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Manawatu Standard, Volume LIII, Issue 255, 25 September 1933, Page 9

Miss Dorothy Bannister, of Hastings, was a week-end visitor to Palmerston North.

Miss A. Draper, of Auckland, is visiting her sister, Mrs G. AV. Booth, Tyndall Street, Pahiatua.

Mrs 0. Nelson, who has been visitbig Mrs F.'H. Cooke, of Fitzherbert Avenue, has returned to Pahiatua. Mr and Mrs E. G. Bennett, who have been staying at Manawatu Heads, have returned to Palmerston North. Miss J. Harris, of Wellington, was a recent visitor to Palmerston North, when she was the guest of Mrs H. A. Hart, of Fitzherbert Avenue.

The engagement is announced of Beryl, only child of Mr and Mrs A. G. Jefferies, Taonui, Feilding, to Bryson, second son of Mr and Mrs C. A. Masters, Mt. Biggs, Feilding. An interesting Royal engagement in the near future will be a visit of the Duke and Duchess of York in the autumn to Skye to open a boys’ hostel. It will be tire first Royal visit to that remote island lor several centuries. The hostel has been built by the Carnegie Trust to house the boys from neighbouring islands who attend the Portree School and who, in the winter months, cannot get home. “The changing face of London” is a hackneyed phrase, but, all the same, a true one. Every few months sees the arrival of some new architectural , conception. Work lias begun on Brook House in Park Lane. This is to be a high block of Hats, but on top of it will rest a complete and self-contained house of two storeys. Lord and Lady Louis Mountbatten are to he the residents in this skied and unusual home.

A Blenheim Press Association message announces the death on Sunday morning of Mrs Jane Evans O’Dwyer, aged 86 years, daughter of the late Mr T. J. Thompson, one of the survivors concerned in the events which led to the Wairau massacre in June, 1843, and widow of the late Mr J allies O’Dwy.er, of Spring Creek, a farmer, who arrived at Nelson with his people in 1842. He died in 1904, and Mrs O’Dwyer had resided since in Blenheim, where she was very highly respected. She was a perfect mine of information about old Marlborough and Nelson history, and possessed many interesting relics of the pioneering days. Surviving relatives are: Messrs H. P. Thompson, Moutere, Nelson, T. Iv., E. S., and F. M. Thompson, Auckland, V. Thompson, Kaitaia, and Mrs L. H. Slieat, Blenheim. Church leaders with few exceptions approve the present-day holiday undress fashions, and the Bishop of St. Edmundbury and Ipswich (Dr. Wliittingham) has openly described them as ‘‘rational, healthy, and good to look upon.” Women, he says, according to a London correspondent, go almost as much without hats as with them, and there is not the slightest reason why they should not go to church without them if they please. “St. Paul never dreamt of saying that women were not to appear in church without a hat. He had no knowledge of hats. What he said was that they were not to appear in Christian assemblies unveiled. _ But that is a very different matter. Women in England do not come to church veiled.” The Bishop of Exeter’s opinion is that clergy everywhere do not care how people dress for church so long as they come decently clad. He deplored the want of charity on the part of people whose command of earthly wealth enables them to be appropriately arrayed for every occasion.