SOCIAL AND PERSONAL

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 75, Issue 178, 30 July 1932, Page 2

SOCIAL AND PERSONAL

Mrs. Fred Train has returned t( Waitotara from a visit to Wellington and Palmerston North. Miss Peggy Strachan has left to spend a holiday at Stratford. Mrs. Campbell, of Marton, is the guest of Mrs. A. J. Banks, Durie Hill. Mrs. Poland Reid, of Wellington, is visiting Wanganui and is the guest of Mrs. L. T. Whelan, Heads Road. Miss L. Morrison, of Maxwell, is visiting her sister, Mrs. Ireland, Waikato. » * * < Mrs. A. Lewis, of Sydney, is visiting her mother, Mrs. McArtney, Bell Street. < ♦ ♦ • Mrs. C. Hutton has returned to her homo on St. John’s Hill after spending three weeks at Wellington. * * * * Mrs. Nitz, who has been spending a holiday in Wanganui with her sister, Mrs. C. F. Hammond, Riverside, returned yesterday to her home at Masterton. ♦ * # • Miss Sylvia Wells, who has been spending«a holiday of three weeks with her mother, Mrs. T. Wells, Castlecliff, has returned to Wellington. * * * • Mrs. T. Alexander has returned to Maxwell from a visit to Wellington. Mrs. C. A. Gower, of Marton, leaves to-day for Puriri, near Thames, to attend the wedding of her niece, Miss Emmaline Smith. Miss Wills and Miss M. Wills, of Hawke’s Bay, arc visiting Wanganui as the guests of Mrs. G. Pearce, Niblett Street. * • « * ♦ Nurse Branford, who has been the guest of Mrs. N. C. Barstow, Durie Hill, returned to Wellington this week. Mrs. C. H. Ronaldson, of Christchurch, arrived yesterday in Wanganui on a visit to her sister, Mrs. J. J. Millward, St. John’s Hill. Sir Thomas and Lady Sidey, who have been visiting Auckland and North of Auckland, have returned South. Mr. and Mrs. K. S. Moffett, of Palmerston North, are visiting-Wanganui. • • • • • • Mrs. Flashoff, of Wellington, arrived in Wanganui yesterday on a few days’ visit to friends. ♦ « 9 * • Miss McLeod, of Whangarei, visited Wanganui for the wedding of her brother, Mr. H. W. McLeod, and Miss Zillah Chapman, which took place yesterday morning. Mrs. Elizabeth Ashton, who has been laid up with bronchitis, has sufficiently recovered to leave to-day for Puriri, Thames Valley, to be present at the marriage of her niece, Miss Emmaline Smith. Mr. and Mrs. D. Sidey, of Lincoln College, are spending a holiday in Wanganui.

At Matau women are beginning to spin their own wool, stated Mrs. C. C. Jackson, president of the women’s division of the Farmers’ Union, last week. Mrs. Jackson added that some of the Matau people had gone even further and she ha*d seen some really good socks knitted from the product of the spinning wheels.

An English lady has discovered a new job (writes a London correspondent). She owns a pie bus. It is a gay, yellow van filled with coffee ami home-made cakes and buns. After pre paring the coffee and making the cakes. Miss Turner drives the car herself to theatre queues and gives the waiting people snack lunches. She is having great success. She was equally successful at the Derby and Ascot. There arc possibilities also iu having a seaside pitch during the summer, which she means to try, returning to London in time for the autumn theatrical season. Plunket Ball. Amongst the functions for August will be the Plunket Ball and bridge evening which is being organised by an energetic committee to aid the funds of the Plunket Society. Thu ball will be held in the Elrick on August 31 and bridge tables are to be arranged in the newly-acquired Victoria League Rooms in the same building. One of the features for the evening will be the exhibition dances given by Miss E. Wright and Miss V. Healy; also a ballet. The Melody Makers’ Dance Band has been engaged and with a splendid floor a most enjoyable evening is assured.