Of Interest to Women

Lake County Mail, Issue 46, 21 April 1948, Page 4

Of Interest to Women

By “MARIE”

All correspondence connected with this Column. should he addressed to “ Marie,” C/o Box; ,154, . Queenstown. -,..0

WANAKA P.W.M.U.

The monthly meeting of the Wanaka branch of the P.W.M.U. was held at the Manse last Tuesday evening when Mrs Miller presided. ' ! 1 The meeting opened with devotion. Apologies' for absence were received from Mesdames Burghess' and Umbers, Miss Templeton and Miss Jopji.

A welcome was extended to the following visitors:—Mrs Smith (wife of the Moderator of Presbyterian Churches in New Zealand), Mrs W. J. Milligan (wife of the previous minister of St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church, Wanaka), and Mesdames Howarth and Hamilton and Miss Pringle. Mrs Miller called on Mrs Smith, who gave an inspiring address on “ What women can do towards peace; in our attitude to others; our actions in our daily lives; our interest in other countries; and - spiritual guidance of the young people.”

Mrs Miller thanked Mrs Smith for her address and the meeting closed with the Benediction. The Rev. Miller and the Moderator joined the ladies for supper and a social chat. The hostesses for the evening were Meddames W. Ironside and H. Sinclair.

Lady Beveridge At Queenstown

“I am passionately interested in getting the best for the family,” declared Lady Beveridge when interviewed last week. Lord and Lady Beveridge reached New Zealand in the Euahine from Britain last week and were at Queenstown on Saturday. Lady Beveridge has a close touch with family life as a member of the Eural District Council of Northumberland, which is concentrating on providing homes for the many people needing them there. The family was the core of society, she said. To build up society along the right lines one had to build also good family life. In her work she was concerned with homes for the argicultural worker and the dweller in small towns. President of her local Women’s Institute, Lady Beveridge said she was one of the first women in the institute movement “long ago when I lived in the country.” In her soft Scot’s accent, she said she was a graduate of St. Andrew’s University, her special interests there being mathematics and philosophy'. - With a twinkle in her eyes, she declared: “I beat all the men in physics class and won the medal, but don’t say that.”

It was not until she married at the age of 20, Lady Beveridge said, that she left Scotland, going to London to live. Now her life is spent mainly in the country in Northumberland. Proudly she admitted having four children and seven grandchildren.