WOMEN'S WORLD

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 197, 21 July 1937, Page 13

WOMEN'S WORLD

Mrs TV. A. Reid, of Hawera, who is taking up lier residence in Wellington, is visiting her mother, Mrs TV. Hearsey, Kingswood Street, Palmerston North. Airs D. Millar, of AVhakarongo, and her daughter, Miss M. Millar, are visiting Wellington. Miss Bernice Beale, of Oliau, is Miss Millar's guest at Lyall Bay. Airs A. G. Richards, of Palmerston North, while touring recently in Devonshire, was able to visit Mr and Airs F. T. Vasev, formerly well-known residents of Palmerston North, who now reside in Barnstaple, wrote a London correspondent on June 23. T\ hen in New Zealand both Air and Mrs Vasey were for many years greatly interested in the Scout and Guide movement.

(By “Nanette.”)

The well-known singer, Aliss Essie Ackland, arrived in Wellington yesterday on a visit to New Zealand. Aliss Ackland is an Australian by birth, and started her professional career when she toured the Dominion in 1923, with Gene Gerardy, the Belgian 'cellist. Since then she has gone far, having spent twelve years in London, doing gramophone recording, broadcasting and concert work. She comes to New Zealand after completing a five months' concert tour under the Australian Broadcasting 'Commission. While she lay in hospital recovering from an operation, Aliss Alargarel Stanley-Wrench, a 20-year-old student of Somerville College, Oxford, wrote a poem which has won for her the Newdigate Prize. This is the fifth time that a woman has-won the prize, and famous winners in the past included Ruskin, Alatthew Arnold, Oscar TVilde, Julian Huxley, and Lawrence Binyon. At the ceremony of the Commemoration of Founders of the University, Miss Stanley-Wrench will recite part of her poem before the assembly.

One of the most interesting events in the world voyage of the barquentine Cap Pilar occurred on Friday when a baby girl was born to Airs Jane Seligman, wife of the owner and captain, Mr Adrian Seligman, says an Auckland exchange. Mrs Seligman journeyed aboard the vessel from England to South Africa, proceeding thence to Australia by motor ship and then resuming her passage to New Zealand from Sydney. Mrs Seligman, who characterised her experience aboard the Cap Pilar as “lovely,” may join the barquetine at Auckland with the small daughter for the continuation of the cruise. Reports state that the mother and babv are both • very well.