WOMEN'S WORLD

Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 120, 19 April 1940, Page 9

WOMEN'S WORLD

Mrs S. G. Norlhcy, of Ferguson Street, is visiting Wellington. Miss Randolph, of College Street, is at present in Wellington.

MrsA.'C. Brookes has returned home to Te Awamutu after visiting Palmerston North. Mr and Mrs T. Iv. Stainton, of Palmerston North, arc visitors to Wellington. Miss Evelyn Hoskcn, of Simon’s Hill, South Canterbury, is the guest ol Inspector and Mrs H. Scott, of Fitzhertiert Avenue. Miss Eva Monckton, of Havelock North, is visiting her sister, Miss Nora Moncktoii, ol Russell Street, and will return home to-morrow. Mrs E. Harrod, president of the Palmerston North Co-operative Women’s Guild, attended the annual conference of guilds in Wellington. The friends of Mrs A. C. Pinwill will be pleased to hear that she has been able to return to her homo alter spending some months in a private hospital. Miss May Mcßae, of Wairoa, is staying with Mrs G. A. Eliott, of Fitzherbert West. Mrs Douglas Wilson, of Paraparaumu, who was also the guest of Mrs Eliott, has returned home. The Manawatu branch of the Women Teachers’ Association will be represented at the annual conference in Wellington next month by Miss F. lloss, of the staff of the College Street School. After thirty-three years in the Government service—the last 14 in the Police Department—Miss C. Eden, who since 1932 has been police matron at Dunedin, will retire on superannuation on July 31. Miss Eden is on final leave. The Robert Parker Memorial Bursary, valued at £lO 10s annually, organised by a private committee to commemorate the late Mr Robert Parker, C.M.G., and administered by the Music Teachers’ Registration Board, has_ been awarded to Miss Honor McKellar, Otago University. Miss Elsie Andrews, of New Plymouth, who visited Palmerston North yesterday and met members of the Manawatu branch of the Women Teachers’ Association was the guest of Miss Beswick. Miss Andrews left this morning to attend the annual conference of thc National Council of Women in C'hritchurch. A New Zealand woman missionary, Miss B. Tobin, who spent 45 days in the hands of Chinese bandits, and was ransomed for £SOO, has arrived in Sydney from China, en route to New Zealand. She has been 12 years with the Church of England Zenana Mission Society in China, working in Chinese schools.

(By “Nanette. 1 ’)