WOMEN’S WORLD

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 275, 20 October 1937, Page 13

WOMEN’S WORLD

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Queen Mary on Tuesday opened an extension to the-Wcst London .Hospital which lias been named “Silver Jubilee at the express command of King George V, who was patron of the hospital for the 25 years of his reign.—Official Wireless.

Mrs E. M. Rodgers, of Palmerston North, who has been the guest of her daughter, Mrs A. Parkinson, Amberley, has returned home. Mr and Mrs L. T. Adams, of Pa tea, have returned home after visiting W anganui and Palmerston North.

Mr and Mrs R. Tanner, of Karere, returned home this morning from a holiday visit to Canada, and the United States.

Mr and Mrs C. G. Dernier, of Cheltenham, with their two sons, Messrs A. C. and C- M. Dermer, returned home yesterday from a seven months’ trip abroad during which t.iey visited England, France, Switzerland, Germany, Holland and Denmark.

Mrs H. Palmer, of Palmerston North, is an inmate of a private hospital where she underwent a slight operation yesterday, which her friends will be glad to learn was successful. Mrs Kemp, widow of the late Rev. J. W. Kemp, Auckland, has been elected Dominion president of the New Zealand Baptist Women’s Missionary Union. The gold honours badge was presented to Mrs.H. Paterson (Pahiatua), a former Dominion president of the Women’s Institute, at half-yearly council meeting of the Bush-Wairarapa Federation at Mangamutu, yesterday. In asking Mrs Paterson to accept the badge, Mm J. D. C. Crewe (federation president) spoke in glowing terms of Mrs Paterson’s work during the eleven years she had been associated with the movement. They had been proud when Mrs Paterson had become Dominion president, and when 6ho had been chosen to attend the triennial conference of the Associated Countrywomen of the World in Washington, she said. After the founder, Miss Jerome Spencer, there was no one more deserving of the honours badge than Mrs Paterson, concluded Mrs Crewe. A bouquet was presented to Mrs Paterson by Mrs MacDonald, who expressed pride that the recipient had been the first member of the Mangamutu Women’s Institute and their delegate when Dominion president. A floral tribute was also conveyed to Mrs Paterson by the president-.

(By “Nanette.”)