SOCIAL AND PERSONAL.

Wanganui Chronicle, 3 June 1950, Page 9

SOCIAL AND PERSONAL.

Mrs Colin Burnet, Waipukurau, is spending the holiday week-end in Wanganui. Mrs W. D. Carson, Brunswick, was a recent visitor to Hamilton. Mrs G. A. Payne is a Wanganui visitor to Wellington. Mrs H. Strauchon, Cambridge Street, Gonville, has returned alter spending a few days with friends at Ohingaiti. Mrs John Sutherland, who has been the guest of Mrs J. Patterson during the week, has returned to New Plymouth. Mrs C. E. Murray Steuart, Victoria Avenue, has returned after a holiday spent in Auckland. Mrs Neil Collins, of New Plymouth, with her husband, will spend the holiday week-end in Wanganui with her mother, Mrs P. A. O’Neill. Mr and Mrs A. Nihotte, of Wellington, will be visitors to Wanganui for the week-end. Mr Nihotte is Belgian Consul for New Zealand. Mrs H. L. Widdowson, Heads Road, will have as her guests for the holiday week-end Miss Suzanne Duncan, of Lower Hutt, Miss Helen Widdowson, of Wellington, and Miss Daphne Frazer, a visitor from England, who leaves on Tuesday on her return home. Describing the presentation party held at Buckingham Palace on May 10, a New Zealand woman, who had the honour of being presented, writes. “After the presentations the King and Queen and Princess Margaret walked round the Throne Room, when people were introduced to them informally by equerries and ladies-in-waiting. The Queen, lovely in white, looked so interested in everyone she spoke to. The King looked very kindly, thougn rather tired. Princess Margaret wore a white organdie dress, sleeveless, with long white gloves, small white hat, white shoes and bag.

A 23-year-old German woman, Miss B. von Schramm, arrived in Auckland last week by air to make her home In New Zealand. Born in Nuremberg, Bavaria, Miss von Schramm is a member of an old Bavarian family, many branches of which emigrated to Australia and New Zealand in the early and mid-nineteenth century. The descendant of one of these branches, Mr W. E. von Schramm, of Royal Road, Henderson, whose grandparents emigrated to New Zealand in 1842, was at the airport to meet his relative. Miss von Schramm was studying social science at a university near Nuremberg until the Allied advance into Germany intervened. Later she was engaged in social work at a displaced persons’ camp in the American zone in Germany. Miss von Schramm speaks fairly fluent English, and hopes to teach German at one of the local schools. Wedding Anniversary

Mr and Mrs J. F. Harris, of 63 Keith Street, Wanganui, celebrated their 56th wedding anniversary on Wednesday. They received many telegrams from friends and relatives, also from the Prime Minister (Mr Holland), the Mayor (Mr Rogers) and from Mr J. B. Coiterill, M.P. Relatives spent an enjoyable afternoon at Mr and Mrs Harris's home.