WOMEN’S NOTES

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVI, Issue 24, 28 December 1925, Page 11

WOMEN’S NOTES

Mrs A. M. Hammonds, matron of All Saints’ Children’s Home, Foxton beach, is an inmate of the Palmerston North Hospital and is suffering from diphtheria. Happily, the attack is not a severe one, and the patient is making good progress.

Sir Charles Mansfield Clark and liis daughter, Lady Tomline, of London, have been tho guests of Mr and Mrs W. Barton, Fareham, Featherston, during the past week, states a Wairarapa exchange. Sir Charles, who is 85 years of age, fought in the Maori wars in the ’sixties.

Two very important social events will take place on January 6 at St. Mark’s Church, Takapau, when Miss Violet Mary A’Deane, of “Ashcott,” Takapau, will bo married to Lieuten-ant-Commander Laurence Lyonel Tollemache, R.N., and Miss Margaret Hamilton A’Deane will be united in holy, matrimony with Lieutenant Walter Roger Marshall, R.N.

Sweltering in the Northern Territory, 150 miles from a settlement, and with only a few drops of water in the radiator, and none anywhere else. This was one of the tight fixes (says a Sydney paper) of Mrs Marion Bell and her daughter on their journey, round Australia by car. Those last few drops of water were precious. A straggler stumbled across their track. He was dying of thirst. Silently the radiator was drained for him. Then —tho first rain in that part for a year fell ! They caught it in a tarpaulin —and breathed again.

Sir Francis Wemyss, who recently arrived from England for a trout-fish-ing and sightseeing tour, will take part in the Canterbury croquet championships during tho holidays. He stated recently that in England, proportionately, far more men played the game than in New Zealand, and ho, had found that tho players in the North Island were practically all women. In Christchurch he had learned that there wero about a dozen male players. Ho was of the opinion that the best players in the Dominion were as good as the best players in Britain, but that there were more good players in England.