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Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXXIV, Issue 12732, 30 March 1909, Page 7

PERSONAL

Mrs W. Pember Reeves represented the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies at a meeting last month when seven societies for women's suffrage were represented. A London paper remarks: — "Mrs Reeves is a charming and eloquent speaker, and has made many converts to the movement. She is greatly in demand as a speaker for the various societies, and w untiring in her efforts to further the cause in England." News has reached Christchurch that Miss Dons Tribe, who left that town two or three yeans ago to study the violin in ke.ipzig, gained the Mendelssohn scholarship at the Conservatorium Bureau last month. It was by the Mendelssohns to be given to "a talented and industrious pupil" of Leipzig Conservatorium, wio is training for the profession and ig payable on 3rd February, MendeleTOhn s birthday. It is not known, so far, m Ohnstchurch, that any. other British student has ever received* it.