SOCIAL AND PERSONAL

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 74, Issue 68, 21 March 1931, Page 10

SOCIAL AND PERSONAL

Mr and Mrs R. Lawrence, Makirikiri, are spending a holiday in Rotorua. Mrs E. H. Rountree, Durie Hill, who has been spending a holiday in Dunedin returned to Wanganui this week. Mrs F. Searle has returned to Wan ganui from Wellington. MrS Richardson has returned to Kakaramea from a visit to Wellington. Mrs R. Lilburn has returned to St. John’s Hill after spending some time in the South Island. Miss Sampson was hostess at a bridge evening on Wednesdav when she entertained a few of her friends. Miss Jane Winstone, accompanied by her mother, is visiting New Plymouth. While there Miss Winstone is furthering her flying lesson at the Bell Block aerodrome. Miss J. Lilburn, Miss Zeisler, and Miss Elwyn Lowe, will return to Wanganui to-day from a visit to Raetihi. Mrs M. Smith and Miss K. Hat rick, St. John’s Hill, motored to Napier for a visit. Mr and Mrs H. Lewis and Miss K. Lewis have returned from a fishing trip to Tokaanu. Major and Airs A. T. Bathurst, of Government House, Wellington, will leave next month for England. They hope to return to New Zealand later.

Miss I. Kendrick, Upper Aramoho, was hostess at a gift afternoon this week, in honour of Miss Marjory Allonics, whoso marriage takes place shortly. There were about 40 guests, and a pleasant afternoon was spent in games, miniature golf, ping pong and musical items given by several of the guests. The members of the literary circle of the Jellicoe Club met last evening when three short plays entitled “Mr Sampson,” “Elizabeth Refuses” and “Lonesome Like,” were read. The programme for the evening was arranged by Mrs J. E. Bannister. Mr and Mrs Harcourt G. Holcombe, whose marriage took place on Tuesday evening last, will leave Auckland today for Suva, Fiji, where Air Holcombe will take an appointment on the Native Lands Commission staff of the Fijian Government.

An interesting talk on missionary work was given by Miss Leslie, a missionary from China, at a well attended drawing room meeting held at the vicarage on Wednesday afternoon. Afternoon tea was provided by the Missionary Guild, A particular attraction was the Chinese embroidery and pottery displayed for sale, also‘a table full of fancy articles made by the children called the King’s Crusaders, in charge of Mrs Westwood.

In Christchurch, a married woman, Mrs Poulton, who is one of the very few women members of the New Zealand Nurserymen’s. Association, has a very novel 1 i side line’* (her real pro-

fession is growing flowers for market uses) in her seed exchange. Years ago she started to collect the seeds of our native plants, and advertised them for exchange in the papers uf foreign lands. The response was excellent: English seedlings, queer hooded primulus that grow beneath the eternal spray of the Victoria Falls, thyme from the tall Alps, (lowers from Japan and Korea, all came her way, which meant, of course, that she was in a position to offer for sale plants not grown anywhere else in New Zealand.

Many young girls in society are among the unemployed now, for dress shops and gifts salons where they were employed behind the counters have had to reduce their staffs, writes a London correspondent. Mrs “Freddie” Cripps, however, has such a flourishing hairdressing business that she has “signed on” two extra assistants in the person? of Lady Patricia Ward, daughter of Lord Dudley, and Miss Romaine Combe. Miss Valerie French, grand daughter of the late Lord Ypres, and sister of Mrs Vyvyan Drury, is an assistant in the hat shop run by Hon. Gladys Jessel and Miss Joyce Mon (ague, daughter of the Dowager Lady Swaythling, is still hard at work in the sports clothes section of an Oxford street store.