SOCIAL AND PERSONAL

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 80, Issue 280, 25 November 1937, Page 2

SOCIAL AND PERSONAL

Her Excellency Lady Galway will attend a reception to be given at the Pioneer Club, Wellington, to-night for the entertainment of visitors who will be attending the Dominion conference of registered nurses. The conference will close on Saturday.

Mr and Mrs J. D. Coombes, of Timaru, are visiting Wanganui.

Mr and Mrs J. Flood were Lyttelton visitors to Wanganui this week.

Mrs. T. R. Dix has returned to Wanganui after spending three weeks in Wellington.

Mrs D. G. O'Toole has returned to Wanganui from a holiday spent in the South Island.

Mrs Leatham Rutherford has returned to Wanganui from Auckland, where she was successful in passing examinations in dancing.

Mrs Bryan Silk left for Wellington yesterday and will ue matron of honour at Miss Id-i Hanlon’s wedding today. Mrs Silkf is staying with her parents, Mr and Mrs W. S. Pearce.

Mr. and Mrs. Gus. Nicholls, with their daughter, Prudence, have returned to Sedgebrook Street, from a holiday in Napier. Mr. Nicholls has resumed business duties after an absence of several weeks.

Mrs Kennelh Gordon, of Auckland, who has been visiting Marton and Wanganui speaking to club members and representatives of women’s organisations on the discussions at the Pan-Pacific Conference, left yesterday for Hawera. * * * ¥ Miss Jean Batten, who, with her mother, is still at Grosvenor House, is fulfilling an extensive programme of engagements, wrote a London correspondent on November 3. During .is month she is to be the guest of Lady Elibank, the Royal Aero Club, the British Sportsmen’s Club, the City Livery Club, and the Shell-Mex Company.

A son of a Minister of the Crown was married in Blenheim on Tuesday morning when Mr James Allworthy Lee Martin, youngest son of the Minister of Agriculture, the Hon. W. Lee Martin, married Miss Dorothy Eileen O’Sullivan, of Blenheim. The bridegroom is a fields inspector in the Lands and Survey Department at Hamilton, while the bride was a typiste in the State Advances office at Blenheim.

Arrangements have been made for a number of members of the Wanganui branch of the League of Mothers to motor to Wellington on Friday morning to attend the provincial meeting of the League of Mothers. Those intending to make the trip are Mesdames Uttley (visiting delegate for the Wanganui branch), G. Hardy (vice-president), Fear and Cairns. While in Wellington, Mrs Hardy and Mrs Uttley will be the guests of the provincial president, Mrs H. W. Kersley, Lower Hutt.

Amongst New Zealand teachers leaving soon for England are Miss May Horneman (Mastertcm, who will leave Wellington on December 3 to take a position for a year on the staff of a special school at Nottingham, Madame Saldaigne, tutor in French at the University of Otago, who has been granted leave of absence to enable her to visit Belgium, and Miss M. Mullay '.Hawera), who will leave under the teachers’ exchange system, and will take up teaching in Wales. News comes from London that Mrs. Wilkinson, widow of the Rev. G. L. B. Wilkinson, and her small son are passengers on the Arawa. Mr. Wilkinson was the Vicar of Healey St. John’s, Riding Mill, Northumberland, at the time of his death. He had previously spent some years in New Zealand in the Waikato and Wanganui districts. Mrs. Wilkinson, who was formerly Miss Joyce Dee, is returning to live with her family at Okoroire Springs, near Rotorua.

Mrs. Lionel Logue will be a visitor to New Zealand early in the year. She expects to arrive in Auckland about February 10. Her husband is the eminent specialist in regard to Sj.ee ch defects, and did much to help the King—then Duke of York—to overcome the nervous affection which I caused a painful hesitancy in his speech. Mrs. Logue is leaving by the Jervis Bay next week, on a voyage of convalescence. She will stay with friends in West Australia before continuing her journey to New Zealand. a

Theatre-goers in London regard as the best news of the week the announcement that Ibsen’s “Ghosts” is to be staged at the Vaudeville, with Miss Marie Ney as “Mrs. Alving.” “Ghosts” was one of the three plays put on at the Buxton Festival recently and it caused a good deal of controversy, notably because the Vicar of Buxton referred to it as “a subversive and unpleasant play which should never have been produced in our city.” The London presentation will be made by Mr. Bronson Albery. At Buxton, this freer translation of an Ibsen masterpiece proved to be the chief attraction of the season, and the performance of the New Zealand actress elicited a paean of praise. Mrs. L. Lindsay-Montgomery (Albany, Western Australia) and her two daughters expect to arrive in Auckland in time for Christmas, and to spend a month in the North Island before continuing, the journey home. They left London this morning for the United States, en route for San Francisco, after some months of enjoyable European travel. Mrs. Lind-say-Montgomery, whose father was a mining engineer at Thames, has re-

lations in the North Island and friends in all parts of the Dominion, states a London correspondent writing under date October 30.