SOCIAL AND PERSONAL

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 84, Issue 71, 26 March 1940, Page 8

SOCIAL AND PERSONAL

Miss M. E. Baker, Wanganui, has been visiting Paraparaumu and Wellington. Mrs. J. D. Bull, Napier, has been visiting \J'anganui. Mrs. A. H. Good and Miss J. Good are Wellington visitors to Wanganui. Mrs. F. Kincaid and Miss Kincaid, Taihape, were recent visitors to Wanganui. Mrs. H. Russell, Bulls, visited Wanganui yesterday. Mrs. R. V. Bousfield is a visitor to Wanganui from Waipukurau. Mrs. R. L. Garden was a Wanganui visitor to Wellington for the weekend. Mrs. M. Alexander, New Plymouth, Is on a short visit to Wanganui as the guest of Mrs. W. Craig, Wicksteed Street. Mrs. F. B. Logan, Hastings, visited Wanganui for the Collegiate School Old Boys' Easter reunion. Mr. and .Mrs. G. Littlejohn, who have been the guests of Mrs. Peter Chapman, Turakina, have returned to Wellington. Miss Laura Burnett, Wellington, spent Easter in Wanganui. * ♦ • • Hastings visitors to Wanganui during the holiday week-end included Mrs. H. Davis, Miss M. McLean and Mrs. N. Hamilton. Mr. and Mrs. S. R. Williams, of Otane, and Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Williams, of Pukehou, Hawke’s Bay. were visitors to Wanganui for the Collegiate School Old Boys’ reunion festivities. Mrs. Martyn Abraham and Miss Joan Abraham, of Palmerston North, were visitors to Wanganui yesterday for the Collegiate Old Boys’ sports and annual hall. Mr. and Mrs. P. A. Elworthy, Gordon's Valley, South Canterbury, are visiting their daughter, Mrs. Hamish Wilson, Bulls. Miss Pam Patterson, Wellington, spent the week-end in Wanganui as the guest of Mrs. C. Linwood, Anzac Parade. Mrs. M. Hirst, Mrs. Stott, Mrs. Ralph Brown and Mrs. H. Dyke were Wanganui visitors to the Centennial Exhibition during Easter. Miss Margaret Alexander, Waverley, Is spending Easter in Wanganui as the guest of Mrs. W. Peat, “Hillside, ’ St. John’s Hill. Visitors to Wanganui for the Cresswell —O'Keeffe wedding include: Mr. and Mrs. B. Paul, Mr. and Mrs. C. Walsh, Miss T. Walsh, Mrs. A. H. Yarrow and Miss B. Yarrow (Manaia), Mr. and Mrs. T. C. Roberts, Mr. B. Hawkins, Mrs. Stokes (Wellington), Mrs. C. Mendino (Palmerston North), Mr. and Mrs. P. Wadman (Waipukurau), Miss E. Cresswell (New Plymouth), and Mr. and Mrs. A. Fruen (Rongatea). Miss E. M. Mason (Tauranga) is in Ireland (wrote a London correspondent on February 16). It may be information for New Zealand readers to know that in County Tipperary, like many parts of the Dominion, there is a very high incidence of endemic goitre. The Irish medical authorities are very anxious to get this disease under control. Miss Mason'feels very highly honoured at being invited to co-operate in this matter, and for the next 12 months she will be working under the auspices of the Irish Medical Research Council and in collaboration with the County Medical Officer of Health. Their main line of research will be to investigate undeIrish conditions various forms of goitre prophylaxis, with the object of finding the most efficacious method of treatment. They also hope to do some research on the conditions, topological, dietetic, etc., which accompany the occurrence of goitre, in the hope of adding a little more information on the actual cause. Miss Mason feels that some sort of anti-goltre propaganda would do a great deal of good in New Zealand, and she hopes in due course to have information chat will be valuable in the Dominion.