SOCIAL AND PERSONAL

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 77, Issue 109, 10 May 1934, Page 2

SOCIAL AND PERSONAL

Miss K. Fuller. Wellington, is visit ing Wanganui. Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Graike are Wellington. visitors to Wanganui. Mr. and Mrs. W. Adler, of Sydney, are staying at the Rutland Hotel. Mrs. K. W. Heighten, Marton, has been visiting Wellington. Hiss Nancy Hales, Wicksteed Street, is visiting Miss Nancy McGregor at Ohmgaiti. Mrs. V. Barker, who has been .Mrs. W. Izard’s and Airs. Nowell Izard’s guest in Wanganui, leaves for Wellington to-day. Ah’*. Kingston, St. John’s Hill, and Miss Sewell, Somme Parade, are visiting Airs. Erie Wellwood, Wairarapa. Mr. and Airs. H. J. (Chubby) Williams, Wanganui East, left last evening by the express for Thames, where they will make their future home. Air. and Mrs. Monty Armstrong, of New Plymouth, who have been visiting ■ Mrs. Len Walker, Wanganui, left last | evening for the Chateau Tongariro. I Aliss Baruicoat, who has been the I guest of Dr. A. 11. E. Wall and Mrs. I Wall, Campbell Street, has returned to I Lower Hutt. ! Madame Betts-Vincent, A.R.A.M., of ; the Wanganui Girls’ College, left Wellington on Monday evening to fulfil | musical engagements in Christchurch.

A number of the Wanganui College girls, in charge of Miss Laurensou, are attending the Christian Student Movement Camp being held at Otaki. Miss Shirley Cramond is visiting Palmerston North in company with her pupil. Miss Joan Peters, who is taking part in the Manawatu Society’s annual competitions. It is pleasing to report the success of Miss Joan Peters, who, in a class of twenty competitors, secured first place in the classical dance. Miss Peters has been recalled in several other events, but the results of the finals are not yet at hand. Women on the Land {Speaking at a meeting of the Farmers ’ Union at Hamilton recently, Miss Marshall, president of the Waikato Women’s Division of tne Farmers’ Union, urged co-operation between the W.D.F.U. and the Farmers’ Union. She said that men and women met together at social gatherings, but when it came to serious business, to parody an old quotation, “men are men and women are women, and never the twain shall meet.” The Women’s Division was anxious to provide farmers’ wives in poor circumstances with housekeepers so that the wives c n uld have a rest or hospital treatment if they needed it. In general cases the division’s ovrtures had been rejected by the husbands, whose excuse was that they would not accept charity. Miss Marshall pointed out that the farmer accepted subsidies on his manures and wanted assistance in other directions, but he would not allow his wife to accept help. In such matters the Farmers’ Union could be of assistance to the Women’s Division. Pan-Pacific Conference Delegates to the Pan-Pacific Women’s Conference, Honolulu, nominated so far and approved, include Miss E. Andrews, New Plymouth, as leader, Mrs. Cassidy, Misses Hasten and Melviile. Others probably will be named later on. Miss Hasten will probably leave by the Niagara on July 24, and will represent New Zealand in the preconference programme discussions at Honolulu; the others will leave by the Mariposa, on July 28. The delegation will return to this country early in September. Miss Andrews, under the auspices of the Women Teachers’ Association, will travel and speak at many of the large centres in the Dominion during the holidays, and will take opinions as to the matters to bo discussed at Honolulu. Every effort is being made to obtain a consensus of women’s opinions and wishes throughout the Dominion before the conference eventuates. * ENGAGEMENT. The engagement is announced of | Ethel Naumai, eldest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. H. S. Shepherd, of Moawhango, to (Desmond A Searle, second son of Mrs. E. M. Currie and the late Mr. B. AV. J. Searle, of Cambridge, England.