SOCIAL AND PERSONAL.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 103, 2 May 1936, Page 2

SOCIAL AND PERSONAL.

Mrs. Russell Grace and Mrs. 1). Young were Wanganui viistors to Wellington this week.Mr. and Mrs. M. Pedersen, of the Wanganui district, were visitors to Wellington this week. * * • * Mr. and Mrs. A. L. Rice and Misses G. and O. Bice, of Okoia, left this week on a visit to Wellington. Mrs. E. Beard has returned to Wanganui after spending a holiday at Kimbolton. Mrs. Ron. Hatrick has left to stay at her house at Mission Point, Lake Taupo. Mrs. H. V. Hammond, Somme Parade, has returned from a visit to her daughter. Mrs. Geoffrey Arbon, Pohangina, and friends in the Rangitikei district. Mr. and Mrs. U. R. Beauchamp and family will visit Wellington on Monday and will stay at the Midland Hotel. They intend to return to Wanganui on Thursday. Mrs. Annie McVicar has completed 21 years as a member of the Wellington Hospital Board. The occasion was celebrated at a special meeting of the board last week, when at the supper adjournment a handsome “birthday cake,” surmounted by 21 coloured candles, was placed on her desk in the board room. Miss Hazel Johnson, Sarah Ann Rhodes Bellow, at Massey College, Palmerston North, has been granted a travel scholarship to proceed to Europe Xid America to study home science methods. This is a similar scholarship granted to her predecessor, Miss Violet MacMillan, and Miss Johnson leaves in July, returning about March of 1937. A member of the Otago University home science department will relieve iMss Johnson during her absence.