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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVIII, Issue 208, 1 August 1928, Page 11

jK|MKrs , Melville was in Palmerston gjfjMffift*'. yesterday. Misses Rodgers have returned iMfroth a visit to Dannevirke. ||Hlpxs 'Holdsworth, of Wellington, who staying with Mrs Wall in the has returned to her home. Dan Lethbridge, with her small has returned to her homo BfßMMrs "Wall and Miss E. Wall have ?| ‘£one to Wellington for a few days. Iflgjars J. R. MacLennan, of Havelock jfpNorth, is staying with Mr and Mrs J. To Awe Awe Street. HflillS»s Vickers, of Inglewood, who has staying with Mr and Mrs Garth |*flliams, has gone to stay with Mrs fjU:®mot, of Marton. M«iss M. Cole, general secretary of New Plymouth branch of the will attend the VW.C.A. BK' l*,an-Pacific Conference at Honolulu. Ifl&iss M. Ranson, of Bunnythorpe, jfllHl taken up nursing as a career, hav'f.fe'J’Sffiijpined the probationary' of the ’■ rston North Hospital. • usual monthly jumble stall was wriducted vesterday in the Orient Hall ladies of ' the Willard Home llfeCoinniittee. A wide selection of cloth--s&>::aiig and boots met with a ready public 'demand, and as a result the home benefit considerably. iHßrho death of Mrs Elizabeth Hill, ijMpged 85, took place at her residence, fWjOrey Lynn, Auckland, the other day. Hill was one of the first white Sf&cpildren born in Auckland. Her »PrJfj£ther and mother, the late Mr and Thomas Verncr, came to New '’•vjwaland in the Jane Gifford in 1842. Mary Craven, designer for ,'MBirlei, in Sydney, who was a passenger ■®b*"the Aorangi this week, stated that '".pf*»ne‘ thought the mode of clinging raa“lfterials now in vogue was established a number of years. There was no of the crinoline or pannier |ffi®ffect returning, except in the case of of- girls with their hair down. s||fptev. J. M. Simpson, formerly minof Knox Presbyterian Church, /S&ggarnell, and latterly in charge of St. Church, Dunedin, and Mrs i#|§impson left by the Aorangi on a trip i&ilbroad. They will spend some time |m Canada, and liter will visit Eng-

land, Scotland and Ireland, Egypt, and the Holy Land, returning to New Zealand about twelve months hence. Recently Miss Agnes Houseman, who is severing her connection with the C. M. Ross Co., Ltd., to be married, was met by the staff at an enjoyable little function and made the recipient of an Aynsley afternoon tea set, a beaten copper tea tray and an oak cake-stand. The firm presented Miss ’ Houseman with an eiderdown quilt. Mrs Joseph Martin, of Onehunga, celebrated her 91st birthday on Sunday last. Born at Belfast, she went to Melbourne in 1854, and eight years later landed at Dunedin. Her husband was a lay preacher in the Methodist Church in Otago district, and she accompanied him in his early travels to various parts of the province. Mrs Martin went to Auckland over 30 years ago, and has lived there since. Mr Martin died some 16 yeras ago. There are seven sons, 34 grandchildren, and 1 four great-grandchildren. A special service for Mrs Martin was held at the Onehunga Methodist Church on Sunday.