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Manawatu Times, Volume LIV, Issue 6902, 7 May 1929, Page 11

Personal

Mrs. R J. Sinclair, is a Pahiatua visitor to Christchurch.

Miss Mimi Slack is spending a few days in Palmerston North.

Miss Lloyd, of Palmerston North, is the guest of Mrs. Jull, Hamilton.

Miss Constance Burdett, of Palmerston North, is spending a holiday in Dunedin.

Miss M. Linldater Palmerston North, i-s the guest of Mrs. 0. M. Belcher, New Plymouth.

Miss Willis, of Greatford, i? an inmate of a private hospital in Palmerston North.

Miss E. MaeLennan has returned from Rotorua and is staying with Mr and Mrs. J. B. Pascal.

Miss Lorna Hodder, Palmerston North, left for America ,where she intends to enter university to further her studies.

Miss Nancy Chadwick, of Danncvjikc, who has been visiting friends in Palmerston North, is the guest of Mrs. McAneny, Nelson Street, Wanganui.

Her Excellency, Lady Alice Fergussnn, addressed members of the Grey Lynn (Auckland) branch of the League of Mothers, at tho monthly meeting, last week.

Miss Flora B. Murray, M. A., of th« Canterbury University College, has been awarded the Sir William Hartley Scholarship for 1929, which is tenable in England for three years.

Miss Margery H. Cottercll, of Canterbury College ,has been awarded the Royal Holloway College scholarship for 1929. This is tenable for two years at the Royal Holloway College,

Mrs. Geoffrey Potts and Mr Brian Kciller gave a small but -enjoyable party on Friday evening to farewell Mr and Mrs. and Miss Loughnan, who are shortly leaving to tako up their residence in Hawke’s Bay.

In many ways Princess Juliana, whose father, Princo Henry, has been in London and who herself is the heir apparent to tho throne of the Netherlands, is breaking with the conservative traditions of tho House of Orange, of which her mother, Queen Wilhelmina, is the head. Sho is tho first of that house to take up lawn tennis. She not only plays this game with her university friends with enthusiasm, but is also very much interested in tho technical side of it.

Daily prayer is offered every day on tho battleships of the fleet, said Mrs. Swabcy, when speaking before the National Council- 1 of Women at Auckland, at the W.Y.C.A., recently, and it was to this that sho attributed much of tho good feeling and fine sense of duty by which the English navy is distinguished, as tho result of this constant sense of power of prayer. Prayer had been offered on our battleships ever since the year 1660 and it was, sh'c felt, a very fine thing to be able to say of any fleet. It engendered good feeling and self-control, the characteristics so much needed in our modern life.