In and Out of Town

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

In and Out of Town

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News Hems intended for publication in this column cannot be accepted unless accompanied by the signature and address of the sender. Notices of engagements require the signatures of both parties, and a charge of 5s will be made for such announcement. Mrs. G. Stock. Domett street, has returned from a visit to Mrs. J. M. Monckton, Patutahi. Miss Phemie Nicholson, of the nursing staff of the Opotiki Hospital, has returned to duty, after spending a month’s holiday with her parents at Otoko. Miss Mary Anderson has completed 21 years' service as secretary of the Grey Labour Party and to mark the occasion she will be entertained at a banquet in Greymouth next week. Mrs. E. A. Gale, who has been staying with her brother-in-law and sister, Mr. and Mrs.' A. Trevor Coleman, Wainui Beach, left for her home in Kaikoura on Tuesday. | Princess Margaret Rose shared her birthday cake with poor children from ■j Glasgow's east end. The children j are lodged in houses in the Balmoral j district —sent out of Glasgow because ; of air-raid precautions—and they were : at their desks in the local school when ! Princess Elizabeth and Princess Margaret paid a visit to share the younger Princess’ birthday cake. Miss Pam Barton, the well-known j British golfer who visited New Zealand a few years ago, has joined the i Air Raid Precautions organisation near her home in West London and t drives an ambulance. She is an exI pert at carrying out running repairs t ' to her vehicle. Miss Kay Stammers, the tennis star, flew to England in the Yankee Clipper from America, where

she was playing in tournaments. She is now busy doing her bit.

The High Commissioner for New Zealand, Mr. W. J. Jordan, and Mrs. Jordan, were present last month at the dinner party given at Buckingham Palace to the delegates from the Dominions and India who attended the Empire War Conference. Mrs. Jordan sat next to the King. Negotiations have been completed by the Poverty Bay provincial executive of the Women's Division of the Farmers’ Union for the leasing of a cottage at Wainui Beach for 12 months. The project has been undertaken for the purpose of affording country women a holiday at the seaside, and particulars in regard to booking and rental are available at the office of the provincial secretary, Miss J. Renner, Adams Chambers, Gladstone road.

To remove ink-stains from carpets and otner woollen, articles, pour vinegar on the stain until it is completely saturated, then apply clean blottingpaper or pieces of rag until the ink

has completely disappeared. Care must be taken to change the pieces of blotting-paper or the rags as soon as they are soaked with ink. If the stain is old. it may be necessary to repeat the operation.

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