NANETTE NOTICES

Manawatu Standard, Volume LXIV, Issue 38, 13 January 1944, Page 3

NANETTE NOTICES

Holidays

This week finds most of us not only looking back on the holiday period and living again the vacation joys but also looking forward to the months that lie ahead, and the wise ones in thinking of their furnishing problems must remember that they may be easily solved with the help of Mounseys, the Fashion Seal Furnishers, Rangitikci Street.* Woimen in Australia.

• Australia's population of about 7,000,000 includes approximately 1,400,000 women between the ages of 15 and 40. More than half of these are in war work. Buttons. Elk hoin, bone, and casein are three of the many substances used for making buttons which, by the way, were first used for ornamentation only. Now, although they are also used as fastenings, their original purpose has not been overlooked, and . women's dresses are often the more attractive for their adornment. For these cooler days Slaters have ideal suits with short or long s'.eeves and finished with novel buttons.*

The death occurred at Guy's Hospital, London, on December 11, of Mrs Margery Helen Wilson, 0.8. E., wife of Mr Ormond Wilson, of Bulls, New Zealand. Mrs Wilson, who was for many years connected with the British Broadcasting Corporation, was married at Ardingley, Sussex, in 1940, to Mr Ormond Wilsoff, M.A. (Oxon), a great-grandson of the late Sir J. G. Wilson. After taking her degree at Oxford, Mrs Wilson joined the 8.8. C. 10 years ago, where she handled broadcasting and administrative duties, and later was appointed a director. She was at one time secretary to Gilbert Murray, the British classicist, translator, and international publicist. Her husband, who was Labour member for Rangitikei from 1935 to 1938, also joined the 8.8. C. at the beginning of the war, after completing a European tour, first working as a broadcaster and later as a member of the administrative staff. Mrs Wilson leaves a two-year-old daughter. Her husband is still in England.