WOMEN'S WORLD

Manawatu Standard, Volume LIX, Issue 117, 18 April 1939, Page 11

WOMEN'S WORLD

Mrs E. Guy, of Eitzherbert Avenue, is visiting Wellington.

Mrs E. Glendinning, of Rangitane Street, left to-dav for Adelaide.

Airs Crigliton is a Palmerston North visitor to Wellington. Mrs L. A. Ferguson, of Rangitane Street, has returned from Auckland. Airs AT. Boyne, of Palmerston North, has returned from a visit to Airs N. Boyne, of Carterton.

Mr J. J. Boagey, of Pahiatua, is visiting Rotorua and is the guest of All's J. L. Boagey. Mr and Airs G. Pliilp, of Ryehurn, Central Otago, are spending their holidays with Mr and Airs W. Philp. of 164 Ruahine Street, Palmerston North.

Airs John Duncan, who spent Easter with her mother, Airs P. E. Baldwin, of Ferguson Street, has returned to her home at Heretaunga, AVellington. At yesterday’s meeting of the Willard Home Board a. vote of sympathy was accorded Airs AleConnon, of Wellington, a very old member of the hoard, who is indisposed. Her many friends will regret to learn that Mrs F. J. Nathan, of College Street, is at present in hospital. She is, however, progressing very well. At yesterday's meeting of the Willard Home Board, of which she is a member, Airs Nathan was accorded a vote of sympathy.

Aliss A. E. Tily has resigned from her position on the administrative staff of the Palmerston North Hospital Board, in view o! her approaching marriage. The board yesterday decided to forward her a letter thanking her for her services, extending its congratulations, and wishing her every happiness. Members of the Willard Home Board, at their meeting yesterday, stood in silence ns a mark of respect to the late Mrs G. J. Smith, of Christchurch (formerly Afrs A. A. Martin, of Palmerston North). The secretary reported that she had sent a letter of sympathy to Colonel Smith.

Mrs Edward liodder, of Adelaide Australia, is visiting her sister, Mrs J. Hodgens, of Victoria Avenue, for a month. Mr J. Hodgens, M.P., who has just returned from a visit to Australia, met Mrs Hoddcr for the first time when he was in the Commonwealth, and she accompanied him

A London cablegram reports the dcnth of Mrs D. C. Lamb, wile of the Salvation Army Commissioner. She was 75 years of age. Mrs Jjamb married Commissioner Lamb in 1888. He was then bead of the intelligence office of the Salvation Army, and for many years lie was in charge of the Army’s migration office, where his wife assisted him. She was a governor of Lock’s Hospital and a Justice of the Peace. Patients admitted to the Palmerston North maternity home during the past year numbered 280, the daily average occupied bed rate being 9.0, and there were 853 attendances at the ante-natal clinic. “These figures are much the same as for the previous year,” it was reported to the meeting of the Hospital Board yesterday. “The home has at times been very crowded and at other times unduly slack. Tin’s is unavoidable in a maternity home. The average occupied bed rate is high for the number of beds available ”

(By “Nanette.”)