WOMEN’S WORLD.

Manawatu Standard, Volume L, Issue 220, 13 August 1930, Page 11

WOMEN’S WORLD.

Dr. and Mrs Bransgrove have returned from a visit to i\ T ew Plymouth. Miss P. Abraham is at present staying with her sister, Mrs It. Aslnvortli, Te Kuiti. Mr and Mrs M. D. Loftus, who have been the guests of Mr and Mrs Howard Paul, Hataitai, Wellington, have returned to Palmerston North. Mr and Mrs F. D. Strombom, of Marton, are the guests of the Misses Warren, Fitzherbert Avenue, Palmerston North. I Miss Dewhurst, of the Central School teaching staff, has tendered her resignation to take np a position in Hawke’s Bay. Mr and Mrs A. O. Oxenham, ofFitzherbert Avenue, Palmerston North, have returned from a visit to Wellington. Mr and Mrs W. H. Gaisford and Miss Gladys Gaisford, of Oringi, Dannevirke, are visitors to Christchurch. Miss M. Cochrane and Mr S. M. Cochrane, of Palmerston North, are visiting Christchurch. Miss Jean Speedy, of Takapau, has returned from a holiday in Palmerston North, where she was the guest of her sister, Mrs Eric Alabin, and Mrs H. Akers. Miss Bessie Lees, of the Wellington Hospital, is at present staying with her mother, Mrs T. R. Lees, of Russell Street. Miss M. Warren, of Palmerston North, who is visiting the Old Country, has been travelling in tlio Highlands. Her niece, Miss K. Strombom, was at the time visiting Margate. Mrs G. H. Lusk and Miss S. Macdonald, of Palmerston North, whohave been the guests of Mrs David Latimer, of Alt. Eden, Auckland, have returned home. The engagement has been announced of Ella N., eldest daughter of Mr and Mrs J. H. Gilchrist, “Ngatiraukawa,” Palmerston North, to William J., eldest son of Mr and Mrs W. Ferguson, “Kelso,” Hunterville.

At last evening’s meeting of the Terrace End School Committee, it was resolved that a letter of thanks be forwarded to Miss Berndtson, who recently accepted a position at Russell Street, thanking her for the splendid manner in which she had entered into the school activities.

Nurse Venie A. Dawes, at present taking her maternity course at the Franklin Memorial Hospital at Waiuku, after going through her nursing course at the Auckland Hospital, has achieved the honour of passing highest in the recent State nursing examination for the whole of New Zealand. Prior to taking up nursing, Miss Dawes took her 13. Sc. degree. It is understood when she completes her course at Waiuku it is her intention to go abroad, as a missionary (says an oxchange). Miss Dawes is a Devonport girl.

(By “GERMAINE.”)

Advice was received by the Terrace End School Committee last evening that- Miss Mary E. Lumsden, of the imnnevirke North School, had been appointed to succeed Miss Berndtson. “We should congratulate ourselves on the appointment,” said the chairman, Mr W. B. Cameron, in formally moving that the committee accept the appointment. The secretary of the Central School, Mr W. 11. Brown, reported to the meeting of that committee last evening that ono of the pupils of the school, Edith Lorraine Redward, had passed away and that he and the headmaster, Mr E. Bary, had attended the funeral yesterday. It was resolved that a "letter of sympathy be sent to the parents, Mr and Mrs Redward, of Edgeware Road, the motion being carried in the usual manner. The International Council of Women held its eighth quinquennial conference in Vienna from May 26 to June 8. The Rural Women’s Organisations met in conference at the same time, and many women came from the ends of the earth to keep their tryst there. About 1200 women attended. The Marchioness of Aberdeen and Tenrair, the president, took the chair for the eighth time. Work and play were intermingled during the fourteen days. Great pleasure is felt by the Girl Guides of Great Britain in the proposed establishment of a “Girl Guide House” in London, which is the result of hard work and good organisation among the Guides and: Guiders. The house is to be a most imposing structure, six storeys in height, with the main frontage in Buckingham Palace Road. It has, so far, been built with money raised by the Guides to the extent of £34,000, and the finished budding will cost double that sum. The foundation-stone was laid by Princess Mary recently. The Chief Scout and Chief Guide were there, and the Guider who came from the farthest Dominion, Mrs W. R. Wilson, of New Zealand, was also present. Dame Rachel Crowdy, who is attending the Pan-Pacific Women’s Coniercnce, on behalf of the League of Nations, although still quito a young woman, has had an extraordinarily eventful career. In her early ’twenties she spent a year in Guy’s Hospital, the knowledge of nursing gained during this period proving invaluable later on the outbreak of war. She next studied dispensing, and worked for the National Health Society as a lecturer and demonstrator. On the outbreak of war she crossed to Boulogne with the first batch of trained V.A.D.’s, and was put in charge as principal commander of thousands of V.A.D.’s in France and Belgium. For this highly responsible work she received many decorations, and w r as made a Dame of the British Empire. Her appointment as a member of the health section of the Secretariat of the League of Nations followed immediately after the war, and she was later put in charge of the social section, and was tho only woman to hold such a position.