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New Zealand Times, Volume XLIX, Issue 11162, 18 March 1922, Page 5

A wedding was celebrated at St. Matthew's Church, Masterton, on Thursday, when Miss Perraain, daughter of Mr and Mrs T. Permain, of Ren all street, was married to Mr Walter J. Caseley, of Masterton.

The following letter, signed by the acting town clerk, has been received by the secretary of the Women's National Council:—“l am directed by Councillor Thompson, chairman of the reserves committee, to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 9th instant, suggesting that a play-centre for ohildren be established in the oity. In reply I am to state that the reserves committee have the matter under consideration and that they propose to place a sum on tho estimates for the forthcoming financial year to enable thorn to provide a play-centre," Mrs Terrill Watts is entering college at the age of 58, after 6he is already what tho world might term a successful woman. Mrs Mary Terrill Watts, of Auduben, lowa, is credited with having been the originator of the better babies movement which has spread throughout the United States. She is enrolled in the University of Kansas for special studies, including eugenics, public speaking, feature writing, and swimming. Mrs Watts has been an advocate of the fitter family plan launched last year in Kansas, a plan formed by Dr Florence .Sherbon. now of the K.u. faculty and formerly a pioneer* in the lowa better babies movement. She is a very close friend of Dr Sherbon, and is interested in the fitter family movement of Kansas. And it was because of this movement, which was launched at the Topeka free fair in 1920* and which she intends to extend still further, that Mrs Watts is taking studies at the University of Kansas.