WOMEN’S WORLD

Manawatu Standard, Volume LV, Issue 246, 14 September 1935, Page 13

WOMEN’S WORLD

Mrs AV. M. Webster, Heretaunga, has left Wellington to take up her residence in Palmerston North. Miss Jean S. MacLeod, of Palmerston North, is spending a holiday With her parents, Mr and Mrs N. A. MacLeod, “Glendnyneoch,” liinakura. Miss Dorothy Morgan, of Carnarvon, is spending the week-end with Mr and Mrs E. Bary, Argyle Avenue.

Mrs E. Lodge, of Christchurch, is the guest of Mr and Mrs W. Millar, Waiata, Colyton. Mrs C. Watson and children, who accompanied Mrs Lodge, have returned to. their home at Christchurch.

During her visit abroad, Mrs E. Bain, matron of the All Saints’ Children’s Home, Palmerston North, had the pleasure of inspecting Dr. Barnardo’s Home at Barking, near London, when she was greatly impressed by its equipment, particularly the modern hospital which has been erected bv contributions from the Anzacs. After a tour of the North Auckland district, Mrs C. Iv. Wilson, Dominion president of the Women’s Division of the Farmers’ Union, has left for Hamilton. There she will spent a few days and then go to 'Wellington to attend to business connected witlr the Women’s Division. Miss Hazel Johnson, of Massey College, successor to Miss Violet Macmillan as lecturer under the Sarah Ann Rhodes Scholarship, has returned to Palmerston North after a tour of the Nelson and Marlborough districts. 'While in Durham, England, during her recent tour abroad, Mrs E. Bain, matron of the All Saints’ Children’s Home, was one of 600 former students of St. Hild’s College, Durham, who attended a re-union service in Durham Cathedral. Included in the large company were three old students who had come from overseas, one being from Canada, another from South Africa, and Mrs Bain from this Dominion.

Though she had been in indifferent health for some weeks the recent death of Miss Jean McAllister, of Levin, came as a shock to all who knew her. Bom in Dairy, Ayrshire, Scotland, she came to New Zealand in 1911 consequent on the demise of her brother’s wife. After residing in Hunterville for four years, the late Miss McAllister went to Levin in 1915 and had lived there ever since. She was a devoted worker in the interests of her church and by a kind and cheerful disposition endeared herself to a wide circle of friends. She is survived by a niece, Miss M. McAllister and a nephew, Mr J. McAllister. Hon. Unity Mitford, daughter of Lord and Lady Bedesdale, who was one of the guests at the Nazi Congress at Nuremberg, this week, is 21 years of age. In a recent open letter to Dr Julius Streicher’s newspaper, Der Stuenner, she announced herself as a ‘Jew-hater,” adding: “I only wish we had such a newspaper in England. The English have no notion of the Jewish danger.” In a postcript to the letter Miss Mitford said: “Please publish my whole name. I want everyone to know that I am a Jew-hater.” GOLF. BOGEY COMPETITION. In the B grade section of the bogey competition played by the members of the Manawatu Ladies’ Golf Club on

Thursday, Miss N. Nash (21) headed the returns with a score of 1 up. Then camo Mrs H. Wingate (21), 1 down; Miss B. McEarlane (16), 2 down; Mrs H. E. Edmunds (16) and Mrs K. Innes (23), 3 down.

ALL SAINTS’ HOME

MATRON RETURNS FROM ABROAD.

Mrs E. Bain, matron of the All Saints’ Children’s Home in Pascal Street, has resumed duty after having enjoyed six months’ leave of absence, during which she paid a visit to England, and she has re-entered upon her task of building character in her young charges. The opportunity was taken this week at a meeting of the Children’s Homp Committee to extend a welcome to Mrs Bain, Rev. Canon G. Y. AVoodward exnressing the committee’s pleasure at the return of their matron, who had become suclx an integral part of the home’s activities. Mrs Bain voiced her appreciation of tho expressions, adding that she was pleased to be back in New Zealand. Mrs Bain spent a busy, but delightful period, in London during the Jubilee. celebrations, and also renewed associations with old friends in Durham, where she attended St. Hild’s College. She also had the pleasure while there of being present at the 1200th anniversary of St. Bede, which was celebrated in Durham Cathedral.

PERUAHAN PEAK

NAMED AFTER AVOMAN,

More than four miles above sea level, tho north summit of mighty Huascatan in tho Peruvian Andes bears the honoured name of Miss Annie Peek, bestowed upon it by the Lima Geographical Society in tribute to the famous woman mountaineer (says the Christian Science Monitor). The story of Miss Peek’s triumphs which began in her middle age and lasted well beyond threescore and ten, is a challenge to the indomitable spirit of woman. She was nearly 40 when she scaled the Matterhorn; at 57 she stood, upon the summit of Huascaran, hitherto unconquered, and achieved only after repeated failure and extreme hardship. At 81 she climbed Mt. Madison, in the AVhite Mountains, 5380 ft. above the ocean level.

Mingled with the ascents which brought her fame were scholarly contributions to the literature of geography, travel, and international understanding. She lectured in English on the basis of first-hand knowledge of South America and in Spanish and Portuguese she interpreted the life of the United States to her friends below the Isthmus and the Equator. Untrammelled by convention, she refused to remain satisfied with the “ladylike” diversions of the lawn and courtyard which were meekly accepted by her earlier sisters. Actively interested in the affairs of the world to the close of her long life, ardent enthusiast in the avocation which became her major concern, this first woman conqueror of super-Cordilleran heights was an influence for good will between nations and an inspiration to uncounted men and women of middle and elderly years.