SOCIAL AND PERSONAL

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 80, Issue 203, 29 August 1938, Page 2

SOCIAL AND PERSONAL

Mr. and Mrs. R. B. Cooper, of Wellington, were visitors to Wanganui over the week-end for the Healey— Reid wedding. Miss Joy Campbell, of Eltham, is spending a few days with friends in Wanganui. Mrs. M. Kendall, of Puniwhakau, V. ho has been visiting Wanganui, has returned to Taranaki. Mrs. A. G. Munro left last week to take up residence in Auckland. Miss B. Dawson, Auckland, is a visitor tc Wanganui. Mr. and Mrs. S. J. Gill, Taihape, were in Wanganui during the weekend. • • • • Miss D. Perrett has returned from a three weeks’ cruise of the Islands. Miss Margaret Stevenson, Wanganui, is spending a holiday at Normanby. Mrs. F. Waite is an Auckland visitor to Wanganui and the guest of Mrs. A. Haworth. Mrs. A. Cameron. Te Kuiti, is the guest of her sister, Mrs. Eric Cutfield. Mrs. N. Bancks, Wanganui, is visiting Wellington. Miss J. Russell, Dannevirke, is visiting Wanganui as the guest of Miss Bruce. Miss Jill Williams, who has been \ isiting W r anganui, Marton, and the Wairarapa, has returned to Gisborne. Mr. and Mrs. C. T. Aitken, Wellington, were week-end visitors to Wanganui. Mr. and Mrs. D. A. C. Lilburne, Wanganui East, left on Saturday on a holiday visit to Rotorua. Mrs. A. Mewburn. Nelson Street, and her sister, Miss Gerrie, have returned from a holiday spent in Auckland. Mrs. Russell Secular has returned from Christchurch, where st|£ gave a broadcast, and also sang at Miss Elaine Newton's pianoforte recital. Mrs. R. Millward, New Plymouth, spent the week-end in Wanganui. Mrs. L. J. Furrie, who has been visiting Foxton. Marton and Wanganui, has returned to Stratford. Mrs. P. Marchant, Cardiff, Taranaki, is spending a few days in Wanganui. Women members of Timperley (Cheshire) Golf Club are indignant because a committee of eight men has banned women wearing trousers on the golf course. Many women refuse to acquiesce, and the club secretary confesses ignorance as to how the committee can enforce the regulation. Miss Pam Barton says men should keep their opinions to themselves. “1 shall continue to wear trousers in wet weather, as they keep my stockings dry.” The English Ladies’ Golf Union permits the wearing of trousers, but they are banned by the New South Wales Ladies’ Golf Union. • • • • Miss Mabel King, an English-born resident of Cairo, who arrived in New Zealand from Sydney at the week-end was governess to a girl who is aunt by marriage to King Karouk of Egypt, and lived in a harem for three years. She also worked in the passports department of the Egyptian Ministry of the Interior. “My pupil. Chahira, was 14 years old when I went to live in her parents’ home, and she is now married to a brother of the Dowager Queen Nazli,” said Miss King. “Her father, like most Egyptians. had only one wife, although the law permits four. In those days the strict Moslem traditions were maintained and one of my duties was to shepherd Chahira out of sight if a message was sent that men would be walking through the building. I taught her English, and later she had a French governess.”