SOCIAL AND PERSONAL.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 180, 31 July 1936, Page 2

SOCIAL AND PERSONAL.

Mrs. C. Burns is a Wanganui visitor I to Auckland. Mr. and Mrs. G. Lawrence, of Kimbolton, have been visiting Wanganui as the guests of Mrs. F. Beard. Mrs. 11. M. Speed, Makirikiri, was a visitor to Wellington this week. * • • ♦ Mr. and Mrs. N. McDonald, Gisborne, are visiting Wanganui. Mrs. E. F. Haydon, of Palmerston North, and Mrs. Stockdale, of Awapuni, visited Wanganui for the Stokes —Jackson wedding. * * ¥ * Mrs. Hepburn, Messrs. Gordon and James Hepburn,' and Miss Joyce Morrison, of Petone, were the guests of Mrs. J. Jackson, Wanganui East, for the Stokes—Jackson wedding. Miss Norah Elliot, who has been on a motor-tour of the North Island, has returned this week to Castlecliff. Mr. and Mrs. Stan Clark and Mr. A. Clark, of Petone, and Mr. L. Clark, of Lower Hutt, were the guests of Mrs. Stokes while in Wanganui for the Stokes—Jackson wedding. Miss Sybil M. Williams, daughter of Canon and Mrs. W. G. Williams, of Aramoho, who has been elected as one of the three New Zealand University delegates to attend the PanPacific Conference of the World’s Student Christian Federation to be held in California in September, will leave Wellington on Tuesday next by the Maunganui for San Francisco. Canon and Mrs. Williams will leave early on Tuesday morning for Wellington, to farewell their daughter. Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Blundell (Waipawa, Hawke’s Bay) and Miss Blundell have had a very pleasant motor tour in Devonshire and Cornwall, writes a London correspondent. Mr. and Mrs. Blundell will be chiefly in London during this month making preparations for the wedding of their daughter, Miss Betty Blundell, to Mr. J. R. Page. After that they will travel in Scotland. Arrivals in London this week included Mrs. C. H. Coote and Miss M. Coote (Nelson), Miss U. Greenwood (Havelock North), Miss J. Willis TGreatlord), and Miss V. Lethbridge (Marton), writes a correspondent. They travelled on the Waiwera in company with the Hon. M. Phillimore, who has returned to England after eighteen months in the Dominion working for the cause of the Oxford Group movement. The New Zealanders will visit Oxford for an international gathering of the Oxford Group at which some 800 people will be present. The convention began on July 3, and will continue for ten days. Later the New Zealanders will be present at Castle Bromwich, Birmingham, where the Oxford Group will hold another gathering on July 20 to 26.