Woman's World

Wanganui Chronicle, 23 December 1949, Page 7

Woman's World

SOCIAL AND PERSONAL. Miss Locheen Strachan. “Lornty,” Okoia, has left for a holiday visit to Auckland. Mrs. E. Ballinger, Keith Street, has returned from a six weeks’ visit to Oamaru. Miss Hempton, of Wellington, arrives in Wanganui today and will be the guest of Mrs. R. P. Giblin, Liver* pool Sreet. • Madame Eileen Johns, of Auckland, is the guest of Mrs. Hugh Stevens, Gonville. Miss Audrey Bates, and Miss Elaine Hay, have left Wanganui for a trip to Auckland and Tauranga. Mr. and Mrs. Reg Hine, of Oamaru, arrived in Wanganui yesterday to spend the Christmas holidays with Mr and Mrs. T. Hine, Victoria Avenue. Miss Noreen Mursell arrives from Wellington today to spend the holidays with her mother, Mrs D. F. M.ursell, Harrison Street, and later will have Miss Raeburn, of Wellington, as her guest. Miss Constance Beaven, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. F. J. Beaven, of Castlecliff, who was drug purchasing officer for the International Relief Committee of China in Shanghai, has been in England for some time, reports the December issue of C.0.R.5.0. News. A daughter of a former Prime Minister of New Zealand, the late Rt. Hon. J. G. Coates and Mrs. Coates, has arrived at Auckland. She is Mrs. L. M. Bloomfield (nee Miss irirangi Coates) and with her husband is spending a •»*jnth in New Zealand. Mrs. Bloomueid, who was married in Washingon last year, has been attached to the staff of the New Zealand Embassy in Washington for the past three yeas and was also for a time attached to the New Zealand delegation to United Nations. Her term with the New Zealand Embassy has now expired, but she intends to return to America with her husband. It is Mr. Bloomfield's first visit to New Zealand. He is on the staff of the American State Department's office for United Nations Affairs in Washington. During the war he served with the United States Navy and the Office of Strategic Services in the Far East. Discussing the absence of any prizes, as is usual at this time of the year among schools, Miss E. R. Edwards, retiring headmistress of the Auckland Diocesan High Schol for Girls, said that when she first came to the school she had had no experience of the noprizes system. It was an idea new in the country and parents were not then accustomed to it. After examinining the system she was convinced that it was a good one. Prizes only made those girls work who would have worked in any case and they tended to over-glorliy academic gifts. Miss Edwards said she found girls less shy, franker, and more sincere in speech than in her first teaching days without being a scrap more pert." Physical education was beginning a reformation that was much needed. Carriage was shocking, both in children and adults Christmas'. To children that magic word brings visions of stockings filled to the brim with all sorts of good things, which, of course also means sweets. An assortment of packages, any of which would give delight to a child can be bought at the .Majestic Sweet Shop, where a large assortment of confections abound, including cake decorations. This shop will be open all day Saturday, Monday and Tuesday.* Returned From China.

After two years in China, Miss Betty Bagge, of Wellington, has returned to New Zealand. The two years were spent in China’s "rice bowl," an area which she said had, through the centuries, also been a centre of the nation’s culture. Miss Bagge was statined at Chengtu in Szechewn province, a fertile plateau ringed by high mountains in West China. "In her work as matron of the dental school attached to the West China University and Hospital, Miss Bagge met students from all over the country. She was the only New Zealander at the dental school. Miss Bagge said that a large percentage of those training as dentists were women. The medical course also attracted numbers of women students. Both men and women were a fine type and made excellent dentists and doctors. The university dental school was probably the best-known in China.