WOMEN'S WORLD

Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 132, 4 May 1940, Page 11

WOMEN'S WORLD

Mrs D. McDonald is a Palmerston North visitor to Wellington. Mrs H. Dorreen has returned home after a. three months’ stay, in Dunedin. Mrs G. F. Framjee, of Mana.pouri Crescent, will return homo to-morrow evening from the south. Mrs' A. E. Rutledge, of, Kairanga, has returned homo after a visit to Wellington. Miss B. Inglis, of the nursing staff of the Palmerston North Hospital, is spending her annual leave in Christchurch. Mrs H. Scott and Miss Eunice Scott, of Fitzherbert Avenue, have returned home after a brief visit to Wellington. Mrs W. H. Eccles and Miss Carmen Eccles, of Bourke Street, have returned home from a visit to Wellington. Mr and Mrs W. H. Nicols, who have been staying at Taupo, are visiting Rotorua and the Mount, Tauranga, before returning to their home in Palmerston North. The friends- of Mrs J. B. Morgan, of Campbell Street, will regret to learn that- she is a patient in the Palmerston North Hospital, where she is to undergo an operation, and will wish her -a speedy recovery in health. Miss Mitchell, headmistress of the Nga Tawa Diocesan Girls’ School, Marion, has left Auckland for several months’ holiday in Great. Britain. Miss Audrey Hobson and Miss Joan Hogg, of Halcombe, accompanied Miss Mit- ' chell to Auckland. Miss F. Ross, of the staff of College Street School, has gone to Auckland for the early part of the school holidays. Next week she will journey to Wellington for the conference of the Women Teachers’ Association, at which she will represent the Manawatu -branch. Mrs Janet Mcßae, whoso death occurred in‘-Napier on Wednesday at the age of 87 years, was horn in Hist, in the Shetland Islands, and came to New Zealand in the sailing ship Clarence, landing at Napier in 1880. She married Mr Duncan Mcßae, who died four years ago. Mrs Mcßae leaves four daughters and four sons. Among the former pupils of the Palmerston North Girls’ High School who have been continuing their studies with success at Victoria University College ,is Miss Betty Stubbs, daughter of Mr and Mrs J. P. Stubbs, of Albert Street, who visited Wellington last evening for the ceremony at which their daughter was capped. The death occurred recently of Mrs Hannah Lemberg, Eketahuna, aged 82 years. Mrs Lemberg came to New Zealancl with her husband in 1896. They took up farming in the Hukanui district at a time when there were no roads or railways, only dense bush. Her husband pre-deceased her 13 years ago, and she afterward went to live in, Eketahuna. She is survived by three - sons and three daughters as well as a number of grandchildren and great-grandchildren.

(By “Nanette.”)