PERSONAL ITEMS.

Star (Christchurch), Volume XLIV, Issue 188, 10 August 1931, Page 10

PERSONAL ITEMS.

Mrs Horace Macalister, Invercargill, is visiting Christchurch for the races. Mrs C. A. Fraer, Christchurch, is paying a short visit to Wellington. Mr and Mrs Frank Malfroy, Hastings, are staying in Christchurch, and will later visit Rangiora. Mrs Edgar Stead, “ Ilam,” returned to Christchurch on Saturday morning from a trip to England. Mr and Mrs C. F. Murray. Wharanui, Marlborough, returned last week from a trip # to England. Mr and Mrs J. M. Pears, Dunrobin Valley, Southland, arrived 3'esterday for the race week activities. Mrs Robert Stout (Invercargill) arrived yesterday to visit her mother, Mrs W. Gunn, Aikman’s Road. Mrs Fordham, Wellington, is staying with her sister, Mrs Cecil Wood, Armagh Street West. Mrs Hector Rolleston, who has been visiting Mrs Rolleston, sen., Feldalton, has returned to Wellington. Mr and Mrs W. T. Hazlett and Miss Kitty Hazlett (Invercargill) will arrive to-day for the race week festivities. Miss Betty Herbert. The Terrace, Wellington, arrived on Saturday to be the guest of Miss Phyllis Francis, Rossall Street, for race week. Mr and Mrs A. E. Broughton (Wanganui), Mr and Mrs E. Lorrigan and Miss A. Lorrigan (Timaru) are among th§ guests at, the Royal Hotel. The death is announced, in Hamilton, of Mrs Phillips-Turner, wife of Mr E. Phillips-Turrrer, formerly director of the New Zealand State Forest Service. Miss Cynthia Wilson and Mr Hamish Wilson, Bulls, will be the guests of Mrs J. Cracroft Wilson, Cashmere, for the race week festivities. Miss Millicent Grose (Wellington) and Miss Dorothy Poison (Wanganui) are the guests of Mrs C. M. Ollivier, “ Glenelg,” Murray Aynslev’s Hill, for Grand National Week. Mr and Mrs W. Wills, Invercargill, will arrive in Christchurch to-day for the race week festivities, and will stay with the latter’s parents, Mr and Mrs M. H. Ward, Bishop Street, St Albans. Mrs C. Deith, widow of the late Captain G. T. Deith, formerly of the Federal Steamship Line, arrived in Auckland by the Rangitane on Thursday, on a visit to relatives in the South Island. While in Auckland she is the guest of Mr and Mrs J. B. Paterson, Remuera. Miss Stella Murray, who has been singing at the Strand Corner House, where her talent has met with tremendous appreciation, is busy fulfilling engagements to sing at private parties, writes our London correspondent. Towards the end of the month she is hoping to give a New Zealand party at her flat in South Kensington. Mr and Mrs J. W. Hillary, Christchurch, accompanied by their two daughters, are now staying in London, says our correspondent. Early in July they went on a motor tour of England and Scotland, and later they will spend some time in the south of England. Miss E. N. Lawrence, Christchurch, is travelling with the New Zealand farmers’ party on their tour of Great Britain and the Continent. Dr Mary R. Barkas, daughter of Mr Fred Barkas. of Timaru, who studied medicine 1 in London at St Mary’s Hospital, is now medical superintendent at The Lawn, Lincoln, the well-known hospital for mental and nervous diseases, writes, our London correspondent. In their annual report the governors of The Lawn said that it was their great desire to support Dr Barkas in her generous service, and to provide means for her plans for the comfort of the patients and the improvements of the institution to the full extent of their power. Miss D. Ellin, of Whangarei, and Miss E. M’Donald, of Christchurch, left New Zealand two years ago, and have since been engaged working their way through Africa, from Cape to Cairo. They are both nurses, and worked in the Cape, the Transvaal, Rhodesia and Kenya. From Southern Rhodesia they travelled through the Belgian Congo and Tanganyika to Kenya, and from Lake Victoria they travelled to Cairo by air. Miss M’Donald is nursing in Egypt for a while, but Miss Ellin went on to England, where she expects to nurse for a, while before working her way across Canada and the United States back to New Zealand.