SOCIAL AND PERSONAL.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 83, Issue 8, 11 January 1939, Page 2

SOCIAL AND PERSONAL.

Miss Gwen James, Swiss Avenue, has returned after a holiday spent at Auckland. Mr. and Mrs. A. H. Boyes, who left before Christmas on a holiday ! visit to Sydney, have returned to their home in Selwyn Street. Mrs. W. Long, of Wellington, is spending a holiday in Wajiganui. Miss Shirley Nancarrow, Plymouth Street, spent the holidays at Masterton. Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Caiman return to Wanganui at the week-end after spending two weeks in Rotorua and one in Devonport, Auckland. • - • * Misses E. and M. Bell, A. Gaze and A. Hutton, of Wanganui, and Miss L. Arnold, of Wellington, left Wanganui over the week-end for Auckland, , where they will stay at the Milford residence of M r . Gaze. • • • • Miss K. O'Sullivan, who was the guest of Mrs. O’Neill for the Wanganui tennis tournament, has returned to Hawera. • • • • Mr. and Mrs. John Hutton motored up from Wellington during the weekend and are at present the guests of Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Lithgow, “Barningham,” Westmere. Miss M. Arnold, who has been visiting Wanganui over the Christ- ; mas holidays as the guest of Mrs. H. T. Arnold, Duncan Street, left yesterday by car for Auckland, where she will spend the remainder of her vacation. Mrs. L. McKenzie and Miss E. Hill, of Oamaru, arrived from the South on Monday and are the guests of Major and Mrs. N. Brown, Abbott Street, Gonville, for the McKenzie— Brown wedding, which takes place this evening.

Miss Connie Collins and Miss V. Louis have left for Sydney en route to Melbourne, where Miss Louis has taken a teaching position on exchange. Miss Collins will return to Wanganui at the end of the school vacation.

Mr. and Mrs. G. Bamford are Christchurch visitors to Wanganui. » » ♦ * Mrs. W. E. Lucy, Godwin Crescent, will leave this week on a holiday visit to Dunedin. • * • • Mrs. W. R; Johns, who has been visiting Wanganui, has returned to Waitara. Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Bown, Lower Hutt, were visitors to Wanganui yesterday. # * * * Mr. and Mrs. H. Chainey have returned to Wanganui after spending a holiday at Toko, Stratford. - . « • Miss Williams, Castlecliff, is holidaying in Christchurch with her sister, Mrs. Beckett. ... * Mrs. W. Codd, of Inglewood, who has been visiting Wanganui, has returned to her home. After spending a holiday in Wanganui, Mrs. J. A. Ross has returned to New Plymouth. Mrs. Mellor, of Wellington, is the guest of her daughter, Mrs. H. Keesing, Campbell Street. . * « • Miss N. Lewis has left Wanganui to take up residence in Wellington. * * • • Miss D. King, Dunedin, is visiting Wanganui. Mrs. G. E. Hannett, of Wanganui, who left on Christmas Eve by the cruise liner Orford from Auckland, was expected to arrive at her destination, Perth, Western Australia, yesterday. Mrs. Hannet is visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. C. Lloyd Gilford, West Australia. Miss Helen Aston, England, is a passenger for New Zealand by the Otranto. She is a very keen tennis player and belongs to the same lawn tennis club as Miss Dorothy Round. Miss Aston is travelling with her brother, Dr. F. Aston, who is a wellknown scientist and a Fellow of. Trinity College. Cambridge.

Visitors to Wanganui for the McKenzie Brown wedding, which takes place this evening, include

Colonel Walls (Wellington), Captain T. McKenzie (Wellington), Mrs. F. Miller (Oamaru), Brigadier Gibbs and his two daughters, Misses Jean and Miriam Gibbs (Wellington), Mr. A. Coyte (Patea), Mr. and Mrs. David Rutherford (Wellington). Mr. and Mrs. W. Leighton, Lower Hutt, were the guests of Mr. and Mrs. G. H. Hean, Wanganui East, early in the week.