WOMEN’S NOTES.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLV, Issue 138, 15 May 1925, Page 3

WOMEN’S NOTES.

Dr. Elizabeth Gunn left Auckland on Tuesday by the Aorangi for Honolulu and America.

Tlie question, should ladies be allowed to play golf on Sundays, brought together 50 or 60 members of the Auckland Grtif Club at a special meeting. After -a full and sometimes humorous discussion, it was decided to allow members of tho Auckland Ladies’ C olf Club to play on Sundays in the summer only upon the Middlemoro links.

Mr Justice Owen, New South Wales Judge in Divorce, who is to marry Miss Hilda Chapman, daughter of Sir Frederick R. (Mr Justice) Chapman, of Wellington, will be (3 on August 27 next. He is a native of Sydney, and was admitted to tho Bar of New South Wales nearly 40 years ago.. As Mr Langer Owen, K. 0., he was, for many years, a leader of the Equity Bar. Mr Justice Owen has a son practising at tie Bar, and his daughter, Miss Gladys (Even, was a prominent war worker, and has always identified herself with charitable movements. Mr Justice Owen (says the Sydney Sun) does not look his uge, and could easily be mistaken for a man of £O. lie is an enthusiastic golfer, and earlier in iiis life was an excellent laivn tennis player. His wife, an enthusiastic wrr worker, died during the war. He gave up a highly lucrative practice at the Bar in order that he might assist the Red Cress organisation lie did so to a large degree.

COUNCIL OF WOMEN. (By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) WASHINGTON, May 13. Tho International Council of Women voted against allowing international institutions to affiliate wiht the council. Lady Aberdeen read a list containing the names, cf some 30 bodies, including the Salvation Army and the International Peuce Bureau, which might affiliate. — Reuter.