Woman’s World

Wanganui Chronicle, 17 January 1949, Page 7

Woman’s World

SOCIAL AND PERSONAL. Lady Freeston, wife of Sir Brian Freeston, Governor of Fiji, who has been visiting Auckland, left on Saturday by th'e Rimutaka for England, where she will attend the wedding of her daughter, Una, to Mr. C. M. A. Pedler, Ipswich. Both are medical students in London Miss Barbara Francis Smith, formerly of Waratah, South Canterbury, and Miss Patricia Yardley, of Heriot, Otago, who have been studying at the Sydney University, have graduated bachelors of veterinary -science. A New Zealand girl gained this degree in Sydney about five years ago, but it is likely that Misses Smith and Yardley are the only other New Zealand women to become bechelors of veterinary science. Home Permanent Waving. It is reported that the home permanent waving kits are on the way and will be available to New Zealand women next month. They will be introduced by a New Zealand firm. With the home-waving kit the hair can be waved easily in a spare afternoon or evening It has been designed and instructions’ worked out for the amateur, and the outfit consists of plastic curlers and papers, rubberbands to hold the hair on the curlers, and two solutions, creme waving solutions and a neutraliser. It is stated that the home permanent waving kit is an extension of the new “cold ’ wave. It is claimed that even dyed or bleached hair can be waved by this new cold method. Instead of having to wait for a “perm” to grow out entirely, the hair may be “re-permed” in three or four months, doing away with the in-between stage. The home permanent wave is said to last as long as a salon wave. Royal Secretary. Although the Royal tour of New Zealand and Australia is postponed, Miss Jennifer Bevan, who was appointed Princess Margaret’s lady-in-waiting for the tour, is to continue in this capacity, according to a London correspondent. With Princess Margaret taking over more and more of the official duties of the Royal family, she will need Miss Bevan as her lady-in-waiting, it is said. Miss Bevan, who is 21 years of age, slim and dark-haired, modestly classes herself as a “shorthand typist” and who wishes to pursue a career as a secretary. It is understood that the Princess’s lady-in-waitihg will have plenty of secretarial work to do at Buckingham Palace. Miss Bevan recently returned to London from Canada, where she was lady-in-waiting to her aunt, Lady Alexander, wife of the GovernorGeneral of Canada. She is the daughter of Lady Barbara Bevan, who as Lady Barbara Violet Bingham, was one of the bridesmaids to Her Majesty the Queen.