WOMEN'S WORLD

Manawatu Standard, Volume LIX, Issue 94, 21 March 1939, Page 11

WOMEN'S WORLD

Mrs N. Phillips is a Palmerston North visitor to Wellington. Mr and Mrs K. C. Clayton, of College Street, have returned from Sydney. Mrs C. Louisson, of North Street, lias returned from Wellington. Miss H. J. Daldy, who has been visiting Mrs W. If. Daldy, ol Albert Street, Palmerston North, returned to Auckland on Monday. Mrs John Duncan, who has been staying with her mother. Mrs P. K. Baldwin, of Ferguson Street, has returned to Wellington. Mr and Mrs G. P. Manic, of Palmerston North, arrived in London last month and will spend six months there, according to an overseas exchange. Mrs William Hill, formerly of Bunnythorpe, who resides with her daughter. Airs B. King, of Foxton, is an inmate of the Palmerston North Hospital. Her friends will wish her a. speedy recovery. At yesterday's meeting of the Palmerston North Hospital Board the resignation of Miss I. D. Bell from tin clerical staff was accepted with regret M iss Bell, who has been on the stall for the past 10 years, is shortly to lx l married, and it was decided to forward her an expression of good wishes. At the annual dinner of the New Zealand Soeietv in London, on February 6. Lord Bled’sloe mentioned that the Secretary of State for the Dominions (Sir Thomas Tnskip) is a brother-in-law of Lady Alice Forgusson, whose beneficent work in New Zealand, notably for the League of Mothers, lie said, was well known. Great interest is being taken in the Manawatu Croquet Association’s match's for the Silver Buttons, presented by the Dominion Council, which t.-i.ke place to-morrow, and there will lx 1 a number of visiting players from surrounding districts Thev inc'nde Alesda.mes Cobb and Southgate (Otaki). Brvant (Manakau). Nicholson (J>evin). Petrie and Dcwe (Feilding) and Schaw (Woodville). The death has occurred of Mrs Helen Fergusson Laurenson, widow of Mr George Laurenson, M.P. for Lyttelton for several years till he died in 1913. says a Press Association telegram from Christchurch. Mrs Laurenson was a daughter of Mr James Tait, Christ

church. She is survived by two sons and five daughters, Messrs G. L. Laurenson, Commissioner of Transport, and Dr. J. T. Laurenson, and Alissc-s F., J. and AL Laurenson, Christchurch, Mrs AV. A. Johnston, Lincoln, and Airs Guy Ring, Waikato. Airs J. 13. Penny, of Lower Hutt. celebrated her ninetieth birthday, on Sunday, when a party of relatives and intimate friends gathered at the home of her daughter, Mrs \V. J. H. Haase, of Hataitai. Airs Penny, who arrived in New Zealand in the sailing ship New Era, in 18.53, spent most of her married life in the AVairarap:# and has for the past 15 years made her home with her daughter, Airs Watson-Alunro, Lower Hutt. Airs Penny’s husband predeceased her 24 years ago.

(By “Nanette.”)