PERSONAL

Manawatu Times, Volume LVI, Issue 7106, 15 March 1933, Page 2

PERSONAL

Mrs. A. K. Simpson, Milson’s line, is visiting her relatives in Auckland.

Mrs. Stephen Williamson, of Waituna, is on a visit to Wellington.

Mr. and Mrs. B. Williamson, War tuna, eto spending a holiday in Wellington.

Mrs. W. Cade, who has been visiting relatives in Hawke’s Bay, returns this week to Kaitaia, North Auckland.

Mr. and Mrs. S. Williamson, junr., of Waituna Wost, were week-end visitors to Wellington.

Mrs. A. E. McLennan, Paraparaumu, is the guest of Mrs. A. E. Jeil'ories, Taonui.

Mrs. J. Morrison, Halcombe, has been on a visit to Mesdames A. E. Jefferies and A. G. Jefferies, Taonui.

Mrs. Power, of Whakatano, arrived in Feilding on Sunday to visit her parents, Mr. and Mrs. W, Johnson, Moncton street.

Mrs. G. A. Eliott, of Palmerston North, is visiting Wellington and is the guest of Dr. and Mrs. Levy, Muritai.

Miss Violet Foot left by tb.6 Limited last evening for Rotorua after a visit to her sister, Mrs. E. McLeod, Briglitwater Terrace.

Mrs. E. M. Kahle and Miss G. Kahle, of Terraco End Park, Palmerston North, aro visiting friends and relations in Wairarapa and Martinborough.

Mrs. O. Bierre, of 58 Waldegravc street, has shown such good progress after her recent operation that she nas been able to return homo.

Dr. Helen Simpson, for some years lecturer in English at Canterbury College, Christchurch, leaves for England this week.

A bill permitting women to practise as lawyers is being submitted to Parliament at Sofia, capital of the Bulgarian Kingdom. This is the third time such a bill has been proposed. Women in Bulgaria may be doctors, dentists, chemists and teachers, and they may carry on business, but so far they have not been permitted to bo lawyers. Nor have they political rights.

“Women can buy tickets for the theatre and wear tiaras. That is nil right," stated 'Viscountess Snowden recently. “But when it comes to women sitting on committees and asking awkward questions, that is all wrong." She said it might bo true that women had to do better work than men to get certain jobs, and she had found that where it was a case of prejudice against women, no matter how •well a woman might do her work, even though she might do it twenty times better than a man, her efforts were of no avail.

“Now how many of you are going to join?" asked the chairman at a public meeting at New Plymouth last week when a ratepayers' association was formed. It was explained that the subscription was so much for men and so much for women. A woman ratepayer then rose: “If you get 500 members what are you going to do with the money?" she asked. The chairman intimated that it could be used in relief of the needy. “Are you going to joiu?” he asked. “Yes," was the reply, “when I have seen if you can get the rates reduced."