In and Out of Town.

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20044, 16 September 1939, Page 13

In and Out of Town.

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The Misses J. and B. Sharp returnee .0 Wairoa yesterday alter v:situi£ drs. D. McKeogue, Scout street.

Mrs. J. O. Musgrave, Beach road has returned ironi a visit to Mrs. A H. Hilford, The Mount, Tauranga,

Mr. and Mrs. J. Gardner, Hihiroro; station, have taken a cottage at War nui Beach for a fortnight.

Mrs. J. W. Gardner, Rere, is the a_s. oi her parents, Mr. and Mrs. hornion Jackson, Auckland.

..rs. Acton Adams, Cliristchurch, is . isiting her son-in-law and daughter, •ir. and Mrs. Norman Loisel. Tolaga Bay.

Miss Dawn Cowan, who has been me guest of Miss June White, ga apa, is returning to her home at Makarori to-morrow.

Mr. and Mrs. N. S. Thomas, who lave been staying with the former’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. C. N Thomas, Owen road, returned to Tolaga Bay on Wednesday.

Many friends in Gisborne will be ,n erested to learn that the marriage A' Mr. E. L. Sherriff, younger son of Mr. and Mrs. C. Sherriff, Lyell road, Xaiti, to Miss Kaara Trent, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. F. Trent, will take place this afternoon in Christchurch.

A wide circle of friends in Gisborne will be interested to learn of the return from England of Miss F. Adams. During a lengthy residence abroad Miss Adams made London her headquarters, and travelled extensively in England, visiting all the beauty spots

Miss V/. Tonkin, senior Plunket nurse, who has been absent on six months’ leave, has arrived at Auckland after a visit to the Walbrook Estate, Sitiawau, Federated Malay States, and is staying with relatives in Hastings prior to returning to duty on October 2.

Having offered their co-operation in the present time of national emergency, the members of the Gisborne Women’s Club have decided to carry out the normal social activities of the club until their services are required. As the membership is somewhat large for individual notification, members are advised by an advertisement in this issue that the monthly social gathering will take place on Tuesdayevening, when a diversified programme will be presented.

Cabled advice has been received that Miss Jan Williams, daughter oi Mr. and Mrs. IT. B. Williams, Turihaua station, who had been visiting Germany while on vacation from Cambridge University, returned to England two days before the outbreak of war. * * * * Miss W. Preston, a delegate from England of the Girls' Friendly Society, is the guest of Miss M. Heywoou, Remucra, Auckland. Miss Preston has been working in the interests of the society throughout the various dioceses of the North and South Islands, and during her stay in Auckland is actively engaged in working for the Auckland Girls’ Friendly Society. Several meetings have been arranged so that she might speak to different branches of the organisation.

Observers have remarked the wonderful response made in .Wellington by women and girls who are anxious to learn home nursing and first-aid work. At. a recent series of lectures given by the Red Cross Society the first-aid class was attended by several hundred women and was so large that part of the Mayfair Cabaret had to be utilised as a lecture room.

Maori Health Work To further interest in native health affairs, and to form a branch of the Women’s Health League, a largelyattended meeting of Maori women was held in Taupo recently. The aims of 'he society were explained by Miss R. T.‘Cameron, inspecting nurse to the Hamilton med'eal district, who is also founder and p.c.. .dent of the parent organisation in Rotorua. Presentation to Queen

A private presentation to the Queen at an afternoon reception at the house of Lady Howard de Walden, in Belgrave Square, was one of the experiences of Miss Winifred McQuilkan, a New Zealand girl who has been two years at Oxford. Miss McQuilkan won a post-graduate scholarship from the University of New Zealand and has spent two years studying for a Bachelor of Arts degree in English at Somerville College, Oxford. The party at which she was presented to the Queen was an informal one with a musical programme provided by Australian and New Zealand artists. Miss McQuilkan was one of the 20 out of 500 guests who were presented to Her Majesty.