Woman's World

Wanganui Chronicle, 30 October 1948, Page 9

Woman's World

SOCIAL AND PERSONAL. Mr. and Mrs. J. Goss, Wanganui East, will visit New Plymouth today lor the Goss—Bargrove wedding. Mrs Simmons, Miss Hill and Miss Ross, of Wellington, will also attend. Miss Margaret Mere wether, Bedford Avenue, Wanganui, spent the week-end in Wellington as the guest o£ Lady Frey berg, Government House. Mrs. J. Dunlop, Somme Parade, has received word that her daughter, Mrs Elizabeth Rule, arrived in Cyprus this week. Mrs. Rule left New Zealand at the end of June and spent six weeks in Australia, and then went to Norfolk Island, where she stayed two weeks. After reaching’ London she spent two weeks there before flying to Ireland. Returning to London, Mrs. Rule then journeyed to Cyprus by air. Mrs. C. R. White, president of the Wanganui Girl Guide Association, and Mrs. K. Couchman (secretary) will represent Wanganui at the Girl Guides Local Association’s conference to be held in Palmerston North today. It is expected that 100 delegates will attend the conference. On Sunday the Wanganui delegates will go to “Arahina,” Marton,/the Guide Training Centre, where they will be entertained at lunch, and later will attend the official opening. Porirua Fund. The Mayoress, Mrs. W. Rogers, acknowledges with thanks the following donations to the Porirua Christmas monetary appeal: Aramoho Women’s Institute £l, Mrs. J. Stroud 10s. British Music Society’s Concert. Members of the Palmerston North branch of the British Music Society (N.Z. Inc.) will provide the programme for the fourth concert of the Wanganui branch to be held in the Opera House on Thursday next. Several outstanding artists are included in the programme list of items. Shop Day for Food for Britain. Next Friday, November 5, the Navy League Food for Britain Committee will hold a shop day in the Red Cross Rooms (above McKenzie’s), when there will be well-stocked stalls of produce, sewing, cakes, sweets and “white elephant’ articles, and in addition a copper trail. Also in honour of the day, there is to be a Guy Fawkes. P.VV.M.U. Conference Delegates. The annual conference of the Presbyterian Women’s Missionary Union is to be held simultaneously with the Presbyterian General Assembly which opens in Wellington early next week. Wanganui delegates are Mrs A. Caird (St. Paul’s Church), Sister H. Hercus (St. Andrew’s, Glasgow Street), Miss Bartrum (St. James’, Wanganui East) and Miss G. Houston (Knox Church, Gonville), Miss J. Christie (Fordell). Concert at Hunterville. Many Hunterville people will be looking forward to the grand carnival concert which is to be held in the Hunterville Town Hall on Wednesday night next, under the auspices of the Wanganui Memorial Hall. The programme is to be given by Wanganui’s leading artists and the concert is being sponsored by the Hunterville Scottish Society. ' It is good to think that the Hunterville folk are helping in this very worthy cause of helping the campaign of the Wanganui folk to build a Scots Memorial Hall.