SOCIAL AND PERSONAL

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 84, 10 April 1935, Page 2

SOCIAL AND PERSONAL

Airs. Crabtree is a Wanganui visi- ’.■•(• to Wellington. Mr. and Mrs. JR. E. Baker are Mas terton visitors to Wanganui. Mrs. E. H. Lyell, Wellington, wa.g in Wanganui this week. Airs. F. Graham has returned from a visit to Mrs. Cumming, Napier. Airs. S. Burnett, who paid a week end \isic to Wellington, returned to Wanganui on Monday. Miss A. M, Blackett has returned from a visit io the South .Island, where she has been attending the Librarians Conference at Timaru. Mr., Mrs. and Miss Porritt, Cam bridge, who have been the guests of Airs. W. L>. Low at Kapanui, Wanganui, are now visiting Wellington. i Miss Nancy Wilson, of Bulls, who j is the commissioner for training for j Wolf Cubs in New Zealand, is staying ! in Christchurcii. She will leave shortly I to visit Mt. Cook. .Mr. and Mrs. L. Brinkman, who left Wanganui some months ago for SydI ney, where Mr. Brinkman was reliev- . ing manager of the Bank cf New' Zea- : land, are returning next week to Wan 1 ganui. | Mrs. K. F. Scott, Bulls, visited her ■ sister-in-law, Mrs. C. L. Duigan during the week-end in order to bid her bon 1 voyage before she departs with her j two daughters for England at the end j of the week. Modern blacksmiths’ daughters do | not often, it is said, help their fathers j heat the irons and hammer the shoes. I But visitors to a Leicestershire forge will often see father and daughter working by the light of the red flames. The daughter in question, Miss F. Seal, has also become noted in her own field, that of a stock raiser. At a re- ! cent Melton Mowbray fat stock show she put all other noted Leicestershire breeders in the shade. She penned the champion beast and won two firsts and a second with her heifers. She groomed all her entries herself, and when she paraded the champion it is doubtful if there could have been louder cheering.

The Burford Council School, Oxfordshire, one of the first British schools to take up the idea of a school pipe band with flageolets, recorders, flutes, etc., now makes its own instruments j out of bamboo, etc. Recently the band I gave a demonstration of its skill beI fore the Royal College of Music, Lon-I