SOCIAL AND PERSONAL

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 84, Issue 85, 12 April 1940, Page 8

SOCIAL AND PERSONAL

Mrs. R. Millward, New Plymouth, is I spending a few days in Wanganui. I Mrs. C. N. Hood, Gonville, has re- ' turned from a visit to Wellington. j Mrs. C. V. Inglis, Liffiton Street, is visiting Wellington. Mrs. H. G. Horsley, Riverbank, is on holiday in the South Island. Mrs. W. Curtis, Selwyn Street, has left for a visit to Rotorua. Mrs. E. Sheppard has returned to Wanganui from a visit to Wellington. Mrs. Northcote Rowe, Kakatahi, is visiting Wanganui. Mrs. K. H. Allen, of Invercargill, was a visitor to Wanganui yesterday. Mrs. E. G. Keane and Mrs. Bl Goth-, ard, of Auckland, have been visiting Wanganui. Mrs. V. Downs and Mrs. N. C. Daw-1 son, of Hamilton, were recent visitors to Wanganui. Mrs. T. N. Hay-Campbell, St. John’s ■ Hill, left yesterday for a short holiday in Wellington. Lady Rutherford, of England, who has been visiting the South Island, left Wellington on Wednesday night tor Auckland. Mrs. J. H. Leadbeater, of New Ply- i mouth, and Mrs. M. E. Leadbeater, of, Dunedin, have been visiting Wanganui. Mrs. W. J. Fergusson, of Rongotea, j is visiting her mother, Mrs. Galpin, Anzac Parade, Miss Eva Brown, Gloucester Street, has returned home after a fortnight’s holiday spent in the Gisborne district as the guest of Mrs. E. R. Renner, “Repongaere," Patuiahi. Friends of “G. B. Lancaster” (Miss Edith Lyttleton), who was in Norway at the outbreak of war, will be pleased to hear that she is now back in London. Several times she had booked passages by boat and air for the re- \ turn trip to England only to have them cancelled. When Russia attacked Finland, however, she mad a last effort, and took the only method of travelling possible. It entailed a train journey of 13 hours to South Sweden, a. trip by air via Copenhagen to Amsterdam, and another aeroplane journey to England—looo miles by allaltogether. TOWNSWOMEN’S GUILD ENJOYABLE MEETING The monthly meeting of the Wanganui Townswomen’s Guild was held on Wednesday in Victoria Hall. The room was bright with vases of cosmos, marigolds, and asters, and on the president's table was a bowl of scarlet, dahlias. The president, Mrs. F. W. Wagstaff, presided, and the meeting opened with the National Antham, after which members stood in silence as a mark of respect to the late Prime Minister, Rt. Hon. M. J. Savage. Among the apologies for absence received was one from the Mayoress, Mrs. W. J. Rogers, and Mrs. Beaumont Bates. The president gave a short talk, stressing the necessity for members not to be satisfied with the good done by the guild as a body, but to do good individually, and also to take as a motto in these troubled times, “Always be cheerful and always smile.” Correspondence included an appeal for volunteers for Poppy Day; thanks for help given for raising funds for the Fighting Services Welfare Fund; and a letter from the Women’s Institute asking for help to ensure the success of their scheme for helping country women. A letter was read from Mrs. Beaumont Bates, who is a delegate from the guild to the National Council of Women, giving a brief resume of its work during the year and explaining how questions discussed at the meetings were taken back by delegates to their organisations and therefore circulated through all women’s organisations in New Zealand. Mesdames F. W. Wagstaff, and Beaumont Bates were re-elected to represent the guild at the N.C.W.’- j meetings. It was suggested by Mrs. J. G. Den- , niston that the number of members | in guilds be restricted to 150, and if a guild had already more than that number no new members to be received until the number fell below 150. A discussion took place, those taking part being Miss Cole, Mesdames Wagstaff, J. C. Wickham, Archibald, and Denniston. It was decided to reconsider the question after the financial members reach last year’s number. Mrs. Wickham, for the Wanganui Centre of the New Zealand Red Cross Society, made an urgent, appeal for clothes for refugees. She said that already two bales of clothes had been sent away and that it was of extreme urgency that more clothes be collected. The speaker for the afternoon was Miss Nora Sampson, who gave a talk on Norway. Songs were sung by Mrs. R. Rait, with Mrs. Mcßride as accompanist. I Mrs. Rait and Miss Sampson were | presented with floral sprays. Tea was served and the hostesses I were members with names beginning ' with letters “D” and “E” LET POLIFLOR POLISH Your Floors. POLIFLOR is Antiseptic I