SOCIAL NOTES

Waikato Times, Volume 125, Issue 20916, 22 September 1939, Page 3

SOCIAL NOTES

ft Mrs V. Woodward, New Plymouth, who has been visiting Hamilton, has returned home. • • • • •Mrs C. T. Pearse, Feilding, is visiting her mother, Mrs W. Wilson, Koheroa, Waikato. Miss Francis Morgan, Cambridge, has returned home from a visit to her sister, Mrs H. Proctor, Wellington. Miss T. Cox has rejoined the nursing staff of the Waikato Hospital after taking her post-graduate course in Wellington. Miss D. Buchanan, former tutor sister at the Waikato Hospital, has left for Invercargill, where she will take up the position of lady superintendent of the Southland -Hospital. Among the visitors to Wanganui from Hamilton for the Thompson Henderson wedding were Mr and Mrs T. Hj, Henderson, Mr and Mrs F. A. Henderson, Mrs Don Bruce, and the Rev. 11. J. Lilburn, Mrs Thompson and Miss M. Thompson. Lady Wakehurst, wife of Lord Wake’llurst, Governor of New South Wales, arrived at. Auckland early this week. She was accompanied by her brother, Mr Peter Dubbock. her daughter, the Hon. Henrietta Loder, and ’Captain J. Mitchell, A.D.C. One of the best-known members of the New Zealand community in Sydney, Miss Violet Roche, who is a cousin of Misses G. and .VI. Roche, of Hamilton, will shortly return to the Dominion for a long stay. Miss Roche, who has been publicity officer at the Australia for many years, has resigned that position, and it is her intention to visit her mother in Auck-. land. She hopes to be in Wellington for the opening of the Centennial Exhibition. During her long sojourn in Sydney Miss Roche has been closely identified with several organisations, including the Overseas League and tne Industrial Arts Club. In her post at the Australia she had opportunities for meeting most of the celebrities who have visited Sydney, and arranging for their entertainment.