Woman's World

Wanganui Chronicle, 28 December 1949, Page 7

Woman's World

SOCIAL AND PERSONAL. Miss Gwen Luke, Wanganui, Is visiting the South Island. Mrs. R. Mackintosh, Kakatahi, has returned from a holiday spent in Australia. Mrs. Maurice Earle, Wicksteed Street, returned on Friday after a Visit to England. Miss Elsie M. Jebson, secretary of the Y.W.C.A. left Wanganui on Friday night to spend Mrs. G. C. Robertson, of Hawera, was a visitor to Wanganui during the ' week-end en route to Pahia, Bay of Islands.

Mr. and Mrs. Vaughan Cooke and their small son Jeffrey, of Auckland, arrived last week-end to spend the Christmas holidays in Wanganui. At the Wanganui East Bowling Club’s tea recess last Saturday, Mr. J. Brandon president of the club, in appropriate remarks in keeping with the festive season, made a presentation to Mrs. Clapcott in recognition of her services in attending to afternoon teas for the past year. Mrs. Clapcott suitably responded. Miss Lorna Thorn, of Bangor Terrace, Kew, has gained the degree of bachelor of divinity (8.D.) of the Melbourne College of Divinity, and is the first New Zealand woman to take this degree. Miss Thorn holds the degree of B.A.'of the University of New Zealand, and is on the staff of the Levin High School.

Like a large number of other New Zealand girls, Miss Jocelyn Holland and Miss Lois Holland, daughters of the Prime Minister, Mr. Holland, are interested in sewing and make many of their own clothes. They mentioned this as one of their interests during an interview after the public reception to Mr. Holland in the Town Hall, Auckland. The younger daughter, Miss Lois Holland, is also a student of music, which she is taking as one of the subjects for her 8.A., and both girls enjoy tennis and other sports.

Five hundred houses and their tenants are to be under the personal care of an attractive New Zealander when she returns to England in April. She is Miss Josie Jacason, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. P. W. Jackson, of Lower Hutt (formerly of Christchurch), who has been selected as housing manager to the Marquis of Salisbury. It is a fascinating career that Miss Jackson is following—one that is valuable in the eradication of slum evils, bad conditions and the attendant personal problems. She is a graduate of the Society of Housing Managers, which carries out the work outlined t>y Octavia Hill, a woman whose influence did much to improve living conditions in the last century.

Miss Florence Gill, who died recently, was for more than 13 years a much-loved and respected matron of the North Canterbury Hospital Board's Jubilee Home for old people. Miss Gill was born in South Canterbury and commenced her nursing experience at the Seacliff mental institution. She took her professional training at the Gisborne Hospital, and after qualifying she was appointed to the staff of the Auckland Hospital, In 1915 she began her war service and made several journeys in the hospital ships Marama and Maheno, and then served in Egypt and in England. Within a year or two Miss Gill travelled nine times through the Suez Canal, twice round the Cape of Good Hope, and once through the Panama Canal. After the war she returned to New Zealand and took up a position in Colonel Pickrell’s jaw hospital in Dunedin, transferring from there to Timaru, and later to Trentham. In October, 1924, Miss Gill was appointed matron of the Jubilee Home, a position she held until early in 1938. Since then she has been living in retirement in Christchurch. New Year Gifts. Packets of sweets, peanuts, popcorn and other confectionery the children thoroughly enjoy are stocked at the Majestic Sweet Shop, and very toothsome they are, too, so say the young folks. There's such a variety of chocolates—and everyone loves chocolates that is why they are the perfect gift. Some of the ciiskets and boxes make useful containers for trinkets etc.*