Woman’s World

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 87, Issue 39, 17 February 1943, Page 2

Woman’s World

SOCIAL AND PERSONAL Mrs. Ken Bassett, of Christchurch, is the guest of Mrs. Lewis Bassett, St. John’ Hill. Miss Keren Pratt, Palmerston North, Is visiting her mother, Mrs. C. O. Pratt, Liverpool Street. Mrs. J. T. Holland, Wellington, is visiting Wanganui, and on Sunday will address a meeting of leaders of youth organisations in the city at Christ Church. Mrs. Holland, who is the wife of a son of the Bishop of Wellington, is a member of the Provincial Youth Council of the Church of England.

The Rev. Mother M. St. Odo, who for the past two years has been Mother Prioress of St. Anthony’s Convent, Huntly, has been appointed by the Superior Council of her Order in England, Rev. Mother Provincial, which is the highest office in the Order in New Zealand. Rev. Mother Odo, has left Huntly on transfer to Hamilton. Her successor is the Rev. Mother M. St. Cecilia, of Hamilton.

The death occurred on Friday after a short illness of Emily Frances Hogben, aged 85, widow of the late George Hogben, C.M.G., who was formerly Director of Education. Mrs. Hogben was the youngest daughter of Edward Dobson, C.E., the first engineer to the province of Canterbury. Both at Timaru, when her husband was headmaster of the Boys’ High School, and in Wellington, when he became Director of Education, Mrs. Hogben played an important part in the social activities of the educational world. After her husband’s death she continued to take a keen interest in a wide sphere of activities. For the oast 20 years, Mrs. Hogben had been living at Island Bav. where she made a wide circle of friends. Of her six pons only two survive, one being Mr. E. N. Hogben, the recently appointed headmaster of Wellington College. There are four grandchildren and one great-grandchild. Miss Bathie Stuart, a New Zealander now in America, recently gave a lecture on New Zealand before a large and very fashionable audience in Boston. The Boston Traveller says: “And the lovely island dominion seems such a pabadise of everything desirable that from now on we’re going to nut every penny into war bonds for a New Zealand- vacation when the war is over. Britain’s farthest flung outnost and our most distant ally, New Zealand offers every topographical delight from snow-capped mountain peaks and glaciers, to tropical palms. Miss Stuart assures us that our servicemen stationed there will have plenty to eat, as New Zealand knows no food rationing, other than tea and sugar, and recent figures give two cows and 30 sheep per capita of population.”