SOCIAL AND PERSONAL.

Wanganui Chronicle, 26 February 1947, Page 7

SOCIAL AND PERSONAL.

Mrs. L. Allan is spending a few days with Mrs. Hewetson, Gloucester Street, before returning to Napier. Mrs. J. P. Morrison, Gonville, is on holiday in the South Island. Miss Mai Willets, of Ashburton, is in Wanganui for the Dominion Band Contest, and staying at Foster’s Hotel. Miss Willers intends to visit New Plymouth, Te Awamutu and Auckland before returning to Ashburton late in March. Mrs. J. A. Shanks was a visitor to Waverley last Friday to judge the flower show held by the Women's Division of Federated Farmers. Advice has been received of the arrival of Miss Jean Campoell in Toronto. Miss Campbell, a Canadian, was national youth secretary for the Y.W.C.A. of New Zealand for some years. She left the Dominion in January. Miss Laura Gleeson, matron of the Girls’ Friendly Hostel, Wellington, who has been on holiday in Auckland, spent a few days in Wanganui with Mrs. J. A. Shanks, Young Street, Wanganui East, on her way home. Welfare Officer To Travel. Mrs. Rona Bailey, Senior Physical Welfare Women’s Officer of the Department of Internal Affairs, is leaving for England shortly to study physical welfare and recreational trends there. Mrs. Bailey expects to be away for about a year, during which time she intends going to Prague for the World Youth Festival, which is to take place in August this year. From Prague, she will go to Paris, which is the headquarters for the International Federation of Democrat Women. If possible her return to New Zealand will be through the United States, where she has already spent two years. After finishing her course at the Teachers’ Training College, she went to America and attended both the University of Columbia and theUniversity of California as a student of physical education. N.Z. Delegates To Fly to Nurses’ Congress. A New Zealand delegate, Miss M. I. Lambie, Director of Nursing Services and president of the Florence Nightingale Foundation, will ‘preside over a grand council meeting of the foundation in New York on April 29 and 30. Miss Lambie, whose trip is being sponsored by the Government, will leave New Zealand by air about the middle of April. Miss L. M. Banks, matron of the Palmerston North Hospital, will also attend the council meeting as a delegate representing the New Zealand Registered Nurses’ Association. While in America, Miss Lambie and Miss Banks will also attend as delegates from the New Zealand Registered Nurses’ Association the congress of the International Council of Nurses to be held at Atlantic City early in May. Remnants and Oddments Sale. When in town on Friday, be sure to call in at Callaghan and HawoAh’s Ltd., Dress Fabric Specialists for it is their half-yearly remnants and oddments sale.*