Woman's World

Wanganui Chronicle, 5 October 1946, Page 9

Woman's World

SOCIAL AND PERSONAL

Mrs. Andrew Hunter, Makirikiri, i: visiting Hawera.

Mrs. A. Mitchell, Wanganui East, is spending a few days in Okaiawa. Mrs. T. Hine, Victoria Avenue, has returned from a holiday spent at New Plymouth. Miss Janet Russell, St. John’s Hill, has left Wanganui to begin Karitane training jn Wellington. Mrs. E. W. Gohns. Wanganui, has been spending a few days in Wellington. Mrs. Rowland Tapp, Okaiawa, is visiting relatives in Wanganui. Mrs. C. S. Ryan, King's Avenue, Gonville, left yesterday for a visit to Wellington. Mrs. C. O. Moulder, Nelson, who is visiting her mother, Mrs. A. G. MacKay, Wicksteed Street, leaves on Monday to spend a few days in Wellington before returning home. ! Mrs. M. Bailey, Wanganui, is visiting Gisborne. Mrs. V. Deighton, Christchurch, who has been the guest of Mrs. S. Brooking, Gonville, left yesterday for a visit to Thames. Miss K. Nelson, Hurleyville, who has been staying with friends in Wanganui, leaves on Tuesday for Hastings. The “News of the World" gossip writer says it is reported that Miss Mary Churchill is engaged to Prince Charles of Belgium. Mr. Churchill and his daughter have been visiting Prince Charles, who is Regent, and his mother, the Dowagcf Queen Elizabeth, at Laeken Palace. Miss Mary Churchill is aged 24, and Prince Charles is 43. The Rev. Mother Goulter, who recently returned to New Zealand from Japan, and who is now at the Convent of the Sacred Heart, Island Bay, Wellington, was in Nagasaki at the time of the atomic bombing of the city. The building in which the nuns taught collapsed, but no one was killed. For a year after war began, Mother Goulter and the other nuns of the Community were permitted to teach, but were interned. Mother Goulier is a member of a well-known Marlborough family. Pre-Wedding Party. Miss Moira Robbie, whose marriage takes place shortly, was entertained at a pre-wedding party given by Mrs. W. D. Young, at her home in St. Hill Street recently. Fashions in Wool

Mannequins in miniature, perfectly dressed in advance London fashions that showed wool’s beauty and versatility as a medium for women's wear, were seen for the first time in the Dominion recently at a private showing in Wellington. Designed at the request of the New Zealand Wool Board, the display was opened by Sir Patrick Duff before a representative gathering. Earlier, their Excellencies | the Governor-General and Lady Freyberg visited the display. Methodist Auxiliary The monthly meeting of the Methodist Women’s Missionary Auxiliary was held recently in Trinity Parlour. The president, Mrs. Bates, presided. A very enjoyable programme had been arranged by Mesdames Hardy and Mu reel 1. Songs were rendered by Mrs. Morrison and Mrs. Holland; musical monologues by Miss Robinson and Mrs. Kitney, and recitations by Mrs. Sperring. Mrs. Sutherland was the accompanist. Afternoon tea was served and the meeting closed with pho Benediction. A bring-and-buy Istall was in charge of Mrs. Howells. Modern Cinderella Shoes ; On display in a city store is the first [ air of sijoes in which the new transparent plastic is used in the upper ipart of the footwear. Large butter!Hy bows of plastic adorn the toeipeeper design shoes. If transparent shoes are to become the fashion of the future, we shall probably see a big change in hosiery styles. It is quite possible that bright coloured embroidery designs will appear on the stocking feet to show through the plastic. These designs could be in a colour scheme to match the ensemble or suit of the wearer.

Nurses Receive Diplomas In Wellington recently 49 nurses, who for the last 12 months have taken a post-graduate course which took them from Invercargill to North Auckland and from Taranaki across to the East Coast for their practical experience, received diplomas in public health nursing, hospital and nursing, school administration, and medical social work. The “passing out", ceremony was held at the Health De-1 partment’s Post Graduate Nurses’ School. The nurses, are now bound for a variety of highly specialised posts in various parts of Ihe Pacific. One nurse, Sister I. S. Atkins, came to New Zealand from Western Australia to take the course. Another travelled from Rarotonga. Of the public health group, 10 will return to the Health Department staff, one will be supervisor of a district nursing service under a hospital board and three intend joining the Health Department staff. The hospital administration group included a hospital matron, eight assistant matrons, 18 tutor sisters, two ward sisters and one theatre sister. “The Vogue” Salon Women of to-day know the added attraction of perfectly waved and styled hair, and particularly just now when hats are becoming more and more shallow, making the coiffure more than ordinarily noticeable. Smart women will be interested to hear of a now salon, “The Vogue.” opened in McGruer’s Building. The salon is decorated most tastefully in cream and a soft shade of green, and its equipment is of the highest doof efficiency and modernity Coiffures can be arranged to suit individual types, or the line of a particular evening frock, he it Victorian or of any other design. The salon will be open late every evening. This announcement will be welcomed b\ business girls. Included in the staff personnel of hair stylists are Miss Ngaire Smith, late of Catherine Enwrighl’s Beauty Parlour, and Miss Sybil Fletcher, late of Maeder Salon.*