WOMEN’S WORLD

Manawatu Standard, Volume LIX, Issue 160, 8 June 1939, Page 13

WOMEN’S WORLD

T Mrs J. A. Gosling is a Palmerston North visitor to Wellington. Mrs M. Cliutliekl, of Palmerston j North, is at present in Wellington. Miss Jrene Wylie is a Wellington visitor to Palmerston North. | Miss Joyce Holland, of Palmerston Nortn, is visiting Auckland where she is the guest of Mrs P. J. Sawyer.’ Later she will he the guest of Miss JOnicl Coleman, of .Dargaville. At the monthly meeting, last evening, ol the Holton him School Commit-i tee a motion of sympathy was passed j with Mrs N. C. 'laylor, who has been a relieving teacher on the school’s staff lor the past twelve months, in her illness, it being decided to send her a letter expressing good wishes. ] j Mr H . iSeott (Inspector of. Police, j ■ Palmerston North District) is on a 1 brief holiday in Great Britain, acconi- < panied by his wile and his daughter, 11 M iss E. \Y. Scott, states a London coi- < respondent. After spending «. few j I weeks in London, the travellers will go ! • to the north of Scotland, via Edm-U burgh, Glasgow and Aberdeen, stay-, f ing with friends in each of these cities, j j Mr Scott's relatives live in the Shot-.* lands, and most ol his time will lie | - spent with them. The return journey tow New Zealand will be via Suez, leaving t about the end of 'September. 1 ' _Having arrived at Waipukurn.u from ' Napier in a bullock-dray 79 years ago 1 as a child ol eight. .Mrs J. Sharpm, 1 Waipukiirau's oitlest resident, cole- ' brated her eighty-seventh birthday on 7 Sunday. She is still active and enjoys j good health, and her memory and in-je tellect are particularly keen. Airs ( Sharpin’s memory of AA’aipukurau | goes hack to ihe time when the then , village was planned by Mr IT. B. Bus-! [ sell, and ail building plans had to 'lie f submitted to him for approval. Tt, s was Air Bussell's aim to keep tin l vill -1 age free from unsightly and badly- - 1 built houses, and his policy gained for Waipukurati a reputation as “the model village.” Air Bussell also stipu- (1 lated that there was to be only one ' of each class of business. (

(By “Nanette.”)