SOCIAL AND PERSONAL.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 276, 21 November 1936, Page 2

SOCIAL AND PERSONAL.

Mrs J. M. Hussey, St. John's Hill, has returned from a visit to Hawke’s Bay. Miss Enid Sturdy, Hobson, Street, has returned from a holiday in Christchurch. ♦ * * * Mr and Mrs J. B. Davis and Mrs H. D. Bates have returned to Wanganui from Christchurch. ♦ ♦ ¥ * Mrs H. M. Keesing returned this week from Christchurch, where she v\as the guest of Mrs W. G. Scannell. Mrs Laird, of Hunterville, has returned to her home after visiting her parents. Mr and Mrs Eggleton, of Bunythorpe. Mrs C. Ashford, a Wanganui visitor to Wellington for the Saunders— Grose wedding will be the guest of Mrs Harpur Nixon. Mrs H. Meadows, of Palmerston • North, is spending a few days in

Wanganui and is the guest of Mrs R. I Shields, Millward Street. * ; Dr. Carl R. Gilberd, Mrs Gilberd, | and family, are on a visit to WangaI nui and are the guests of Mr and | Mrs W. Gilberd, Gonville. I Mr and Mrs J. F. Millward, St. John’s Hill, will motor to Wellington lon Monday morning to attend the I Saunders—Grose wedding. Mrs M. C. Tremewan, of Wellington, who has been visiting Auckland, spent a few days in Wanganui as the guest of Mrs C. R. White. Viscountess de Taillepiekl de Bondy arrived at Auckland yesterday by the Rangitata. is making a short visit to the Dominion before leaving for Australia. Miss Marjory Brewer, of Waihou, Waverley, and Miss Helen Simmons, of Patea, have been spending a few days in Wanganui as the guests of Mrs P. A. O'Neill. Miss Slattery, who has been spending some time at Auckland and in Taranaki, is visiting Wanganui and will go on to Taranaki next week. Miss Slattery sails by the Ormonde in January for England. Mrs Taylor and Mrs Bache Harvey were hostesses at an afternoon party on Thursday at their home “Tahawai,” Riverbank, Wanganui East, in honour of Mrs Jac'., of Dunedin, a visitor to Wanganui. s -Ak * * Mr and Mrs A. Walker nv.’ tJred to I Auckland to meet Mr and.* Mrs Walker from Edinburgh, arriving by the Awatea. They intend staying three months in New Zealand visiting taupo and the South Island. Miss Oonagh Ziesler, daughter of Mr and Mrs Hadeler Ziesler. Gonville. is leaving New Zealand next month for England, where shortly after her arrival, her marriage to Lieutenant A. R. Kennedy will take place at Working. Miss Ziesler wiil sail by the Waiwera, leaving Napier on December 15. $■ Wanganui people who will motor to Wellington during the week-end to attend the Saunders—Grose wedding which takes place on Monday will include Mr and Mrs H. M. Keesing, Miss Marjorie Saunders, Miss Truda Strouts, Miss Mary Saunders. Mr and Mrs J. A. Lee, Mrs Hughes Johnson, Miss Dorothy Hughes Johnson, Dr. Murray Nicholson. ♦ ♦ ¥ ♦ Mrs J. W. Jordan, wife of the Nev.Zealand High Commissioner in London, will perform her first public ceremony on November 26 at Leith,

near Edinburgh. At the invitation of the Watchlin Shipping Line, she will launch the Port Tauranga. Mr and Mrs Jordan and family have leased a house in Wimbeldon, and are now quite settled in their London home. i It is a coincidence that two Eng- | lish authoresses who travelled to I I Australia in the Strathnaver, wrote ■ their last book with the fear of blind- I ness ahead of them. Mrs AlecTweedie, who has written 28 travel ! | books, says in her last one, “My i ; Legacy Cruise," that she has only one : • half her allotted sight; and Mrs Cun- I . liffe-Owen—whose best-known book • is “Through the Gates of Memory"— j said in Perth that, fearing the total I loss of her sight, she had drawn upon ' her unrecorded experiences for as many stories as she could write, and intends to publish them now, “if my eyes hold out.” Mrs Cunliffe-Owen is travelling with her husband, a retired English Army colonel, who was military attache to the British Ambassador at Constantinople during the ( AKE K ING SIMPUFIED I Now that Christmas is drawing near, one’ thoughts naturally turn to the subect of Christmas cakes. You can't do better than have yours done at the “Bo Peep,” Home Cookery, 82 j Guyton Street. Johnson's: specialise in cake icing and they make their own “jono” cake mould, wnfch keeps moist indefinitely, and never tastes stale. Housewives who are keen on decorating their own cakes will find ‘‘jono” easy to use and most economical. This cake mould is only Is per lb, and a pound goes a long way. Then there are all kins of mould decorations suitable for birthday and wedding cakes. Mrs John- , son will be very pleased to give any advice needed.*