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Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 163, 10 June 1940, Page 11

Mrs M. Dymock, of Russell Street, has been visiting Wellington. Miss Bennett, of Wellington, spent the week-end with her parents, Mr and Mrs T. Bennett, of Milverton Avenue. The friends of Mrs J. ’Powell, formerly of Main Street, will regret to learn that she has been obliged to enter the Hospital for treatment. The appointment of Mrs M. M. White, of Palmerston North, to be an honorary child welfare officer is notified in the Gazette.

; Mr and Mrs W. J. G. Wyllie leave tb-night for Dargaville, where Mr Wyllie has been appointed, manager ot the National. Bank. Masterton’s oldest resident, Mrs MReynolds, celebrated her 102nd birthway to-day. Mrs Reynolds is 'active and takes a keen interest in the'affairs of the day. ‘ . Hori. Jacqueline Vereker ! daughter of Lord Gort (Commander-in-Chief of the British Forces) has been married to . Captain W. P. Sidney, of the Grenadier Guards.

The Technical School Old Students’ Association held their monthly dance in the school Assembly Hall on Saturday night, there being a large attendance. A Monte Carlo competition.added to the enjoyment. This year, for the first time, a woman member of - the New Zealand Bank Officers’ Guild was elected to the position of executive councillor. She is Miss G. Balding, of the Bank of New Zealand, Wellington. 'Miss Sadie Isobel Barnett, aged 22, of 18 Clyde Road, Riccarton, was killed yesterday by falling over a cliff near Gebbie’s Pass, on.the hills overlooking Lyttelton Harbour. She was one of a party of hikers; —Press Association.

•. Two months ago Miss Ruth Herrick (Dominion Commissioner of Girl Guides) appealed for clothes for refugees, and already Rangers, Guiders, Guides and Brownies throughout New Zealand have contributed 2200 garments of all descriptions, together with 208 woollen blankets and cot covers. To start the appeal Dominion headquarters provided £IOO worth of materials which were cut out and distributed in proportion throughout the Dominion. At a low estimate the value of the garments is placed at £650. Mrs Ann Susan Gibaut, of Palmerston North, whose death occurred recently at the age of. 96, was born on the Isle of Jersey in 1844. She was married to John Daniel Gibaut 32 years later and came with him to New Zealand, landing at Wellington in 1876. After a short stay there they came by boat to Foxton, and later to Palmerston North, where Mr Gibaut had a blacksmith’s shop in the Square where Coles’s music shop now stands. At that time there were few houses and places of business in Palmerston North, manuka and bush covering most of the land. As a blacksmith he also helped with the construction of the railway line through the Manawatu Gorge. Fifty-five years ago' he took up farming at Colyton'and it was while there that he died in 1886. Mrs Gibaut than retired to live in Palmerston North, where she remained up to the time of her death. She is survived by one son. Mr John G. Gibaut, of Palmerston North. •

(By “Nanette.”)