SOCIAL AND PERSONAL.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 83, Issue 188, 11 August 1939, Page 2

SOCIAL AND PERSONAL.

Mrs. G. Mcßeth. Wanganui, visited Wellington this week. Mrs. D. Lindsay was a N\\ er visitor to Wanganui yesterday. Pahiatua visitors to Wanganui are Mrs. D. G. Holmes and Miss J. Smith. After a holiday spent in Wanganui Mr. and Mrs. Dudley Sherrill have returned to Horehore Station, Tokomaru Bay. Miss Ruth Wynn-Williams, of Christchurch, will arrive in Wanganui next week, to visit Mrs. T. Latham, St. John's Hill. Miss Lorraine Watkins, left Wanganui yesterday lor Christchurch, where she will stay two or three weeks. Mrs. T. Hine, Victoria Avenue, leaves to-day by car lor Wellington, where she will be the guest ol her daughter, Mrs. Morton Jones, for about a week. Mrs. W. P. Endean, of Parnell, • Auckland, who has been on a brief ' visit to Wanganui has returned north. Mrs. H. D. Robertson, accompanied by her husband, left yesterday for Wellington, and will sail by the Mataroa to-day for a trip to England. Miss Iris Jarman, late of the WangaI nui Collegiate School, has been appointed matron of Rangitane House at the Feilding Agricultural High School. Miss Marie Nation, of Wanganui, who, with her sister, Miss Frances Nation, of Auckland, have been visit-1 ing the United States, returned this l , week by the Monterey. Miss Marie' Nation will return to Wanganui next ' week. | The visit of the King and Queen to • j Canada is likely to be followed by the addition of several new specimens of ' sub-Arctic flowers to the famous rock i garden at Balmoral. These will be i collected from the northern regions of i j the Dominion and sent to the castle [ for planting at the most suitable sea- | . son. The rock garden at Balmoral ■ ' owes a great mony of its most valu- 1 ' able specimens to Queen Maude of l j Norway, who was always personally , on the look-out for additions to it \ ■ from her adopted country.