PERSONAL ITEMS

Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20509, 10 January 1935, Page 6

PERSONAL ITEMS

Mrs M. E. R. Tripe, Wellington, is visiting Christchurch and Dunedin.

Miss K. S. Lovell-Smith arrived from Timaru on Tuesday on a holiday visit to Christchurch. Miss Ethel Black, who returned recently from England, is the guest of Miss Dora Harman, Merivale. Misses Mary Kennedy. Wellington, and .Margaret Kennedy, Christchurch, are the guests of Mrs If. Coulter, Orari Bridge. Mrs E. Newbegin, Hastings, who has been visiting her daughter, Mrs Noel Roake, Fendalton, returned north on Tuesday evening. Mr and Mrs Gerald Sherman, Fendalton, returned to Christchurch yesterday from a short holiday spent in Picton and Nelson. Mrs A. Hadler, Grafton Street, Linwood, is the guest of her daughter, 'Mrs 11. Reed, Coach Road, Little River. Miss Mina Ilolderness, Marsden College, Wellington, is staying with her sister, Miss Jean Iloldernes.s, Papayui. Road Sir Hugh and Ladv Acland and Miss Elizabeth Acland, “ Chippenham,” St Albans, will return from a holiday at Mount Peel on Saturday. Mr and Mrs William Anderson, Arigideen, Fendalton, returned this week from a camping holiday on Banks Peninsula. Miss Nancy Robertson, Hokitika, who has been spending her vacation with her parents, Chapter Street, has now left for Wellington. Mr and Mrs N. W. Gale. Goss-t Street, St Albans, who have been on a motoring tour in the south, returned to Christchurch yesterday. Miss Barbara Robison, Wellington, will come to Christchurch this week from the Franz Josef Glacier, and will be the guest of Mrs John Guthrie, Armagh Street West, for a few days. Mrs A. I. Fraer. Page’s Road, who has returned to Christchurch from a visit to Lees Valley, will leave on Tuesday to stay with her sisteer, Miss M’Lean, Dunedin. Miss Irene Greenwood, Wellington, who is at present visiting Miss G. Meredith-Kaye, Papanui Road, will go later to stay with Mrs M’Owen, May s Road. Mrs R. Martin and Miss Edna Martin, Rossall Street, Merivale. who are at present staying with friends in Wellington, will return home in about a month’s time. Miss Sylvia Nevill has returned to Dunedin after four years in England and Europe. The first two years were spent studying the Montessori system of education at the Training College in London; then, having gained her di-. ploma under Dr Maria Montessori, she went to Barcelona, Spain, for further study. Other countries visited during her stay abroad were France, Austria, Sweden and the Irish Free State. .She has now come out to New Zealand to take up the post of Montessori directress at St Hilda’s Collegiate School, Dunedin.

Mrs S. F; Tait and family, Opawa Road, are the guests of Mrs S. A. Le Compte, Cooptown, Little River. Mrs W. J. Gracie, Sherborne Street, is the guest of Mrs B. Hayes, Cox Street, Geraldine. Mr arid Mrs John Moore, Fendalton, have returned from a holiday spent at Lake Wanaka. Mrs Knight and the Misses E. and I. Knight, Hokitika, arfe among the guests at Wainui House, Nelson. Mrs Geoffrey Webster, Papanui, left last evening on a visit to her parents in Masterton. Mr and Mrs L. B. Hutchison, Grey-~ mouth, have returned from a holiday visit to Stewart Island. Mr and Mrs W. Schneideman, Rossall Street. Fendalton, are making an extended motor tour of the North Island. Mrs T. Ramsay and Miss Audrey Ramsay, Woolston, are the guests of Mrs S. A. Le Compte, Cooptown, Little River. Mrs S, Giblin, Christchurch, who was visiting her sister. Miss Mabel Adams, Cooptown, Little River, has re turned home. Miss L. Sanderson. Cashmere Hills, returned from Pigeon Bay last Tues.day and is now spending a few days •at Arthur’s Pass. Mrs J. F. Cracroft Wilson, Cashmere Ilills, and her children will leave on Monday on a short visit to the Rakaia Fishing Huts. Mr and Mrs Cyril Stringer, Murray Place, who have been on a motor trip to Marlborough, Nelson, and the West Coast glaciers, have returned to Christchurch. Mrs C. E. Palmer, Wellington, Dominion secretary of the Women’s Division of the Farmers’ Union, will arrive in Christchurch on Tuesday morning to attend meetings of the Dominion Executive. Mrs Charles Ogilvie, “ Airlie,” Cashmere Hills, and her two sons will return to Christchurch on Saturday from a holiday spent at Wainui. They will leave early next week on a visit to Mrs Leyden Baker at Motunau. Mrs W. PI. Ward, Southland, Dominion president of the Women’s Division of the Farmers’ Union, will arrive in Christchurch on Tuesday morning to attend the meetings of the Dominion Executive. Mr and Mrs S. P. Godfrey, St Albans. have returned from a camping holiday spent in the Eglinton Valley. Mr and Mrs Robert Stout, Invercargill, who were camping with them, spent a few days in Christchurch before returning home. The eighty-fourth birthday of Mrs G. Chisnall, Colombo Street, St Albans, was celebrated recently at a pleasant social evening in the Canon Street Hall. The eighty guests, including all the members of Mrs Chisnall’s family, indulged in dancing and games. Items were contributed by Mrs N. Dale and Messrs D. M’Gill, J. Williamson, Leadbetter, J. Gallagher and N. Dale. Mrs Chisnall was the recipient of many gifts.