WOMEN’S NOTES

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVI, Issue 18, 19 December 1925, Page 11

WOMEN’S NOTES

Mrs Summersell (Napier) has been appointed matron of the Mothers' Rest by the Napier Borough Council. i Dr Roberta .Tull, tvho has been inI vestigating New Zealand methods of child welfare, is leaving by the Manuka on her return to Western Australia. Tho engagement is announced, of Miss Enid Pragnell, second daughter of Mr and Mrs O. N. C. Pragnell, of Masterton, to Mr Gordon Munro, youngest son of Airs G. Munro, of Invercargill. Air Alunro is the wellknown Otago and All Black representative footballer. Aliss Nina Jones, the Nelson artist, who •is particularly noted for her paintings of New Zealand liativo flowers, a collection of which was requested for AVembley by tho New ZeaI land Government, is at present criti- ‘ cally ill in a Nelson private hospital j (states an exchange). , At tho meeting of the AVellington | Hospital Board on Thursday it .was j decided that the motion of Air E. ! ■ Vine, that the hour to which nurses . not on duty may bo absent from the I institution without special permission of the matron be extended to 11 p.m.; anti that the by-laws for nurses be j altered accordingly, was referred to • the hospital committee. I ! At a meeting of the AVellington Hospital Board this week letters wero I received from two nurses, whose services were dispensed with recently lor breaking the regulations by staying out after 10 p.m. without permission, 1 asking for reinstatement. Dr Alac- , donald AVilson (the superintendent) nij formed the meeting that, although . tho matron and lie had discussed the : matter, they had arrived at no definite conclusion yet. CROQUET. A match for the gold stars was contested at tho Atanawatu Club’s greens yesterday, when Airs Robertson and Mr Alurray wrested possession of tlio trophies from the holders, Alesdames Fuller and Petrie, in a, most- interesting contest, the final scores being 26 to 24.