WOMEN'S WORLD

Manawatu Standard, Volume LV, Issue 242, 10 September 1935, Page 9

WOMEN'S WORLD

Making her first appearance in Guide uniform in New Zealand, Her Excellency, Lady Galway, on Sunday honoured the guiders attending the officers’ training camp at St. Matthew’s Collegiate School, Mnsterton. Lady Galway took a very keen interest in guide work in England, and was Divisional Commissioner in the County of Nottingham. Sho now holds the position of president of the New Zealand Girl Guides’ Association. Mrs E. 0. Lewis and Mrs C. Ford have returned to Palmerston North after spending a week in Hastings for the competitions. Mrs Harold Abraham, of Dunedin and her daughters are visiting Wellington. en route to Wanganui, where Miss Patricia Abraham’s wedding will take place. i Mrs AV. Capper, of Levin, who received injuries in a motor mishap at Napier some time ago, has recovered sufficiently to be able to return to her homo. The friends of Mrs A. AV. Loot, of Featherston Street, will regret to learn that sho is at present an inmate of a private hospital. Mrs J. 13. Pascal, of Te Awe Awe Street, is visiting Havelock North, where she is the guest of Mrs McLennan.

Airs J. Hodgens, of Victoria Avenue, her friends will regret to learn, fractured a leg in a fall which she suffered yesterday, and is now in hospital.

Miss Fay Fowler, of the Palmerston North Hospital staff, is spending her annual holiday with her parents. Air and Airs H. AI. Fowler, “Silveracros,” Dunedin. Aliss Elizabeth Blake, founder of the British Drama League in New Zealand, returned to the Dominion a few days ago after a tour of England and America for the purpose of studying the latest developments in the trend of dramatic work.

Much sympathy will be extended to Aliss B. j. AVatkins, a.member of the staff of the College Street School, who has recently suffered a double bereavement in the passing of her father and her mother at Christchurch. At last evening’s meeting of the School Committee a motion of sympathy with Aliss AVatkins in the death of her mother was passed. At the previous meeting a similar motion consequent upon the death of Aliss AA’atkins’s father was before the meeting.

The death of Airs Anna Juliana Nicoll, wife of Air H. E. Nicoll, occurred at “Penscroft,” Ashburton, on Friday evening. Airs Nicoll. who had l>een in indifferent health for-the last few months, was a well-known resident of the Ashburton County for about 40 years. She was the second daughter of Air Julian Case and Lydia, Countess Atercedo, and was born at Lisbon, Portugal. The early part of lier life was spent in Portugal and China, where her father was American Consul at Hong Kong. Airs Nic-01l was educated at Essex, England, and came to New Zealand in 1889 to be married.

Following a short illness, the death occurred at AA’ellington last week of Aliss Kathleen Wood, a member of a well known and highly respected AVanganui family. She was educated at the Sacred Heart Convent, and was one of AA’anganui’s best-known singers, being hoard on many occasions in concert work and in leading roles in productions staged by the AVanganui Amateur Musical and Dramatic Society. She scored a triumph in the “Geisha,” the original producton in AVanganui, and other productions in which she took the title roles were “Aliss Hook of Holland” and “Florodora.” Aliss AVood was soloist to a number of musical organisations, and up to the tune she left AVanganui for AA’ellington was a member of St. Alary’s Catholic Church choir. She is survived by her sisters, Miss S. AVood and Miss A. AVood, and Airs G. E. Reid, Gonville, and Mr E.'Wood, AA’ellington.

Tho death of Mrs R. E. Mamisell occurred on Sunday at her residence, “A<lare,” Masterton, following a brief illness. Mrs Maunsel! was a daughter of the late Mr and Mrs B. P. Perry, and a granddaughter of the late Joseph Masters, one of the founders of Masterton and Greytown. Mrs Maunsell was president of the Masterton Ladies’ Auxiliary of the Navy League continuously since 1931, hut on account of illness was relieved from active duty last year. She was re-elected president this year, however, and until recently was "able to attend meetings. She was also a member of the Masterton Sketch Club and of the Wellington Art Society, as well as a number of other local organisations. She is survived bv her husband and two sons, Messrs Edward and Frederick Maunsell.