WOMEN’S WORLD

Manawatu Standard, Volume LXI, Issue 126, 30 April 1941, Page 11

WOMEN’S WORLD

Mrs T. Jnglis, of Fitzhcrbert Avenue, is visiting Ashhurst.* Mrs G.- G. Williams, of “Tuatabi,” Fitzlierbert, ha’s returned from Dawson Falls. Miss D. Fitz Herbert, of Iliaka Street, lias - returned from visiting Tauranga and Auckland. / Mrs and Miss Mona Watso.n have returned to Hastings after visiting Mr and Mrs J. Tipping, of Palmerston North. Mrs E. H, Haythorae, formerly of Cameron’s Line, has been selected for the Women’s Auxiliary of the Air Force and commences her duties at Rongotai' this week.

Miss Vivienne de Berry, of Christchurch, whose parents, Mr and Mrs L. F. de Berry, are well-known in Palmerston North, where they once resided, was recently married to Mr lan McKinnon. •

Miss M. E. Brown, who is leaving her position as matron of the Island Bay Convalescent Home (attached to the Wellington Hospital) to take up duties at the clearing station in Wellington for wounded soldiers of the, received presentations and messages, including good wishes from the Dannevirke R.S.A. and the matron and staff of the Dannevirke Hospital. Miss Brown had a distinguished career in the last war, serving for three years on hospital ships and for seven months at advanced casualty clearing stations in Italy. She was matron of the Dannevirke Hospital for 14 years. Mrs t Mary Ann Cullen, who died last week in a Wellington private hospital, was the widow of the late Sergeant Francis Cullen, of the New Zealand Police Force (a brother of the late Mr John Cullen, Commissioner of Police). Mrs Cullen left four sons, three of whom are members of the Roman Catholic clergy. They are Monsignor P. F. Cullen, of Hawera

(formerly of Palmerston North), Father Alfred Cullen, Brisbane, and Father Joseph Cullen, of the Catholic College of Lismore, New South Wales (formerly of Nelson). The fourth son is. Mr Thomas Cullen, of the staff of the Department of Agriculture. /•Following the policy of securing a staff of testing officers so that men called up for service may be released, 138 women have been trained as herd testers and a further 32 are to be trained at Canterbury Agricultural College, Lincoln, in May, said Mr C. M. Hume, herd recording supervisor to the Dairy Board, at a ward conference to the board in Palmerston North yesterday. At least 60 of these trainees had already found employment with, the Herd Improvement Associations and he understood that, with one or two exceptions, their’work was proving thoroughly satisfactory and that they found their duties congenial and not too strenuous.

(By “Nanette.”)