SOCIAL AND PERSONAL

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 306, 28 December 1936, Page 2

SOCIAL AND PERSONAL

Miss T. Atkins, Hamilton, is visitng Wanganui. » » • » ( Miss C. Paterson arrived in Wan- * ;anui from Hamilton on Friday on a 1 loliday visit. $ * * » ' I Miss Betty Hale is a Stratford • isitor to Wanganui for the holidays. » » » ” j Miss M. Slipper, Wanganui, is j isiting Miss Pat Fountaine, at El- , ham. | ♦ » * * Miss L. Legge, Raetihi, is visiting 1 Vaitara. Mrs C. Stewart, of Fordell, is ' pending the Christmas holidays in ’ ,'apier and Hastings. Mrs Grumitt, Wanganui, is spendng the Christmas holidays with her 1 ister, Mrs J. Saunders, Hobson Itreet, Wellington. » » • • Miss Barbara Alp, Wanganui East, 5 spending the holidays in Timaru. ' Miss Laird, Victoria Avenue, is ‘ 'isiting her sister, Mrs G. H. Alex- ( mder, Waverley. Miss J. D. Townsend, is a New ’lymouth visitor to Wanganui. Mrs E. Broad and Mr J. Broad, ' lonville, are visiting Mrs F. Moore, ' iastbourne, Wellington. Mr and Mrs Rod Macßae, of Manjaweka, with their two small daugh:ers, are holidaying in Wanganui. Mrs R. Long, North Auckland, is /isiting her parents, Mr and Mrs H. 5. F. James, Gonville. Dr. Eliza~.h Gunn went to Christchurch from Wanganui to spend Christmas with her mother, Mrs W. lunn. * * * « Miss D. Turner, of Wanganui, is spending a holiday in Napier. Mrs J. Gilbertson, Wanganui East, s visiting her son-in-law and daughter, Mr and Mrs G. W, Kean, Lower -iutt. Mrs E. K. Shepherd, New Plymouth, vho has been spending several weeks wliday in Wanganui, has returned. Mr and Mrs J. A. Lee, St. John’s Hill, left on Boxing Day to spend a loliday at Kai Iwi beach. Mrs W. Davis, of Wellington, who was the guest of Mrs N. Davis, Wanganui, has left for Eltham to attend her son’s wedding. Mrs A. Chapman and family, Wanganui, are spending a holiday in New Plymouth, as the guests of Mrs W. R. Phillips. ...» Miss Catherine Pownall, who, in the past two years has been training at the Wanganui Hospital, leaves to-day for her home in Hastings, where she will remain for a few days before commencing a motor tour embracing I'aupo, Rotorua and Tauranga. Mrs D. Latham, Wanganui, is visiting Professor and Mrs von Zedlitz at Wellington. Mrs W. R. Phillips and family, who have been spending a holiday in Wanganui, have returned to their home in New Plymouth. Miss Stella Murray, the New Zealand contralto, who now lives in London, intends revisiting the Dominion in 1938. Mrs Isherwood, Christchurch, and Miss Barbara Isherwood. arrived in Wanganui from Wellington on Wednesday, and are staying with Mr and Mrs J. Siddells. Miss Muriel Townsend left Wanganui on Christmas Eve for Auckland to spend a short holiday with her mother. # ♦ * ♦ Mr and Mrs N. N. Davis are motoring to Eltham to-day to attend the Davis —Penhall wedding. Mr and Mrs W. Taylor, of Otahuhu, Auckland, are spending a fortnight's holiday in Wanganui, and are the guests of Mr and Mrs G. A. Spurdie, Kawatiri Avenue, Gonville. The Skyrack Express, published at Wakefield, announces that Mrs Brigham, of Moorland Terrace, Garforth, widow of Dr. H. G. Brigham, has left for New Zealand where she will take up mission work among the Maoris. Mrs Brigham has been a prominent church worker, and president of the Church Garforth Women’s Institute. lAt an informal gathering of church workers and friends a presentation was made to her on behalf of the Parochial Church Council and the Church Sewing Party. The Bishop of Waikato gave a brief description of • the country and people among whom I Mrs Brigham will work. The bishop left for New Zealand on December 16, and Mrs Brigham, together with another lady worker, accompanied him and his family. Her work will be devoted to mission work among the women and children of the Maori tribes. Mrs Brigham has been a resident of Garforth close upon 15 years <continues the Skyrack Express). She will have a spell of five years in New Zealand, and will then be entitled to leave of absence.