Woman’s Wolrd

Wanganui Chronicle, 10 November 1949, Page 9

Woman’s Wolrd

SOCIAL AND PERSONAL. About 30 members of the Nelson Women's Institute, Manawatu, came to Wanganui by special bus on Tuesday to spend the day. They visited factories and places of interest during their day's outing. Miss Poppy Gillingham, who recently resigned from the dispensary staff of the Wanganui Public Hospital is the guest of Mrs. J. Millward lor a lew days before she returns south.

Mrs. C. G. Sunderland, of No. 3 Line, has returned from Wellingon, where she farewelled her daughter, Sister M. E. Sunderland, who will sail on the Dominion Monarch for Australia next Saturday. Miss Aileen Greaves, who left for England on the Rangitoto on Saturday, spent last week with her mother at her home in Hipango Terrace. Before leaving Greymouth, where she has been a member of the staff of the Cobden School for two years, she was guest of honour at farewell parties given for her by the School committee, the Orchestral Society and the Amateur Dramatic Society. While in London Miss Greaves will be a member of the staff of the Swafield Road School for girls and will share a house with two other teachers and a research worker.

One of the comparatively few women doctors in New Zealand to have the degree of F.R.C.S. is Dr. Jean Sandel, Taumarunui, who returned to Wellington in the Wanganella this week. She made the voyage from England to Australia as ship's surgeon in the Port Macquarie. As the vessel was three weeks in American coast ports Dr Sandel was able to spend a week in Boston, where she visited the famous institution Lahey Clinic. She took courses at several large hospitals in England during the three years post-graduate study. Trained at the Otago Medical School, Dr. Sandel was at the Wellington Hospital before taking the post of surgical register at the Hutt Hospital She was travelling scholar of her year at medical school, the awad being a sum of money to enable the holder to undertake post-graduate work overseas. Dr. Sandel left for England in May, 1946. e Registered Nurses’ Dinner.

Hope that the gathering might become an annual reunion was expressed by Miss C. M. Buckingham, matron of the Wanganui Public Hospital, when she presided at a dinner held by the Registered Nurses’ Association at Foster's Hotel last week. There were 40 nurses present and they concluded a pleasant evening with a picture party. A feature of the dinner was the floral decoration on the tables, mostly of pink roses. Baptists Farewelled

On Saturday evening members and friends of the Ingestre Street Baptist Church gathered to farewell Mr. and Mrs. Harre and family, who have been associated with the church for the past nine years. After a number ol games, competitions and items had been held, Mr. G. Head, on behalf of the church and Bible classes, spoke of the sterling work of Mr. and Mrs. Harre and their valuable contribution to the life and work of the church. He presented them with a clock and a silver savoury dish. Both Mr. and Mrs. Havre replied, saying that it was with regret that they were leaving Wanganui. Miss Lesley Harre and Miss Barbara Harre were presented with silver table napkin rings. Mr. anw Mrs. Harre left on Tuesday for Auckland, Where Mr. Harre has an appointment as lecturer at the teachers’ training college.