WOMEN’S NOTES

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVII, Issue 56, 3 February 1927, Page 11

WOMEN’S NOTES

Over £I4OO has been collected towards the cost of building a new home at Wellington for motherless babies.

Dr. Mary Champtaloup, of Dunedin, has been appointed a school medical officer for the Wellington district.

Dr. Helen Bakewell, who has been on a lengthy visit to England, the Continent and America, will return to Wellington by the next trip of the Maunganui from San Francisco.

A well-known resident of Auckland, nnd formerly of Hamilton, tho wife of the late Archdeacon W. Calder, died at Auckland yesterday, aged 79 years. She was born in 1848 at ♦Chesterfield, Derbvshire, England, and was educated* in France. She was married to Rev. W. Calder when he was vicar of Waikato in 1876.

The engagement is announced of Miss Irene Stiles, second daughter of Mr and Mrs G. H. Stiles, of “Woodlands,” Terrace End, to Mr Alan Keith Hodder, youngest son of Mr and Mrs T. Rayner Hodder, of Alan street.

An engagement of considerable local interest is announced from the United States, the parties being Mr Maurice Richmond Hodder, third son of Mr and Mrs T. Rayner Hodder, of Palmerston North, and Miss Margaret McCaslin, daughter of Rev. Mr McCaslin, of' Minnesota, U.S.A. The young couple are both students of the Boston University where Mr Hodder recently secured his bachelor’s degree in the School of Religious Education.

Visitors from all parts of New Zealand gathered at Christchurch yesterday for the wedding at St. Mary’s Church, Merivale, of Kathleen Margaret, younger daughter of Mrs Helmore and the late Mr George Helmore, “Millbrook,” Fendalton, and Godfrey Itossmore, younger son of Mr and Mrs J. Cracroft Wilson, Cashmere. Both the bride and bridegroom are members of well-known Canterbury families. Archdeacon P. B. Haggitt performed the ceremony.

The following is the list of the visiting lady doctors who are attending tho Australasian Medical Congress in Dunedin:—Drs Elizabeth Bryson, Ethel Bvrne (New South Wales), Grace de Courcy (Wellington), Mary Coutts (Wellington), Beatrice Durie (Sydney), Roberta Donaldson (Victoria), Constance Ellis (Victoria), Elspeth Fitzgerald (Oamaru), Elizabeth Gunn (Wanganui), Doris Gordon (Stratford), Mary de Garis (Victoria), Florence Hill (South Australia), Ida Halley (South Australia), Margaret MeLorinan (Victoria), Aileen Mitchell (New South Wales), Jean McNamara (Royal Park), Dorothy McClement (Sydney), Ada Paterson (Wellington), Grace Stevenson, Enid Stokes (Victoria), Buckley-Turkington (Auckland), Mary Wilson, Irene Woodhouse (Mataura).

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SYDNEY, Jan. 23. The bob. the shingle, tho bingle—they have had their day. The Eton crop has come and gone. Now it is the “windblown bob” that is all tho rage in America, and the very latest. “Artistic and natural, so different from the other styles of hairdressing, it appears as if the wind had just caught it.” That is how the “windblown bob” is desci-ibed by Mr A. Markert, a hairdressing specialist, of Hollywood, who came to Sydney by the Maunganui to-day. He will introduce the “windblown bob” into Australia.