SOCIAL AND PERSONAL.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 76, Issue 105, 6 May 1933, Page 2

SOCIAL AND PERSONAL.

Mrs. Russell, Auckland, is visiting her daughter, Mrs. W. J. Muir, Waver-

Mrs. J. Siddells and the Mises Joan and Audrey are visiting Hastings.

Mr. and Mrs. W. N. Rollesto: (Kenya), are at Foster’s Hotel.

Mr. and Mrs. J. Mclntyre, of Pal mtrston North, arc visitors to Wanga-

Mr. and Mrs. AV. Jardine, of Wellington, are visiting Wanganui.

Mr. and Mrs. F. W. Rowe and Mr. and Mrs. E. H. Rowe, or Wellington, are visitors to Wanganui.

Mrs. H. Hall is a Wellington visitor o Wanganui.

Mrs. A. V. Thomas, of Auckland, is visiting Wanganui and is the guest of ’/[r. and Mrs. H. Hewitt, Godwin Crescent.

Mrs. A. E. Halligan, Upper Aramoho, returned this week after a holiday spent at Timaru and Christchurch.

Miss Coleman, of Kakatahi, who visited Wanganui for the College Old Girls’ Ball, was the guest of Mrs. Lynch, Springvale.

Mrs. F. Reid, of Gonville, has left to spend a month’s holiday at Auck-

Dr. and Mrs. H. D. Robertson and Mr. Gordon Mcßeth, Wangaaui, motored to Wellington on 'or the Symphony Orchestra’s concert and were the guests of Mr. and Mrs. George Shirtcliffe, Tinakori Road.

Years before the idea of Poppy Day had originated Mr. Arthur Douglas, of Dunedin, sent his sister in Now Zealand a Flanders poppy, which she has 'till, preserved between glass and a Hold service postcard. The poppy was iekod in a field behind Red Lodge at Hill 63, near Messines, and sent to Now Zealand just prior to the Battle of Messines on June 7, 1917.

Only one woman, Miss Ada Harper, managing director of Thomas Harper Pianos, Ltd., was present among 249 men at the Music Industries dinner at the Trocadero, London, recently. Miss Harper is the only woman manufac rarer of pianos in the country, and has been in the business 35 years. In the absence of Sir Landon Ronald, Sir Walford Davies proposed “British Music. ”

Queen Marie of Rumania is soon to bring out three volumes of her memoirs. She is writing the biography in England and has been working on it for two years. The Queen not only discusses her private life, but also writes her impressions of many celebrated men and women with whom she has come in contact. She portrays her grandmother, Queen Victoria, as she remembers her. and her Russian grandparents. Throughout the three volumes the Queen stresses her English outlook and sympathies. King Carol, who is the older son of Queen Mari, has forbidden publication of the memoirs, but his mother has ignored the interdiction.