Ngawapurua Institute Meets

Manawatu Times, Volume 64, Issue 41, 18 February 1939, Page 8

Ngawapurua Institute Meets

NUMBER OF COMPETITIONS HELD The February meeting was held last Wednesday, Mrs Coulter presiding and welcoming many visitors. Mrs Rofc read the motto, * ‘She who plants kindness gathers love.” Miss Ha/.cl Johnson was unable to attend. A cheque was received from the Woodville A. and P. show for second prizes in the arts and crafts and puutry display. Another Institute baby was presented with a Post Office Bank Book. On the 23rd of this month Mrs Mac Kay is giving a soap demonstration at her residence. Nominations for president and committee must be banded in to the secretary a fortnight before next# meeting. Mrs Anderson (Dannevirke), gave a very interesting demonstration on wool mops and mats made from a motor tyre. Mrs launders entertained with a flower competition, the winners being Mrs Anderson. The competition for a jar of flowers was won by Mrs Waugh. It was arranged to ask Mrs Burnett to judge the programme's competition. The competition for Canadian date cake

(with given recipe) resulted: —Miss J. Aplin 1, Mrs Coulter 2, Miss M. Knapp 3; best dahlia bloom, Miss M. Knapp 3. Miss C'. Knapp 2, Mrs T. Smith 3. A vote of thanks was passed to Mrs Anderson and her assistant. The hostesses for the afternoon were Mesdames B. Clark, Bassett and Misses I Basset, B. Clark and L. Aplin.

Owing to the Catholic Centenary and other circumstances, Father P. T. B. McKeefry, private secretary to Bishop Liston, of Auckland, postponed a holiday trip to Koine last year. By deferring his trip, bis friends believo that he will be there for the historic ceremonies following the death of the Pope ;iud the election of his successor. Leaving Auckland on December 27, Father McKeefry sailed for Italy ou January 3, and it is thought probable that tis a clerical visitor from one of the most distant dioceses of the Catholic Church, he will be allowed to have some part in the ceremonies, or at least to be granted special privileges as a spectator in St. Peter’s. During his student days at Propaganda College, Home, Father McKeefry learned to speak fluent Italian, and acquired an abiding affection for the Eternal City.