SOCIAL AND PERSONAL

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 85, Issue 189, 13 August 1941, Page 2

SOCIAL AND PERSONAL

I Mr. and Mrs. G. Glenn, Wanganui, left on Monday for the South Island. | Mrs. G. Browne, of Mount Albert, Auckland, is on a visit to Wanganui. Miss A. Henderson is a Timaru visitor to Wanganui. Mrs. F. Reid, Gonville, has returned after a holiday spent in Wellington. Mrs. F. J. Butement. of Hunlerville, who has been spending a week with her mother, Mrs. A. W. Rice, Okoia, returns home to-day. Mrs. R. C. Voullaire, Wanganui, is spending a holiday at New Plymouth with her mother, Mrs. G. McGlashen. Mrs. Tallis, of Timaru, who has been staying in Taranaki for some months, is the guest of Miss Jack, Pitt Street, and later will visit Tauranga. Mrs. B. A. Beswick, Gonville, who leaves shortly to reside in Wellington, gave a children's party on Saturday for her two daughters, Doreen and Barbara. Miss Ruby Allum, daughter of the Mayor and Mayoress of Auckland, Mr. J. A. C. Allum and Mrs. Allum, has received instructions to report to Wellington shortly lor nursing duties abroad. Mrs. L. J. Webb Jones, Gonville Avenue, returned yesterday from Wellington, where she attended the opening performance of “Rose Marie,' given by the Wellington Musical Comedy Company, in which her granddaughter, Mrs. Merle Gamble, plays the title role. Miss J. A. Moore, M.8.E., A.R.R.C., nurse instructor in the Health Department, Wellington, has retired on superannuation, having held her position since 1926. Miss Moore will, however, act as matron of the Soldiers’ Clearing Hospital, Wellington, on occasions of the arrival of sick and wounded soldiers. At an official farewell, Dr. M. H. Watt, Director-Gen-eral of Health, referred to Miss Moore's service in the Great War, when she rose to the position oi principal matron, and also to her term as matron of the Waikato Hospital at Hamilton. In 1924 she went to the Bedford College of Nursing in Great Britain and also visited America before being appointed as the first nurse instructor of the post-graduate I course. On more than one occasion I Miss Moore filled the position of Act- | ing-Director, Division of Nursing.