SOCIAL AND PERSONAL

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 108, 8 May 1936, Page 2

SOCIAL AND PERSONAL

Mr. and Airs. Elliot, of Waitara, were recent visitors to Wanganui. * * * * Mr. and Mrs. A. K. Overton and Miss Betty Overton are Taihape visitors to Wanganui. Mrs. N. White. Mrs. F. Fryer and Miss Fryer, of Hastings, have been visiting Wanganui. Mr. and Mrs. L. Perry, of Havelock North, were visitors this week to Wanganui. ! Mr. and Mrs. C. J. Buttimore, Weij lington, were recent visitors to Wanganui. * » ♦ * Mrs. Braybrooke, who has been visiting Wanganui, has returned to Inglewood. Mr. and Mrs. G. H. Carver, Grey House, Collegiate. School, who have been visiting Canterbury for the Latham —Montgomery wedding, left yesterday on a visit to the West Coast. Mr. W. P. Miller, district traffic manager of railways in Wanganui, left early in the week for the south, accompanied by Mrs. Miller and their daughter. Miss Peggy Ross, wh| is studying Art at .the Christchurch University, arrives in Wanganui at the week-end and will spend the vacation at her home, “ r.etham.” Miss Jean Williams, of St. Mary s Convent, Wanganui, was successful in winning the essay competition recently conducted at Wanganui by the New Zealand Co-operative Alliance. The Whangarei High School Board of Governors has selected Miss 1. Al. Oldridge as matron for Carruth House, the boys’ hostel. There was 55 applicants. ’ Miss Oldridge was for < some years sub-matron of Helen Connon Hall, the Canterbury Collge women students’ hostel, and is at present matron of the Technical College Hostel, Wanganui. She holds St. John Ambulance certificates for first aid and home nursing and has made a study ot dietetics.