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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVI, Issue 93, 19 March 1936, Page 9

Mrs W. G. Black, of Palmerston North, is visiting Wellington.

Misses Vera Judd and Edith Ralph, who have been on holiday in Napier and Palmerston North for six weeks, have returned to Masterton. Miss Sybil M. Davies has received notice of her transfer to Palmerston North on promotion from the Wanganui telephone exchange staff. In view of her lengthy association with it, the Marton Golf Club has elected Mrs G. Bevan, of Ivakariki, who was lady golf champion of New Zealand in 1911, a life member. The resignation of the matron, Miss E. Myles, after 24 years’ service, was accepted with regret at the meeting of the Wanganui Hospital Board yesterday. Mrs R. Kelso, of Trafalgar Street, Levin, has had as her guest Mrs E. Maslen. Wellington district secretary of the W.E.A. Mrs Maslen left yesterday for Oroua Downs, en route for Wanganui and Taranaki. She will return to Wellington on March 25, to attend the Dominion' conference of the association, and will later visit Hawke’s Bay and the Wairarapa.

At the annual meeting of the All Saints’ branch of the Mothers’ Union, yesterday. Rev. Canon G. Y. 'Woodward spoke in eulogistic terms of the services of the secretary (Mrs N. J. Metca’fe) during the past year. Mrs Metcalfe was one who understood her job, said Canon Woodward, and she had the love of the Mothers’ Union at heart. The branch owed to her a debt of gratitude. Canon Woodward’s remarks were endorsed by acclamation. After long service in the teaching profession, Miss Alithea M. Batlm.m, principal of the W’ellington East Girls’ College, will retire on superannuation at the end of August. Miss Batham was born at Napier, and educated at the Christchurch Girls’ High School and Canterbury College. She was assistant a.t- the Wellington Girls’ College for 22 years, and first assistant from 1911 to 1924, when she was appointed principal of the Wellington East Girls’ College, which was opened in September. 1925. Mr and Mrs T. Mason Chambers, of., “Tauroa,” Havelock North, were the recipients of the warmest congratulations, recently, when they celebrated their golden weddifig. The life-work of Mr and Mrs Chambers is represented by many lasting memorials in Hawke’s Bay. As pioneers they have made a large contribution to the de-velopment-of the province. Mr Chambers is the son of the late Mr John Chambers, one of the very early pioneers in New Zealand who in the early ’fifties, made a clearing in the most fern-covered area and built for his family a home at Te Mata. It was there that the famous Te Mata flocks, the progenitors of which were brought by Air Chambers’s father from New South Wales, were raised.