SOCIAL AND PERSONAL

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 74, Issue 191, 14 August 1931, Page 2

SOCIAL AND PERSONAL

: Mrs and Miss Spooner, of Tailiape, i are visiting Wanganui. Mrs F. C. Hutchinson, Victoria i Avenue, is visiting Wellington. M*r and Mrs Albert Scarrow, who i have been visiting Wanganui, returned 1 to Raetihi on Wednesday. Mrs A. B. McCready, of Wellington, : who was the guest of Mrs W. L. Young, , left on Thursday on her return home. ; Mrs W. Rountree, of Durie Hill, is ’ visiting Wellington. Mrs A. Pepper has returned to her I home at Aramoho from a brief visit to \ Wellington. e « » « « ' Mrs J. G. Svvainson, of Pahiatua, is I on a visit to Wanganui and is the guest ■ of Mrs C. Avery, Hipango Terrace. ; Miss Joyce Barber, of the Belverdalc i Hospital staff, is on annual leave and ' is staying with her parents, Maxwell. I * * * * * I Mrs G. H. Alexander, of “Buenos i Ayres,” Waverley, is spending a few | days in Wanganui as the guest of Mrs : F. Wilson, Wicksteed Street. I Miss Mary McFarlane, of Duric Hill, I left on Wednesday, on a holiday visit ' to New Plymouth. 1 Mr and Mrs W. Peat, “Hillside,” St. I John’s Hill, motored to Martinborough I for a visit. Mrs Lucille Ward and her mother, ■ Mrs Ingram, left by the Uliinaroa for | Sydney on Friday, where they will ■ spend six weeks’ holiday'. ! Mrs Cowling, of Marton, who has been visiting friends in New Plymouth, ■ returned to her home yesterday. Mrs Eric Wellwood, who has been visiting her mother, Mrs F. Myers, Mt. View Road, left on Wednesday on her return to her home at Waipukurau. Miss Roma McClure. of Eeildmg. attending a skating gathering m ! Palmerston North on Tuesday' evening ■ had the misfortune to fall and fracture i her arm. Her many Wanganui friends i will wish her a speedy' recovery. A large number of guests spent an enjoyable afternoon at a card party ' given by a member of the Aramoho committee yesterday in aid of Allan ; Smith, the candidate in the Y.M.C-A. ■ ’‘popular boy” contest. Miss Margaret Sutherland, the holder ! of the International Diploma of Needlework, is visiting Wanganui in connec- ; tion with the D.I.C. needlework com- . petitions and will be in the city until the end of the month. At Ascot the new fashion for flower accessories was greatly in evidence, i Wreaths of fresh roses were twined gracefully round shady straw hats, while tiny posies made straw berets ■ even more festive. One fair race-goer carried a muff composed entirely of red , rosebuds, and another wore a necklace |of forget-me-nots to match her blue ‘ dress. In Paris there is a shop in the : Champs Elysees which disappears every I night. By day it is a shoe shop with , large steel and glass windows, divided iby a door like any other shop. At night, and during week ends, the windows swing inwards from the street, the shop carpet and furniture are taken away, and in a few moments the place is transformed into an arcade, with more than twenty yards of window display through which Parisians may saunter. I Miss Stella Murray, who has been singing at the Strand Corner House, where her talent lias met with tremend- : ous appreciation, is busy fulfilling cnI gagemen ts to sing at private parties, 1 writes the London correspondent of the Post. Towar-ls the enf of the month -he is hoping to give a New Zealand ■ party at her flat in ISouth Kensington. 1 Unusual incidents marked the wed- . ding at the L nited Methodist Church at i Wirksworth, Derbyshire, recently, of Mist R. .Steeples amt Mr William Smed- , ley. It was the first wedding in the I church since it was opened 45 years ago I (states an English writer). As the , couple were driven from the church the ■ ancient Derbyshire custom of “roping ‘ : was observed, but this time a long ; plank was substituted for the rope. After the bridegroom had paid toll the couple went on, but a second hold-up .took place at Gorsey Bank, the bride’s .home district, where the villagers took the bride and bridegroom from their ar and united them a large artilicial horse-shoe which was placed : around their necks. »