Woman’s World

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 86, Issue 115, 19 May 1942, Page 2

Woman’s World

SOCIAL AND PERSONAL Mrs. E. C. Birchall has returned to New Plymouth after a holiday in Wanganui. Miss Wynn Clow, who has been visiting Wanganui, has returned to j New Plymouth. i Miss Ann Stephens, Inglewood, is spending a few weeks in Wanganui. i Miss Dawn Sullivan, Plymouth • Street, is serving as a member of the ; W.A.A.F. i Mrs. T. Latham is a Wanganui | visitor to the Chateau. Miss J. Beauchamp. Wanganui, is the guest of Mrs. T. G. Taylor, Wellington. Mrs. W. J. Wilson is a Wanganui visitor to New Plymouth. Mrs. W. Nicholson has returned to Inglewood after a visit to Wanganui. Mrs. D. Strachan, Victoria Avenue, left yesterday for a visit to Wellington. Miss Pamela Donaldson, Christchurch, has arrived in the North Island on a vlsft to friends in the Rangitikei district and New Plymouth. Miss Mavis Kendrick, Upper Aramoho, is now a member of the W.A.A.F. and has left Wanganui. Mrs. Colin Gardner, Godwin Crescent, left yesterday lor Hawera to visit Mrs. Nelson Meuli. Mrs. S. O. English, Dominion president of the League of Mothers, who has been visiting oranches in the various centres, including Wanganui, returned to Auckland on Saturday. Mrs. I. Corby, who has been on the clerical staff of the Wanganui Harbour Board for the past seven years, has resigned. Al the monthly meeting yesterday members of the board thanked Mrs. Corby for her services and granted her seven weeks’ wages. At the monthly meeting of the central branch of the Women’s Christian Temperance Union congratulations i were extended to an honoured foundation member on attaining her J eightieth birthday, and a letter of greeting sent to another member on attaining the age of ninety. The death has occurred after a long illness of Lady Miller, who was particularly well known at Pahiatua. She was 'lO years of age. Born at Ross, she spent her early years in Wellington, and with her parents, the late Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Greville, settled in the Forty Mile Bush district before the close of last century. In 1895 she was married to Mr. Henry Holmes Miller, eldest son of the late Sir Henry John Miller, M.L.C. Her husband inherited his title from an English baronetcy in 1940. The surviving sons and daughters are: Mi-. E. H. J. Miller, Pahiatua; Mr. C. H. Miller, Waipawa; and Mrs. G. J. Wilde, Opiki; Mrs. J. P. Tylee, Makuri; and Miss Joan Miller. HITHER AND THITHER Women’s Equal Rights. A message from Washington states that the Senate Judiciary Committee, by nine votes to three, approved a proposed constitutional amendment to assure women equal rights with men. Embroidery Done by Sick Soldiers. London doctors arc to-aay prescritr Ing embroidery lor soldiers with nervous troubles. It is lelt that mere amusement is not enough. The patient must be given an occupation to keep his mind ousy. i'he emoroidery needle is being used with excellent results in removing the patients' nervous worries. ot*. John Ambulance Association. The lust aid examination of the Maxwell Group was neid on Wednesday, May 13; in the Ambulance nail, Dr. Moliie Christie being the examiner. All who attended the examination qualified lor certificates, i'he following are the names: Mesdames Helen D. Billinghurst, M. M. Birch, A. Blair, E. M. Darbyshire, Myra M. Wickett, D. M. \v ilson, Misses Margaret Hunter Blair, Alice G. Davies, Euna G. Morrison and Barbara B. Mullins. Miss A. McCarthy was the instructor.