The Social Round

Southland Times, Issue 24758, 1 June 1942, Page 6

The Social Round

Miss Ruth Wesney, Thomson street, [ left on Saturday to spend a few days in Dunedin. Miss Faye Hinchey, Wellington, is the guest of her mother, Mrs W. W. Hinchey, Gala street. Miss Margaret Just, Dunedin, will arrive on Wednesday to stay with Miss Betty Semmens, Tweed street. Mr and Mrs J. L. Gilkison, Waimea, Riversdale, leave tomorrow for an extended visit to Auckland. Mrs Russell Brown, a member of the W.A.A.F., has returned north after spending a holiday in Invercargill. Miss Mavis Brown, North road, will return tomorrow from a short visit to her parents, Mr and Mrs A. J. Brown, Nightcaps. Mrs Eustace Winslow, Mount Benger, who has been staying with her mother, Mrs T. M. Rankin, Yarrow street, will return home tomorrow.

Mrs W. Orr, Balfour, acting Dominion president of the Women’s Division of the Farmers’ Union, is attending the Otago conference of the division in Dunedin.

The 40 women appointed to be conductors on trams in Auckland have practically completed their training and have shown considerable aptitude. If their uniforms are ready, the women will start duty this week. Another direction in which women are taking over the work of men in Auckland is as truckers at the city markets for the stacking of fruit and ■ vegetables and for loading cases on to trucks. Dressed in serviceable-look-1 ing slack suits, about six women have been employed for almost three weeks, and officials state that their work is fully up to the standard of that of men. The women work a 44-hour week at the same rates of pay as the men. Tlie first woman chemist to qualify in New Zealand, Mrs T. G. Mason, has died at the age of 84. Born in Birmingham in 1858, she came to New Zealand in 1876. She soon qualified as a nurse and became one of the first 12 trained nurses in the Wellington Hospital. Later she was engaged as a dispenser at the Wellington and Palmerston North Hospitals. After her marriage to Mr T. G. Mason, of Masterton, she and her husband went to England. On their return to New Zealand they took up farming at Oparure. WEDDING HENDERSON—STRANGMAN The marriage took place recently at First Presbyterian Church, Invercargill, of Mary Isobel, elder daughter of Mr and Mrs D. Strangman, Mabel Bush and Gunner Archie Henderson, younger son of Mr and Mrs J. Henderson, Dacre. The Rev. J. H. Thomson, Kennington, performed the ceremony. The bride was attended by her sister, Miss Lily Strangman, and Mr John Henderson was best man. After the ceremony a reception was held at the Brown Owl.