Woman’s World

Wanganui Chronicle, 17 January 1948, Page 9

Woman’s World

SOCIAL AND PERSONAL. Miss Isabel Bartrum, Wanganui, is visiting Christchurch. Mrs. P. A. O’Neill is a Wanganui visitor to Wellington for the Trentham races. Miss Rita Crotty, Wanganui, Is visiting the South Island. Mrs. W. Russell, St. John’s Hill, has returned from Christchurch. Mrs. S. Brooking, Koromiko Road, Gonville, has returned from a Holiday at Taupo. Misses Valerie and Dorothy Ryan, Ingestre Street, have been holidaying at New Plymouth. Mrs. E. M, Griffen and family, of Wellington, are spending a holiday at Castlecliff. Mrs. J. Nielson, May Street, has returned from a holiday tour of the South island. Mrs. Garland Horrocks, of Makirikiri, has returned from a visit to Nelson. One of the most distinguished of New Zealand surgeons in Britain, Sir Harold Gillies, who is also a member of the Royal Institute of Oil Painters, held an exhibition of his paintings at Charing Cross this week. He exh.bited 130 oils, chiefly scenes painted while on fishing holidays iif England, Ireland, Norway and Iceland. Miss Marjorie Black has arrived from Australia to take up the position of general secretary of the Y.W.C.A. in Wellington. Miss Black has had many years' experience in administrative work with the Y.W.C.A., her last post being that of provincial secretary in Queensland. She began her career as a girls department secretary in Dunedin, where she built Up a flourishing organisation for adolescent girls, and also did the first experimental project of a rereational club for boys and girls. At the 1919 Convention of the Y.W.C.A. she was appointed national secretary for Australia and New Zealand, her special work being to develop the service among adolescent girls Later, after a period of study and travel in Europe and England. Miss Black became a teacher. For many years she was headmistress of the Archerfield Girls’ School, in Dunedin. ENGAGEMENT Hammond—Granville-Smith.— Mr and Mrs R.. M. Granville-Smith, Marton, have pleasure in announcing the engagement of their youngest daughter, Frances Elizabeth (Betty) •to Owen Douglas, youngest son of Mr. and Mrs. R. H. Hammond, of Raetihi Road, Ohakune.