WOMEN’S WORLD

Manawatu Standard, Volume LIV, Issue 119, 19 April 1934, Page 9

WOMEN’S WORLD

Mrs Bale, of Palmerston North, has returned from a visit to Auckland.

Mr and Mrs P. A. McHardy, who were in Palmerston North yesterday, have left for Hawke’s Bay.

Mr and Mrs W. D. Carson, of Kai Twi, have been staying with Mr and Mrs Carson, Carroll Street. Mrs Clarry, Hobson Street, Wellington, and Miss I. Bunny, Lower Hutt, are the guests of Mrs Arthur Russell, Palmerston North.

Mrs L. Spear, of Palmerston North, left Wellington last evening for the South Island, where she will be the guest of her sister, Mrs E. C. Hailes, Upper Takaka, Nelson.

The annual meeting of the council of the Wanganui Federation of Women’s Institutes carried a resolution yesterday urging the Government to establish an obstetrical hospital without further delay. The engagement is announced in an exchange of Nancy, daughter of Miami Mrs J. W. Stuckey, Itissmgton, Hawke’s Bay, and John Malcolm, son of the late Major S. Cooksley and Mrs Cooksley, Southampton, England.

Two Taranki pioneers, Mr and Mrs J W. Foreman, of Grover Street, New Plymouth, on Monday celebrated the 65th anniversary of their wedding, which took place in New Plymouth on April 16, 1869. Although only 23 at the time of his marriage, Mr Foreman then had several years of military service in the Maori wars to his record, having joined the militia at the age of 16 years, and in recognition of this he was granted a block of land in the military settlement at Tikorangi. The home of Mr and Mrs P. Petersen, Makino, was on Friday the venue of a party in honour of Miss Irene Bickers’s twenty-first birthday. The dining-room, which was prepared for games and dancing, was prettily decorated with asters, dahlias and autmn foliage. At a suitable hour all adjourned to the breakfast-room to partake of supper, a feature being the beautiful iced birthday cake, which was cut by tlie guest of honour. After supper many beautiful presents were displayed and admired. Miss Bickers is now visiting her sister in Marton. A well-known former Auckland resident, Mrs C. Alma Baker, died this week. She had not been in good health for a considerable time, but it was hoped she would have been able to leave with her husband, Mr C. Alma Baker, and their daughter, Mrs Gordon Pottinger, by the Aorangi on Thursday for Sydney. Mrs Baker became seriously ill that day, and death occurred in the evening. She was a daughter of the late Sir Frederick Whittaker, who w-as for many years Attorney-General for New Zealand, and Premier from 1862 to 1863, and again from 1883 to 1884. Mrs Baker was born in Auckland, but after her marriage spent much of her time away from New Zealand, her husband having large interests in the Federated Malay States.