SOCIAL AND PERSONAL

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 75, Issue 140, 16 June 1932, Page 2

SOCIAL AND PERSONAL

Invitations have been issued by the Golf Club for the annual , ball to be held on Friday, July 1. | Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Sykes, of New Plymouth, are visitors to Wanganui. • « • ■ Mrs. Stewart, of Marton, is visiting her sister, Mrs. Robert Lilburn, St. John’s Hill. • *•••• Mr. and Mrs. Murray Pago, St. John’s Hill, left yesterday for a visit of several days to Masterton. Mrs. Stewart Cameron, of Oamaru, is visiting her mother, Mrs. A. Burnett, Victoria Avenue. • • • • • Miss A. Sommerville, of Napier, is spending a holiday in Wanganui as the guest of Mrs. Beg. Sommerville, Okoia. Mrs. C. C. Jackson, Wairarapa, is the quest of Mrs. B. Lilburn, St. John’s Hill. Mrs. J- C. Wickham, Mrs. R. Lilburn, and Miss Jordan visited Palmerston North on Tuesday to attend the W.D.F.U. Bush Nurse and Housekeeper Auxiliary meeting. Miss Pattrick, Director of Plunket Nursing, who has been the guest of Miss Graham, Wicksteed Street, during her short visit here, has gone on to Feilding. # Miss Eva Parkinson, of Waitotara. went solo in one of the Western Federated Flying Club’s machines for the first time on Monday. • • • • • Miss Fay Moffett, who has been visiting her aunt, Mrs. Walker, Bemuera, l Auckland, has returned to her home on iDurie Hill, accompanied by Miss Mary Walker, who is her guest. * Miss Margaret Tennant, of England, who has been visiting the Dominion, ' will leave for the East, via Australia, by the new Oceanic steamer, Monterey, which will sail from Auckland on June 20, # • Miss Mary Skerrett (Wellington) intends to spend the season in Loudon and then to go for a time to the Con tinent. The duration of Miss Skerfrett’s stay is uncertain, but she may 1 return to Wellington early next year, states a London correspondent. * Lady Wilford held a most delightful afternoon reception at her home ‘ at Chelsea, on May 11, writes a London correspondent. A great . many New Zealanders were present, including the debutantes whom Lady Wilford sponsored at last night's Court. Each year she has given a similar party immediately prior to tho Court ] presentations. Miss McLean and Miss. Isabel Wilford assisted in the entertainment of the guests. Lady Jclhcoc I and Lady Liverpool, who were there, met many friends. Vice-Admiral Sir Edward HeatonEllis, K.C.8., and Lady Heaton-Ellis, of 20, Upper Brook Street, London, left on a visit to New Zealand by the Bangitiki on June 2. They intend goling straight on from Auckland to I Queensland to visit relations in that Australian State, and returning to New Zealand in November, will spend two or three months in the Dominion. Sir Edward is a keen sportsman, and will try trout fishing and deer stalking in New Zealand. The arrangements for his tour have been in the hands of the Government Tourist Department. A Presentation A pleasing little ceremony took place in. the Okoia Hall last Sunday after tho Presbyterian Service, when tho Rev. Wilkinson, on behalf of the Okoia Church, friends and Fordell managers, presented a silver teapot to Miss E. McGrail, who has been pianI isto for a number of years, ami who is shortly getting married. Miss Mcj Grail suitably replied. TIME, PLEASE So many .people ring up and ask the Paris Observatory for the right time that tho director has designed a clock to give such information automatic-1 ' ally. Using the principle employed in talking films ho has produced a rob"' chronometer which announces th' hour, tho minute and the second, by day and night, every ten seconds Several of these clocks are to bo in stalled at the Observatory and subscribers asking for the time number will be put through to one of them ■ automatically and hoar the time mechanically announced. Special ar rangements are being made by the post office so that the time callingj subscribers will suffer no delay. '