SOCIAL AND PERSONAL

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 85, Issue 221, 19 September 1941, Page 2

SOCIAL AND PERSONAL

Mrs. M. G. Taylor, Nihlett Street, has been visiting Auckland. Mrs. R. Mitchell, Somme Parade. Upper Aramoho, and her sister, Miss H. Robinson, have returned from a visit to Hawke's Bay and Wellington. « * * * Mrs. Bailey Martin, St. John's Hill, has returned from a holiday spent in Auckland. * • * ♦ Mrs. Murdock, Sumner, formerly of Wanganui, who has been visiting her daughter, Mrs. Hope Pearson, Hastings, is now staying with Mrs, McCosh, Field Street, Aramoho. Visitors to Wanganui from Auckland during the week were Mrs. R. J. Watson and Miss R. Harrison. Nurse Betty Ennis, of the Mater Misericordiac Hospital, who has been spending a holiday with her parents, Durie Hill, returned to Auckland on Wednesday last. Further details of the escape of Miss Olga Marks, of Wellington, with two companions from occupied France to Switzerland show that they were detained in the internment camp at Vittel. After escaping they walked 160 miles to the Swiss frontier. There they were arrested and placed in a mediaeval pirson at Neuchatel, bit Mr. H. B. Livingston, the British Consul, has secured their release. Now they are comfortably quartered in an hotel The other two women are Miss Elizabeth Percival, of Dublin, and Miss Gladys Jeffreys, of Newport, Monmouthshire.