Woman’s World
SOCIAL AND PERSONAL. Mrs. C. Berry and Miss D. Soeberg left Wanganui last night for Cambridge to attend the School of Music to be held at St. Peter's, Cambridge, during the next 10 days. Miss P. Simmonds, who has been relieving matron at the Gonville Sanatorium for several months, leaves Wanganui at the end o£ January for England. Before her appointment to Goville Miss Simmonds held a similar position at the Otaki Sanatorium. A shortage of white sewing cotton in Melbourne has given women in Britain a chance to repay in a small way the generosity of their Australian friends. Many of them are posting reels of sewing thread in return lor food parcels sept by Australian women. The when Mrs. Olivia Gardener, writing from Toorak, Victoria, to the "Daily Mail,” revealed how a tour of Melbourne yielded not a single reel of white sewing thread. Coloured cotton thread was also in short supply, so were sheets and pillow-slips, she said.
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Wanganui Chronicle, 19 January 1948, Page 7
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163Woman’s World Wanganui Chronicle, 19 January 1948, Page 7
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