Personal

Manawatu Times, Volume LVI, Issue 5581, 20 February 1931, Page 9

Personal

Sister Lavina Garden, of Wanganui, is the guest of Miss Anderson, Euahino streot.

Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Byman, of Auckland, and formerly of Kairnnga,. aro visitors to Palmerston North.

Mrs Kerr, lato of Hastings, who has been staying with Miss K. Owtram wont on to Wanganui yesterday.

Miss F. Pym, secretary to tho Y.W.O.A. in New Plymouth, was a visitor to Palmerston North last evening, staying at the hostel in Queen Street. '

In order to give tho ladies who have been in closo attendance, a spell, tho depot an tho Y.W.C.A. club room, Broadway, will be closed all day Saturday. ■

Members of Women’s Institutes from tho earthquake area who may bo staying in this district aro asked to-com-municate with Mrs Noel West, Bryant Street, as soon as possible.

Miss G. E. Broad, inspector ,of hospitals, Department of Health, was a visitor to Palmerston North yesterday morning and carried out au unofficial inspection of the refugee camps in company with the Mayor (Mr. A. J. Graham) .

Tho principal (Mrs. M. Rhodes), of tho Palmerston North Girls' High School vreported to last evening’s meeting of tho High School Board of Governors and Technical School Committee that Miss J. E. Mcßae, of the Napie: Girls’ High School, who was appointed to fill the position vacated by Miss A. G. Merton, commenced duties oz February 16.

Mrs. M. Aitchison, secretary of the Palmerston North branch of tho Plunket Society, acknowledges tho receipt of £3 from an anonymous donor in Auckland, signed "A Lucky Winner," and £2 from the Lyceum Club, Auckland, per Mrs. Pacey, both amounts to be used for tho purchase of comforts for mothers and babies visiting the Plunket rooms at tho Showgrounds.

Iu the following extract, from a letter received in Fcilding from a Napier lady, tho writer is enthusiastic about the manner iu which those dear to her arc being treated during their sojourn in Palmerston North. "They took a tent and blankets and are camped at the Showgrounds. They say they are having a good holiday, have every care and attention and that the food is as good as that in any hotel. They were in Ross' drapery shop buying stockings and said they were refugees from Napier so they were stocked out with things they needed, including half a dozen good hats. They don’t want to return for a while. No wonder!

Princess Mary lent Chesterfield House for the annual meeting of presidents of the League of Mercy (states a London daily). Tho Prince of Wales, as grand president, was in the chair, but the Princess occupied a scat near him and took part iu the meeting in her capacity as lady grand president. Dressed in a simple red crepe frock and wearing a rope of pearls with a tiny ncarl pendant, the Princess was hatlfss, and had her hair waved and twisted into a roll at the nape of the neck. Princess Mario Louise, in a wine-colour dress, and Princess Helena Victoria, in black with a chinchilla collar, were with her. The Older of Mercy was presented by the Prince to a number of those associated witli tno league, the lady presidents who received it including Lady Jean Dalrymplo, Lady Bclhaven and Stenton, Lady May and Lady Worthington-Evans.