SOCIAL AND PERSONAL.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 280, 26 November 1936, Page 2

SOCIAL AND PERSONAL.

Miss Kerr, of Geraldine, is visiting Wanganui. Miss Betty Collins, Wanganui, is visiting Wellington. Mrs. W. Bullivant is a Wanganui visitor to Wellington. Mr. and Mrs. B. G. Bond, Auckland, have been visiting Wanganui. Mr. and Mrs. L. Rutherford are Dunedin visitors to Wanganui. * ♦ * * Mr. and Mrs. N. F. Lambourne, of Wellington, were visitors to Wanganui this week. Miss Kathleen Jones, Makirikiri, left on Tuesday to spend a holiday in Wellington. Lady Angela Dawney, sister of the Duchess of Gloucester, is visiting the South Island. * * ♦ ♦ Miss Roma Maclure is a Feilding visitor to Wanganui and is the guest j of Miss Mollie McDonald. * * * • I Miss Dampney is a Dannevirke visiI tor to Wanganui, and is staying with Mr. and Mrs. Ron. Martin, Brunswick. Miss Downie Stewart, who has been, visiting Wanganui on her way home to Dunedin from Auckland, left for Wellington yesterday. The Orpheus Choir, consisting of members of the Townswomen’s Guild and the Aramoho Institute, accompanied by their conductor, Mrs. Buller, journey to Palmerston North to-mor-row to be present at the Empire Hall concert in aid of the charity fete, and will contribute to the programme with glee and part songs. On a holiday tour to New Zealand ; land Australia, Mon. Mrs. Nelson Hood, . I Brighton, England, whose husband the i late Hon. Alfred Nelson Hood, was a ' great-grandnephew of Lord Nelson, . of Trafalgar fame, was a passenger by the Ruahine, which arrived at Wellington yesterday morning from London. Her husband was a son of Viscount Bridport. The tour being purely a pleasure one, Mrs. Hood will spend about five months in this country. » * * ♦ ■ After practising for five years in England. Dr. Adah Platts-Mills returned to Wellington yesterday, and . intends associating herself with the school medical service. Accompany- ; ing her was her mother. Dr. D. E. i Platts-Mills, who has been in England i for two years on a health recruiting visit. Dr. Adah Platts-Mills was for' ten months associated with the Bal1 ham Hospital in London, where she gained wide experience in medical' work, and for a further six months ■ she was resident medical officer at the ' Woolwich Hospital for Mothers and Babies, where she secured the diploma of the British College of Obstetrics. ,