Late Mrs. Henley

Manawatu Times, Volume 62, Issue 132, 5 June 1937, Page 2

Late Mrs. Henley

TOWNSWOMEN’S TRIBUTES. From Our Own Correspondent. NAPIER, June 4. The monthly meeting of the Napier Townswomen’s Guild was held jesterday afternoon in the Foresters’ Hall, when Mrs Bruce Barnett presided over a good attendance of members. The president, Miss Jerome Spencer, 0.8. E., the secretary, Aliss C. Fannin, and Mrs Glenny, president of the Hastings TownsVomen’s Guild, were also seated on tho ttage. Tlu meeting opened with the singing cf the Gu Id Ode arti Aspiration. Aliss Spencer spoke of the great loss the Guild had sustained through the death of their chairwoman, Mrs E. A. TLenley, who passed away lost month in England, where she was spending a holiday with her son, Dr. Henley. With her reao> Irish wit and charming manner, she was a perfect hostess, said the speaker, and the great work she had done for the Plunket Society and the Guild would always be remembered. Mrs Henley would be greatly missed and her memory would always live in tbo learts of the Guild members. Mrs Glenny expressed the sympathy of the Hastings Townswomen's Guild, and placed on the stage a beautiful basket of asters, violets and maidenhair fern as a token of sympathy from the members of the Hastings Guild. Mrs Barnett also spoke of the great loss te Ihe Guild through the death oi Mrs Henley, and asked those present to rti nd in suence as a mark of re spect. A verse of the hvnin, "Fa Ever with the Lord" was then sung.