Woman’s World

Wanganui Chronicle, 4 November 1949, Page 7

Woman’s World

SOCIAL AND PERSONAL. Mrs. L. C. Christie, Godwin Crescent, is visiting Auckland. Mrs. G. H. Robertson, Wicksteed Street, is visiting her daughter, Mrs. G. L. Walton, Bulls. Mrs. H. D. Robertson, president, of the Wanganui branch of the Plunket Society, has been attending a Domini ion council meeting in Wellington. It I began on Tuesday and ended yesterday Miss A. M. Kearns, acting-matron of the Stewart Karitane Hospital in Wanganui, will attend the conference of hospital matrons to be held in Wellington today and on Saturday. Miss M. Reid, B.Sc., of Wangaui, has passed her second year in all subjects at the advanced course of Deaconess College, Dunedin, according to the Theological Hall Committee of the Presbyterian Church of New Zealand. Betty Shardlow, a pupil of the Wanganui Girls’ College, who died recently, was referred to at a meeting of the Board of Governors yesterday. Sympathy was extended to her parents and the college. Members paid their respects by observing a brief silence. Penalties for making a false declaration of age in official documents are severe in most countries. In Vienna, however, police have now ruled that actresses and women artists signing official papers may lie about their age, within a limit of 10 years, without risking prosecution for false declaration. With the object of forming Soroptimist Clubs in New Zealand and Australia, Mrs. Florence Rutter, who was founder and president of the Central London Soroptimist Club, is paying her first visit to New Zealand. She has been associated with the movement for more than 22 years. The object of the club is to help to create a better world. There were now 600 clubs with a membership of more than 20,000 in 17 countries, states the visitor.