In and Oat of Town

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 19885, 11 March 1939, Page 13

In and Oat of Town

News items intended for publication in this column cannot be accepted unless accompanied by the signature and address of the .sender. Notices of engagements require the signatures of both parties, and a charge of 5s will be made for such announcement. The Duke and Duchess of Gloucester are speeding up the final preparations for taking up residence at Barnwell Castle, their new country home, for the Duchess is to have her youngest sister, Lady Angela Dawnay, to stay with her when she arrives home, with her husband, LieutCommander Peter Dawnay, and her baby son, Charles, from New Zealand. The Dawnays, writes a London correspondent, will more or less make their home with the Duke and Duchess while their leave lasts. * » « « Mrs. P. C. Sovrell has returned to NapieV after spending a holiday with Mrs. Mairs, of Ruakituri. * # » * Mrs. Ernest Reeves, Tolaga Bay, is visiting her sister, Miss Leigh DonaldGillies avenue, Epsom, Auckland. # ♦ * * Mrs. Guy Gaddum returned to Mohaka to-day after staying at Wainui Beach. * * • • Mrs. Claude Holden, Wellington, who has been visiting Tolaga Bay, will return home by plane after spending a few days in Gisborne. Mrs. O. T. Williams. Ruatoria, <s leaving to-morrow for Auckland to join the Awatea on a holiday trip to Sydney and other parts of Australia. • 9 • • 'Mrs. G. Long is returning to Hastings to-morrow after spending a holiday with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. T. B. Pearson, Ormond road. * » * * Miss M. M. McKay is spending the week-end with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. A. A. McKay, "Craigleigh," Otoko. * » • » Mrs. J. W. Williams, Fitzherbert street, is visiting her son and daughter-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Paul Williams, Wairoa. * * * » Mrs. M. J. Paviour-Smith, M.A., Hastings, has been appointed relieving principal of the Turakina Presbyterian Maori Girls' College at Marlon for a period of six months. * # * * Prospective brides and bridegrooms in New South, Wales can obtain authentic information on their fitness for marriage at the Marriage Clinic conducted by the Racial Hygiene Association, which receives' a substantial annual subsidy from the State Government. * * * * Miss Grace Palotta, the charming Viennese actress who was so popular in New Zealand 20 years ago, recently arrived from' London on a visit to Sydney, and was given a great welcome by many of her old friends. Miss Palotta was a star in the Gaiety Company of George Edwards' day before she went to Australia, being the original singer (in London) of "O Listen to the .Band." * « » • M'iss D. Bagnall leaves to-morrow for Auckland to join the Awatea, which sails for Sydney on Tuesday next. At Sydney she will embark on the Strathallan for England, and when reaching London will join Miss Hazel Nolan and Misses Helen and 'Mary Thomson, Wellington, who have recently taken a flat there. Later she and Miss Nolan will take a motor tour in Great Britain. ■ -••'• Mr. and Mrs. T. Corson, Riverside road, and their daughter, Mrs. S. InnesJones, Christchurch, left this morning 'in the former's car for the Bluff, where they will embark on the s.s. Maungariui on an excursion trip' to the Sounds and then to Melbourne. They intend shipping their car to Melbourne and will use it for touring in Australia, expecting to be. away from Gisborne for two months.

Mrs. E. Loisel, Tolaga Bay, has returned after visiting Hawke's Bay and Wellington. * * *j * Mrs. L. Jex-filake. Mangapoike, with her family, is spending a holiday at Wainui Bench. * * * » Mrs. A. 11. Jackman, Tolaga Bay. returned yesterday after a visit to Hawke's Bay. :> .•> * * Mrs. E. Trowell, Mangapapa, returned on Wednesday after a holiday trip to Auckland. Mrs. E. Giesen. Wellington, is ex- : peeled to arrive in Gisborne on Tuesday to visit her daughter. Mrs. V. Jervis, Wainui road. * * * # Mr. and Mrs. R. Dobson, Hurahura road, and their daughter. Miss Bunry Dobson, are spending the week-end al Wairoa with Mr, and Mrs. G. Dobson. * * * » Miss Laura Shaw, Gisborne, leaves on Monday for her home in Tahunga, where she intends to spend a few days with her parents. * * # # The Misses C. and E. Johnson, Hospital road, left iby plane on Friday morning for Napier, and will visit Wellington and Auckland before returning home. Mr. and Mrs. F. W. J. Fox, Te Puia, passed through Gisborne yesterday en route to Wellington, where they will embark for England. They were accompanied south by Mrs. C. Fox. « * * * Mrs. W. K. Carter, Clifford street, has returned after 15 months' holiday in Melbourne and Sydney, having crossed the Tasman in the Monterey this week. Mrs. N. H. Bull and Mrs H. McLernon were among the visitors to Ruatoria for the Show there to-day, both acting as judges, Mrs. Bull for the decorative classes and Mrs. 11. McLernon for the cooking section. • * * • Miss Molly Foster, Whitaker street, left to-day by plane for Wellington to be the guest of Miss Hermine Jackson, Lower Hutt, and will remain there for Miss Jackson's marriage to Mr. George Davies, which is to take place on Easter Monday. Miss 'Hermine Jackson is a former resident of Gisborne. V * * » Mr. and Mrs. V. T. C. Savage, Waimata Valley, intend leaving to-morrow for Waikaremoana cm route to Rotorua. They will be accompanied by the former's mother, Mrs. Copeland Savage, who has been visiting them, their trip having been arranged to motor her as far as Rotorua on har return journey to Auckland. • » • • As a lasting way to mark the centennial of New Zealand, the Women's Division of the Farmers' Union is having published a. unique historical book. Entitled "Brave Days: A Tale of Pioneer Women," it has the distinction of having been collected from end to end of New Zealand by members of the W.D.F.U. * * * • Mr. and Mrs. A. Stoneham, Domett street, leave to-morrow for Auckland, where they will embark on the Awatea for Sydney next Tuesday on the first stage of their holiday trip to England. They will be accompanied to Sydney and then as far as Adelaide by thendaughter, Mrs. Arthur Tyndall, Wellington, who will motor them from Sydney to Adelaide in her car, the tour through the Australian States to take a fortnight. On reaching Adelaide Mr. and Mrs. iStoneham will join the Orion for England, but Mrs. Tyndall Will not accompany them further. On their arrival at Southampton they will probably be met there by their son, Dr. Garth Stcneham, who expects to be on holiday leave at that time from the Park Hospital, Manchester, where he is chief gynaecologist and obstetrician.