Woman's World

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 86, Issue 62, 14 March 1942, Page 2

Woman's World

SO! IAI. AND PERSONAE Mrs. J. C. McL'Dowie, Hawera, is visiting Wanganui. t Miss Ailsa Broderick, Maxwell, is staying with Mrs. Andrew Hunter, Makirikirl. Mrs. J. A. Mitchell, of Lower Hutt, with her two children, who has been visiting Mrs. D. Bird, Victoria Avenue, returned home yesterday. Mrs. Eric Hine, Mangamahu, has been spending a few days in Wanganui and staying with Mrs. T. Hine, Victoria Avenue. Mrs. Cecil Rhodes has returned to | Karioi after a holiday of two weeks I in Wanganui. HITHER AND THITHER i Your Wedding Day Photographs. If you have seen the rare artistry of the portrait work of T. Metcahe, Photographer, you’ll want him to make a permanent record of your wedding day. It’s not a bit too early to make your reservations now for Easter. Thos. Metcalfe is no.ed for wedding photographs. Only one i address, 128 Avenue.* Dainty Wear for Babies. M. McKinnon, Avenue, has crepe de chine frocks, hand-embroidered and trimmed Vai. lace and motiffs 14s 6d t° 16s 6d, also in creme charmalain • witn pin tucks 8s 6d. Locknit petticoats, deep yoke, tape at waist, lace at hem, 4.s 6d to 5s 6d. White smocked blouses, short sleeves, 10s 6d. Boys’ grey flannel and cream garbadine shorts, 10s 6d. Small boys’ cream smocks with bloomer, 12s 6d set. and while romper suits, smocked, 8s 6d to 12s 6d.* Successful Shop Day. A shop day, held in the Avenue yesterday and organised by the Voluntary Aid Works’ Committee to raise funds for equipment for emergency first aid stations, proved a great success. Brisk business was done at the various stalls and a copper trail contributed considerably to the sum raised. The assistants were: Produce and preserves, Mesdames Carrig, Fossette, O. Jones, J. A. Hair and Summerell; cake, Mesdames H. L. Williams, A. McNab, H. Keesing, and Miss Sampson; flowers. Mesdames S. Edinger, T. Welsh and Fraser; copper trail. Miss Hugnes. Mrs. J. McDougal was convener and Mrs. K. Gould supervisor. Golden Wedding. Mr. and Mrs. G. Coxon. Hakeke Street, Wanganui East, celebrated their golden wedding anniversary this week, and to mark the occasion a card afternoon was given them by women of the Wanganui East branch of the Now Zealand Labour Partv. Some 30 members and friends gathered at the branch’s rooms. Afternoon tea was served, after which Mrs. E. Tate, chairman of the women’s committee, presented Mrs. Coxon with a box of flowers and bouquet of golden pompom dahlias, and. on behalf of the assembly, a reading-lamp, and a pipe for Mr. Coxon. The gifts were accompanied with a suitably inscribed card containing a list of the subscribers. Mr. and Mrs Coxon thanked the gathering and were given musical honours. Mothers! What about, a dressmaking career for your daughters? It is an asset that will be invaluable to them for all time. Enrolments are now being taken at the “ Hollywood School,” 144 Victoria Avenue (near McGruer’s). Railway concession tickets available for country pupils.*