WOMEN’S WORLD

Manawatu Standard, Volume LV, Issue 255, 25 September 1935, Page 13

WOMEN’S WORLD

Mr and Mrs J. Rowan, of Dlilson’s Line, have returned from a visit to Piopio, where they were the guests of Mr D. Coxon. Rev. P. Wiltshire and Mrs Wiltshire, of Pongaroa, are the guests of Miss K. Owtram, Ranfurly Street. The distinction of playing under the direction of her grandfather in tlio orchestra for the Palmerston North Amateur Operatic alid Dramatic Society’s procf action of the musical comedy “Sally” has befallen Miss Joan Paton, the talented young Palmerston North ’cellist. She is a grand-daughter of Mr A. J. Graham, the conductor. “All New Zealand girls want to get married, but they camouflage their feelings because they cannot get the men. Indian girls are frank about the fact that their aspiration is marriage, stated Miss Florence Saker, Calcutta, in the course of an address on India to Rotarians at Invercargill.

Although appreciative of the benefits derived from the conference, the Auckland delegates who attended the recent Dominion Conference of the National Council of Women were critical as regards the amount of business achieved. It w r as felt that too much time was spent over details whereas more important matters were put through hastily.

ISLAND HOME. QUEEN’S KINSWOMAN. TO LIVE ON BARRIER REEF. Mrs Hugo Brassey, who before her recent marriage wae tire Baroness Christa von Bodenhausen of Newbeuerm Castle, near Munich, Germany, arrived in Sydney, last week, by the Monterey with her husband, who has bought Dunk Island in the Grteat Barrier Reef, and lias ideas for turning it into an attractive tourist resort. Mrs . Brassey’s marriage, which took place at a registry office in London three weeks otter she had met her husband, caused great interest in London, for she is very well-known there and on the'Continent, being a kinswoman of Queen Mary and related to the Duchess of Teck. Before her marriage, Mrs Brassey divided her time between London, the south of France, and her home at Newbeuerin, which is very big, and which she describes as being many hundreds of years old. Mr Brassey, who has been in Aus-

trali,a before, is a nephew of Lady Hore-Ruthven and a godson of Sir Alexander Hore-Ruthven. Mrs Brassey is looking forward with the greatest pleasure to her life on Dunk Island, for it had always been her great desire, she said, to live on some little island in the Pacific. Dunk Island, which is situated two and a half miles off the coast of North Queensland, was first brought into notice by the late E. J. Banfield, who, for many years, made it his home. His well-known books, “Confessions of a Beachcomber” and “Leaves from Dunk Island” were written there. Tire little island is six miles long and two miles wide, and it offers sports typical of this section of the Great Barrier Reef —big game fishing, crocodile hunting, swimming, boating, and turtle riding. Instead of building one large accommodation house, Mr and Mrs Brassey intend to follow the Mexican plan and erect for tourists a dozen wooden bungalows and a restaurant, for which they have already engaged the services of a French chef.