Woman’s World

Wanganui Chronicle, 2 September 1950, Page 9

Woman’s World

SOCIAL AND PERSONAL. Mrs F. J. Parker and Mrs N. Fulton, of Wanganui, liave been visiting Hawera for the Methodist Synod. Mrs J. Palmer, Wanganui East, ha? returned from Auckland, where she stayed with her mother, Mrs T. Bland, Clevedon. Mr. and Mis. Frank Parker, oi Roslyn, Dunedin, are the guests of the Rev. F. J. and Mrs. i-arker, the Parsonage, Wicksteed Street. Mr and Mrs E. Beard, Wanganui, left recentiy for a trip to England. Mrs M. Mackay. Durie Hill, left yesterday on a week's holiday visit to Hamilton.

Miss Janet Caird was a recent Wanganui visitor to Palmerston North ns tlie guest of Mrs Neil Caird, of Rangiwahia. Mrs C. R. L. Williams, who has been spending several weeks with her mother, Mrs C. R. White, College Street, lias returned to her home in St. Andrew, South Canterbury. Miss M. E. Baker, principal of the Wanganui Girls' College, is at present an inmate of a private hospital. At Thursday's meeting of the college board of governors Dr. Mollie Christie was asked to convey the board’s sympathy to Miss Baker. Mrs. O. Millen, formerly of Wanganui, who is visiting England, writes to a friend to say that she has been visiting Ireland and has motored all over the North of Irelad. She states that Belfast is a terribly bombed city and it will be a long time before it can be rebuilt. At Bangor she had visited the graves of two Wanganui airmen. They are in a lovely old churchyard and lie alongside the graves of two Australian airmen and one Canadian. “Truly a Dominion corner” writes Mrs Millen. Early in August she was leaving for France to visit the grave of her son. Mrs. Millen was one of the first presidents of the Wangaui Air Force Relations Association soon after its formation in the early years of the war. U.NJ.C.E.F. Collects £74.

As a result of the shop day held last week by the Wanganui Red Cross Sub-Cenre in aid of U.N.1.C.E.F., the sum of £74 was raised.

Acknowledgments. The president of the Wanganui Girl Guide Association, Mrs C. R. White acknowledges with thanks the following donations toward the refurnishing of “Tirohanga,” the Girl Guide hut at Castlecliff, recently destroyed by fire: Mrs Herbert Alp £l, the Ranger Company of Palmerston North £1 Is. Photograph Display. It is proverbial that every mother thinks her own child the most beautiful in the world, and judging by the children whose likenesses appear in the Tiny Tots Photograph competition which opened in the D.I.C. Annexe yesterday afternoon, she has every justification for thinking so. The entries total about 400. The photos are arranged in age groups and include studies of both boys and girls and of twins. The competition is being conducted by the Wanganui Free Kindergarten Association and it is expected that the funds of the association will benefit as a result of the display. Judging by the public is on a basis of penny votes, and progress reports will be given from time to time. No names are attached to the photographs, and numbers only are given under each one. Yesterday all had their hosts of admirers.

Sunday School Service. Going to Sunday School for the children living in outback areas in New Zealand is vastly different to that of city children. They have their lessons in their own home per medium of the mail-bag, similar to the work of the Correspondence School. It is not generail known that material for study is sent out by the Home Sunday School and the Home Bible Class Service. Among the various New Zealand churches which conducte Sunda; School services by mail, the mail service for the Presbyterian Church is claimed to be the biggest. Methodist and Anglican churches and the Church of Christ also run home Sunday school departments. About 1140 families, representing nearly 3000 children receive the Presbyterian Church’s Sunday School correspondence course. OI these 101 are in Hawke s Bay families 63 in the Wairarapa, 48 in Taranaki, 45 families in the Wanganui, Marton, Tailiape and Huntervlile districts, ana 14 families in the Wellington, Levin and Palmerston North area. Established in 1924 on an experimental basic, the service is run by the Church youth committee, which has Dominion headquarters in Christchurch. The director is the Rev. W. M. Hendrie and the youth staff includes Sisters Eliza belli Campbell, Vivienne Sinclair and Iris Wilson. In the middle of 1925, 60 families were enrolled.