Woman’s World

Wanganui Chronicle, 15 October 1948, Page 7

Woman’s World

SOCIAL AND PERSONAL. Miss D- Howie, formfrly of St. John's Hill, who has been living in Auckland. Hunterville and Palea, left Wanganui yesterday for Marton, where she will stay with Mrs. W. F. Stevens. Prince Edward, Duke of Kent, was 13 years old last Saturday. He is the eldest child of Princ-jss Marina, Duchess of Kent, and succeeded to the title in 1942, when his father, a younger brother of the king, was killed in an aircraft crash in Scotland. The Prince recently entered Eton. Miss Challis Hooper, matron, of the Dominion Training School for Dental Nurses in Wellington, who is one cf the two women members recently appointed to the New Zealand National Commission for U.N.E.SC.O., is the representative nominated by the New Zealand Federation of Business and Professional Women’s duns, Miss Hooper is a former president of the Wellington Business and Professional Women’ Club. Marton W.I. Members Visit Wanganui Twenty-six members of lhe Marton Junction Women’s Institute were in Wanganui yesterday and during the morning paid a visit to the Woollen Mills, and after lunching at the D.I.C. went through the Southern Cross biscuit factory. Acknowledgment. The “Chronicle” acknowledges with grateful thanks a parcel of rag dolls with removable clothes, and a number of warm knitted garments sent in by Mrs. J. McDougal, convener of the Wanganui Red Cross sub-centre, in response to the appeal for the children of St. Paul’s Day Nursery, Wellclose Square, London Docks. England, which is in a very poor part of the city. Also acknowledged ‘s a doll and toy from Gillian Brown, Kai Iwi.