Woman's World

Wanganui Chronicle, 16 December 1949, Page 9

Woman's World

SOCIAL AND PERSONAL. Miss S. Morton, of the Girls’ College teaching staff is spending the holidays in Auckland. Mrs. M. K. Strouts, Armagh Flats, St. Hill Street, leaves by air today for a holiday in Gisborne, where she will visit her daughters, Mrs. H. G. Kemp and Mrs. Morice. Mrs. Bruce Johnstone, who has been staying with her mother, Mrs W. Glasgow, Victoria Avenue, returns today to her home in Te Kuiti. Mrs. R. Frayne, of Hatriqk Street, with her family, leaves today for- a month’s holiday in Westport. Wives of railwaymen, numbering close on 20 held their usual annual Christmas gathering yesterday, when all met at the D.I.C. Tearoom for afternon tea and spent a very pleasant hour. Miss M. I. Lambie, retiring Director of Nursing, was thanked lor her services to the New Zealand Crippled Children Society by the president, Sir Charles Norwood, at the annual meeting of the society last week. A presentation was made to Miss Lambie, who in reply paid a tribute to the work of the society. The Plunset scholarship, which is awarded once every lour years, and is tenable at Sacred Heart College, Auckland, has been won this year by Patrick Ryan, of St. Joseph’s Convent School, Thames. The scholarship meets all costs for a pupil’s board, tuition, and compulsory extras at the college for a four-year term. Patrick Ryan is aged 13, and is one of a family of 14. The resignation of Miss I. Steven, senior stenographer, who is to be married in the near future, was received at yesterday’s meeting of the Wanganui Hospital Board. Miss Steven, who reports the deliberations of board meetings, was paid a tribute by every member of the board yesterday and appreciation was expressed of the excellent manner i n which she has carried out her duties. “We don’t lose the time we would if we had women employees running backward and forward powdering their noses, washing their hands and putting on new make-up.’’ This is the comment of Mr. E. J. Kennon, chairman of directors of an Australian company which has been going for 86 years—and has never employed a woman. Situated at Richmond, Victoria, the company is a firm of leather, wool and skin merchants, employing 50 men. Its staff includes switchboard and comptometer operators, stenographers, and typists. Mr Kennon told an intervewier that his grandfather,. Mr. James Kennon, who founded the company in 1863, laid down the “no women’’ rule because he believed women were interested only in working for four or live years before they married.

T.G. Drama Group Entertained. Mrs. Harold Jones, St. John’s Hill, entertained the members of the Drama Group, of the Wanganui Townswomen’s Guild at an afternoon tea party at the D.I.C. yesterday. A small gift was presented to Mrs. J. Richardson, producer, of the Drama Group, for the work she had done during the year.

Services to Nursing Appreciation of the services to hospitals of Miss M. I. Lambie, 0.8. E., who is shortly retiring from the post of Directoi* of the Division of Nursing, was expressed at yesterdays meeting of the Wanganui Hospital Board. It was stated by the chairman (Mr D. D. Simpson) that Miss Lambie’s services were of a national character.