WOMEN’S WORLD

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 155, 2 June 1937, Page 12

WOMEN’S WORLD

(By “Nanette.”)

Mr and Mrs W. G. Stevens, of Awapuni, have left on a motor trip to , Auckland. 7 Mr arid Mrs Jolm Knowles and their daughter are visiting Mrs Watson at Wellington. " Miss Marjorie Bowling has return- ‘ ed to Palmerston North after a liolii day spent in Hawke’s Bay visiting l friends and relatives prior to her de- ;' parture for London next week. ; Miss C. H. Mac Gibbon, of the staff • of the School of Home Science, University of Otago, and formerly a member of the sttaff of the Palmerston North Technical School, is visiting Palmerston North, and yesterday she addressed students of the Technical

School on her travels abroad. “1 know that there are many more women in the sheds than ever before; I have met them in the sheds throughout the country,” said Mr Luke, organiser of the Farmers’ Union, at a meeting of the Te Kuiti branch. Mr Luke was asking that women he

urged to attend a meeting which the union will shortly call to explain the principles of the' compensated price for dairy produce, for the women on whom the burden fell should be even more interested than ever. A little girl of twelve in a. short pink frock, and with an Alice in Wonderland bow in her hair, astonished a Queen’s Hall audience in London by giving a first-class performance of the Brahms violin, concerto. Most child prodigies play very well for their age, butjlda Haendel, a Pole who started fiddling at the age of three and ahalf, played so well that, closing one’s eyes, one was never for a moment conscious that one was not listening to an adult artist, says a London report.