King’s Housekeeper Retires

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20114, 7 December 1939, Page 14

King’s Housekeeper Retires

Retiring after 26 years at Windsor Castle, Mrs. S. Rawlings, the housekeeper, will spend the rest of her clays in a house which the King has provided her with in the grounds of Windsor. Mrs. Rawlings long has been a personal friend of all the members ol the Royal Family, and the King and Queen have promised that they will call and see her during their frequent walks to Frogmore. During the serious illness of the late King George V Mrs. Rawlings was the only person allowed in the sick room apart from Queen Mary, the doctors and the nurses. She personally prepared and carried in all the meals given to the King. When Queen Mary made the huge rooms in. the castle more homely it was Mrs. Rawlings who helped her. The present Queen followed this example when carrying our further modernisation of the State and private apartments.

Air Raid Wardens

Information has been received by Mrs. James Pow, Dominion president of the New Zealand Union of Townswomen’s Guilds (Incorporated), that Miss Viola Kettle, president of the Lower Hutt branch of the organisation. along with 16 members, lias qualified as an air-raid warden. I Lieutenant -Connolly, who coached the . team, has expressed pleasure in the'! result. The papers of those gaining i passes were all of a very high order, Mrs. Norman Jones and her daughter, ; Miss Gwcnda Jones, gaining 100 per cent passes. Other successful candidates were Ladv Roberts. Mrs. C. Napier Fraser, Mrs* C. E. Rogers, Mrs. A. McV. Broderick, Mrs. S. Sawell, Mrs. M. V. Judd, Mrs. M Goodwin, Mrs Lloyd Davies, Mrs. T. M. Wilkes and Misses Tiora Meadows, Onie Broderick, Barbara Jackson. Eileen Campbell, and B. Bourke. These are the first New Zealand-trained air-raid wardens to qualify since the outbreak of war. Mrs. Pow congratulated members on behalf of Dominion headquarters, commending them also for the regis-

(ration of 200 casualty beds in the Hutt Valley.