WOMEN'S WORLD

Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 168, 15 June 1940, Page 11

WOMEN'S WORLD

Mr and Mrs L. Tate are Palmerston North visitors to Wellington. Mrs T. Tyrrell, of Argyle Avenue, returned home to-day after a visit to Wellington. Mrs C. A. Thomson, of Mocrangi Street, with her father, Mr M. A. Conway, of “Glenorchy” Cheltenham, is visiting Napier. Five refugee children are to be offered. a haven at All Saints’ Children’s Home, it was decided at a. meeting of the committee. Mrs M. Coles, of Broadway Avenue,, has returned from a short holiday spent in Dunedin. Mrs Coles was accompanied by her daughter, Mrs S Bayliss. Miss E. M. Berg, of Christchurch, who was recently appointed organiser for the British and Foreign Bible Society over an extensive part of the North Island, is paying her first official visit to Palmerston North, and is the guest of Mrs E. A. East, of Carroll Street. In response to the recent appeal from the Mayoress (Mrs Mansford) for 100 pairs of mittens to be sent to the military camp at Trentliam, 109 pairs have been supplied in about one week and dispatched by the convener of the wool committee (Mrs K. S. Manning). Mrs ( Mansford is deeply grateful for the spontaneity of the reply. Miss E. J. Carnell, liaison officer of the New Zealand. Libraries’ Association and the Country Library Service, is visiting the Palmerston North Public Library as part of a tour which has embraced most of the large libraries in the country. She arrived here yesterday and will remain itll early next week. • The friends of. Mrs Robert Rush, senr., a very old resident'of Palmerston North, will be pleased to learn that she is making excellent progress after a recent operation. Eighty-seven years of age, Mrs Rush, who has lived in Palmerston North for more than fifty years, recently suffered the loss of "an eye, but in spite of this is keenly interested in all her domestic duties and the daily news, as well as enjoying the benefits of light fiction.

The distinction of being the centre of world-wide greetings and good wishes belongs to an. old lady in Auckland, Miss E. Tyler Smith, who celebrated her hundredth birthday on Thursday. A Royal message of congratulation was received from the King and Queen, the GovernorGeneral and Viscountess Galway sent greetings and other messages were received from the Prime Minister (Mr Fraser) and from the Mayor and councillors of One Tree Hill, who also sent a bouquet.

Many groups of women and organisations are working under the subcommittee of the AVomen’s Patriotic Committee which is dealing with reliigee work and is headed by the Mayoress and Mrs Major Dick (convener). The workroom placed at the disposal of the committee by courtesy of the management of the Premier Drapery Company has been the scene of much activity in the way of cutting out, unpicking, sorting and sewing and already large quantities of garments are in liancl. More clothing could bo dealt with by this voluntary ; band of workers, the goods should be clean or freshly washed.

(By . “Nanette.”)