SOCIAL AND PERSONAL

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 77, Issue 153, 30 June 1934, Page 2

SOCIAL AND PERSONAL

The members of the Dance Club will hold another of their enjoyable parties this evening. Mrs. Hughes Johnson, Gonville, and Miss Newcombe, intend motoring to Hastings during the week-end. * ¥ qt » Mrs. E. Walpole, Wanganui East, has returned from a visit to Christchurch. * ♦ » « Mrs. A. D. Jones, of Hastings, is visiting Wanganui as the guest of Mrs. Vernon Smith, Gonville. Miss N. Neilson, of Hamilton, is spending a holiday in Wanganui and is the guest of her sister, Mrs. W. Dunkiey’ Mrs. Percy Baddeley, Kakatahi, was the guest of Mrs. E. G. Ross for the dance given on Thursday by Mrs. Armour H. Matthews, of South Africa. Mrs. H. G. Carver, Nelson Street, and Miss Mary Mouat, of Mangapurua, have returned to Wanganui from a motoring tour of the north. Mrs. H. G. Horsley, Wanganui East, has returned from a visit to Wellington. Mr. Norman Anderson and Miss Kathleen Anderson, of Marton, were the guests of Mrs. J. Ballance, Wicksteed Street, this week. Mrs. Norman Hayward and her two small children, accompanied by her mother. Mrs. B. M. Bourne, left yesterday for Auckland, where they will in future reside. Pnor to their departure several farewell parties were given in their honour.

After filling the position of infant mistress at the Aramoho School during the past eighteen years, Miss Pitcher is retiring owing to ill-health. A farewell ceremony is being arranged in her honour for next Friday. * ♦ ♦ • Melbourne claims to possess the third largest Braille library in the world. Miss Minnie Crabbe, who has been librarian for 27 years, is part inventor of the first Braille printing press in Australia. Mrs. Gibbs, wife of Dr. H. E. Gibbs, has resigned from the presidency of the Wellington Free Kindergarten Association. She has been president for 20 years with only a short interval a few years ago. • « O V Miss Pownall (late matron Otaki Sanatorium) who on her retirement proceeded to England and has been spending most of her three years’ stay with friends and relatives, left London by the Port Gisborne, and -will arrive in New Zealand about the middle of August. The New Zealand Women’s Association arranged a very pleasant reception at Grosvenor House in honour of Mrs. Eric Stevens, on May 3 (states a London correspondent). Mrs. Hal Williams received the guests, who numbered over 100 and who included Lady Jellicoe and Lady Findlay. Among recent New Zealand callers at the High Commissioner’s office, London, were the following:—Miss C. Wilson (Bulls), Miss K. Hewitt (Marton), Mr. and Mrs. 11. Osborne (Foxton), Misses P. and V. Barker (Gisborne), Miss Rimu E. Holmes (Gisborne), Miss Eileen S. Thomas (Gisborne), Miss Jessie Cooper (Masterton), Miss I. E. Walker (Wanganui), Miss G. Nelson (Havelock North). * * # ft Discriminating ladies patronise Goss’, opposite McGruer’s, Wanganui. Eugene and steam process permanent waving. Marcelling, Rotorua mud packs for complexion. Distinctive ladies’ and gent’s hairdressing. Appointments ’phone 4571.* Word has just ben received of the success of Miss Wanda Atkinson in the recent pianoforte playing examinations, in which she obtained the highest marks in the North Island for the advanced senior grade, thereby winning the exhibition offered yearly by Trinity College* Miss Atkinson, who is just 15, is now called a local exhibitor of the Trinity College of Music, London. She is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. F. C. Atkinson. PALAIS DE DANSE (Saturday), dancing will be held from 8 till 12 in the pleasant surroundings of the Druids’ Hall, by the Palais do Danse. Good Monte Carlo prizes are offered and a programme of old-time and modern numbers has also been arranged for the enjoyment of patrons. The Gaiety Dance Band, together with coloured lighting effects and a good floor, combine to ensure the evening’s success. GRAND CARNIVAL DANCE. Attention of patrons of the terpsichorean art is drawn to the announcement of the Palais de Danse in this issue. A grand carnival dance, at which streamers, balloons, novelties and a waltzing competition will feature, has been arranged and a good supper, Monte Carlo prizes, latest music and splendid floor all combine to ensure a real carnival night for all. SAFE COUGH CURE FOR BABIES AN ELDERLY PEOPLE. You can now make at home for only 2s fid a whole pint of splendid cough and cold remedy, which is pleasant to take, and safe for all ages. To one 2s fid bottle of HEENZO (Hcan’s Essence) add hot ■water and sweetening, as directed. Unrivalled for coughs, colds, ’flu, whooping cough, sore throat, etc. Buy HEENZO to-day —costs 2s 6d, saves at least 10s.— \dvt.