Woman's World

Wanganui Chronicle, 8 June 1948, Page 7

Woman's World

SOCIAL AND PERSONAL.

Lady Baden-Powell, Woi'ld Chief Guide, was a passenger on the Ruahine, which left Auckland at the week-end for London. Miss Raie Barnett, Auckland, spent the week-end in Wanganui with her mother. Mrs. E. Barnett, Liffiton Street. Mrs. Della Staley, Wellington, was a visitor to Wanganui for the holiday week-end. Mrs. W. D. Young, who has been holidaying in Nelson, is the guest of Mrs. W. Glasgow, Victoria Avenue, before going to Australia. Mrs. M. Hill has returned to Wanganui from North Auckland. Mrs. E. Hargreaves and Mrs. J. S. Wylie, of Wanganui, were among recent visitors to New Zealand House, London. Mrs W. H. Elliott, Dominion president of the Women’s Division of Federated Farmers, has returned south after an extended tour of branches in the North Island and in Nelson. Marlborough and Canterbury. The fine work of country women in New Zealand during the war and since that time was praised by Her Excellency Lady Freyberg, in an address presented on her behalf by the Governor-General (Sir Bernard Freyberg) at an inter-provincial conference of the Women’s Division of the Federated Farmers held in Auckland, last week, which Lady Freyberg was unable to attend owing to indisposition. There had been generous acknowledgment of the work of servicewomen during the war, said Lady Freyberg’s address, but she always felt that those who had gone overseas had been the fortunate ones. The women who had stayed at home and undertaken the heavy work there, particularly on the land, in her opinion had done the finest service of all. “As we go about New Zealand 1 have taken every chance of trying to get to know more about women’s organisations and their contribution to the life of the Dominion. I am more and more impressed,” said Her Excellency.