SOCIAL AND PERSONAL

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 85, Issue 48, 26 February 1941, Page 2

SOCIAL AND PERSONAL

Miss Maudsley fc Wellington, who has been visiting Wanganui, has returned. • * ♦ • Miss P. Visseher, Tahiti Bay, has been on a short visit to Wanganui. ♦ # ♦ ♦ Mrs. A. J. Pritchard, Guyton Street, has returned from Waikaremoana. * * * * Mrs. A. Harvie, Auckland, was a recent visitor to Wanganui. * * * * Mrs. W. J. Ball, Auckland, visited Wanganui yesterday. » * * ♦ Miss Tolly, Feilding, who has been visiting Wanganui, has returned home. . » ♦ * Mrs. R. J. McGlone and MiSs Elsie McGlone ere spending a holiday at Waitarere Beacn. * . ♦ • Miss Peggy Gould, Marton, is spending a holiday with relatives in Keiburn.

Mrs. David Strachan, “Moana Flats,” Victoria Avenue, has returned from Napier. * * * • Mrs. Ewen McConachy, Wanganui East, has been visiting Mrs. G. McConachy, of Patea. Mrs. H. Kearny, of Wellington, is spending a holiday in Patea. Miss Bertha Duncan has returned to her home on Durie Hill from a holiday in Auckland. * * * • Mr. and Mrs. W. O. D. Kyall, Liverpool Street, have returned from a holiday spent, at Kawau, Helensville and Waitangi. * # ♦ ♦ Mrs. H. G. Doig, Grey Street, is on holiday in Castlecliff, and has as her guest, Mrs. Colin Gardiner, Hawera. Miss Preston and Miss Williams, who have been visiting Wellington for the last fortnight, returned to Wanganui yesterday. .... Miss Pat Lewer, who has been visiting Wanganui as the guest of Mrs. A. R. Merrington, Durie Hill, has returned to her home in Palmerston North. ♦ * * * Professor A. G. Strong, who has retired as Dean of the Home Science Faculty at the Home Science School, Dunedin, where she has been in charge for 20 years, was presented with a brochure containing the signatures of all the New Zealand alumnae and a monetary gift at a distinguished gathering of friends held last Friday. Of the 87 testers employed by the Auckland Herd Improvement Association, 16 are women who offered to replace men who had enlisted for overseas service. Reports agree that the women are doing excellent work. The testers were drawn from the Women’s Emergency Herd Testers' Reserve. More women will be required, and a course of instruction will be given at Massey College from February 27 to March 15.