SOCIAL AND PERSONAL

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 73, Issue 419, 10 November 1930, Page 2

SOCIAL AND PERSONAL

Miss M. Hainsworth, of Palmerston North, is paying a short visit to Wanganui. Mrs Cruickshank and Miss Elsie Cruickshank has returned to New Plymouth after visiting Wanganui. Miss A. Leonard, who has been spending a holiday at Whangarei, will return to Wanganui to-morrow. Mr and Mrs H. V. Haszard have returned to Castlecliff from a visit to Wellington. Mrs Russell Grace and Miss Grace, are spending race week in Christchurch. Mrs Dickson, of Lower Hutt, is visiting Wanganui and is the guest of her sister, Mr W. A. Veitch. Mrs B. Wilkinson, who has been visiting the South Island, has returned to Wanganui. Mr and Mrs B. Mitchell, of Wellington, are visiting Y/iinganui. Mrs Hogg, of Lower Hutt, is a visitor to Wanganui. Mrs Phil Hunter, of Oamaru, is visiting her parents, Mr and Mrs Birch, Westmere. Mrs Doig has returned to Wanganui from a visit to Auckland. Mrs Best, of Wellington, is the guest of .her parents, Mr and Mrs T. E. Jefcoate, “Rockwood,” Wanganui. For the sixth year in succession Mrs E- B.ittcn Jones (Royal Adelaide Club) has won the title of woman golf champion of South Australia. In a round of thirty-six holes she defeated Miss JLillicrapp (Kooyonga Club) nine up and eight to play. An enjoyable evening was spent at Queen’s Park School last Monday when “500“ was played. During the evening it was announced that owing to several requests would be changed from “500“ to euchre for the next card evening. The prize winners were Mrs Channings, Mrs White, Miss Brown and Mrs Boulton. Mrs Susan Lawrence, Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Health, the only woman who was a full delegate at this year’s Assembly of the League of Nations, said that she was delighted at the election of the Countess Apponyi (Hungary) as chairman of the League’s committee, dealing with social problems. Miss Lawrence said the appintment marked a step forward in the League’s history. She continued: “It only shows the truth of what we always said would happen when women got the vote. So long as women had no vote such posi-| tions were closed to them. So soon as they got the vote they began to fill them There is an enormous sphere for women in the work of the League, particularly in dealing with social problems and those affecting women and children.’/ Miss Lawrence said she hoped the day would come when the appointment of women to such public positions would be such a common occurrence that it would no longer be regarded as calling for comment on sex grounds. Mr and Mrs G. Harcourt visited Wanganui during the week-end.

Miss K- Armstrong has returned from Wellington. Miss Margaret Aitken, Liverpool Street, returned ou Saturday morning from a tour of England and the Continent. ENGAGEMENTS The engagement is announced between Pat, only son of Mrs H. C. Wilson and the late H. C. Wilson, of “Te One,” Mangaweka, to Norah, eldest daughter of J. S. G. Burrell, of London. The engagement is announced of Rona Catherine, eldest daughter of Mrs J. BDcvery, Wellington, to Raymond, second son of Mrs J. Seal, WanganuiLACQUERED BASKETS Do you know that your old, well-lov-ed basket need not be thrown out just because it is too shabby to use? It can be made to do duty by a freshening coat or two of lacquer. I recently saw a basket that had Gone duty as a vegetable carrier and now looks most artistic, lacquered a pretty green, it adorns a window ledge of a sun porch and holds the glories of the garden, in two or three hidden jars of water. Another particularly pretty basket had been done in a golden shade of brown and looked most artistic on a hall table, holding Iceland poppies and ranunculusA shabby raffia tray and a sandwich basket had been lacquered to tone with the table linen and china and the effect was very pleasing.