WOMENS WORLD

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 200, 24 July 1937, Page 13

WOMENS WORLD

(By ('Nanette.")

Mrs E. Dymock, of Palmerston North, lias staying with her Miss E. J. McLeod, of Hinakura. Miss M. Hainsworth is a Wanganui visitor to Palmerston North, and is the guest of Mrs It. H. Billens, of College Street.

At the second garden party at Buckingham Palace, Mrs AV. A. Parkes, of New Zealand, was presented to Their Majesties, states a London cable.

Mention is made in the annual report of the Palmerston North branch of the Y.W.C.A. of the fact that in the course of tli» Mrs H. Sinclair, owing to her leaving Palmerston North, resigned from her position on the advisory board. The report states: “Mrs Sinclair has given ipany years of loyal service and we record our thanks to her.”

Mrs F. J. Hockly, of Palmerston North, is still enjoying her tours in England, wrote a London correspondent recently. She has lately been in Surrey and she came to London for the Royal garden party at Buckingham Palace as well as for the reception given to New Zealand visitors. Mrs Hockly is hoping to visit France before leaving for New Zealand by the Largs Bay at the end of July. “As each year goes by the fact that a hostel is needed for girls travelling and staying a few days en route or arriving to take up work and needing to stay somewhere inexpensively until they secure suitable board is brought home to the directors more and more forcibly,” states the annual report of the Palmerston North branch of the Y.W.C.A. “During the last year it has beconie increasingly difficult, with the shortage of houses, to find suitable homes where they will take casual guests at a reasonable, cost. This is a service which the Y.W.C.A. gives in every other centre of New Zealand, and the Palmerston North board of directors’, knowing the urgency, is very anxious to see this need 'fulfilled in this city.”