the north. Miss Clare Neale, of Royal terrace, who is on the staff of Canterbury University College, has returned to Christchurch. Mrs Russell Ritchie and Miss Joan Ritchie will leave Dunedin on Thursday to join the Dominion Monarch en route to England. A most successful bridge party organised by Mrs J. Cooke was held yesterday in the Pioneer Women’s Memorial Hall, with 21 tables participating. Members are looking forward keenly to the bridge competitions to be held on March 14 and 28. Among visitors from Dunedin who will attend the wedding of Miss Nan Cunningham and Mr John Douglas, of Oamaru, at " Castle Downs ” station, Southland, to-morrow, will be Mr and Mrs R. C. B. Greenslade. Mrs Norman Speight, Mr and Mrs Fraser Edmonds, Mr and Mrs Donald Reid, Mrs S. D. Macpherson, Mrs W. O McKellar, and Miss Alice Mary McKellar. Mrs A. R. Harris, vice-president, presided over a fair attendance of members at a meeting of the Post and Telegraph Women’s League held in the lounge at the Chief Post Office on Wednesday evening. After the completion of business, members were entertained with pianoforte solos by Mrs Dodds. The flower competition resulted:—Mrs Hannah 1, Mesdames Dodds and Wahren (equal) 2. The annual day of prayer for missions will fall on Friday, March 4, the day selected by the Women’s International Board of Missions. The theme for the day throughout the world is ’’ The Lord is thy keeper” (Psalm 121: 5), and the local meetings, which are arranged by a committee of women, from seven different denominations of the Protestant Church, will be held as usual in the Moray Place Congregational Church. The collections will be given to the starving women and children of Europe.