WOMAN’S WORLD.

Taranaki Daily News, 24 December 1921, Page 6

WOMAN’S WORLD.

PERSONALS. Mrs. McAllum returned to Inglewood this week. Mrs. Budge (Stratford) is on a visit to New Plymouth. ;« 3 ' • • Miss Emily Rawson is on a visit to Manutahi. -Mrs. Gilray, senr. (Dunedin), arrived last night to spend a holiday here. Mrs. Oliver Samuel returned from Wellington on Thursday. Miss Bedford arrived from Gisborne last night. Miss Whitton leaves to-night to visit her sister, Mrs. Tomlinson, in Auckland. Mrs. Charles Nicoll, of Ashburton, is visiting her relations in New Plymouth. Mrs. Home has returned from a visit to Otane. Aliss Grant intends spending the holidays at Great Barrier. Mrs. Milroy (Auckland) is the guest of her daughter, Mrs. Gordon Fraser. Miss Helena Rawson is on a visit to Hawera. Miss Cogan has returned to Christ-, church. Mrs. Shields and family, of Patea, are spending the holidays here. Mrs. R. Todd (Otane) arrived last night, and is the guest of Mrs. Home. Mrs. Foyster (Hawera) has takeu a furnished house here for some weeks. Miss K. Hamerton is spending Christmas at Inglewood. Mrs. Hamilton (Christchurch) is the guest of Mrs. Waterson. Mrs. Owen Bayly (Auckland) is staying with Mrs. Walter Bayly. it * » • Miss L. Pike is visiting Motueka. Miss E. Dowling is on a visit to Wanganui. # * ♦ * Miss Phyllis Whitcombe has returned from Cambridge. Miss Mclntosh left on Tuesday to spend her holidays, in Auckland. Miss J. Pike (Greymouth) is visiting New Plymouth Mrs. D. Hutchen leaves for Auckland and Rotorua to-night. Miss Evelyn White leaves to-night for a visit to Auckland. Mrs. Dawson Webster (Nelson) is the guest of Mrs. W. D. Webster for the Christmas holidays. Mrs. Eric Bayley (Wellington) will be the guest of Mrs. Gordon Fraser for the holidays. Mrs. P. Pritchard and family (Dannevirke) arrived last night to spend some weeks here. Mrs. Les. Kirkby and family .(Inglewood) have taken a house in town for a week or two. Miss Constance Leatham, who has been spending some months in ChristChurch. returned to New Plymouth on Monday night. Mrs. Churchward (Blenheim) and Miss Irene Skinner (Wellington) arrive on Christmas Day by motor from Wellington. * * * • Mrs. Nancarrow and family (Hawera) and Mrs. J. Glenn and family (Mangaweka) arrive on Christmas Day and will spend a week or ten days at the Terminus Cottage. St. Mary's vestry entertained Mrs. Skinner and Miss Devenish at a farewell afternon tea at the Victoria League rooms on Thursday afternoon. Mrs. Skinner and Miss Devenish leave early in January for a trip to the Old Country.

BOOKS FOR BACK-BLOCKS. LETTERS OF* 1 APPRECIATION. Letters have been received from Mokau expressing thanks for books which, were sent out in response, to an appeal received by the Victoria ' League. One, however, is of more than ordinary interest, inasmuch as it tells of the very great difficulties under whidh some of these people live, and incidentally tells the story of how one box of books sent out . last year did not reach its destination until quite recently. The box was sent to Tatu, in the King Country, anti the letter states: -The reason I could not get them sooner was I did not send the money for the freight to the railway at Ongarue, and they would not send them to Kohuratahi without. Then I gave the money for the freight to a bullock driver to take, and for some reason or other he did not get them. And so it got too late, and winter came on, and the bullock waggons in for the winter. Then J sent the fellow a letter, and at last he got them to Ohura. an<l then 1 got a cream waggon to bring them to Tatu.. the nearest settlement to here (six miles), and t went out with a pack horse and got them home last week, after a long delay and many miles of travelling." The letter also goes on to say that there are only three settlers out in that] part, anil any books forwarded- are shared amongst them. Those for children are very acceptable. This particular settler has two children, one a girl of nine years who had to be boarded out at Tahora in order to get her education, and the family, at the time of writing the letter (December 20), were just rejoicing at her return home for the holidays.