WOMEN’S WORLD

Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 97, 23 March 1940, Page 9

WOMEN’S WORLD

Miss Joyce Hands and Miss Gladys .Ridley, of Palmerston North, are visiting Christchurch. Mrs J. P. Nielsen, or Main Street, and Miss P. Nielsen, arc visiting Mrs E. Brascli, of Island Bay, Wellington. Mrs M. M. Thomas and Miss Margaret Thomas, of Russell Struct, leave to-morrow for Wellington. Mrs J. 0. Young, of “Bonnie Doon," North Street, has returned from Wellington, where she went to tarewoll her son, Mr R. Young, who is going to England. • Miss C. Lamb, of Carterton, _ and formerly of Palmerston North, is the guest of Mrs Nettlefold, of Ferguson Street. Miss Beth Bradley, of Wellington, is spending Easter with her mother, Mrs Bradley, in Feilding. Mr and Mrs F. J. Oakley, of Rainforth Street, with their daughter, Miss Noelinc Oakley, are visiting their daughter, Mrs T. U. Bird, of Tauranga. Miss L. A. Brown, who has resigned from the staff of the Palmerston North Girls’ High School in view of her approaching marriage, relinquishes her i position next Friday, and leaves lor i her home at Ashburton. Mr and Mrs W. A. Geary. of Brightwater Terrace, Mesdames A. J. Gearv and A. Tavlor. ot Feilding, and Mr and Airs E. Street, of Marton, are spending Easter at Raumati South. Brigadier Annie Smyth, of tlie Salvation Army, who has been spending her furlough with relatives and friends in New Zealand, has left on her return to Japan. She hopes to return to the Dominion in five years’ time. Word has been received that Miss Beth Bull, who trained in the nursing profession at the Palmerston North Hospital and is now at St. Nicholas Orthopaedic Hospital, in Pvriord, Woking. Surrey, has been accepted by Scotland Yard for 'membership of the London Metropolitan Women Police. The death occurred recently of Mrs George Luke, widow of the Jatc Mr George Luke, at the age of 7-3. Mrs Luko'was born in Wellington and lived in the city all her lilc. She was the daughter of the late Mr and Mrs Edmund Spencer, who arrived in New Zealand in the early forties, and the youngest of a large family. Her husband, who was the son oi the late Mr and Mrs Samuel Luke, died in 1915. Mr C. R. Luke, of Palmerston North, is a nephew.

(By “Nanette.”)