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Manawatu Times, Volume 67, Issue 210, 3 September 1942, Page 2

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Mrs Drinkrow and her daughter Vera, of Palmerston North, are visiting Te K,uitl.

Miss E. Noffke, of Mangamahoe, recently spent a few days with her sister. Miss T. Noffke, of Palmerston North. Mesdames Forno, Sykes, and McCulloch were the hostesses at the monthly social afternoon of the Sunshine Club. Competitions were won by Mesdames Farland, Tapp and Miss Perry. Very enjoyable items were contributed by Mesdames D. McPherson, D. Heggie and Miss M. McCulloch (a visitor) accompaniments were played by Mesdames S. Borrison and W. Boon. This month’s donation of one guinea goes to the Willard Home, also £1 to the Minesweepers' Circle. The death has occurred of Miss Alice Law, one of Auckland’s best-known music teachers. Born in Fifeshire, Scotland; Miss Law came to New Zealand with her mother in the nineties. She studied pianoforte and violin in Auckland and later in England, gaining the licentiateship of the Royal Academy of Music. Miss Law was a part-time music teacher at the New Zealand Institute for the Blind, and attained remarkable success by using Braille. Numbers of her blind pupils, now scattered throughout the Dominion, won diplomas and other distinctions as the result of her instructions. Miss Law was one of the earliest members of the Auckland Society of Musicians.