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Manawatu Times, Volume LIV, Issue 6992, 19 August 1929, Page 11

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Mrs. S. Boyens, has returned to Pahiatua, from a visit to Wanganui. Mrs. W. McCarthy, of Woodville, is the guest of Mr. and Mrs. J. Callaghan, Hamilton. Miss Daisy Isaacs, who has been visiting Woodville, has returned to Wellington. Miss Lucas, who has been in Welling ton for a brief stay, has returned to Palmerston North. Mr. and Mrs. Mitchell, of Wellington, were visitors to Palmerston North during the week-end. Mrs. Tylee, of Pahiatua, who has been visiting Mrs. Moser, at Masterton, has returned homo. Mrs. Smith, of Blenheim, is the guest of Mrs. D. S. Robinson, Church street, Palmerston North. Mrs. J. Sexton, of New Plymouth, is visiting Palmerston North, where she is the guest of Mrs. J. Bamberry. Mr. and Mrs. Ashworth, Castlepoint, are the guests of Mr. and Mrs. L A. Abraham, Palmerston North. Mrs. Newton, and her small daughter Valerie, aro Stratford visitors to Palmerston North and are staying with Mrs. G. Williams, “Woodlawn,” Broadway avenue. Mrs. Maria Snow, of Washington, recently passed her eighty-seventh milestone, and she conceived an unusual idea of celebrating her birthday. She invited two old friends, both over 80, to accompany her on an airplane trip, and tho three old ladies went aloft, thoroughly delighted with their novel experience. Miss Breczie Bingham, chairman of the United Dairies Welfare and Social Committee, is a prominent figure in English welfare work. She is responsible for the amusement and general happiness of 10,000 people—shop assistants, roundsmen, clerks, and dairymaids. In spite of the size her family, she contrives to mother them all.

The death occurred in the Palmerston North hospital yesterday of Mrs. Mabel Winifred McGee, wife of Mr. Thos. McGee, of Eoxton, and late of Rongotea and Palmerston North, in her 46th year. The late Mrs. McGee was born in Wellington, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Jas. McGhie, of Petone. Her son, Barry, aged nine years, was drowned at the Eoxton wharf on Juno 22 last, his body not being recovered till a month later. The shock and nervous strain resulting from this tragedy told so severely on the mother that she became seriously ill and she entered hospital on the day after his funeral. The tragic fate of the boy is believed to have been the direct cause of her death. She leaves her husband, two sons, Bernard, of Cambridge, and Bryan, of Eoxton, and four daughters, Doreen, Elorence, Marjory and Joan, all of Eoxton, to mourn their loss.

Says an Australian magazine of Miss Holman, M.P.:—“We are proud to own her as one of the little triumvirate of women M.P.’s in the history of Australia, of whom tho other two are Mrs. Cowan (W.A.) and Mrs. Longman (Queensland). Miss Holman’s father was a member for Forrest (W.A.) three years ago, and, on his death, she won the seat at a by-election. At the next State election, in 1927, Miss Holman was returned to Parliament unopposed. The constituency, a large timber working district, is composed very largely of men, which is mentioned as a groat triumph for Miss Holman, but perhaps 'the triumph would really be in winning in a constituency composed largely ol one’s own sex—at least, we in New Zealand are inclined to think so, and advise candidates to trust more to the man voter than to our own sex. Miss Holman has many activities, being president of many Labour organisations. She is also a member of other societies, among them the West Australian Historical Centenary Committee and Immigration Committee.”

The Board of Education, England, is offering 20 scholarships and many free places in 1930 tenable at the Imperial College of Science and Techmcology, London. The awards are open to both sexes, and they are largely to encourage grocery and engineering. Even for the former there is certification. Examinations are to be held at various centres. The “Women's Leader comments on the fact that though grocery is retail, and with no particular ban on it as unfeminine, there is little response from our sex. At a recent cxamination held by the Institute of Cerincluded only one woman. The otner subiect specially mentioned, engineering 3 has attracted many women, though perhaps more in the United States than in England. There is human touch about Dr. Lilian Galbraith, a successful consulting engineer, who has pubhstud a book to show how marriage and a career can be reconciled; also another Tol m e, “Living With Our Children, 3 whom she herself has as many as eleven Her own system was to inst tute femily councils at which the boys and girls themselves discussed their problems, and so learnt to think for themselves.