Personal

Manawatu Times, Volume LIV, Issue 6884, 13 April 1929, Page 15

Personal

Mrs. and Mrs. H. Crocker, (jnr.), are Feilding visitors to the North. Miss J. Powell, (Porikiore). is-the guest of Mrs. G. Eliott, Feilding. > . • [Miss Betty Davidson, of Wanganui, is at present in Feilding. Mrs. R. Kennedy, has returned to Palmerston North, from a visit to Wanganui. Mrs. E. Hall, and Miss F. Hall, of Palmerston North, have been visiting Rotorua. . Miss M. H. Hutchins, is visiting Palmerston North, and ia the guest of Mrs. W. G. Keeling, College Street; Miss Joyce Wills, of Waipawa, Hawke’s Bay, is the guest of Mrs.' A. Lord, Palmerston North. Mrs. and Miss Mills, who have been visiting the North, have returned to Palmerston North. Mrs. Ralph Chadwid, of Dannevirke, who has been visiting Plimihertoa- has returned home. ' Mr and Mrs G. M. Louisson, have returned to ; Palmerston North from , a motor tour of Taranaki. Mrs. W. C. Wall, is a -Wanganui visitor to Palmerston North, and isrthe guest'of Mrs. W. J. Day. Margaret Street. : : ; /i

Mrs. A. Jensen, who Has been visit-, ing her daughter, Mrs. L. Stein, at Dannevirke, has returned to her home in Auckland. ’ Miss J. MeGhie, matron of the Palmerston North hospital, - i has - returned from the Matrons’ Conference held- in Wellington. t j Mrs. J. Macky, who has been visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. A. Guy, Palmerston North; has returned to Auckland. Mrs. Henry Collinson, and her little daughter Hazel; who spent- the weekend at Mt. Egmont, have returned to Palmerston North. - - : Miss M. K. Wilson, of Ayrshire, Scotland, who is visiting Auckland in. connection with the Girl Guide - -move-, ment, is at present the - guest of her Excellency Lady Alice Fergusson at Government House. V 1 The engagement is announced qf Myra Eleanor, el (lest daughter .01! Mf. and Mrs. J. Linklater, Milson’s Line, Palmerston North, to Murdo Campbell, eldest son of Mr. and Mrs. if. A. MadLeod, Taonui. ; The hospital, matrons J attending the conference in Wellington wore the guests of the Wellington branch of the New Zealand Trained Nurses’ Association at lunch at the D.I.C. yesterday, when a very pleasant social hour was spent by all present. j,

Miss A. M. Beutham, M.A.,i will go t.c Wellington, early in June from Christchurch to.be assistant secretary with Miss Jean Begg at the Young Women’s Christian Association. Miss Begg, who is general secretary, hopes to take over the direction of clubs activities upon the arrival «f Miss Bentham. . 'f. At the conclusion of the hospital matrons’ conference Inglis, secretary of the N.Z.T.N.A., -poke on the post-graduate course for nurses. Money collected for the nursing education was to be used for loan bursaries- for nurses desmug-to take tho course, the loan to be returned when the nurse was again bhc asked matrons to let her know of any nur«es requiring such assistance if they were considered suitable applicants for the course! '.

Extracts from a letter .written by Miss Ting, national secretary of the Y.W.C.A. of China,- show how normally the association flevelopes m spite of the stress of the present time. “Good news,” she says, “in coming in from the city associations. Nanking has a new hostel, which it- has found it necessary to open because’ of the demand for room, which was more than ihey could meet in their former quarters Hong-Kong is especially happy over the success of a new children’s health centre which they have opened at Kowloon. Canton reports over 20J children in its five schools, with many moro coming to the association to eniov the privilege of tho Sunday school and playground. That association has had an interesting opportunity for service this fall in having been asked by the management of the Sindere Department Store tq arrange for a series of meetings to be held in their store, having social education as their aim. The first one was attended-by moro than 300 and was a great success and encouragement for the future. Hangchow has had a most successful Better Babies’ Campaign. Tientsin has organised ten popular education classes in connection with the programme, of industrial work which that association has recently undertaken as a result of the survey made by Miss .Tao and Miss Jernsen last spring Tsinan is rejoicing over the very, happy celebration of its fifth anniversary, which brought together a splendid group of people and assured the board members of the real appreciation and need tijat-' thore is for the fellowship' of the YW.C.A. during this period of difficulty through which the people of Tsinan are passing just at present.”