PERSONAL ITEMS.

Star (Christchurch), Volume LXIV, Issue 932, 30 November 1933, Page 8

PERSONAL ITEMS.

Mr and Mrs J. Matson, Sumner, have returned from Hanmer Springs. Mrs E. S. Vernon is spending a holiday at Hanmer Springs. Mrs James Watherston, Fendalton, is spending a holiday in North Canterbury.

Mrs S. M. Smart, Blenheim, who has been visiting friends in Christchurch, has returned home. Mrs Willes, Warwick House, who visited Hanmer for the jubilee celebrations, has returned to town. Miss Marjorie Sheridan, Sydney, is the guest of Sir Cyril and Lady Ward, Merivale Lane. \Mrs G. A. Pascoe, Merivale Lane, has returned home after visiting Auckland and Wellington.

Mrs H. L. Bowker, Merivale, and Miss Rust, Shirley, returned last evening from Queenstown. Mr and Mrs J. C. Wilson, Cashel Street West, are spending a holiday in Auckland. Mrs C. M. Rickman. Oamaru, is visiting Christchurch for the Pashby-Cress-well wedding.

Mrs Wilfred Howell, who has been the guest of Mrs Eric Marchant, Lower Hutt, has returned to Timaru.

Miss Elsie Macaulay, Highfield, has returned home after spending a holiday irt Christchurch. Mr and Mrs P. A. Elworthy, Gordon’s Valley, and Miss Julius, Cashmere Hills, are on a camping trip to Southland. Miss Ethel King. Dunedin, who has been spending a holiday with Miss Mary Anderson, has returned home. Miss Molly Daily. St Albans, who has been staying with Mrs B. Grant, Palmerston North, returned home yesterday morning. Mrs Snow, Invercargill, is visiting Nelson after spending a short holiday with her son-in-law and daughter, Mr and Mrs L. W. Matson, Aikman’s Road. Miss Helen Thomson, Montreal Street, who has been visiting relatives in Sydney, will leave by the Niagara next week, on her return home.

Mrs A. C. Nathan, Eltham Lodge, who has been visiting her sister, Mrs R. Jamieson, Christchurch, has returned hdme. Nurse I. Gibbs, of the staff of the Greymouth Hospital, is spending her annual holiday with her parents, at King Street, Rangiora.

Miss Dorothy Trott, Lake Tekapo, who has been spending a short holiday in Christchurch, returned home on Tuesday. Mr and Mrs Herbert Elworthy. Craigmore, who have been staying with their daughter, Mrs A. P. Kinross White, Hawke’s Bay, haVe returned home.

Mr t D. Reese and Miss Celia Reese, Cashmere Hills, who have been on a trip to Sydney, will return to New Zealand by the Niagara, which leaves on December 8.

Mrs C. Trimnell and Miss Nancy Trimnell, Wellington, were among the passengers for New Zealand by the Oronsay, which left Tilbury on October 23.

Mr and Mrs Kenneth Myers, who were married at Toronto recently, arrived in Auckland by the Niagara on Monday. Mr Myers is a son of the late Sir Arthur Myers. Dr and Mrs Clennell Fenwick, who have been living at Sumner for the last six months, have returned to their home in Gloucester Street West. Miss Thodey, Wellington, is visiting them.

Mrs C. Herbert Lawrence, Fendalton, returned to-day from a visit to the North Island. Her mother, Mrs Giffqrd Moore, Palmerston North, is staying with her.

Miss Dinah Monro, “ Bank House ”, Marlborough, who has been spending a short holiday in Christchurch, has gone on to Dunedin, and will return to Christchurch on Monday. Miss Marjorie Davie, formerly of Christchurch, will arrive from England by the Tainui next month, to visit her mother, Mrs F. 11. Davie, Sumner. She will spend a few months in New Zealand prior to her return to England to be married.

Dr and Mrs G. R. Kingston, of Timaru returned to London from Scotland in September, writes the London correspondent of the “Times” on October 27. While in Edinburgh Dr Kingston passed the examination for the Fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons.

Mr and Mrs Laurence Rudkin and their daughter, Joan, Glandovey Road, have returned to England from a short trip to the Continent. They intend to spend Christmas in London, and will return to Sydney by the Orsova, sailing from London on February 3. Miss Nancy Monck, only daughter of Mr S. Monck, Waimatu, Poverty Bay, and a granddaughter of Mr Stanley Monck, an early pioneer of Canterbury and a settler of Monck’s Bay, celebrated her twenty-first birthday recently. Miss Monck’s mother is a granddaughter of Mr Thomas Gordon, the first town clerk of Christchurch. Appreciation of the assistance given by the members of the Sanatorium Service Association was expressed by Matron Trumble, on behalf of herself and Sister Moloney, at the annual meeting of the Sanatorium Service Association yesterday. The matron said that she had received much assistance and it had been a great pleasure to be associated with the Women’s Committee in a very deserving work. The trustees of the Wellington diocesan School for Girls, Marton, have received confirmation that the selection committee appointed by them in England to find a successor to Miss M’Call. have unanimously chosen as head mistress Miss Mitchell, B.A. (with honours in French) of London University. At present senior French mistress at Dudley Girls’ School, formerly house and second mistress of the Roedean School, Johannesburg, Miss Mitchell will sail from England at the end of December and should arrive in New Zealand in time for the beginning of next term.