SOCIAL AND PERSONAL

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 85, Issue 190, 14 August 1941, Page 2

SOCIAL AND PERSONAL

Mrs. A. H. Collins was a Wanganui! visitor to Wellington recently. I Miss Trevor Hunter has been pay-1 ing a brief visit to Hawke’s Bay. Mesdames E. Rainey and H. Spencer, Te Awamutu, are the guests ot Mrs. Alan Brown, Hipango Terrace. Mrs. S. A. Graham, Hamilton, visited Wanganui during the week. Miss M. Coffey, formerly of Wanganui, but now of Auckland, is the guest of Mrs. Conway, Guyton Street. « » • » Miss J. Hetherington, Wellington, was a recent visitor to Wanganui. Mrs. James Wilson, New Plymouth, arrived in Wanganui on Monday to spend a month with Mrs. Athol Wilson, St. John's Hill. * * * * Miss V. Marshall, retiring secretary of the Wanganui Y.W.C.A., left yesterday to take up her new position in Wellington * * * * Mrs. T. Hine, president of the Wanganui branch of the Plunket Society, has been appointed to co-operate with the Wanganui Crippled Children’s Society in furthering the society’s work in the city. £• * * * Mrs. H. A. Young, Cashmere, Christchurch, and her daughter, Mrs. Colin Austin, Canterbury, who have been visiting Wanganui, have left for Wellington for a short visit before returning south at the week-end. In Thames last week, Sister E. J. Harris, who was formerly in charge of the orthopaedic department of the King George V Hospital in Rotorua, died” after a long illness. Sister Harris trained at the New Plymouth Hospital and went overseas with the first draft ot nurses in the Great War. She served in Egypt and was stationed at Brockenhurst Hospital, EnglandAfter the Armistice she was transferred to the New Zealand Health Department in London, where she received specialist training as a masseuse, and on her return to New Zealand took up her new post in Rotorua.

Many New Zealand soldiers of the 1914-18 war will regret to learn of the death in England of Miss E. (Nell) Stuckey, M.B.E. Known to all the patients and staff of the Walton-on-Thames Military Hospital as the “0.C.,” the late Miss Stuckey was a New Zealander by birth though living I in England when war broke out in 1914. Anxious to do her utmost for the cause she joined one of the Voluntary Aid Detachments, and in due course was placed in charge of the annexe kitchen at Walton Hospital. Her cheery nature and ever-ready sympathy with the patients in their troubles soon endeared her to all, and many were the “tit bits" which she managed to make available to the cot cases in the wards and to the convalescents as they passed by the kitchen. Around her she gathered a staff of workers like herselt all imbued with the same spirit of brightening the monotony of hospital life for the soldiers. At the end of the war her services were recognised by the M.8.E., and all who were privileged to know her affirm that no honour was better deserved.