PERSONAL AND SOCIAL

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 72, Issue 199, 22 August 1929, Page 2

PERSONAL AND SOCIAL

Mrs Price, of Wellington, is the guest of Mrs Glasgow (sen.), Fordell. Miss Dulcie Yule, is spending a few days with her sister, Mrs G. H. Robertson.

The Misses Webb, of Auckland, arc visiting Wanganui. Miss Isabel , Graham, of Woodville, is visiting Hunterville. Mr and Mrs T. C. Keating have returned to Palmerston North after a visit to Wanganui. Mrs C. C. Morgan, of Kaitoke, arrives by motor to-day with her son, Air J. Morgan, and will be the guest of her daughter, Mrs H. C. Veitch. Mr and Mrs Bull have returned to Hunterville after a visit to Christchurch. Mrs Blair, of Wanganui, and Mrs Brookman, of New Plymouth, have gone to Auckland. Mrs Holman, J.P., who has been touring New Zealand returns to England at the lend of the month. Last Monday evening Miss M. Porter was the guest of Mrs Jackson, Wanganui. Mrs Stewart was a Ma/on visitor to Wanganui yesterday. OKOIA HALL DANCE. The dance to be held in the Okoia Hall to-night is being run by the Okoia Hall Social Committee, not by the Women’s Division of the Farmers’ Union, although several members of the committee are also members of the Women’s Division.

PRETTY WEDDING AT CHATTERIS, ENGLAND BLAND—PORTER There was a large company of friends and well-wishers present at the Parish Church, Chatteris, when a very pretty wedding was solemnised by the Vicar, the Rev. S. H. Hare, tho contracting parties being Mr J. C. Bland and Miss Thelma Porter (whose brother is a resident of Palmerston North, New Zealand). The bridegroom is the elder son of Mr and Mrs W. Bland, of Salhouse Priory, Norwich, and was for some time in Messrs Barclay’s Bank at Chatteris, afterwards being transferred to Wisbech and later to Lenton, Nottingham, where he now resides. The bride is the younger daughter of Mr and Mrs C. Porter and is very popular in town. The bride, who was given away oy her father, w r as charmingly dressed in Brussels net and lace and wore a veil and a wreath of orange blossoms. She carried a shower bouquet of roses, carnations and white heather. There were two bridesmaids, Miss Victoria Porter, sister of the bride, and Miss Joyce Porter, a niece. They wore dresses of suede georgette in larkspur blue with silver head-bands and their bouquets were of shell pink and white carnations tied with blue. A reception was held at the home of the bride’s parents, a good company of friends being present, when the brid e and bridegroom were toasted and a huge wedding cake cut. Mr and Mrs Bland were the recipients of about 100 presents, including one from the Wisbech bank employees and another from the staff at Lenton. The bride and bridegroom left later in the day for Peterborough, en route for Skaegncss, where they are spending their honeymoon. The bride’s travelling dress was a tailor-made suit with fitch scarf fur, the gift of the bridegroom. The bride’s gift to the bridegroom was a leather travelling case.