SOCIAL AND PERSONAL

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 73, Issue 450, 16 December 1930, Page 2

SOCIAL AND PERSONAL

SOCIAL AND PERSONAL Mr and Mrs H. F. Johnston, Wellington, were the guests of the Rev. C. F. Pierce and Mrs Pierce for the Collegiate School speech day. Mr and Mrs C. M. Louisson were Palmerston visitors to Wanganui for the Collegiate School prize-giving. Mrs Crooke, of Marton, is spending a few days in Wellington. Mrs Duncan, of Taihape, is visiting Wellington. Mr and Mrs E. H. Glendining (Wairoa), who have been in Wanganui for the ..Collegiate School prize-giving, hp.ve returned. Miss Butler, formerly matron of the hospital at Niue Island, who has been appointed to a similar position at Rarotonga, is at present visiting Wellington. Miss M. Barton, of Wellington, is the guest of Miss G. Adams, Victoria Avenue. Mrs M. Hirst is visiting Wellington. Mrs Bernan, of Gisborne, visited Wanganui for the Collegiate School prize-giving. Mrs Van Staveren, of Auckland, is visiting Mr and Mrs J. H. Kcesing for the wedding of her sister, Miss ingAn enjoyable evening was spent by a number of young people recently when a surprise party was taken to the home of Mrs Halligan, Aram oho, in honour of Miss N. Halligan, who is shortly to be married. At the Wanganui Croquet Courts on. Saturday afternoQn Mrs Therkleston and Mrs Hogg were farewell by the members and received many good wishes for their future activities in the croquet courts of New Plymouth where both ladies will eventually bt playing. The tea hostesses for the afternoon were Mrs Willis, Mrs Brown, and Miss Notman.

Nearly 5000 women were measured recently by a scientific system originated by Dr. Lilian M. Gilbreth, a prominent American woman industrial engineer, to secure first-hand information on how high their kitchen stoves and sinks should be for each to work comfortably. The information obtained caused a wholesale rearrangement of many kitchens in America, in which housewives had been working at sinks and stoves either too high or too low for them. The introduction in England of a novel form of teaching house dul.es to girls has b33u started by the Walsall Education Committee. During the whole of the summer term thirty Walsall schoolgirls occupied a large furnished house, where they received special instruction in general housecraft. These “housewife schools” mo fairly common in Germany, but Wil sail’s is believed to be the first experiment of its kind in England.

Lady Armstrong, wife of Sir Harry Gloster Armstrong, British Consul-Gen-eral for New York, who is retiring after 11 years’ service there, has left behind her an irreplacable position in charitable and social work in New York City, says an overseas writer. She was an executive member of 22 charitable organisations, first president of International Federation of Big Brothers and Sisters, and vice-presi-dent of the Ladies of Charity, to which activities she had devoted 30 years of her life.

Again Cupid has entered the nursing world, claiming this time as his victim May Richardson, who for the 12 months has been in charge of the Karitane home, ’Voollahra, writes the Sydney Sun. Daughter of Mr and Mrs G. A. Richardson, of Lindfield, she leaves on Tuesday to make plans for her marriage some time in January to Mr G. O. Morrice, of “Murramumbla,” Dalgety, New South Wales. Her successor I’m told, will be that wellknown Plunkct expert Miss Vida McLean, of Wanganui, who for some years has been in charge of the Auckland Karitane Hospital, and who took the helm here for several months last year before Miss Richardson was appointed. A beautiful afternoon tea set from the council of the Australian Mothercraft Society is already included among Miss Richardson’s presents.