WOMEN'S WORLD

Manawatu Standard, Volume LIX, Issue 194, 18 July 1939, Page 11

WOMEN'S WORLD

Mrs J. I*. Whyle is a Palmerston North visitor to Wellington.

Mrs F. Grotrian, of “Konewa,” Aslihurst, 'is staying with her mother, Mrs W. Al. Shanci, ot Wellington.

The wedding took place in London on July 12, at St. Lawrence Jewry, of Miss Barbara Steelman, daughter of Mr and Mrs A. L. Stedman, of Auckland, and formerly of Palmerston North, to Mr James 1. Pearse, of Bombay, India. Mrs Pearse is a sister of the. well-known tennis player, A. C. Stedman. “All our maternity nursing trainees were successful in passing the State examination, and all our nurses who sat for the State examination in June were also successful,” stated the report of the matron, Miss. L. M. Banks, to the Palmerston North Hospital Board yesterday. “A group of 12 nurses have been attending lectures in invalid cooking at the Technical School and all passed the cooking examination. All mimes who sat for the junior State examination held in May last passed with the exception of one, who passed in anatomy , and physiology and failed, in miming and hygiene. It is gratifying that our. nurses have been so successful in their term examinations.” The hoard congratulated the nurses on their successes.

'(By “Nanette.”)

Mr and Mrs A. L. Peterson, of Argyle Avenue, have returned home after spending several weeks in Gisborne.

At a meeting of the "Willard Home Board, yesterday, congratulations were conveyed to Mrs C. F. Spooner on the recent celebration of the 60th anniversary of her marriage. Mrs F. W. G. McLeod, whose husband is conductor of the Palmerston North City Band, was tendered a farewell afternoon at New Plymouth before leaving to join Mr McLeod here, and was presented with a piece of Continental china by her friends.

Sister Syme. recently appointed homo sister at the Palmerston North. Hospital, has accepted the position of senior tutor sister as from August 1. Miss L. A. Francis has been appointed to the position of home sister as from August I.

Mis 6 L. E. Taylor, a trainee of the Palmerston North Hospital, who resigned about three years ago to enable her to gain further experience in midwifery and Plunket work, has returned as a sister. She took tip her duties at the beginning of the month.

The friends of Mr and Mrs W. H. Davey, of Ivairanga, will be pleased to know that their daughter. Mrs G. V. Gray, of Taihape, who underwent a serious operation in a private hospital on Julv 8, is making satisfactory progress, but it will lie some weeks before she will be able to leave the hospital.