SOCIAL AND PERSONAL

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 83, Issue 118, 22 May 1939, Page 2

SOCIAL AND PERSONAL

Mrs. S. Swan. College Street, has returned from New Plymouth. Miss Maisie Nosworthy, of Waitara, is spending a few days in Wanganui. # . * * Miss Joyce Wilson was a Wanganui visitor to New Plymouth for '.he week-end. ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ Mrs. A. S. Hobson was a Masterton visitor to W'anganui during the weekend. Mrs. J. Siddells has returned to Wanganui from Hawke’s Bay. # ♦ ♦ * Mrs. D. A. Morrison, Wanganui, was a recent visitor to Wellington. « * * * Mrs. E. Hemmings, Rotorua, was a week-end visitor to Wanganui. Mrs. T. G. Harpur, Marton, was a recent visitor to Wellington. * « * * Miss Joan Hoby. Tataraimaka, arrived last week on a visit to her aunt, Mrs. R. Somerville, Okoia. » » * * Miss I. Taylor left Wanganui on Saturday to spend a fortnight's holiday in Auckland. , « » * Miss D. Bruce has returned to Wanganui after a motoring trip to Auckland and Wellsford. , * * * Mrs. Boniface and Miss Hunter, of Palmerston North, were visitors to Wanganui during the week-end. South Island visitors to Wanganui at the week-end were Mr. and Mrs. T B. Bowring, Mrs. J. S. Owen and Miss J. Carrick, of Christchurch, Mr. and Mrs. T. James and Miss H. James, of Dunedin, and Miss S. Isaac, of Timaru. » * » * Many New Zealanders visiting England have taken the opportunity to go across to Holland to see the bulb fields, which are a galaxy of colour at this time of the year. The grounds • of the New York World Fair will also i be an attraction for garden lovers this year for. in addition to 1.000,000 tulip bulbs planted throughout, the fair grounds, 30,000 pansy plants, the first of a shipment of 400,000. have been planted by the 50 landscape gardeners. who are setting out the plants in beds of white, yellow, light and dark blue.