SOCIAL AND PERSONAL.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 69, 23 March 1935, Page 2

SOCIAL AND PERSONAL.

Mrs. Andy Shaw, Wellington, is the guest of Mrs. Hague Smith, Gonville. Mr. and Mrs. J. J. Jack were Wellington visitors to Wanganui this week. Miss C. Duigan has returned to Wanganui from Dunedin. Mr. and Mrs. C. Handley, of Palmerston North, were in Wanganui this ‘week. Mr. and Mrs. H. Lewis have returned to Wanganui from Tokaanu. Mrs. D. Lethbridge, of Turakina, is at present visiting Auckland. Mr. and Mrs. C. F. Murray are Wanganui visitors to Christchurch. Mrs. H. R. Beauchamp, Glasgow ‘Street, has returned from Tokaanu. Mrs. F. Bretlargh, Wanganui, is spending a holiday at Christchurch. Mrs. Gwynne Potts, Taupo, is the guest of Mrs. Selwvn D’Arcy Sedgebrook. Mrs. F. Carey, Wellington, is visiting her mother, Mrs. H. F. Christie, St. John’s Hill. Mrs. lan Higgie, i 3 leaving at the week-end for a holiday at Taupo. Miss Hilda Poole, of Taumarunui, was a visitor to Wanganui during the week. Mr. and Mrs. D. McLeod, Lower Hutt, who have been staying at Hotel Parkville during the past week, have returned. Mrs. W. M. Gillies and Mrs. W. L. ■Burgess, Wanganui, were week-end visitors to Rotorua. Among callers at the High Commissioner’s Office in London recently were Miss Margaret Poole (Wanganui) and Mrs, A. L. Wilson (Mangaweka). Mrs. R. E. Cuthbertson, St. John’s Hill, has returned from a holidav of several weeks spent in Australia. Miss Joyce Wilson, Wieksteed Street, is visiting her grandmother Mrs. Kennedy, Wellington, Miss Rosalind Arkwright, Overton, Marton, is the guest of Mrs. Pat Marshall, Lower Hutt. Miss Hursthouse, who has been at Wanganui for the past few weeks, has I returned Mrs. S. Brooking, Gonville, has left for a visit to Ohlistchurch. Miss N. Cobbe Chateau Tongariro is the guest of Mr. and Mrs. J. h’ Salmon, St. John’s Hill. Miss Betty Willis, Wanganui, is visiting Hamilton is the guest of Miss Betty Wilson. Mesdames H. D. Robertson and G. F. McGrath were hostesses oa Monday in honour of Mrs. C. G, Ross, who leaves next week for England. Mesdames MeLay and Brooking of Gonville, were recent hostesses at' an eight-table progressive “500” party in aid of the Knox Cubs’ camping funds. Mr. and Mrs. F. Wallis, of Wellington, who are on a motoring holiday and who spent a few days in Wanganui, have gone on to Taranaki. Mrs. Rivers, of Wellington, is the 'guest of her daughter, Mrs. W. J. Gardner, College Street. Mrs. Swainson, Pahiatua, is visiting Wanganui as the guest of Mrs. A. G Cross. Hipango Terrace, and during the week-end wills leave on a motoring tour to Auckland accompanied bv Miss Avery. Many friends will hear with regretof the death of Mrs. Alice Plimmer, Wife of Mr. John Plimmer, of Khandallah, Wellington. She was known as a fine social worker. Becoming very ill recently, Mrs. Plimmer had to go to Melbourne for special treatment, but in the end it was ineffective. Mrs. Plimmer was formerly Miss Roughton, of Melbourne. PARIS AGAIN 1 ' BREATH-TAKING ” IDEAS. Buttons, buckles and dress clasps fashioned of rhinoceros hide have created little short of a sensation in the world of fashion. Paris was their origin, of course, for only the French would have the “hide” to think of such a daring and unique fashion innovation. When wooden buttons appeared about three years ago, they caused quite a flutter, as nobody, even the most hardened buyer, had ever thought that plain, unadorned, undisguised slabs of wood would ever be used for dress trimmings. But rhinoceros hide buttons! These have figuratively taken away the breath of fashion designers, and they declare that the creation of these marks a new era in the history of fashion. Bone and metal buttons have been used since the dawn of civilisation, and glass buttons, which were introduced about 2000 years of age, have had periodical revivals. Rhinoceros buttons, though, are quite unprecedented, although the hide has been used for walking sticks. These quaint accessories are in amber shade, and some have a rough dark, bark-like surface, which is the outer part of the hide. They are cut from strips of the hide while it is still soft, and they are then dried, becoming very hard. They are made in all shapes and sizes, but, as the supply is as yet very limited, they will probably adorn only exclusive autumn and winter costumes.