Woman’s World

Wanganui Chronicle, 30 December 1947, Page 7

Woman’s World

SOCIAL AND PERSONAL Mrs. A. J. Pritchard, Ingestre Street, is holidaying in Rotorua. Mrs. Harold Bott, of Wellington, who spent the week-end in Wanganui, left yesterday for New Plymouth. Miss Rockel and Miss C. Rockel, Wellington, formerly of Wanganui, are visiting the city. Mrs. C. R. White, College Street, returned last week from the South Island, after staying several weeks with her daughter, Mrs. C. Williams, St. Andrew, South Canterbury. Mrs. John Pack, Ngaio, Wellington, who has been visiting her mother, Mrs. E. M. H. Brown, Gloucester Street, left yesterday for a caravan camping holiday before returning home. Miss L. Webber, Rarotonga, who returned to Wanganui for the school vacation, is at present on a tour of the North Island with hetmother, Mrs. C. Webber, Mrs. Drought and Miss Shirley Drought, of Masterton, and Hr. and Mrs. Lund, of Okaiwai, were visitors to Wanganui for the Shields —Johnstone wedding, which took place on Boxing Day. Mrs. J. Livingstone has left Dannevirke for Wellington to take up her new duties as Welington organiser Of the New Zealand Registered Nurses Association. She was a county representative on the Dannevirke Hospital Board for' three years. A recent arrival in New Zealand is Mrs. F. H. Daggets, who has spent two years in Sydney, two years in Manaos, on the Amazon River, and one year in Rio de Janiero. Mrs. Daggets, who is acquainted with a number of countries, is the wife of the former Vice-Consul for the United States in Sydney, who has been appointed second secretary and Vice-Consul-elect to the American Legation in Wellington. The winner of the title, “Miss Northland,” in the recent Miss NewZealand quest, Miss Desiree Joan Browne, will leave for England In February, where she will live permanently, Miss Browne, whose home is in Christchurch, hopes to do research work at London University with the possibility of becoming a lecturer. Miss Browne has been offered a position as resident tutor in English at Melbourne University, which she has declined in view of the fact that she is going to England. A bride and her bridesmaid had to fight their way through hordes of grasshoppers as they walked from their car to the threshold of Yamba homestead, in Gunnedah district, New. South Wales, for the wedding ceremony. The bride was Miss Maude Kelly, of Yamba Station, Emerald Hill. Miss Kelly had spent most of, her wedding eve with her father, both using stirrup pumps in an effort to keep the swarms back from the homestead garden. Guests at the wedding ceremony put in most of the time trying to keep the grasshoppers clear qf their faces. The grasshoppers even ate the veiling from the hat of one of the guests. Presentation. Mrs. Ann Johnstone, a member of the staff at Londontown, was the recipient of a fireside chair from the firm and staff prior to her marriage last week.