SOCIAL AND PERSONAL.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 74, Issue 109, 11 May 1931, Page 2

SOCIAL AND PERSONAL.

Mrs Wagstaff, Gloucester .Street, is visiting Foildiug. I.** * ’ • 1 i Miss Pitcher is visiting her parents I at Mangaonoho. Airs S. .Smith, who has been spending a holiday in the South Island, has returned to Gonville. Mrs Maurice Cobbc, of Paparangi is spending a holiday in Fcilding as the guest of Airs John Cobbc. Air and Mrs Stewart Wilson, of Gisborne, are the guests of Airs J. W. Bramwell, Foilding. Aliss Aldridge, Girls’ College, is visiting Christchurch. Aliss Diana Roberts, was a Patea visitor to Wanganui last week. Air and Airs T. Oldakor are visiting ■ Alt. Egmont. i Aliss Al. McNab is at present in Alarton. Alisses L. and G. Kans have returned to Durio Hill after a month’s holiday in Auckland. Airs Kenai, who has been the guest, of Airs Wagstaff, has returned to her | home in Wellington. I Aliss AL Simpson, Peakes Road, St. John’s Hill, is spending the term holi- ' days in Dunedin. * * * * * Airs Alaiden, Alarton, spent the week end in Wanganui. Aliss Currie, Girls’ College, is visiting Wellington. Aliss Twemlow is the guest of Airs i W. A. Veitch, Wellington. | Aliss Topperson left on Saturday for | the South Island. [ Miss Tuffin and Aliss Stevens, of Gonville, are spending a holiday in Palmerston North and Wellington. Airs Lowe, senior, who has ben vis- ! iting her son. Air J. Lowe, of Gonville, returned to Wellington on Saturday. ***•*#' Aliss Nancy Rowling, of the Wellington technical staff, is returning at the week-end to spend the term vacation with her parents. Air and Airs H. Rowling. St. John’s Hill. * * * * » Aliss AL Prideaflx Pridham is spending the term holidays in Wanganui with her mother. Aliss Ray Duncan, Auckland. is spending the holidays with her mother, Airs Dunean, Shakespeare Cliff. Aliss Hall Jones is visiting Wellington. Alisses AL O’Brien, A. Dawson, and AL Duigan returned to Wanganui on Saturday from the Wellington Teachers’ Training College. The Wanganui Professional Alusicians’ Society will extend to Air Joseph Hislop (the famous tenor), Airs Hislop, and party a hearty welcome, to the city at a function to be held this afternoon at the El rick. Aliss Joan Aforrison, of Alataroa, is the guest of her aunt, Airs. E. C. Taylor, of Tiniaru, South Island. Aliss Aloya Taylor has left Alarton I en route to her home in Tiniaru. Airs. A. Alitchell has returned to Alarton after spending a holiday ' in Auckland and AVellington. Aliss Amy’ Castles, the well-known Australian singer, who has been visit ing the United States, returned to Syd ney last week. Hollywood, she savs. is a much maligned place. One hears, on ail sides, of the questionable life its inhabitants lead, “but," Miss Castles says, “it really is no different from any other place. A few people want publicity, and do not care how they got it.” In Hollywood, the singer added, living was very cheap. Clothes were, about half the Australian price. To her dismay, Aliss Castles found that the people in the United States know little or nothing of Australia, ■which, she says, is the world’s worst advcr-[ tised country. Aliss Castles will shortly return to California to make a talking picture. ' The distinction of being the voungI est hospital governor in the world is ' h<dd by a little girl. Mary Llise Byers, | who is aged four years. She is the ! daughter of Air Rowland Byers, the | Irish li’agby international, and has been ( eh'eti'd to th<‘ boai'd of life governors Ii of tin 1 Royal Victoria Hospital. Brl J fast. Her grandf:l li ,, r had a great de:il lt<> do with tlio founding of the hos |( pital, and as all her family are, eonj neeted with it. it was agreed that she i should make an early start. The fourth of Lord and Lady Jelli- , coe’s daughter. Lady Prudence JelliI roe. has just arrived home from school in Paris, and is to be among the debutantes of lli<‘ season (writes a London correspondent ). She will be going L . about with her mother during the next I few months jirior Io her presentation in the summer, and Lord and Ladv lelliroe will give a dame for her x

little later on. She promises to be as attractive a dancer as her elder sister, and is looking forward very much to ; the gaieties of her first London season. Lord ami Lady Jellicoe are particularly delight ful parents, as devoted to 1 their girls as their girls are devoted Io them. 'l'hey do everything together, which is \ery charming in (lays when so many young folk seem to prefer Io seek their pleasures apart from their parents. 'I - lie whole fam Uy get. a fair The following Wanganui party are to return from Dawson’s Lails to-day, after spemling the week-end: Alesdames G. Handlev, J. Low. Oldakor, Triggs, MacDonald, D. Merrick (Hawera), Alisses Lovell (Hawera), Walkinton, AL and .1. Gurrie, AL Blyth, Messrs E. Handley, N. Hay (’ampl)ell, N. Meuli, l>. Silk. K. Armstrong, K. Handley. .1. Merrick. G. Oldakor, D. Low. R. M<• I into.-h, J. Alc.l utosh, IL