SOCIAL AND PERSONAL.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 76, Issue 96, 26 April 1933, Page 2

SOCIAL AND PERSONAL.

Canon and Mrs. Williams arc spending a short holiday in Mokoia. * * * » Miss Isabel Morris, of Wellington, is staying with her aunt, Mrs. B. P. Lethbridge, Turakina. * * * < Mrs. Chant, of Auckland, is visiting her daughter, Mrs. Rountree, Durie Hill. Mrs. Johnston, of To Awamutu, is staying with her son, Mr. O. E. Johnston and Mrs. Johnston, Upper Aramoho. Miss Z. Callaghan, Thames, is the guest of Mrs. E. J. Kirk, Selwyn Street. Miss M. Cottle, who has been the guest of Mrs. J. Meuli, Gonville, returned to Hastings On Monday, *- < * Miss Betty Gibson, Koputaroa, has returned home after spending the Easter holidays as the guest of Miss Doreen Wing, Marton. « * ‘» * Mrs. Elizabeth Ashton, who has been visiting friends in Wellington, while attending the British-Israel Congress, has now returned. ¥ * * * Miss Phyllis Scholefield, Petone, is spending a holiday in Wanganui and is the guest of Mrs. E. Marsh, Seddon Street. Mrs. T. Thompson and Mrs. Butchard, of New Plymouth, who have been the guests of the Misses Walker, St. John’s Hill, have returned. Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Hussey, St. John’s Hill, have returned from a motoring holiday to Auckland Rotorua, where they have been playing golf. Mr. and Mrs. R. Britten and Their small son, who have been staying with Mrs. R. L. Lilburn, St. John’s Hill, have returned to their home at Taihape. Mrs. T. C. Taylor, Airs. F. Millward, and Mrs. G. H. Swan, who had a very enjoyable motor run to Napier last week, returned on Friday evening to Wanganui. Mrs. H. V Hammond. Somme Parade, is spending a holiday with her daugh|ter, Mr. and Mrs. G. Arbon, Komako, and with her sister, in Palmerston * North.

Mr. and Mrs. H. C. Dow and child, accompanied by Mr. A. Le Reilly, have returned to their home in Campbell Street, after spending the Easter holidays in New Plymouth. Airs. C. Bailey, of Wanganui, who has been visiting her daughter, Mrs. W S. Thomson Otahuhu, is now the guest of Airs. G. Bartlcet, Canterbury Place Auckland. ; Mrs. Collier, of Durie Hill, is spending a holiday in Auckland with her sister, Mrs. Herd. Miss V. Vernon has returned from a holiday in Auckland, where she was the guest of Airs. W. C. Francis. * * * # Mrs. Bishop, of Hastings, is visiting Wanganui' as the guest of Mrs. W. J. Gardner, College Street. GIRL GUIDES’ DANCE. The Gonville Hall was the scene of a merry dance held by tho committee of the Gonville Girl Guides and Brownies on Friday evening. Although the weather was most unfavourable, the dance was a complete success. Among those iu fancy dress were:—N. McFarland, lavender; J, Campbell, Spanish lady; B. Thompson, Gipsy; B. Day, Eastern Princess; J. McFarland, golliwog; G. AfcFarland, jester; AL AfcFarland, bat; J. Thompson, ruination; L. Watters, old English lady; Al. Ansley, folly; M. Patterson, pierette; L. Young, pierette; N. All press, butterfly; G. Williams, nineteenth century; E. •Smith, oranges and lemons; J. Gordon, safety matches; D. Grown, school boy; B. Beaumont, night; S. Stanley, goodnight; B. Stanley, jungle bells; R. Cooper, white butterfly; T. Brooking, pierette; P. Clapperton, fairy; N. Dowsett, carnival; B. Dowse’tt, summer; I. Cann, boy blue; A. Dowsett, fairy; P. Holmes, jester; E. Hunwick, Gipsy; 0. James, Indian Prince; S. James, jester; I. Boyd, Dutch boy; T. Alackil, spring flower; D. Hunwick, Dutch girl; P. Cole, jester; B. Wallace, maid of honour; P. Tustin, lady’s maid; M. Brown, Dutch girl; P. Gilbert, French maid; A. Booth, Bronco Bill; Sarah Smith, Sally; 0. fencer, sailor; B. Chenery, old fashion; Al. Bott, lady; A. Mclean, Scottish boy; J. Holt, Dolly Varden; R. Campbell, Spanish vagabond; P. HoweU, old-fashioned lady; T. Oliver, Spanish dancer; A. Gcdderson, Irish maiden; J. Roderick, no more strike; S. Aloore, film fan; R. Bailey, Rowing Association; and A. Cann, fairy. Others present were: Alesdames Cann, Collinwood, Hirst, Cooke, Thompson, James, Brooking, Couper, Dowsett, Clancey, R. Brown, Tustin, Geddeson, Gilbert, Spencer, Beaumont, Stanley, Kirby, Bott, Fyfe, Hickman, Putt. AlcLeay, McFarland, Wilkie and Collins; Afisses I. Cooke, H. Cooke, Wilkie, C. Bridges, C. Alexander, E. Newrick, J Litchfield, Over, Fisher, Parker. Brown, Hunwick, Beaumont, Fisher, Gilbert, Greener, Shipman, Dalziell, Aloore, Anderson (two), Stanley, and Dowling. SCHOOL UNIFORMS It was a matter of surprise to Afiss Julian Flynn, assistant chief inspector of secondary schools in Victoria, who has recently returned after some months spent abroad studying educational methods, under the terms of a Carnegie scholarship, that in America, where it is the boast of educationalsts that both rich and poor sit side by side at the same school desks, educational authorities have not taken a further step and democratically prescribed a school uniform. In by far the majority of secondary schools there is no regular school uniform, such as the tunic and blouse of our secondary school pupils. American girls, it seems, can suit their individual taste in their school frocks, both in colour and style. Miss Flynn saw schoolgirls with bacless frocks and without sleeves! Certainly the weather was hot, but the frocks she saw often seemed entirely out of place for school wear. In many instances, too, the girls came to school stockingless, while others wore short socks. Two girls arrived at a New York school one day in pyjamas, but the force of public opinion was too much for this fashion. The freedom to indulge their individual taste in their school clothes is attributed to the fact that schoolgirl shoplifters are not unknown. Indeed, it was publicly stated in jtfeptember, tha' the girls of one partiWlar school in New York had become a real trouble to a local self-service dress shop. The proprietors have tried to overcome this trouble by offering to give an outfit to a girl who was really in need. If there is no school uniform for girls, there was, at least it seemed to Aliss Flynn, a general uniformity of untidiness among the boys attending a very great number uf schools. Corduroy trousers and short-sleeved shirts, without collars or ties, was the favourite school dress of the majority of American schoolboys. There was, too, general feeling against the wearing of school caps or badges.