SOCIAL AND PERSONAL

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 80, Issue 307, 28 December 1937, Page 2

SOCIAL AND PERSONAL

Mrs. A. Walker is visiting Hamilton and Rotorua fo* the holidays. * • * * Mr. and Mrs. L. Williams are Gisborne visitors to Wanganui. • v * • Mrs. Les. Sampson, of Waitara, is visiting Wanganui. Mr. and Mrs. H. L. Green, Wellington, are visitors to Wanganui. Mr. and Mrs. D. G. Falconer, of Wanganui, are visiting Otago. Miss D. Jarvie is an Auckland visitor to Wanganui. Miss R. Boyd is a Wanganui visitor to Auckland. Mr. and Mrs. E. \Y al^’n are holidaying at the beach. Mr. and Mrs. L. Gilberd and have taken a seaside cottage at Parapa rau mu. Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Gilberd were Wen- ;.nui visitors to Wellington dur- . • cek-end. ! ... Mrs. E. B. Tustin, Gonville, .;ken a house at Castlecliff for I : ' ,L - !ays ' • Mrs. J. R. Paterson and Miss J. Paterson. Dunedin, are on a visit to Wanganui. • * ♦ * Mr. and Mrs. H. E. Hepburn and Miss R. Hepburn, Waipukurau, are visiting Wanganui. ! Mr and Mrs Andrew Taylor, of I Brooklyn, Wellington, are the guests of Mrs J. Butcher, Wanganui East. I Mr and Mrs Norman Bain left yesterday to spend a holiday at North 1 Auckland. ' Mr and Mrs Len Cross, Kawatiri • Avenue, left on Saturday to spend a . holiday in Auckland. i Mr and Mrs Rodger Long. North : Auckland, are the guests of Mrs H. D. I F. James, Gonville. Mrs Woodall, manageress of the ■ D.I.C. tea-rooms, left Wanganui on ' Christmas Eve for Auckland. Mrs A. M. and Miss P. H. Brewer ] were the guests of Mr and Mrs B.

I Baucke, of Otane, during the week- • end. Mrs. Rutherfurd, scnr.. Wanganui, ■ who has been the guest of Mrs. E. S. Rutherfurd at Stratford, left last Fri- ' day for Hamilton. ; Mr and Mrs Eric Barclay, of Nel- ! >on, who are on a motos tour of the North Island, spent the week-end in I Wanganui. Miss Vivian McLeod, who spent the ’ week-end with her parents, Mr and j Mrs G. McLeod, Okoia, returned to ! Wellington on Sunday evening. i Mrs Knox Gilmer and her daughter, Miss Jean Gilmer, arrived at Wellington yesterday by the Awatea, from ! their overseas tour. Mr and Mrs Gordon McLeod, of Mount View, Sanson, were week-end visitors to Wanganui and spent Christmas with Mr and Mrs Gregor McLeod, Okoia. Mr and Mrs Morgan Duncan, Wellington, anti formerly of Wanganui, arrive to-morrow with their family to spend some weeks with Mrs Duncan’s mother, Mrs 11. G. Lewis. No. 2 Line, before leaving for Sydney. j Henriette von Eijk has won the v.J. I Hoogt Prize awarded every year by i the Dutch Letters Society for the best He! ary work. She owes this distinction to her humorous book, “Gabriel, the Story of a Lean Little Fellow.” Also the Dr. Wi.jnaedts-Francken

Prize which is distributed every second year, was carried off by a woman author. It awarded Dr. A. H. Ro- i meijn-Verschoor’s essay, “The Wo- I man's Mirror," a literary-sociologic:.l study on women authors in th • Netherlands.” ENGAGEMENT. The engagement is announced of Doreen May, eldest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A. A. (Monte) Greener, 42 Carlton Avenue. Wanganui, to Glassford Glover Walter, eldest son of Mr. and Mrs. Walter Gray, late of Marton.