Woman’s World

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 86, Issue 308, 31 December 1942, Page 2

Woman’s World

SOCIAL AND PERSONAL

Miss Kathleen Butler, Wanganui, is spending a week’s holiday in Auckland.

Miss D. Symes, of Wellington, is on holiday in Wanganui and is staying with her mother, Madame Ivo Symes. Miss Baxter, of Opawa, Christchurch. is the guest of Mrs. Darcy Preston, Sandy Hook.

Mr. and Mrs. H. Bott, Wellington, with their son, who are spending a holiday in Wanganui, will leave shortly on a visit to Palmerston North before returning home. Mrs. A. Walker has returned to Wanganui accompanied by Mrs. A. Walker (New Plymouth) after visiting Rotorua and Auckland.

Miss A. M. Cook, who has been acting as deaconess at St. Andrews Church, Palmerston North, since her return from the mission field in China, has been appointed missioner to the Chinese community of Wellington. Miss Noeline Finnie, of Dunedin, has been appointed her successor al St. Andrew’s. At the age of 80 years, the death has occurred at her home in Ellerslie of Mrs. H. H. Driver. Born at Castlemaine,’ Victoria, on September 15, 1862, she early displayed artistic talent as was to be expected in a niece of Samuel Prout, whose work Ruskin praised. She became the second missionary to be sent to Eastern Bengal by the New Zealand Baptist Missionary Society. When her health failed in the humid heat of the plains of Bengal; she spent some time in pioneer work in Kulu Valley for the Victorian Presbyterian Missionary Union. In 1892 she settled in Dunedin as the wife of Mr. H. H. Driver. With two other Baptist ladies she helped to establish the Baptist Women’s Missionary Union, which now enrols over 2000 members and raises annually over £2OOO for missionary purposes. She established a Missionary Training Institute which sent out students to India, China and other lands. It was afterwards taken over by the Presbyterian Church of Otago and continues its useful career. Mrs. Driver was appointed the first representative in the Dominion of the Russian Missionary Society and the West Ham Central Mission. London. She was for some years convener of the Bible-in-Schools Committee of the W.C.T.U. Since coming to Auckland ten years ago she has busied herself in making patchwork quilts for the poor and for the children of the Manurewa Children’s Home. Her only son, Dr. A. H. Driver, spent ten years at a London Missionary Society Hospital in Jammahamadinger, near Madras, and is now medical officer of a great factory in Birmingham. She leaves her husband, three daughters and four grandchildren.

HITHER AND THITHER

Khaki Colour Reviever. Here is a good hint for reviving khaki: A small quantity of permanganate of potash added to the water in which khaki shirts and handkerchiefs are rinsed, will make them look like new. The water should be merely “pinked.” Hospital Wedding. With all th* solemnity of a conventional wedding a marriage took place recently in a side-ward of the NewPlymouth Hospital. The bride, Miss Mollie Taylor, who has been a patient there for some months, was wheeled from her verandah to the ward and wore a pale blue bed-jacket and spray of orange blossom and maidenhair fern, and she was attended by Miss E. Dowling, of Waitara. The bridpgroom, Mr. Laurie Corbett, a returned soldier and former patient of the hospital, was attended by Mr. R. Cook as best man. and the Rev. J. D. McLennan officiated. Among the 11 guests who attended was the sister in charge of Ward 2. At the wedding breakfast following the service the cake was cut with all due ceremony in spite of the unusual setting. Interesting Art Exhibition. Every day greater interest is being taken in the Sarjeant Art Gallery, where the annual exhibition of pictures and arts and crafts held under the direction of the Wanganui Arts and Crafts Society is on display. It is an invigorating experience to wander through the bays of the gallery because of the colour and iorm of the pictures they at present contain. The exhibition is well worth a visit for it is full of interest and artistry. There are some delightful examples of the work of Wanganui artists as well as paintings from other parts of the Dominion. The works exhibited represent many asthetic points of view and high technical standard, the paintings ranging in character from the conservative to the modern. There are some extremely lifelike studies ol animals, flower studies, still life, landscapes and other subjects in water colours and in oils. Of district interest are the pictures of landscape and beauty spots in Wanganui and surrounding country. Virginia Lake Reserve has provided subjects for a number of pictures and there are some beautiful paintings of scenes in the South Island, also studies of English landscape and other subjects. Specimens of arts and crafts occupy a small hall in the gallery and these include work of pupils of the Girls Colege, Sacred Heart Convent, Technical College and Collegiate School. There are some fine pencil and pen and ink sketches, oils and water colours, original drawings, woodwork and a variety of hand-painted woog articles. There is also a collection oi plant dyed and natural coloured wools. The exhibition will be open for another three weeks.