WOMEN S WORLD

Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 166, 13 June 1940, Page 11

WOMEN S WORLD

Miss Elsie AVylds, of Palmerston North, who has been spending a lengthy period in Napier, has returned to her home.

Mrs Ernest Mathieson, of Invercargill, will arrive in the city to-morrow to visit her parents, Mr and Mrs Herbert Lawry, of Victoria Avenue. An overseas exchange notes that Miss Marjorie Bowling, of Palmerstop North, who has been doing a bacteriological course in London, has gone to Glasgow with her aunt, Mrs Morris Fossey, of Wellington. All Saints’ Ladies’ Guild members held their monthly bridge party at the Y.W.C.A.. yesterday, with gratifying results. The hostesses were Mesdames C. H. Handley, G. Y. Woodward and W. Thomson, and at the conclusion of play Mrs Handley handed the prizes to Miss Flower (contract) and Miss Garner (auction). Lord and Lady Galway have made available for the purposes of the Lady Galway Patriotic Guild a substantial portion of G overnmfcJl t House, Wellington. It includes the ballroom, the council chamber, and various offices in the south wing, besides cupboard space for the receipt and dispatch of cases, and certain outhouses lor storage and laundering. At yesterday’s meeting of St. David’s Ladies’ Guild the opportunity was taken to farewell Mrs A. Holmes, who is removing to Hawera, to which centre her husband has been transferred. In asking Mrs Holmes’s acceptance of d cup, saucer and' plate. Mrs R. Warnock expressed the regret felt by her fello v-members "that she was leaving and wished her every happiness in her new sphere. A shoulder spray made by Mrs F. Lucas was also presented to Mrs Holmes.

At Government House, Wellington, yesterday afternoon, the first public handing over of clothing for the Lady Galway Patriotic Guild took place, when her Excellency, president of the guild,' formally received 3200 articles for refugees in England from the New Zealand Union of Townswomen’s Guilds. Lord Galway was also present at the function, which was held in the ballroom. The goods, which were handed over by Mrs James Row (Dominion president) included baby wear, warm clothes for women and girls, men and boys. A of warm clothing, was given by Their Excellencies to go with this quota. A combined effort for the Red Cross ‘ and St. John Sick and Wounded Appeal is to be made by social, sports, and kindred bodies at a dance to be held early next month. A decision. I to this effect was readied at a meeting of representatives in the Business Girls’ Club last evening. Mr W. H. Brown was elected chairman and Mr J. P. McDavitt secretary. A number of separate committees were set up, the conveners being: Mr Brown

(decorations), Mr Wyatt (hall), Mr R. McCulloch (dance), Mr R. Allison (advertising and ticket selling), the chairman (finance), Mrs Livingston (ladles’ committee). Donations were promised and it is also hoped to hold a competition in connection with the selling of tickets. Mies Florence S. H. Young who has died in her eighty-fourth year at Kil-

lara, New South Wales, was for over 50 years ’a missionary in Queensland, China and the Solomon Islands. She was born at Motueka, Nelson, being the daughter of Mr Henry Young. After being educated in New Zealand and England, Miss Young went, -in 1882. to North Queensland, and while there founded the Queensland Kanaka Mission, an interdenominational movement which converted thousands of natives in the 6Ugar district. Miss Young was with the' China Inland /Mission during the Boxer riots, returning to Sydney in 1902. She made frequent trips to the Solomon Islands and directed the South Seas Evangelical Mission, besides chronicling her work in “Pearls from the Pacific.” Miss Young has relatives in Nelson and Auckland.

(By “Nanette.”)