WOMEN’S WORLD
Mrs C. Knight, ’of Palmerston North, is a visitor to Eltham and is staying with her daughter, Mrs M. Walker. Mrs Spring, of Palmerston North, is visiting New Plymouth as the guest of her sister, Mrs F. N. Whitcombe. The friends of Mrs E. A. Shaw, of Newbury, will be pleased to learn that she is now out of hospital in Christchurch and is convalescing tlieie with friends.
The friends of Mrs J Cameron, Tiro Tiro Poad, Levin, will regret to learn that she is seriously ill.
Mrs F. W. W. Dawson, of New Plymouth, spent the week-end in Palmerston North.
Miss Betty Birnie has returned to Hamilton after spending the term holidays with her parents, Mr and Mrs W” R. Birnie, of Victoria Avenue. Miss Valerie Gunter, who lias been spending the term holidays in Palmerston North, lias returned to Hawke’s Bay. Mr and Mrs J. G. Ward and family have taken up their residence at “Waimea,” in the Kiwitea district, which property they acquired some time ago, after having disposed of their “le Moana” property in Marlborough. Misses K. Southall and D. Cheshire, of Birmingham, England, arrived in Palmerston North on Sunday, and were the guests of Mr and Mrs A. Penketli, of Keeling Street. They left "yesterday for Napier, and after visiting places of interest will leave Auckland for America, which they will cross by car, and then they will join the liner Queen Mary for England. The marriage will take place early in October at St. Stephen’s Church, Macquarie Street, Sydney, of Miss Cathleen Somerville, elder daughter of Mr and Mrs H. E. Somerville, of Palmerston North, to Mr N. MacKenzie Forbes, of Sydney, only son of Mr and Mrs N. MacKenzie Forbes, of Wanganui, and formerly of Palmerston North. Miss Emily 0. Lake, of Palmerston North, who is on leave from the Public Trust Department, has left London for a Continental tour which is to include Germany, Austria, and Belgium (says a London correspondent). Miss Daniell, of Palmerston North, left for New Zealand by the Ormonde. She has recently been touring in the Lake District, Northern Eng'and, and Scotland with friends from Christchurch and Masterton.
More than 50 modern “Evangelines ’ recently sped northward to visit Nova Scotia. from which their forefathers were deported by the British many yea s ago. The Arcadian girls were dressed in organdy caps, blue skirts and tightly laced bodices, a costume like that worn by their most illustuous ancestor, Evangeline, the heroine of Longiellow’s famous poem.
(By “Nanette.”)
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVI, Issue 246, 15 September 1936, Page 11
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420WOMEN’S WORLD Manawatu Standard, Volume LVI, Issue 246, 15 September 1936, Page 11
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