SOCIAL AND PERSONAL

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 77, Issue 256, 29 October 1934, Page 2

SOCIAL AND PERSONAL

Mr. and Mrs. 0. Lamb, of Timaru, were visitors to Wanganui during the week-end. Mrs. W. Nicholls and Miss B. Nicholls, of Wellington, were recent visitors to Wanganui. Mr. and Mrs. D. S. Murchison, of Christchurch, have been visiting Wanganui. Miss Phyllis Hackshaw has returned from a business visit to Wellington. Among recent callers at New Zealand House, London, have been Miss M. G. Allen (Wanganui), F. E. Wheeler (Marton). Miss Ruth Herrick, of Hawke’s Bay, Chief 'Commissioner of New Zealand Girl Guides, is paying her first official visit to Wanganui, and is the guest 1 of Mrs. A. H. E. Wall, Dvisional Commissioner. Wanganui visitors to Wellington during the week-end included: Mrs. H. D. Bates, Mrs. M. Barton, Mrs. P. Hartland, Mrs. J. B- Davis and Miss I. McKenzie. The South Australia State Centenary Committee of 20 includes two women, Mrs. Lavington Bonython, daughter-in-law of Sir Langdon Bonython and a former lady Mayoress of Adelaide, and Mrs. J. L. Leal, president of the South Australian National Council of Women. Mrs. Leal suggests the establishment of a seaside home for country women as one of the Centenary memorials. Dr. Doris Gordon (Stratford), who arrived in Auckland at the week-end after a visit to Australia attended a 1 special pos-graduate course at the Women’s Hospital, Melbourne. At a party which was given in her honour at the Melbourne Lyceum Club by Dr. Roberta Donaldson, who has just completed three years of office as president of the Medical Women’s Society, Dr. Gordon gave a talk upon the work of the Obstetric Society in New Zealand. Mrs. Knight, the nurse who has been in charge of Princess Elizabeth and Princess Margaret Rose since their birth, has become the leading light in a club for the “Nannies of Mayfair.” Once a week about 600 members of the “Nannie’s Cot Guild’’ meet at a quiet little London restaurant, when their charges are in bed and asleep, and talk over the charitable work they do for the famous Royal Free Hospital. They devise ways and means of raising money for the cots they have endowed at this hospital. Such a splendid idea!