SOCIAL AND PERSONAL

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 80, Issue 226, 24 September 1938, Page 2

SOCIAL AND PERSONAL

Mrs. W. Meikle left Wanganui yesterday on a/Visit to Auckland. • • • • Mr. and Mrs. A. A. Mitchell were Wanganui visitors to Wellington this week. Mr. and Mrs. D. O. Patterson, New Plymouth, are visitors to Wanganui. • • • • Mrs. E. M. Williamson, of Rotorua, is visiting Wanganui. Mrs. F. L. Peck and Miss Peck, Wanganui, were visitors to Wellington this week. Miss Marjorie Miller, of New Plymouth, was the guest of Mrs. Noel Bignell. Wangaehu, for the Blair— Big.nell wedding. Mr. and Mrs. Alan W. Mitchell, of London, and formerly of Wanganui, recently spent a short holiday motoring to the south of France. Mrs. Lawless and Mrs. P. Carter, of Lower Hutt, are spending a few days in Wanganui and are the guests of Mrs. A. Tyerman, Campbell Street.

Among recent callers at New Zealand House, London, were the following Wanganui people: Dr. and Mrs. Patrick Anderson, Mr. J. S. Hatherly and Miss M. Preston. Miss Leah Hood, formerly a nurse in the Wanganui Hospital, has been visiting friends in Wanganui, and left yesterday for Wellington, where she will join the Ruahine next week for England. Miss Hood, who has been .nursing in Melbourne for the past two years, will continue her profession in England.

Miss Valmai Fleming, who, with her mother, Mrs. W. C. Fleming, has been visiting Gisborne and Rotorua, will play in the golf tournaments at Palmerston North and Wanganui before going to New Plymouth to compete in the Dominion championship tournament.

Students of Esperanto lost a well beloved teacher recently when Mis Margarete Saxl, a Czechoslovakia: teacher of languages, collapsed ant died at her hotel in Bloomsbury, Lon don. Miss Saxl was a well-known exponent of the direct method of teaching Esperanto and had been taking part in the Esperanto Congress a University College. Her last word, before her death were spoken ir Esperanto.

ENGAGEMENT Brace—Dustin.— The engagement is announced between Sydenham William, twin son of Mr. and Mrs. C. S. Bruce, Te Hapara, Gisborne, and Hazel Jean, only daughter of Mrs. Dustin a.nd the late Mr. W. S. Dustin, Wilson Street, Wanganui.