WOMEN’S WORLD

Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 123, 23 April 1940, Page 9

WOMEN’S WORLD

Miss I). Drake, of Park Bond, who lias been on holiday in 'Wellington, has returned home. Miss Barbara Mclnnes, of Timaru, who will be a bridesmaid at the marriage of Miss Mari Tucker on Saturday evening, is the guest of Mrs A. J. Tucker, Victoria Avenue, Members of the City Council asked, at the monthly meeting last evening, that their good wishes be conveyed to the Mayoress (Mrs A. Ip. Mansford), who has been ill. Thanking the councillors for this expression, the Mayor said that Mrs Mansford was making a slow but sure recovery. Mrs J. B. Cunningham and. Miss J. Cunningham, of Annandale Avenue, who have been on a motor tour tor the past two months, are visiting Mrs TI. Pratt, of Westmere, Wanganui. Mesdames H. G. Mills, ol Chaytor Street, and D. Black, ot Frederick Street, represented the women’s section of the Palmerston North branch of the National Party at a division conference in "Wellington to-day. It was reported to ‘the monthly meeting of the City Council, last evening, that Miss 1?. Allen, a member of the staff of the Municipal Library, had resigned. Miss Mavis Brabvn and Miss M. OlConnor had been appointed to the staff. Miss Honor MeKellar, of Otago University, has been awarded the Robert Parker Memorial Bursary, which is valued at £lO 10s annually, organised by a private committee to commemorate the late Mr Bobert Parker C.M.G., and administered by.the Music Teachers’ Begistration Board. Mention that Mrs A. McLeod had served on the ladies’ committee -of the College Street School for the past 19 years was made by Mr H. G. Mills at the annual meeting of householders of the school last evening, and her good work was highly praised. Mrs McLeod is continuing her service on the committee in the current term. Miss E. Mourant, daughter of Mr H. P. Mourant, and a former ait student of the Wellington Technical College, lias achieved success in an exhibition of art work by students of the National College of Art, Dublin, the Irish Independent, of January 30, 1940. stating: “One young artist.of whom more will be heard is Miss Elise Mourant, a New Zealand girl, whose three studies of scenes in Jersey were bought within a few minutes of the opening of the exhibition. Her pictures have a youthful vigour together with a mature sense of colour and composition.’’

(By “Nanette.”)