SOCIAL AND PERSONAL

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 123, 26 May 1936, Page 2

SOCIAL AND PERSONAL

•Mr and Mrs (’. 1: Mrlhvanl. St. •inhii/ Hill, were weekend visitors lo We II in gt o n. Mrs Alan, of AshhurM, is visiting Wanganui. Airs .1. Ramson and Mis< May Ramson, of New Plymouth, ere spending several weeks’ holiday with Mrs Kenneth Duncan, Miss Margaret McElroy lias returned home to Feilding after a stay in Wanganui. Miss A. Cooke, Wanganui, is visiting her sister. Airs G. Green, Rahotu, Taranaki district. Friends of Miss June Summerell will be glad to know that she is well and about again after her recent operation at “Braemar. ’’ Air and Mrs R. G. Taiboys. Wicksteed Street, with their family, have returned after a holiday in Wellington and a motor tour of the north. At the concert held in St Paul’s Hall (in aid of the British and Foreign Bible Society), Miss Doris E. Sevretan Hughes rendered an artistic violin solo, which was great]v appreciated by those

The friends of Miss Joan McGrath, who has been training in the Auckland Public Hospital, will be delighted to hear that she has passed her final examinations and also has the honour of being a gold medalist. Miss McGrath is a. daughter of Mr and Mrs G. F. McGrath, of Liverpool Street. Wanganui. Dr Elizatbcth Bryson, Wellington, will leave by the Niagara from Auckland today, she will attend the International Women's Week in Budapest Juiy 8 |.”i and the ronfcitfirn of the International Imlernfion of I’nixersitv Women at Cracow, In be field from August 15 tn 2*2. Dr. Bryson will Inter visit. London and will, return to New Zealand in the spring. M iss X p l!•> M. Sea nian "s new no\ el will bo calkd "The Marriage of \;"hoIns Cotter. ” It will be out in September, as nnc of the autumn publications. There is nothing about New Zealand in this sfory, Ihp. setting being purel} EngILIi. It will be brought out by a new publishing firm. Dr. Kathleen T’lh. from I he New Zea and Presbyterian Mission Hospital in Canton, is spending her first furlough in London and is taking a course of studv al Moorfieids Eye Hospital, where -he has been successful in passing her first section nf the D.O.M.S. degree. Dr. i’ih spent the Easter vacation in Scotland with the Rev. G- S. Brown and Mrs Brown, Lad\ .lellicop left England a. few weeks ago for Berlin with her son. I he young Earl, and with Lady Prudence Jellieoe. Lord Jellicoe is paying a. visit t«T thn Crown Prince at Potsdam, and he will remain in Germany for some months to study th» language. In the autumn he will return to England and enter Trinity College, <'anicridge. He is to study for the diplomjtie service. Mr A. 11. Wright, forme r.'y Commit, -ionrr of PoliVe for Npw Zealand, accompanied by Mrs M right and hidaughter, .Mrs Evans, arrived in Lon don by Ihe Tuscan Star at the end of April, and arc staying with relatives at. Torquav. Return passages ba\c been booked by the Waiwera, *o leave on August 26. Meanwhile they intend to visit friends in different parts of Eng land. Mr W. Magill (Seatoun i is accompanving them, and will also return by the Waiwera. The '>w Zealand Wemeu's Association held an afternoon reception at Grosvenor House, Park Lane, London, during the first week in May. It wa* well attended, though not so numerously as usual. A good manv of the guests were new arrivals. Members of the committee who were there as hostesses included Lady AVilford, Miss Russell, Mrs Harston. Mrs L. Levien. Mrs IL I. B. Drew, Mrs C. J. Wray, and Miss Orboil. Lady Hewart was an early arrival, and so was Lady Lockhart. Others present included Mrs de Vries. Mrs R. Mill, Miss Bolt, Mrs R. M. Bell, Mis* Elizabeth Gatenby (who is hoping to visit New Zealand this year), Mrs A. J. Harrop, Miss A. Hadfield, Miss Blanche Moss Davis, Miss Ethel Overton (Christchurch), and Mrs W. H. Price (Wellington).

ENGAGEMENT The engagement is announced of Joan Olwen. younger daughter of the late Mr and Mrs T. E. Thomas, of Wanganui. to John Sumner, son of Mr and Mrs W. S. Leath, of Wellington.