Woman's World

Wanganui Chronicle, 13 November 1950, Page 7

Woman's World

SOCIAL AND PERSOAL. Miss J. Cameron, Chester House, Victoria Avenue, leaves tomorrow for the South Island, on a visit of several weeks to her brother, Mr J. Cameron, of Lawrence, Otago. Mrs Terence Maxwell, who has accompanied her husband on a brief business visit to New Zealand, is a daughter of Sir Austen Chamberlain, and a niece of Mr. Neville Chamberland. Mrs Maxwell is a member of the development committee of the Victoria League in <.ondon. Mrs Maxwell said in Wellin. t n that plans for celebrating the league s fiftieth anniversary next year were being discussed when she left England recently. Mr. Maxwell is chairman of the Union Bank of Australia in London. The engagement was recently announced and the wedding was to take place on November 6 at Oxford, England, of Archibald Charles Callaway, second son of r and Mrs A. C. Callaway, sen. of Christchurch, New Zealand and Helen Ann Lund, eldest daughter of Mr and Mrs George N. Lund, of Montana, U.S.A. Mr. Callaway was well known in New Zealand University circles. He was a lecturer at Massey College, and went to England as an undergraduate at Cambridge. He is now a lecturer at Balliol College, Oxford. Wedding FOOTE—GILBERT. A very pretty wedding was solemnised recently in St. Matthews Church, Hastings, when Margaret Edith, only daughter of Mr. and Mrs A. Foote, Crownthorpe, was married to Alan William, son of Mr and Mrs T. Gilbert, of Whakatane. The bride, who entered the church escort^ 1 by her father, looked charming in a trained gown of all over lace, worn with a finger tip length tulle veil caught to the head with a halo of white hyacinths and lily of the valley. Her bouquet consisted of lilies, white hyacinths and lily of the valley. Attending the bride were Misses Pauline Wedd, of Sherenden and Beryl Morgan, of Palmerston North. They were dressed alike in frocks of apple green sheer and carried bouquets Cr anemones and sweetpeas in cyclamen and lavender tonings. They wore coronets to match Best man was Mr J. Bristol, of Taihape, and Mr J. Beswick, of Wanganui, was groomsman. As the bride left the church she was presented with a horse shoe by her cousin, little Christine Weir, of. Wanganui.

After the ceremony the guests were entertained at a reception and dance held at the Cabaret Cabana Awatoto. For travelling the bride chose a frock of beige crepe trimmed with brown velvet, worn with a wool gabardine coat and brown accessories. Mr. and Mrs Gilbert’s future heme will be in the Taihapo district*