WOMEN’S WORLD.

Manawatu Standard, Volume L, Issue 219, 12 August 1930, Page 11

WOMEN’S WORLD.

Mrs Bailey, of Sanson, is visiting Wanganui. Mrs Coles of Wanganui, is visiting Palmerston North. Miss D. Ballard, of Woodville, leaves this week for AVellington en route to Australia. Mrs Robinson, of Mangaweka, is the guest of her sister, Mrs A. Bousfield, Awahuri. Mr and Mrs H. P. Horne, who have been on a holiday visit to Honolulu, returned to Woodville to-day. Misses I. and A. Wallace have returned to Palmerston North from a visit to Wellington. Miss Sybil Waldegrave, of Palmerston North, is visiting her sister, Mrs R. Carlyon, at Waipawa. Mrs Leonard Taylor, Russell Street, Palmerston North, has returned from Auckland where she was the guest of Canon and Mrs Fancourt. Miss Lorraine Wimsett, of Palmerston North, left yesterday for CTjsborne to join the staff of the dental clinic in the East Coast town. Mr and Mrs lan Mac Ewan, Palmerston North, who were the guests of Mrs J. B. Mac Ewan, Wellington, for the week-end, returned to Palmerston North yesterday. The friends of Mrs J. H. Whyte, wife of Brigadier Whyte, who has been seriously ill, will bo pleased to learn that there has been some improvement in her health. Mrs Whyte is at present a patient in a private hospital. The oldest Associate of the Royal Academy is Mrs Anno Swynnerton, aged 84. Her portrait of Dame Millicent Fawcett, the well-known feminist, was purchased recently for the nation by the Chantrey Bequest. Members of the Palmerston North Women’s Bridge Club held another gathering at Messrs Collinson and Cunninghame’s tearooms yesterday afternoon. There was a large attendance and the scores made counted in the aggregate. The hostesses were Meedanies Banks, M. Madden and F. C. Litchfield. The headmaster, Mr W. A. Swinbourn, reported to the meeting of the College Street School Committee last evening that Miss Cawood, a member of the school staff, who had been absent on sick leave, had returned to duty. The jubilee of the Nelson Girls’ College will be held in December, 1932. An effort is being made to find the addresses of all old girls, and invite them to Nelson for the week’s festivities. As the college boarding establishment has been in existence since the foundation of the school, and as the pupils have come from various parts of New Zealand during that time, it is realised that there must now be some thousands of old girls scattered throughout the Dominion.

There was a very pleasant gathering at the Foresters’ Hall on Friday, August 8, when Mrs E. Dawick, Moerangi Street, entertained some ninety guests to celebrate the 21st birthday of her daughter, Miss Muriel Dawick. The hall was decorated with green and orange streamers and brightly coloured balloons and in the supper room the same colour scheme prevailed. Beautiful spring flowers and fern also adorned the supper table, the central feature of which was the fine birthday cake ornamented with 21 candles. At supper time the usual congratulations were offered and Miss Dawick was called upon to perform the traditional ceremony of lighting the candles and accepting the golden key. A very happy evening was spent with dancing and games and a competition, which was won by Miss Hands and partner. Mrs Mary Aim Wilkinson, wife of Mr George Winkinson, died at her home, Ponsonby Terrace, on August 7, and 72 years. Slio was born, at Wigan, Lancashire, and came to Now Zealand with her father in 1883 to join her brother, Mr W. B. Leyland. The voyage out in the ltangitiki was an eventful one. When three days out from New Plymouth two men were picked up wiio had been clinging to the deckhouse of the wrecked Kenmore Castle for two days and two nights. Six other men had been washed off and drowned. Five days later the wreck of the Mary Agatha was sighted and the crew was rescued at considerable risk by the Rangitiki. Still later a passing ship borrowed the doctor of the Rangitiki to amputate the arm of a passenger who had met with an accident.

The death occurred op. August 7 at Epsom, of Mrs Mary. S. Adams, who belonged to an old South Taranaki family. She was tho eldest daughter of tho late Major H. F. Turner, of the . 65th Regiment, who, after the Maori War, settled at Patea and was appointed the first resident magistrate there. Major Turner afterwards took up land on tho Wlienuakura block, where his family lived for many years. At that time many retired military officers resided at Patea. Miss Turner was married in 1878 to Mr H.'E. P. Adams. He belonged to an old Nelson family, and was the first resident solicitor at Patea. Mrs Adams passessed a charming personality and made many friends. After the death of her husband in 1914 Mrs Adams lived at Devonport and later removed to Epsom.

(By “GERMAINE.”)