PERSONAL

Manawatu Times, Volume 59, Issue 221, 21 September 1934, Page 2

PERSONAL

Miss G. Brown, of Palmerston North, is at present in Masterton, where she is the guest of Mrs R. Brown. Miss Sybil Pearce, of Feilding, has returned homo after a fortnight spent with relatives in Ilataitai and Karori. Miss I. Ayson, who recently underwent an operation, is now- making good progress towards complete recovery, her friends will be pleased to learn. Friends of Mrs. Baden Powell, who was recently involved in a motor accident, will be pleased to learn that she has now left hospital. The death occurred at Napier recently of Mrs. J. Weaver, aged S-i, a sister of Mrs J. 801 l and Mrs 11. Cowper (Palmerston North), and of Mr E. W. Collins (Newbury). Mrs Weaver was married at Wellington, and her husband was the first postmaster at Waipawa. Subsequently he was stationed at Port Ahuriri for a number of years before his retirement. Both then took up their residence at Napier,' where they lived until their deaths.

The death occurred this w-cck at Ilowick, Auckland, at the age of 96, of Mrs Rhode, White, who was the sole survivor of tho several hundred colonists who arrived in Auckland in 1547 and IS4B and founded the military pensioners’ settlement ut Howick. Mrs. White had pleasant memories of tho visits to Howick of Bishop Selwyn and Sir George Grey, and later of the Duke of Edinburgh, second son of Queen Victoria, and Lord Charles Bcresford, when they were in the Galatea in 1809.

Mrs Evelyn Strang, ono of the New South Wales delegation to tho iifteenth convention of the World’s Women’s Christian Temperance Union in Stockholm, Sweden, last July, has written to Sydney headquarters announcing . her election as a world vice-president of the W.C.T.U. at the close of tho convention. Tho other two vice-presidents elected were Mrs Ida B. Wise Smith, of America, and Miss Dagmar Prior, of Denmark. Mrs Strang is vice-president of the New South Wales branch of the union.

"In view of. her approaching marriage, Miss Hilda Cunninghame has resigned from her position as senior office assistant, as from t.ho end of the month. I wish to place on record my appreciation, of tho seven years’ faithful service sho has rendered the school” reported Mr G. G. Hancox, principal ot the Palmerston Noith Technical School, to the meeting of the Board of Governors last evening. The board accepted the resignation regretfully, and extended its congratulations to Miss Cunninghame.

The party of English schoolgirls who are to tour the Dominion arrived in Wellington by tho liner Rotorua on Wednesday morning. Tho visitors wore welcomed by tho executive of the Victoria League, by Mrs G. W. Forbes (wife of the Prime Minister), and by Mrs H. D. Bennett for tho Maori race. Also present were Mrs Coates (wife of Rt. Hon. ,T. Cr. Coates) and Miss Sheila Coates, Mrs T. C. A. Hislop (wife of tho Mayor of Wellington), and Mrs Sprott. (wife of tho Bishop of Wellington). The party visits Palmerston North next Tuesday.

“The Pan-Pacific Conference held at Honolulu this year was generally regarded as being better than the two previous conferences,” said Dr. Georgina Sweet, delegato from Australia, and world president of the Pan-Pacilic Women’s Association, on her return with two other Australian delegates, Mrs Ada Beveridge and Dr. Randall Colyer. “It was not a most complicated conference,” Dr. Sweet, said, “nor was more individuality expressed, nor were tho delegates more outstanding than on the occasion of tho previous two conferences, but this conference showed greater evidence of need for such a body as the Pan-Pacific Women’s Association. ’•