Woman's World

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 87, Issue 64, 18 March 1943, Page 2

Woman's World

SOCIAL AND PERSONAL Mrs. O. Holdaway, Gonville, left yesterday for Dunedin, where she will visit her mother. Mrs. L. Sharland, Plymouth Street, is visiting Waipawa.

Miss H. E. Keeys, formerly of Putirino, left Turakina last week to take up essential war work in Wellington.

First Officer Louise L. Anderson, of the United States W.A.A.C., was the only woman to attend the historic meeting at Casablanca between Mr. Winston Churchill and Mr. Roosevelt. A stenographer at the headquarters of Lieutenant-General Dwight Eisenhower, she was selected to take notes on the conferences. Recently in St. Andrew’s Church, Dunedin, ’ Miss D. M. Arrowsmith, M.A., was ordained and inducted into the office of superintendent of the Presbyterian Women’s Training Institute by the Presbytery of Dunedin. Miss Arrowsmith was for some years a Presbyterian Church of England missionary in Amoy, China, but owing to the outbreak of war with Japan, was unable to return, after having furlough in New Zealand. Although one of the ships in which she was serving was torpedoed in the Bay of Biscay and another sunk by bombs at Malta, Miss Margaret Johnsen, a 30-year-old Norwegian ship’s stewardess, said in an interview at Auckland that she likes the life at sea and is always keen to get back. Miss Johnsen has served on five or six vessels in the seven years since she has been at sea. She speaks fairly good English. Lady Montgomery, mother of General Sir Bernard Montgomery, commander of the Eighth Army, lives in an old-world house, built in 1776, overlooking Lough Foyle, in Northern Ireland. A daughter of Dean Farrar, of Canterbury, England, she was married in her seventeenth year. She was engaged when she was 14 and had school lessons the day before she was married. Her husband was for 12 years Bishop of Tasmania. She relates that General Montgomery was nearly buried alive by mistake in France on an occasion in 1914 when he was shot through the lung and his batman fell on top of him, and he was subsequently discovered apparently lifeless.

The death has occurred of Mrs. Harriet Walmsley, widow of Mr. W. F. Walmsley. Her father-in-law, Mr. John Walmsley, assisted in the establishment of the first printing press at Pihia. Parts of the original building in which the'press stood still remain. Born at Rednuth, Cornwall, 89 years ago, Mrs. Walmsley came to New Zealand at the age of 18 and resided at Whangaroa until the time of her death. She had three sons and two daughters. There are 37 grandchildren and 39 great-grandchildren. ENGAGEMENT. Peters— Langdon— Mr. and Mrs. T. Langdon, of Raetihi, announce the engagement of their second daughter, Audrey Ella, to Corporal Eric Lewis George Peters, only son of Mr. and Mrs. George Peters, of Kaimata, Taranaki.

HITHER AND THITHER

Auckland Croquet Tournament. The Auckland Croquet Association concluded its 39th annual tournament on Monday. Play throughout was of a very high order. The championship singles final ran to three games, Mrs. Rotherham (England) beating . Mrs. Clarke (Mount Hobson). The intermediate championship and Annie Hamilton Cup were won by Mrs. Robinson (Mount Hobson) from Mrs, Savin (Carlton). In the junior championship Mrs. Stewart (Rocky Nook) beat Mrs. Knowles (Mangere East). At the conclusion of play Mrs. I. E. Finch, president of the association, presented the trophies and, on behalt of the players, she handed Mrs. A. H. Keesing a cheque in recognition of her 25 years of service as honorary secretary,.from which post she has now retired.