Woman’s World

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 90, Issue 13, 16 January 1946, Page 2

Woman’s World

SOCIAL AND PERSONAL

Mrs. Phyllis Ward and daughter are Wanganui visitors to the Sounds, Pie-

Mr. and Mrs. Eric Hambly, of Gisborne, ar e visiting Wanganui. Miss Lesley Mayne and Miss Birley, of Well.ngton, are the guests of Mrs. P. H. Ward, Konini Street.

Mrs. D. A. Morrison and family, Selwyn Street, returned early in the week alter spending the holidays at Rotorua and Tauranga. Mrs. L. J. Dumblelon, of Nelson, visited her parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Rogers, Harper Street, for the week-end. Mrs. Dumblelon, with her husband, who is on the staff ot (he Cawthron Institute, have been on an extensive tramping lour during the past four weeks. They toured the Otago (1 strict, including all the lakes, Ihe Horner tunnel and Millord Souno. and journeyed over many by roads during their tramping holiday. Principal Matron M. Chisholm, R.R.C., of Masterton, who has been acting as principal matron of the Second N.Z.E.F. for the past six months, returned to New Zealand by the Otranto on Monday. She will Shortly be in charge of idutt Hospital. Pr.ncipal Matron Chisholm sailed with the Second Echelon and has seen service from the Middle East to Italy as matron of the No. 1 and No. 3 NewZealand General Hospitals. Wendy Earl, aged three, has the distinction ot being the youngest person to have flown over the great Himalayan peaks which separate India irom China. She was flown from a Japanese internment camp, where she nad spent th e whole of her life, and arrived safe and smiling in Calcutta. Her lather is a missionary who was captured by Japanese forces and interned at Tientsin.

When Field-Marshal and Lady Alexander take up their quarters in Canada, where he is to be GovernorGeneral, they will be living in a house much larger than the eight-roomed one they have occupied for years in Windsor Forest. The rush for houses in England was demonstrated as being equal to New Zealand's when within hall an hour of the official news of the appointment being announced the Alexanders' residence was let furnished for five years.

HIGH DIVORCE RATE

Three hundred London women are meeting this week to inquire into the high divorce rate, and it possible to prove wrong he pessimists who are saying that marriage and family life are crumbling as a result of the war They are members of the London Women’s Parliament which was founded in 1941 to mobilise women for the war effort. Their new peace aims are "to reduce the divorce rate as spectacularly as it soared; to prove that in an unstable world marriage and family life are sure foundations on which to build the nation's future; to start a campaign to make marriages successful and happy by legislation that will give wives more opportunity to be good companions for their husbands and will make children a joy instead of a burden.”