SOCIAL AND PERSONAL

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 84, Issue 190, 14 August 1940, Page 8

SOCIAL AND PERSONAL

Mrs. C. C. Smith, Bulls, visited Wanganui early in the week. Miss M. Littlejohn, Auckland, is visiting Wanganui.

Mrs. A. C. Sievewright, Heads Road, is visiting Auckland. Miss Ross, Wanganui, is visiting her niece, Mrs. T. G. Reynolds, Hamilton.

Mrs. Northcote Rowe, o£ Kakataht is on a visit to Wanganui.

Mrs. C. Woolven, Okirae, is staying with her daughter, Mrs. Alec Hall, of Hunterville.

Mrs. T. Moore and Mrs. V. Wilson have returned to New Plymouth after spending a few days in Wanganui.

Mesdames W. F. Butler. J. Healey and Miss Muriel Butler, were weekend visitors to Wellington for the Boddy—Hall wedding.

Miss Stanford, of the Health Camp, who is at present staying with Miss Gibbons, Wanganui East, will leave at the week-end for Auckland for an indefinite period.

Mrs. Gill-Carey, who has been abroad for some time, has arrived in Wanganui from London. She was accompanied from England by her daughter-in-law and young grandson. Her son, Dr. C. Gill-Carey, is continuing his practice in London.

Miss Connie Martin, who plays the part of Mum in the film “Dad Rudd, M.P.,” at present showing in Wanganui, and is known in Australia as the lovable Connie Martin, is a sister of Mrs. C. S. Young, St. John’s Hill. Miss Marton, who resides at Manly, Sydney, is tall and slim, and her make-up for the grandmotherly part in the film is cleverly done to add age to make her look very stout in appearance.

Sir Pyers Mostyn, Mart., aged 12, one of Britain’s youngest, baronets, has reached Sydney with his mother, Lady Mostyn. his sister Margaret, aged 9, and his aunt, Mrs. W. J. McWhinnie. He has been brought to Australia from the dangers _ of England to safeguard the continuity of the title. He is twelfth baronet.

At a meeting of the Wanganui Presbytery, at Marton, the session of St. Andrew’s Church, Palmerston North, applied for a long service diploma to be awarded to Miss E. M. Sim, who has given over 30 years' continuous service as a Sunday School teacher. It was decided to forward the application to the Assembly's Youth Committee.

The Daily Gleaner, of Jamaica, reports the official opening by the Gov-ernor-in-Chief of Jamaica of a King George V memorial sanatorium for the treatment of tuberculosis, the only hospital of its kind in the British West Indies. In six months, in the small island of Jamaica, the sum of more than £33,000 was raised for the building and equipment of the sanatorium. The GoVernor-in-Chief of Jamaica, Sir Arthur Richards, was from 1926 to 1928 Governor of Fiji, and during his term there, Lady Richards and their two children toured New Zealand. The assistant-matron of the sanatorium, Miss Elsie Butt, is from Christchurch.