SOCIAL AND PERSONAL

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 125, 28 May 1936, Page 2

SOCIAL AND PERSONAL

Mrs. G. H. Swan, Gonville, is visiting Wellington. Mrs. 11. R. BeaiMiamp and family, Glasgow Street, have returned after a holiday spent at Wellington and Turangi. Mr. and Mrs. T. F. Latham have arrived in Wanganui and taken up residence for a time in the home of Mr. and Mrs. Nowell Izard, *St. John’s Hill, who are away in England. * % « • Mrs. H. D. Bates. Mrs. J. B. Davis, and Mrs. S. Barton, wdll leave to-day for Auckland to attend the race meetings there. Mr. and Mrs. J. AV. Deem, who have been spending three months in the South Island, during which time they visited Dunedin. Christchurch and Blenheim, returned to Wanganui yesterday and are staying with their daughter, Mrs. V. C. Rapson, Durie Hill. The Duchess of Gloucester has been presented by the Government of Newfoundland with a magnificent evening cape of pure white fox furs (states an exchange). Thousands of fox furs were examined by Hudson Bay experts before ten were sent to London, where they were worked into a special wrap. These skins are extremely rare. Miss Elaine Hamill, who is leading lady with J. C. Williamson Ltd.’s comedy company which is to appear here in “Fresh Fields,” and “Night Must Fall,” at the Opera House, was horn at Hamilton. She was nursing at the Napier Public Hospital when the ’quake occurred at Hawke’s Bay, and afterwards she was at the Dannevirke Hospital. Miss Hamill’s home is at Taihape. and she was educated at Nga i Tawa College, Marton. Miss Hamill left New Zealand for Australia two i years ago. and her rise in her profession has been meteoric.