Woman’s World

Wanganui Chronicle, 7 September 1950, Page 9

Woman’s World

SOCIAL AND PERSONAL. Mrs. F Stapleton, Anzac Parade Wanganui East, has returned home from a holiday spent at Norfolk Island. Mrs II G. M. Kemp, of Gisborne, is holidaying in Wanganui and is staying with her mother, Mrs M. K. Strouts, Armagh Flats, St. Hill Street. The Misses Valerie and Shirley Hazzard daughters of the Australian Trade Commissioner, Mr. R. Hazzard, will leave for a visit to England and the Continent in November. They will be passengers in the Dominion Monarch. Mrs J. G. Winant, widow of former American Ambassador to Britain, is in England to buy West Highland terriers for the new kennel she wants to start in America. For some time she has been buying the best Scots terriers. Cne, for whom she paid 1000 guineas, was judged the best of 2535 dogs in the American Crufts Show. Now Mrs Winant hopes to make her West Highland breed as notable as her Scotties. The death has occurred at the age of 65 of Sister Janet Harper, a deaconess of the Presbyterian Church, who retired three years ago after serving lor 13 years as welfare officer of the Invercargill Crippled Children Society. Sister Harper was born in Leith, Scotland, and arrived in Wellington in 1907 . After training at Dunedin she serve d for 13 years as deaconess at First Church, Invercargill. 11l health forced her to retire, and she then began her work for crippled children. Y.W'.CkA. Club Birthday. Miss C. Alexander, president of the Business Girls’ Lyceum senior girls’ club of the Y.W.C.A., entertained members at a birthday meeting at her homo in Anzac Parade on Monday night. Committee members arranged a program of games and competitions, with community singing. After supper, a feature of which was the iced birthday cake given by the president, Miss Alice Barrett moved a vote of thanks to the hostess for her hospitality. Beautiful Home Mr. Alfredo Campoli, the noted violinist who played in Wanganui last night, and Mrs. Campoli have a beautiful home in North London with an acre garden of fruit and flowers. It is here that Mrs. Campoli spends all her spare time while in England between secretarial work and a busy round of entertaining. Rome born and Britisn naturalised, Mr. Campoli left Italy at the age of five years and has never been back. He has nearly as strong an English background as his wife and is completely Anglicised. His father was a professor of the violin, and leader of the Santa Cecelia Conservatoire in Rome. His mother was a prominent dramatic soprano who toured for years with Scotti and Caruso.