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Manawatu Times, Volume LV, Issue 7241, 12 June 1930, Page 11

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Miss May Akers, of Palmerston North, is visiting Miss Jean Speedy. Miss Shaw has returned to New Plymouth after a visit to Palmerston North. Miss McVay (Napier) is visiting Mrs R. Spencer, Grey street, Palmerston North. Mrs Leonard Taylor, Russell street, has gone to Auckland to visit her sister, Mrs Fancourt. Mrs. O’Donohue, Palmerston North, has returned home after a visit to her son in Whangarci. Miss Rona Groves is spending a fortnight with her parents, Mr and Mrs A. E. Groves, Stanway. Mrs Haggitt and Miss Otalio Haggiti have returned to Palmerston North after a visit to Auckland.

Mrs S. Davis is the guest of he: mother, Mrs Crosse, of Broadway avenue, Palmerston North. Miss Joan Selby has returned to he: home, the terrace Wellington, after a visit to Mrs G. B. Dixon, of Grey street, Fcilding. Mr ami Mrs Sydney Mcßcth returned to their home at Kiwitea, on Mon day after a brief holiday spent in Auckland. Mis;. Brown, Beattie street, Feilding, has returned from a holiday spent in Auckland, where she was the guest of Dr. and Miss Livcsey. Mr and Mrs Vivian Smith, of Taihape, arc expected to arrive in Fcilding to-day, where they will bo the guests of Mr and Mrs Paul Miles, West, street. The Misses Maggie and Marion Stewart, Stanway-llalcombo road, are at present spending a holiday at Waverley, where they arc the guests of their aunt, Miss Watt. Mr Edmund Goodbehcrc and his daughter, Miss Patricia Goodbehcrc, arc leaving Feilding this evening for Auckland, from there sailing on Saturday for tho Islands. Mr and Miss Goodbehcrc expect to be away for a month. A most interesting surgical lecture was given last evening at the nurses' home, by Mr. Wylie, to the Manawatu branch of the New Zealand Trained Nurses’ Association. Before supper was served Miss Roby proposed a very hearty veto of thanks to the lecturer, which was carried by acclamation.

Miss Margaret 0-'Connor, of Wellington, will be a visitor to Palmerston North on Friday for the Merchants’ and mercantile 'staffs’ annual ball, at which she will give an exhibition ot the latest ballroom dancing. During her stay hero she will bo the guest of Mrs. F. J. Swindell, Hotel Imperial. A very pleasant evening was spent on Tuesday at the residence of Mrs Donald, Ferguson street, Palmerston North, when a gift evening was held in honour of Miss Phyllis Horn whose marriago is to be celebrated shortly. There were over CO friends present, Miss Horn being the recipient of many useful and valuable gifts. Tho gathering extended to her best wishes for happiness and prosperity. The first of a series of dances held at the Y.W.C.A. hostel last evening, proved a very jolly affair and was well attended. Members of the board actidl as hostesses and the committee of girls responsible for tho arrangements was headed by Misses E. Sutton. The danc-e room was charmingly decorated with streamers of blue and gold and there was bridge for those so inclined. Ices, sandwiches, cake and coffee were very popular at supper time.

The All Saints Children’s Homes arc doing wonderful work in our midst and at the monthly meeting of the Ladies’ Committee held on Tuesday, several applications woro received for admission to the homes. The ladies find it distressing to have to refuse so many, through lack of accommodation, and hal it not been that two littl-e girls had left for adoption, there would not have been a single vacancy. These places have been filled and other applications have just had to be placed on a waiting list until a vacancy occurs. One of the dangers of an insular position was stressed by the Governor-Gen-eral (Lord Bledisloe) when addressing the Girl Guides at the annual church parade in the Auckland Town Hall. “Insularity is a danger, which is shared by Great Britain and New Zealand/' Lord Bledisloe said. “Our outcome or it is a tendency to gossip, perhaps unfairly, about our fellow men and women. Guides and Brownies, do not let us do it, for it is not a custom which is in keeping with our traditions ot national greatness. Let us remember -always that kind words arc the music of the world.’’

Old St. George’s workhouse, where Oliver Twist dared to ask for “more,” is being offered for sale. A considerable portion of the building dates back to 1730, and the kitchen in which Oliver and other penniless lads are depicted by Dickens as having gruel doled out to them is preserved in almost it-s original state, though the famous oven where the gruel was made has been removed to a museum. The announcement of tho sale has aroused considerable indignation in Southwark, and Mr George Isaacs, M.P. for the district, has written to the Minister for Health, Miss Margaret Bondfleld, asking her to refuse tho application of the town council (which owns the building) for permission to sell.