SOCIAL AND PERSONAL

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 80, Issue 243, 13 October 1937, Page 2

SOCIAL AND PERSONAL

Mrs N. Driver has returned to Wanganui from a holiday spent in Wellington. Mrs J. Collins and Miss Collins, of Otane, Hawke’s Bay, paid a short visit to Wanganui this week. Miss T. Bergin leaves Wanganui today on a holiday visit to Christchurch. Mrs W. Duncan, Hunterville, was a visitor to Hastings for the race meeting on Saturday. Miss A. Stent, Ohingaiti, was a visitor to Wanganui yesterday. Mr and Mrs J. McLay, of Napier, and formerly of Wanganui, revisited the city during the week-end. Mrs E. H. Poynter, Durie Hill, has returned from Wellington. Mr and Mrs E. A. Gorton, Wellington, have been visiting Wanganui. Mr and Mrs T. Sherwood are Wellington visitors to Wanganui. Mrs E. Gilbert and Miss Quin motored to Napier to watch the New Zealand lady golfers play their final rounds last week-end.

Mrs H. L. Tancred arrived in Wanganui- yesterday by the Union Airways liner Korimarko.

Mr and Mrs R. Clare, of Buckland’s Beach, Auckland, who has been spending a holiday in Wanganui, left on Monday for New Plymouth. Miss E. M. Gebbie and Miss S. A. Wood (Wanganui) have been motoring with some New Zealand friends through Wales and the south-west ot England, states a London corresponwriting under date September 18. They did a tour of Belgium and France and the Paris Exhibition. This week they have left for Switzerland, Germany, and Austria, doing a tour down the Rhine.

“I would like to say that Mrs Hollis has lived up to all that we think of her. We have for a long time considered her the finest woman golfer in the Southern Hemisphere,” remarked Miss Wray, manager of the Australian team which took part in the New Zealand championships at Waiohiki, Napier, during the prize-giving ceremony. “We have never seen an Australian or New Zealand-born golfer better than Mrs Hollis, and so long as she plays the game we cannot think of anyone capable of beating her,” she added. “New Zealand should be proud of her, as we are.” Mrs Hollis was formerly Miss Oliver Kay.

KSss J. Bicknell left yesterday by the Moldavia on her way home, states a London correspondent writing on September 18. Shortly after the conclusion of the International Nurses’ Congress in July, she had the opportunity of sharing a friend’s car and making a tour through the northern counties of England to Scotland. The larger towns were avoided as a rule and as much as possible was seen of rut al England, including some of the cathedral cities. The Cotswolds, with their quaint Old World names and villages, made a great appeal to the New Zealand traveller. In London Miss Bicknell went several times to the Open Air Theatre in Regent’s f c’ and she found the productions of Shakespearean plays very fascinating and well performed. Miss Bicknell intends to spend three weeks in Melbourne before going on to Wellington, where she should arrive on .November 24, in time for the New Zealand nurses’ annual conference.