Woman’s World

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 89, Issue 80, 5 April 1945, Page 2

Woman’s World

SOCIAL AND PERSONAL

Mr. E. K. Cameron and Miss Jean Cameron were Hawera visitors to Wanganui for Easter. Mrs. 11. Hall, Hamilton, spent the Easter holidays in Wanganui. Mrs. M. C. Martin, Wanganui, is at present spending a holiday! in Napier and Gisborne. Mis.; M. Whitside was a Palmerston North visitor to Wanganui lor the Collegiate School festivities. Trinity Women’s Auxiliary The Trinity Women’s Missionary Auxiliary met last Thursday in th. Parlour, a good attendance being present. The president, Mrs. Peter , was in the chair and the devotions were Jed by Miss Dingle. Mrs. Ogg, the secretary, read a letter from tne Dominion President, Mrs. Nicholson. The Parlour was beautifully decorate.! by Miss Gladys Jones. Afternoon tea was served by the tea committee. Stall holders were Mrs. Laird and Miss Dingle.

MARRIED IN LONDON

WARRANT -OF FICER BRIDGES, FORMERLY OF H ANGANUI.

Word has been received by Mrs. M. Ryan, of Wanganui, East, that her nephew, Warrant - Officer Clifford Bridges, R.A.F., son of Mrs. M. Bridges, Rose Bay, Sydney, was married at the Catholic Church, Kensington, London, on November 10, 1943. to Margaret Mitchell Davidson;

second daughter of Alastair Davidson of Uphall, Scotland.

Their son, Gordon Alexander, was born in Scotland on August 24, 1944, at the time Warrant-Officer Bridges was temporarily posted missing whilst on operation over Germany.

Mrs. Bridges and her son were well cared for in her husband’s absence by her sister and brother-in-law, both of whom are doctors. The baby takes the name of his grandfather, the late Gordon Bridges, of Wanganui, and of his uncle. Pilot-Officer Alex Ryan, of Wanganui, who was killed on operations during the Battle of Britain.

Warrant-Officer Bridges, having finished a tour of operations in Italy, has just spent leave in Scotland and is now flying in Wales. He is looking forward to taking his wife and son home to Sydney.

Clifford Bridges and his two sisters were well known in Wanganui 10

years ago as the Bridges Trio on the concert platform. On going to Australia they met with much success on the stage and won generous acclaim from the critics. On the outbreak of

war Clifford Bridges enlisted in the. Royal Australian Air Force. A 1 present his sisters are playing an eight weeks’ season in Brisbane, as part of a three-year contract with the Tivoli Theatres. Clifford Bridges is an old boy of the Wanganui Marist Brothers School, while the Bridges sisters are old girls of the Sacred Heart Convent. Wanganui.

OBITUARY

MRS. T. TREADWELL, NEE JEAN MCLEOD. The death occurred recently in Dannevirke, of Mrs. Tom Treadwell, elder daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Gregor McLeod, “Ikitara,” Okoia. Before her ■marriage, Miss Jean McLeod was on the nursing staff of the Wanganui Public Hospital. She was a popular figure at the last Queen Carnival in Wanganui, when she represented the nursing profession as a “Princess,” recording many votes for the patriotic effort on that occasion. Her death will be regretted by a wide circle of friends, not nly in Okoia, but in various centres, particularly in Rotorua and Auckland districts, where she had undertaken Plunket and Karitane work. Much sympathy will be extended to her husband and infant son in their loss. The funeral took place at the Matarawa Cemetery. MR. N. J. MCKAY. The death has occurred at Waipawa of Mr. Neville James McKay, who was associated with the legal firm of Messrs Lee. Mackie, Harker and McKay for some 30 years. The son of Scottish emigrants who came to the Dominion from Nova Scotia, Mr. McKay was born at Reefton and lived on the West Coast till he was 16. In 1907 he entered the office of the General Manager of Railways at Wellington and five years later, after qualifying as an accountant, he jined a legal firm in Wellington. He later removed to Feilding and in 1915 went to Waipawa to join the firm with which he was associated till the time of his death. Mr. McKay was a barrister and solicitor of the Supreme Court and an Associated Member of the New Zealand Society of Accountants and of the Incorporated Institute of Accountants of New Zealand.

For 25 years Mr. McKay was secretary of St. Patrick’s Parish Church committee. He was president of the SI. John Ambiance Association, caplain and president of the Waipawa Golf Club and president of the Waipawa Bowling Club. He was a former chief of the Waipawa Savage Club. Till ill-health curtailed his activities Mr McKay was an enthusiastic patriotic worker at Waipawa and took a keen interest in the Boy Scouts’ committee. In lodge matters, Mr. McKay took a prominent part. Joining the Loyal Abbotsford Lodge. Manchester Unity, in 1925. he was elected deputy grand maser of the Hawke’s Bay district in 1929 and grand master in 1930. He was elected a director of the society in 1933 and became Grand Master of’the Order of New Zealand at the Nelson conference in 1942. -

He leaves a widow, one daughter and five sons, two of whom are serving overseas. The funeral will take place at Waipawa to-morrow afternoon.