SOCIAL AND PERSONAL.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 77, Issue 148, 26 June 1934, Page 2

SOCIAL AND PERSONAL.

Mr. and Mrs. W. Phillips, were Masterton visitors to Wanganui at the week-end. * « * • Mr. and Mrs. R, L. White, Auckland, were recent visitors to Wanganui. Mr. W. J. Gilbert, Smithfield Road, is spending a holiday in Wellington. * ♦ » Mrs. F. E, McGregor, Miss Jean Mell v ride and V. Murray, of Wanganui, left at the week-end for a visit to Wellington. • • » • Mrs. H. G. Carver and Miss Mary Mowat, Wanganui, are on a motoring tour in the north. • • • Miss Rao Bond wag the guest of the Wanganui Rotary Club yesterday, and sang two songs, which were heartily applauded. The committee of the Seafield Golf Club has issued invitations for a dance and bridge evening to be held in the Elrick on July 12. ♦ « « • • Madame Josephine Ottlce, who left Christchurch last year to take up residence in Melbourne, has been busy on a lecturing tour in recent months, and has given many successful talks on singing, Madame Ottlee was chosen by the Associated Music Teachers of Victoria to give a talk on voice production at' the annual conference in Melbourne. At this conference Mr. Alfred Hill, the well-known New Zeacomposer, spoke on “Composition.” Mr. Fritz Hart spoke on his friend, Gustav Holst, and Mr. Louis Lavater on “Folk Songs.” Madame Ottlee : s choir is doing good work and is in active preparation for a series of concerts.

Mr. and Airs. Bernard Dalgety, who have returned to Christchurch from a nine months’ tour, during which they visited China, the Continent, Great Britain and America, were involved in strikes all the way round thc globe. The car which was taking them back to their hotel from the Folies Bergeres was stopped by the rioters in the Paris streets on the fateful night of February 6, and for the rest of their stay they were forced to find their own way about by underground train and buses, as a taxi strike was declared. While they were in New York the waiters at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel went out on strike, and then th© travellers came back to New Zealand by the Afonterey. They were .forced to board the MonUrey at Los Angeles on account of the trouble on the San Francisco water front. Miss Doris Hogg, Okoia, has returned to her homo after an extended stay in New Plymouth as the guest of her aunt, Airs. F. Harrison, of Frankleigh Park. Airs. J. B. Meads and Afiss Meads, have returned to Westmere from a holiday spent in Hunterville, They were accompanied by Airs. R. Craig, of Hunterville, who will be their guest. An American woman. Miss Anna L. Strong, can claim to bo the founder and co-editor of the Moscow Daily News, the first newspaper published in English in th© Soviet Union. Miss Strong has lived in Russia for many . years. When making a lecture tour in the United States recently she was greatly interested in the five-and-ten cent, stores there, remarking that they contained. so many little gadgets unprocurable in Russia that the stores were a Soviet citizen’s dream of a shopping paradise.