Woman's World

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 90, Issue 12, 15 January 1946, Page 2

Woman's World

SOCIAL AND PERSONAL

Miss A. McCarthy, Plymouth Street, n-i timed yesterday from Paraparaumu. Mrs. A. H. Boyes, Selwyn, who has been on a holiday in Wellington, has returned. Miss Needham has returned to Wanganui after a holiday spent in Wellington. Mrs. M. A. Archibald has returned to Wanganui from Paraparaumu. HITHER AND THITHER Women Train-car Employees The number of women working on the trams in New Zealand cities ip gradually being reduced. Only 90 women are now employed on the Auckland tramcars compared with 168 at the height, of the war. In Christ* church there were 70 women employed during the peak period, and now there are 22. Many of the women have resigned because their husbands or fiances have returned from military service, or because they wish to go to jobs of a permanent nature. The tramway boards have not yet reached the stage when they have to dispense with the services of women to make room for men. Travel Association The Travel Association of Britain is offering membership to all servicemen and women who, during the war, visited or were stationed in Great Britain, and also to citizens of the Dominions and the United States who sheltered families from Great Britain. Members thus enrolled receive a handsome souvenir card on which is a small map of the British Isles. Holiday in Country

Six hundred women in Britain recently debated a proposal to spend a holiday in a country mansion “away from the worries of housewifery.” The women are members of the Wiltshire Federation of Women’s Institutes. But 70-year-old Mrs. Levinton clinched the issue by saying: “How can you expect to make women happy in a large mansion if there are no men?” Tne proposal was heavily defeated. ENGAGEMENTS Stewart—Howe.— The engagement is announced of Margaret Joan, only daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. Howe, Broadway, Matamata, to Ronald Keith, (ex N.Z.E.F.), only son bf Mr. and Mrs. J. Stewart, of Ohingaiti. Ahem—Ball. Mr. and Mrs L. Thomas, 24 Lilfiton St., have pleasure in announcing the engagement of their neice Edith (Betty), and youngest daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. D. Ball, to Noel, youngest son of Mr. and Mrs. F. Ahern, 39 Rimu Street, Gonville, Wanganui. Atkinson—Walker.— The engagement is announced between Daphne Alison, younger daughter of Mr. and Mrs. G. Walker, Waverley, and James Atkinson, Waverley. NOTED GENERAL’S WIFE LADY DOBBIES INTERESTS. Lady Dobbie, wife of Lieut.-General Sir William Dobhie. Governor and Commander-in-Chief of Malta from 1940 to 1942, will accompany her famous husband to New Zealand early next month.

Formerly Miss Sybil Orde-Browne, Lady Dobbie was married to Sir William in 1904 and has one son am’, one daughter. She and her daughter, Miss Sybil Dobbie, were with Sir William on the island of Malta during the perilous years of 1940 to 1942, and both set an example of courage and fortitude when the bombs rained down on the island almost continuously.

Lady Dobbie helped to organise many of the air-raid precautions schemes and first-aid stations on Malta during its blitz, and fulfilled her positions as “first lady” on the island with dignity and courage. A fluent speaker, she has addressed a number of women’s meetings in Britain, and it is hoped that when she arrives in Auckland she may be prevailed upon to address some of the girls’ schools. She accompanied her husband on a lecture tour of Canada and the United States parly last year. Miss Sybil Dobbie. the’r daughter, has had the distinction < having a book published. Entitl’d “Grace Under Malta.” Miss Dohbie incorporated her experiences on the island into a book which was widelv circulated in England. It was published in 1944.