WOMEN’S WORLD

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 71, 23 February 1937, Page 13

WOMEN’S WORLD

Mr and Mrs N. D. Zotov returned to Palmerston North on Monday from Marlborough Sounds, where their honeymoon was spent. Mrs A. J. Dixon, ■ of Waipukurau, visited Palmerston North during the week-end.

Miss A. E. Jerome Spencer, 0.8. E., of Rissington, Hawke’s Bay, who was a visitor to Palmerston North yesterday, left on her return to-day. After visiting Wellington, Mr and Mrs D. Millar and their daughter, Miss Marjorie Millar, have returned to Whakarongo. Miss P. Sandilands, who has been spending a fortnight’s holiday with Mrs Patterson, Rongopai Street, has returned to her homo “Midcalder,” Eeilding. Miss Sheila Woodhouse, of Coromandel, who has been paying a short visit to her sister, Mrs Neil Hume, of Palmerston North, has left for Dunedin, where she has been appointed French and Latin mistress a.t Arcberfield Girls’ School.

Miss A. Moriarty, of the Pahiatua Hospital staff, who has been spending a three weeks’ vacation at Palmerston North, Foxton, and Napier, has returned to Pahiatua and resumed her duties.

A motion of sympathy with Mrs R. A. Fuller, who is ill in hospital, was passed by the Palmerston North Townswomen’s Guild, yesterday. Reference was also made by the president (Mrs A. E. Mansford) to the death of Mrs R. Hooker, a valued member, and to the loss sustained by Mrs Iv. Hansen in the death of her infant daughter. Girl Guides from all parts of the Dominion are to arrange for the circulation throughout New Zealand of a message of loyalty to be despatched to Their Majesties, King George VI and Queen Elizabeth, in time for the Coronation in May. A well-known Maori chieftaintess of the Ngata-Ivuhuungu tribe, Mrs Raukura Tamahau, of Kilbirnie, Wellington, celebrated her 87th birthday yesterday. She was born in Hinemaka Pa, Gladstone, Wairarapa, and married the great chief of the Ngata-lvuruungu tribe, Tamahau Mahupuku, who. died in 1903. Raukura is well known as “Granny” among her people, and worked in the interests of Maori soldiers during the Great War. She retains all her faculties, reads without the aid of glasses, and still takes part in the activities of her people.

(Bv “Nanette.”)