SOCIAL AND PERSONAL

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 80, Issue 122, 26 May 1938, Page 2

SOCIAL AND PERSONAL

Mr and Mrs V. W. Fullerton-Smith of Marton, were visitors to Wellington this week. Mr and Mrs G. L. Jackson, Wellington, are visiting Wanganui. Mr and Mrs P. L. Little are visitor* to Wanganui from Wellington. Mr and Mrs S. Hanton, Wanganui have been visiting Wellington. Mr and Mrs J. F. Scott, Christchurch, are visiting Wanganui. Mrs J. H. Reid, Wicksteed Street was a visitor to Wellington this week. Miss Nancy Strachan, of Whakatane, is on annual vacation and is staying with her parents, Mr and Mrs S. Strachan, Okoia. Mrs Newman and her sister, Mrs H. D’Arcy, have returned from Hawke’s Bay, where they have been staying with Mrs Campbell, Horonui. Mrs Wallace Strachan, Okoia, was hostess at an afternoon tea party at the D.I.C. yesterday for her guest, Mrs Berna Matthews, of Sydney. Mrs W. F. Butler has returned to her home after farewelling her son, Mr Stanley Cussons, who left by the Arawa on Saturday for London. Delegates and visitors to the inteiprovincial conference of the Women's Division of the Farmers’ Union, to be held at Palmerston North to-morrow, will include Mesdames A. H. McLean, S. Scott, J. C. Wickham, Soundj, Misses Polson and Matthews, for Wanganui, Mrs J. Low (Makirikiri), Mrs W. J. Polson (Mangawhero >, Mesdames Mackintosh, W. Baldwin, Anderson, and O’Leary, from Wan* gaehu; Mrs Sherriff and Mrs Birch, from Westmere. An Austrian princess is seeking British nationality. She is Princess X ”.1 hi Ide Windischgraetz, of Roland House, Rolf nd Gardens, Kensington. The princess has a link with the late Emperor Francis Joseph. Some years ago one of his family married a Windischgraetz. She has lived in England many years, and, an enthusiastic airwoman, holds an A licence and hopes to take a B licence in a few weeks. Miss Marjorie Pollard, formerly captain of the English women's cricket team and an English hockey international, has been appointed national organiser to the Women’s Team Games Board. A grant has been made by the National Fitness Council, and Miss Pollard’s chief concern will be with hockey, lacrosse, cricket and netball. The post is a full-time one. and she will travel all over the country organising th> games. Mrs E. F. Allan, well known in Australia as “Vesta’’ of the Melbourne Argus, recently completed 30 years’ service with the Argus. To mark the occasion, a gathering representative of all the principal women’s organisations in Victoria was held in the Melbourne Town Hall and the Mayoress presented Mrs Allan with a wallet of notes in appreciation ot ner work. Mrs Allan, wno was born in Canterbury, and graduated M.A., LL.B , at Canterbury College, is a sister cf Misses Alice ana Christina Henderson and Mrs F. Carter, Sumner The late Mrs E. P.. McCombs, M.P., was another sister. Miss Weatherun a teacher from Blackpool, England, who has been visiting Australia, says she will take back to England some excellent hints gleaned at a girls’ high school in Melbourne. These would include (1) th. method ot selecting prefects—halt being chosen by the staff and half by the students; (2) the short address given by the headmistress at assembly, which had a great effect; (3) the practice of having a “social hour’ at regular intervals in the school syllabus, with a musical programme given by students to students, the object being to inculcate social manners and to educate the girls both to en-

tertain naturally and pleasantly and also to be “good listeners”; (4) the custom of the head prefect giving an account each month of the girls' con- • duct in the school.