WOMEN’S WORLD

Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 130, 2 May 1940, Page 13

WOMEN’S WORLD

Mrs J. J. K. Powell, of Ngata Street, Palmerston North, is visiting Wellington till the end of the week. Mr and Mrs Peter Cole, of Knowles Street, are spending a few days in ■Wellington. Her friends will be pleased to hear that Mrs M. Blythe, of Linton, lias returned home after her recent illness. Mrs C. N. Taplin, of Dunedin, who has been visiting Wellington to meet her daughter, Sister Irene Taplin, who is on duty with the Second Echelon, is paying a visit'to Major and Mrs J. T. Bosworth, of Fitzherbert Avenue. Mrs C. A, Small, of Rongopai Street, and her daughter, Miss Rosemary Small, are going to Wellington to-morrow for the 21st anniversary eelebrations of Queen Margaret School, which takes place next week. Miss Small will he a debutante at the ball which concludes the celebrations. Sir Harry Batterbee, High Commissioner for the United Kingdom, with his niece, Miss Isabel Biggar, entertained to sherry in Wellington on Tuesday afternoon, officers of the Second Echelon of the Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force. Among those who received invitations were Lieuten-ant-Colonel G. Dittmer,- officer commanding the Maori Battalion, and Mrs Dittmer, and Major and Mrs G. M. McCaskill. Friendships made with many New Zealand troops behind the firing line in France in 1916 and 1917 have been renewed during the past fortnight by Mrs S. A. Jacob, a former Frenchwoman now living in Sydney, who, accompanied by her husband, is visiting Auckland. Living with.her parents for the greater part of the war near Bois Grenier in a cottage known as the “Little White House,” Mrs Jacob and her sister were known as Germaine and Madelaine to thousands of Allied troops whom they were able to help and entertain. Mrs Kelso, who retired from the position of Dominion organiser of the New Zealand Women’s Institutes at the end of April, was the first official organiser to be appointed, and in this capacity was responsible for the consolidation of the administrative side. She visualised the movement as a national one, and, though not born in New Zealand herself, believed it should be a movement essentially for New Zealand women, based on the conditions obtaining in the country districts and the needs of New Zealand country women. The institutes have already achieved much that was visualised. They have , grown rapidly tinder the enthusiastic guidance of women of Mrs Kelso’s calibre. To-day there is a membership of more than 30,000, and still the movement grows and gains ground. Mrs Kelso is not retiring from the movement entirely and its interests will always be hers, she says.

(By “ Nanette.”)