WOMENS WORLD

Manawatu Standard, Volume LV, Issue 304, 21 November 1935, Page 15

WOMENS WORLD

Mrs ,T. Neill, of Palmerston North, is visiting Wellington. Miss E. D. Gillies, of Palmerston North, is visiting Auckland. Miss Hazel Hocken, of “Grassmere,” Colyton, is visiting relatives at Hawera. Mrs and Miss Black, of Wellington, are the guests of Mr E. Hill, “Argylle Farm,” Colyton. Mrs E. Pask and Miss Phylis Weston, of Colyton,’ who are at present in hospital, are progressing favourably. Mrs E. C. Trehey, senr., of Palmerston North has taken up her residence in Now Plymouth. Mrs 11. Osborne, of Palmerston North, is the guest of Mr and Mrs A. K. Drew, “Brooldyne,” Sandon. Mrs G. A. Eliott, of Fitzherbert West, has as her guest her sister, Miss P. McLean Brown, of Essex, England. Miss F. Fowler, who has been on holiday in Dunedin, lias returned to duty in the massage department of the Palmerston North Hospital. Mrs Rutherford Waddell, of Dunedin, who holds the position of Dominion “Busy Beo” secretary, has boon attending the annual P.W.M.U. conference in Wellington. Before returning south Mrs Waddell will visit Palmerston North this week-end and during her stay she will be the guest of Mrs M. R. Macauley. of Church Street, and of Mr and Mrs R. L. C. Aitcliison, of Church Street. The friends of Mr and Mrs IT. A. Seifert, of Palmerston North, will regret to learn that their small daughter, Pamela,, was injured when she fell from her bicycle this week. She suffered severe concussion and was unconscious for an hour. , /

Visitors welcomed at the meeting of All Saints’ branch of tho Mothers’ Union yesterday were Mrs D. R. Mills, formerly of Waipukuran, and. now of Palmerston North, Mrs Barriball, of Christchurch, and Mrs McGavin, a former member who now resides in Auckland. Miss A. M. Moncrieff, of the Y.W.C.A., Pekin, China, who lias been visiting Y.W.C.A. branches in New Zealand, left on Tuesday for the United States, via the Panama Canal, en route to England. Miss E. M Nutsey, lady superintendent of the Auckland Hospital, who intends to visit England, lias been granted six months’ leave by the Auckland Hospital Board on full salary.

Miss Vida Sheddan, who left New Zealand a few months ago for Europe, has been studying adult education in Denmark, where a great deal is being done through women’s institutes in particular. Miss , Sheddan is at present senior English mistress at St. Helen’s School, Nortliwood.

Mrs Knox Gilmer, of Wellington, candidate for a Parliamentary seat, is entitled to the use the letters F.R.H.S. A lover of gardens, she is a member of the English Rhododendron Society and the English Rose Society. Coining nearer home, she is president of the Wellington branch of the Horticultural Society; she is on the council of the New Zealand Forestry League, a. member of the New Zealand Institute of Horticulture, the

New Zealand Bird Protection Society, and a member of the Beautifying Society.. “The great workers of the world have drawn their inspiration from women, and I believe that without women the flow of inspiration will run dry:”-—Mortimer Forrest speaking in “The Reluctant Lover,” by Stephen McKenna.

In tho pretty Dorset village of ijonghnin lives Britain’s busiest V™ 111 , s — s^6 carc s for more than 180 cats. She is the Countess of iiardwicke, who, single-handed, runs a cattery,” where champion Siamese are being produced. The Countess has won no fewer than 200 prizes at cat shows. She runs a little hospital for sick cats and takes in cat “boarders.” Famous people leave their cats in her care while l they are aivay cn holidays.