WOMEN'S WORLD

Manawatu Standard, Volume LIX, Issue 69, 18 February 1939, Page 16

WOMEN'S WORLD

Mrs L. A. Scott, of Fitzherbert Avenue, is spending a holiday in Auckland, Mr and Mrs H. T. Guthrie are Palmerston North visitors to Christchurch. Mrs H. P. Ivay, of College Street, leaves next week on a short visit to Christchurch, where she will attend tlio wedding of her nephew, Mr Hugh Foster. The -Misses Olive and Beryl Cresswell, of Matamata and Papatoetoe, who have been the guests of Mr and Mrs J. Donaldson, Johnston Street, Foxton, have now returned home. Mrs W. F. Daldy, of Albert Street, , is spending a holiday in Auckland, where she is staying with her mother, Mrs H. Brooks.

Miss Lorna liodder, of Alan Street, is representing the Cuba Street Methodist Church at the annual conference of the Methodist Church of New Zealand in Christchurch. Mr and Mrs J. Walker and Miss Muriel Jones, of Monrad Street, have returned homo after visiting relatives and friends in Christchurch and the West Coast.

Mrs Knox Gilmer, of Wellington, patroness of the Dahlia Society of New Zealand, was a visitor to Palmerston North yesterday, when she performed the official opening ceremony at the mid-summer show of the Palmerston North Horticultural Society, which is heing held in conjunction with that of the Dahlia Society. Mrs Knox Gilmer returned to the Capital City last evening.

An interesting personality at the annual conference of the Methodist Church in New Zealand, now being held in Christchurch, is Sister Rita F. Snowden, a deaconess, who is the first woman to be licensed bv the Methodist Church of New Zealand and the law to officiate at weddings, funerals and communion services. Sister Snowden formerly b,a dchargo of a group of churches in the King Country, and later worked in the Waikato district. She has done seven years’ social service work in Auckland, and recently returned from a year’s tour of England, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, France, Italy and other countries. i

(By “Nanette.”)