WOMEN’S WORLD

Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 129, 1 May 1940, Page 11

WOMEN’S WORLD

Mrs It. B. Robertson, of Fitz Herbert Avenue" is spending a week in Wellington. Mrs S. A. Goldinghnm and Mrs R. Porter are Palmerston North visitors to Wellington. Mrs Melville Lawry, of Christchurch, is the guest of Mrs Herbert Lawry, of Victoria Avenue. Mrs W. G. Shannon, of “Flaxbourne,” Newbury Line,. arid Mrs A. M. Ongley, of Batt Street, have returned home after a visit to Wellington. The friends of Mrs W. Frandsen, of Palmerston North, who underwent an operation in a private hospital last week, will bo pleased to learn that she is making a satisfactory recovery. Lord and Lady Bledisloe have lent their home in Sloane Square, London, to the New Zealand War Services Association. A New' Zealand Work Party, to provide hospital needs and comforts, will be shortly opened there, says a London correspondent, writing on March 14. In order to raise funds to send a delegate to the Dominion Conference a games evening was held by members of the Business and Professional Women’s Club on Monday. The Y.W.C.A. lounge, was decorated with chrysanthemums and several kinds of games were played. The president (Miss I. Madden) returned thanks for the support accorded and presented trophies to Misses A. M. Kearns, King and E. Gills. Miss E. Jones (secretary) arranged the party. When she was visiting the Exhibition recently, an elderly lady from Eketahuna, took to Wellington a parcel for soldiers and delivered it to the National Patriotic Fund Board. It contained two pairs of socksj a packet of sweets, and a pair of knitted knee warmers. The knee warmers are of [ special interest. She had knitted them herself from wool that had been'spun from a fleece by her niece and a neighbour, and the visitor claimed that as the result of this ' lioine-spinning'the articles would be much warmer. The knee warmers are to be sent forward with the hospital comforts.

(By “Nanette.”)