SOCIAL AND PERSONAL.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 77, Issue 107, 8 May 1934, Page 2

SOCIAL AND PERSONAL.

Mr. and Mrs. E. H. Leigh, of Cambridge, visited Wanganui during the week-end. Mrs. J. F. Studholme is a visitor to Wanganui from Christchurch. Mr. and Mrs. K. Cameron, Gisborne, are visitors to Wanganui. Mr. and Mrs. R. H. Biggar, Gisborne, .are on a visit to Wanganui. Mesdames McLeod, G. Wells, and TV. W. Taylor are Wanganui visitors to Wellington. Misses R. Furrie (Stratford), Mary Bright (Hawera), Daphne Mann (Mahoe), Jill Hunter (Hawera), were visitors to Wanganui for the College Old Girls’ ball. Mrs. P. McDonald, of Springvale, will celebrate her 80th birthday today. She has spent 56 yeans of her life in the Wanganui and Wangaehu districts. • • • • Mrs. Alan Millward, of Gonville, with her children, is spending the school holidays with Mr. and Mrs. Baddeley, Kakatahi. • • • • Aliss Thelma Bettie, of Palmerston North, who came to Wanganui for the Old Girls’ ball, and will attend the “Okirae” ball, is staying at “Reidston.” Gonville, as the guest of Mrs. W. Summerell. Miss Woolliams, of Timaru, is spending the school vacation with her sister, Mrs. J. H. Helm, Gonville Avenue. • • • • Mrs. T. B. Maclean, Victoria Avenue, has returned from a holiday at New Plymouth, accompanied by her daughter, Miss I. Maclean, of the New Plymouth Girls’ High School, who is spending the school holidays in Wanganui. The Misses Vera Crawley and Sheila Feltham, of Raetihi, are visiting Wellington, and are the guests of their aunt, Mrs. Brunton Williams, Seatoun. News has been received in Sydney of the announcement of the engagement of the Australian novelist. Steele Rudd, who in private life is Mr. A. H. Davis, to Mrs. Beatrice Sharp, of Vaucluse. Mrs. Sharp and Mr. Davis have been close friends for many years. Professor von Zedlitz and Mrs. von Zedlitz, Lower Hutt, and Mr. and Mrs. A. Duncan, Lower Hutt, visited Feilding and Wanganui at the week-end to play contract bridge. In Wanganui their opponents were Dr. F. Hutchinson, Messrs. H. G. Carver, H. E. B. Newton, and E. Jacobs. Judges for the Manawatu Competitions Society’s 1934 festival, for which 600 entries have been received, include:—Dancing, Miss Madeline Vyner, of Wellington; elocution. Miss Beatrice MacKenzie. Woodford House School, Havelock North.